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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4289840" data-attributes="member: 5143">I believe the idea is that these people are the "bad guys".  Bad stuff is allowed to happen, but it is only allowed to happen to NPCs by NPCs.  The players are supposed to be the heroes saving people from the bad things in the world.I believe the idea is that Orcs are horrible creatures, brought up in an evil society and pretty much born with evil instincts.  They attack villages, kill and rape innocent people, and are violent and chaotic.  They don't get along peacefully with people and therefore the chance of them having a loving relationship that created a half-orc is low in the way that most people think of them.So, the idea is that you don't want your game to HAVE to go there.  You can run an entire family friendly game where the PCs never encounter anything unsavory that they don't have the chance to stop.  I think they don't want the DM to have to say "Yeah, Orcs went raping and pillaging and that's where you came from.  You have the blood of an evil beast inside of you."I know this will come back to tieflings and how they are "evil" as well.  However, their story is so far removed from the PCs that it becomes just a background story:  Your ancestors, 1000 years ago made a deal with demons.  You have some demonic power, but you aren't a demon or evil.  I think you'll find more people are willing to be that character than the one that says "Your father was an evil monster who used to kill people for fun.  He raped your mother and you were the result.  People hate you for what you represent and the fact that you might be evil just because of your blood."The idea is that the players are supposed to represent those points of light, trying to bring light to the darkness.  You deal with darkness, you defeat darkness, but you aren't darkness yourself.</blockquote>

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