D&D 5E Orcs and Drow in YOUR game (poll */comments +)

[Scribe]

This meme is accurate, but also, if a creature is typically X alignment, it is also true that they are any alignment.

Certainly could be!

I removed my vote for "don't need help from WoTC to make changes" since I'm not making any changes.

I wanted to leave it, because I really dont want Wizards help these days.

 

[Greg K]

Where is the option for "What is a drow?"
Edit: As for orcs, they are typically evil.

 

[Malmuria]

I'm a player in one 5e game, and given the setting I don't think there are any orcs or drow (it's mostly humans, and it is not western fantasy in genre). I'm not sure if we are using alignment even; it's never come up as such.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Orcs in my world are not so much "evil" as violent and war-like. By their own standard, they are not evil. A party can encounter orcs and leave on friendly terms providing it is appropriate.

Drow (as a society) are evil- through and through. Individuals are typically evil but there are many exceptions.

Most orcs are treated with distrust and possible hatred due to the conflicts from their nature to other cultures in the past.

Drow are going to be attacked first generally, so PCs will find things difficult until they earn the trust of others.

 

[DarkMantle]

I'm a player in one 5e game, and given the setting I don't think there are any orcs or drow (it's mostly humans, and it is not western fantasy in genre). I'm not sure if we are using alignment even; it's never come up as such.

You could pick "Not relevant (both orcs and drow are there but very peripheral in our game setting)" or maybe the first option ("Not applicable")

 

[Casimir Liber]

I think I always played as "most" and "with exceptions" - I recall having LG hobgoblins in a campaign in the 1980s. I guess by "typically" as assume as somewhere between 66% and 90% - with both orcs and drow being about 75% evil-aligned I guess..(due to those pesky deities)

 

[DarkMantle]

I think I always played as "most" and "with exceptions" - I recall having LG hobgoblins in a campaign in the 1980s. I guess by "typically" as assume as somewhere between 66% and 90% - with both orcs and drow being about 75% evil-aligned I guess..(due to those pesky deities)

Use what works best for you.
"Typically Evil" mirrors the latest 5E terminology.
"Always Evil" referred to those hypothetical arguments here on this forum. Interesting it's not showing up in the results.

 

[Casimir Liber]

Use what works best for you.
"Typically Evil" mirrors the latest 5E terminology.
"Always Evil" referred to those hypothetical arguments here on this forum. Interesting it's not showing up in the results.

I suspect because apart from Gary Gygax, almost all GMs were less dogmatic about alignment from the earliest days of DnD till the present.

 

[Scribe]

"Always Evil" referred to those hypothetical arguments here on this forum. Interesting it's not showing up in the results.

Because this is mostly used as a strawman on this forum.

 

[Charlaquin]

Use what works best for you.
"Typically Evil" mirrors the latest 5E terminology.
"Always Evil" referred to those hypothetical arguments here on this forum. Interesting it's not showing up in the results.

I don’t think many people run natural races as always evil. There are almost always individual exceptions. I think at the heart of the alignment debate is a disagreement over the utility of the “typically” label.