doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Well, in general as the default assumed mode of play, monstrous humanoids are evil. Says so right in the MM under alignment. So players should assume that they are evil and will be reacted to as such by the "good" races unless the DM specifically says they act differently in that game world. And as I said earlier, whatever the DM is running differently from the assumed mode of play should be communicated to the players. But a player shouldn't assume that playing a kobold or orc won't be met with hostility, but should assume they will be based on how the game worlds of D&D are set up.
Wow. Ok, my dude.
The OP let them pick those races, and punished it in game with PC death. That’s a jerk move, regardless.
Running in circles about whether the races are more commonly genetically evil or not is irrelevant. It’s common enough for them not to be, that the dm should make it clear that they are in their world when a player says they want to play one. If the player wants to be kobold drizzt, and the gm is gonna kill the pc in the first town, he should have just said no. Or explicitly said, “your character will be attacked on sight by most regular folk.”
“It will be harder for you bc fantasy racism” isn’t th same as that.