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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Todd Roybark" data-source="post: 7925945" data-attributes="member: 6920677">That is a great question, especially when taken seriously.Clearly, the imaginary orcs are not subject to ‘real’ harm.  The living human players may be subject to desensitization.There is a concept of non violence from India called Ahmisa, which is present in multiple belief systems.  The Jain religion considers all eating as an act of destruction, which clearly posses a problem as they include plants as living creatures.Buddhist thought avoids this dilemma by simply defining plants as not being alive, more akin to crystals and so forth.Most people think that we have different moral duties to living things vs non-living, yet how things are defined in our imagination, has real world effects, in my opinion.note I have played in plenty of X race is evil campaigns, including DM’ing them.  I am not virtue signaling, or claiming that having a brew and an orc bake via Fireball spell makes the human player wicked in real life....if so then I myself have a lot to answer for.But examining the issue, especially given the origins of the genre, and asking ourselves tough questions, is important, I think.  The casual, narrational racism of the Solomon Kane stories certainly is leading me to ask these questions.</blockquote>