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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8416829" data-attributes="member: 7006">The thing all of us people here on ENWorld have to remember is that these changes aren't for us.We can and do anything we want.  If we don't like something, we will change it.  If something in 5E is different than how it was in a previous edition that we prefered, we can just swap back the old version instead of using the new.  If we already own the original 5E books... we can just use those instead of the Revised ones.  None of these changes to these new books should impact any of us whatsoever.The only people for who these changes impact are the people who are reading these Revised books for the first time.  Because they are going to learn the game using those books and how WotC wishes to present the game to the public (with all of the cultural changes / mores / emphasis that go along with it.)  If they want to make the change that orcs are not default Chaotic Evil (excluding one tiny passage in the front part of the MM that most people probably have never read, especially if you were a player)... and instead make it clear that Orcs in the MM and more especially Orc PCs do not have that alignment by default anymore and can easily be any alignment whatsoever, then they will print it that way so that those who are not beholden to the history of the game (like we are) can see it more representative of how society now sees things regarding race.  Because those of us who ARE beholden to the history of the game or who just have our own ideas of how we think things should be based on our own experiences with D&D... can and will play the game any which way we wish regardless of what the books say.We know that, and WotC knows that.  And since since the defining trait of 5E is "Rulings, Not Rules"... WotC has no problems not making the game a RAW requirement for every single player out there.  They WANT us to change rules we don't like.  So even if you are one of those people who just has that mental lock that says "I HAVE to play RAW!"... they aren't making the game for you anymore.  And you either learn to live with the changes to RAW, or you find a different game whose RAW you agree with 100%.</blockquote>

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