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<blockquote data-quote="Juomari Veren" data-source="post: 8631383" data-attributes="member: 87428">Just to be clear; I could not care less if they take the lore out back and send it the way of Ol Yeller. I wholeheartedly support efforts to strip the oftentimes harmful presuppositions from individual races as a tool of agency with regards to making each fantasy world meaningfully distinct in their own ways, and to unmarry the concepts of cultural identity as an absolute among respective fantasy races. Plus most of that lore is useless in the grand scheme of a system that doesn't presuppose a setting like they're trying to have the rules update do.But the statblocks people, the statblocks! There's half a dozen perfectly good orcs vanishing from DDB and Roll20, and the only attachment they have to the old orc lore are some usages of orc god names in the titles/traits that can just be scrubbed so as to keep them setting agnostic. Hopefully they rerelease them with some spit and polish (to be fair, a couple of them were spellcasters so they'd need to refresh those ones with the modern spellcasting conventions they're pushing in NPCs). I weep for them only because I see the merit in cleaning them up and rereleasing them as a $10 standalone product on DDB later. Actually, IIRC they made a megadungeon that has like 80 rooms or something and is mostly populated by orcs, I wonder if that's gonna get pushed out with those statblocks (I think it used them, but I can't recall if it was all MM orcs or not).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Juomari Veren, post: 8631383, member: 87428"] Just to be clear; I could not care less if they take the lore out back and send it the way of Ol Yeller. I wholeheartedly support efforts to strip the oftentimes harmful presuppositions from individual races as a tool of agency with regards to making each fantasy world meaningfully distinct in their own ways, and to unmarry the concepts of cultural identity as an absolute among respective fantasy races. Plus most of that lore is useless in the grand scheme of a system that doesn't presuppose a setting like they're trying to have the rules update do. But the statblocks people, the statblocks! There's half a dozen perfectly good orcs vanishing from DDB and Roll20, and the only attachment they have to the old orc lore are some usages of orc god names in the titles/traits that can just be scrubbed so as to keep them setting agnostic. Hopefully they rerelease them with some spit and polish (to be fair, a couple of them were spellcasters so they'd need to refresh those ones with the modern spellcasting conventions they're pushing in NPCs). I weep for them only because I see the merit in cleaning them up and rereleasing them as a $10 standalone product on DDB later. Actually, IIRC they made a megadungeon that has like 80 rooms or something and is mostly populated by orcs, I wonder if that's gonna get pushed out with those statblocks (I think it used them, but I can't recall if it was all MM orcs or not). [/QUOTE]

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