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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son of the Serpent" data-source="post: 7803975" data-attributes="member: 7015476"><p>I mean...what if someone thought this was in fact actually a good idea?  (A lot of people do.  Myself included.  Its actually far more rational too conaidering most of the lore on orcs.  I like internally proprotionate realism in games.)  Though its pretty clear that the majority of half orcs result from a self sustaining population not too far into the history of d&d lore, this is in fact not even incongruent with the earlier idea of "mostly the result of rape" (paraphrased), as if the offspring breeds true and later populations are the descendants of the starting population, well, basically since most are descended even if only partially from the original stock and most later "original lines" also are the results of rape, then its the most sensibke thing in the world (depending on edition) to say both that most half orcs are the result of rape and to say most are the result of a half orc line.  Because a half orc line generally originated at least a certain number (potentially thousands) of generations ago as the result of rape.  It is quite objectively congruent.  Like jigsaw pieces.  Not at all contradictory.  I also still think for many different kinds of reasons (spiritual and biological to name a few among many) a good idea.  I fail to see how its a bad one.  If you dont like it you can always change it but i think gygax' idea is in good taste.  Just saying.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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