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<blockquote data-quote="maggan19" data-source="post: 8405550" data-attributes="member: 7032457">I recently started a campaign with some complete newbies and a single veteran. When I then introduced some orcs, the veteran proceeded to explain to the group: ”Orcs are evil beings who like to murder and pillage.”I found this interesting, because this was sormwhat different from how I was about to describe them. In my Forgotten Realms, I imagine the orcs as a marginalized species, but equally violent as, say, a dwarf kingdom or human empire in terms of classically ”evil” things, like murder, torture, slavery etc.But because he already described it so, I thought, hey, why not let them find out themselves? If they fight the orcs, for all intents and purposes, they will be seen as evil, at least to the players. But if they stop and try talking to them, hey, maybe they’re not so different after all…Of course, they just slaughtered half of them, and then the party’s half-orc mauled the captives.The individual’s needs are suppressed in favor of the collective in order to avoid constant war: all against all. This is the state according to Hobbes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="maggan19, post: 8405550, member: 7032457"] I recently started a campaign with some complete newbies and a single veteran. When I then introduced some orcs, the veteran proceeded to explain to the group: ”Orcs are evil beings who like to murder and pillage.” I found this interesting, because this was sormwhat different from how I was about to describe them. In my Forgotten Realms, I imagine the orcs as a marginalized species, but equally violent as, say, a dwarf kingdom or human empire in terms of classically ”evil” things, like murder, torture, slavery etc. But because he already described it so, I thought, hey, why not let them find out themselves? If they fight the orcs, for all intents and purposes, they will be seen as evil, at least to the players. But if they stop and try talking to them, hey, maybe they’re not so different after all… Of course, they just slaughtered half of them, and then the party’s half-orc mauled the captives. The individual’s needs are suppressed in favor of the collective in order to avoid constant war: all against all. This is the state according to Hobbes. [/QUOTE]

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