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They're scarier that way - otherwise they're just another animal with teeth.

I’ve come across a few played like that. They don’t always attack on sight, but they are always as mad as a box of frogs.

What are we even arguing about? That D&D used to treat some species as disposable villains, especially during the TSR era, is pretty...

Yes, but not in the way that's being argued: "Go kill these guys and level up." But going back several steps, I'm not even sure what...

I don't think the module actually says that orcs are kidnapping and eating people, as @Lord Twig says it does. Gygax's text reads to me...

To be honest, I read it that way when I was 12. One of the reasons I thought it was a steaming pile of garbage back then. It’s been the...

There's no reason to get annoyed at people who don't take things as 110% as literally as you are here. Some of us have been spotting...

The intro to the keep is very concerned with how the DM can keep the PCs from robbing it, so he definitely was aware of what little...

Nothing modern about the (anti)colonialist narrative in Beyond the Black River (1935). What is modern is the desire to erase it from the...

We never sided with the humanoids, but we absolutely made all-thief parties and robbed Hommlet and Restenford blind. Ah, sandboxes ...

No, I’m suggesting that the module did not tell you how you should play it, and people interpreted it in different ways. Gygax...

My memory of those days, it was usually the PCs. Which fits with the Conan inspiration - thief, murderer and rapist as he was (This...

I mentioned fighting orcs that murdered people, took others alive so they could eat them later, and it was suggested that I wanted...

This adventure was for Basic rules. It's didn't have good and evil, only Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic (and there was no recommendation as...

Thanks! That makes sense.