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The impression I had was that they were merging three subclass concepts together: the original Knowledge Domain, the Arcana Domain, and the idea of a psionic cleric subclass (like Eberron's Mind Domain).

The original 5e PDK was notoriously one of the worst and most boring subclasses in the game. It did a very, very poor job of emulating the niche that it was meant to represent. I don't care a bit about retcons so long as the change is good. I think it's disappointing that they seem to be...

This is awesome. I'd like to note that the word "ettin" is a cognate of the term "jotunn," from Norse mythology.

I actually like the war wagons and thought the idea was interesting. I can easily think of ideas for how to work that into an adventure. Maybe the party is asked by a benevolent Orc tribe to locate their lost war wagon. Or a dwarf stronghold that was recently attacked by an Orc tribe could send...

I really liked this subclass. I think it could use a few changes, but overall it's solid. The AC can definitely get crazy high with the right build and the lore that they serve all 4 genie types is a little weird, but not a big deal. I wasn't a fan of the last two Paladin subclasses WotC came...

Red. I thought this subclass steps too much on the toes of other Bard subclasses. It says it's the Fey bard subclass? We already have that, it's called College of Glamour. They record history and channel folktales with their bardic inspiration? Wow, they just stepped on the toes of the College...

Yellow. I think it could use some more thematic cohesion and a damage buff. It does less damage than most other rangers. Why do they get remove curse? What's with the "frightening" theme and abilities? I also thought their capstone doesn't seem like a Ranger subclass capstone. It seems more like...

I don't have any objection to the idea of a creature that's more aggressive than humans. I don't have a problem with Orcs being more aggressive or violent than humans. I'm not saying that core idea is racist or whatever you think I'm talking about. My point was that to me Volo's saying Orcs...

Not really. I did Karate for a few years, but that didn't really involve fighting. I have never been very athletic or gotten into an actual fight. Yeah, I generally consider people that massacre towns to be evil. There were playable Orcs in Eberron and Wildemount, but with different statistics...

I'm not going to respond to this in point by point breakdowns. Once discussions turn into that, that's where they stay and it bogs up the whole thread. I do not understand how someone would hear the lore "Orcs are inherently, genetically more bloodlustfull and violent than humans, and less...

Only if being beaten up by bullies when I was in school counts. PCs in my games don't typically kill their weak children, go on devastating raids that slaughter entire towns, sacrifice the victims to their gods, and take the survivors as slaves. The adventuring parties in my campaigns are...

Are D&D Orcs boxers? Is that the type of violence Volo's was talking about? Is it innate, genetic bloodlust and a lack of empathy that motivates boxers to do that sport?

This is utterly ridiculous and pointlessly pedantic. You are hyperfocusing on the (contradictory) minutia and ignoring the context which absolutely does support my point. It is the broader subjects of the book that paint the picture, even if a single bit of lore says they're not "innately evil,"...

Page 87, under the Roleplaying an Orc section: Granted, this section does say they can be raised in a non-Orc society and "develop a limited capacity for empathy, love, and compassion," and that Orcs are "unlike creatures who by their very nature are evil, such as gnolls." However, I think this...

Volo’s Guide to Monsters absolutely does make it sound like all orcs are innately violent and evil and that it’s okay to slaughter them on sight.

What are Yugoloths? I can answer that in one word: boring. They’re the epitome of uninspiring, bland, grid-filling world and monster building. I can’t remember using Yugoloths in a game before and I do not plan on ever using them. I do not understand how anyone would find them interesting. If I...

I don’t know about other platforms, but D&D Beyond typically turned templates into full stat blocks.

That’s not a scam. I understood what they meant and they never pretended they were including Archons or Steel Dragons or whatever you were expecting. They absolutely advertised and previewed that there were a ton of new stat blocks to older monsters.

I don’t remember the books/movies well enough to answer that. And I don’t think it matters to the discussion of Orcs in D&D. Which very much have been presented as innately evil because of their nature in most of D&D’s past.