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There's a systemic problem with how D&D presents monstrous humanoids? Really? Systemic problems in the default game, I mean, of course, not individual tables. Gotta make sure we make that distinction. It seems very important to some folks for some reason.

In closing, YES to evil pig-faced orcs! That is all.

I'm not ignoring them. They are irrelevant to any game not occuring in Forgotten Realms....and/or any version of Forgotten Realms that doesn't include her or good drow. Allegedly, he was whipped up because someone, during the writing of Crystal Shard, told Salvatore, "Wulfgar needs a sidekick."...

Right. This. Nothing I (or any of us here) say is going to matter to what WotC ultimately does anyway.

Who said it was difficult to imagine? Other Drizzt, I have no idea to whom you are referring. ...and I really don't consider some last minute sidekick generated for as much "oo wow how funky broody different" as the ONE good drow in the Forgotten Realms as a model upon which to base making...

<shrug>'kay...?

OF COURSE they are. It's what Goblins DO. Why? Oh right, because Goblins are EVIL. So, yeah, they are "engaged in Evil." If they weren't why would you be encountering them at all? I'm really pretty done here. Let's just agree to be thankful neither of us have to play at the others' table...

Nooo, not "really, Dude." Nobody said anything about -nor is there the slightest relevance to- their skin color. But way to miss the whole point. You're killing goblins because "they're existing while EVIL." which -I am submitting- is a perfectly reasonable innate state of being for certain...

If every Goblin can mull over its conscience and search its soul/nature to determine how it wishes to behave...If every Drow is CAPABLE of being "redeemed" from their society's "evil ways" (and the "source" of their evil is really just a cultural/religious affiliation thing) then all those...

D&D doesn't have a "canon." The only thing I can presume you are referring to is Drizzt...Who is an aberration, by admission of the character's creation and his fiction. The "good drow" is "canon" if you take all things Forgotten Realms/Ed Greenwood and R.A. Salvatore as its own contained...

Evil, in Dungeons & Dragons (and most fantasy rpgs) is an objective, independent force. It exists. Period. There are creatures that are, literal, embodiments of Evil. There are deities who do the same. There is Magic that, again, objectively, IS Evil. It merely IS. Like Good. Like Neutrality...

Orcs are evil. They were created by an elder deity in the ancient ages. It was a deity of the beasts who created many of the "bestial" species in existence today, and more that have been long forgotten. The elder god fell to the depredations of Evil and went mad, infusing a great deal of...

I find this rather inaccurate. I mean, the influences, sure. But that's not what the bulk of what the adventures were. Keep on the Borderlands: temperate wooded hills/countryside. Isle of Dread: ok, "tropical" jungle which, as I said, was far off and alien with multiple different creatures...

I think you can narrow those Clerics down even further to a direct "I wanna play Aragorn/ I wanna play Caine from the Kung Fu show." You had a single player who wanted to play Van Helsing. So a character class that knew something about dealing with the undead had to be born. ...Or so the...

I'm not wading through 20 pages of "pig faced orcs are from here/aren't from there/weren't/were pig-faced in 1e" or "weren't pig-faced in the modules" [which is not true]. So I don't know if anyone has brought this up yet or not...But "Orcs," as opposed to "Goblins," were larger and pig-faced...

Well, not really, when you look at the context. When the Ranger was created, as the forest Aragorn guy...well, 1) was being based on Aragorn, who was -as was Middle Earth- accustomed to fairly temperate foresty places. 2) D&D of the day was essentially in wooded, temperate terrain. Nearly...

I'm with you, in that it strikes me as something that every wizard would/should know. I've played, predominantly, mage/witch/wizard/magus type characters (and druids and clerics, but spells. Always some kind of spells) and always, always, always, Detect Magic gets taken and usually prepared...

I like this a lot. Definitely need to work up a houserule/option sub-system about this.