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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6434309" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eladrin" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eladrin</a>That should answer all of those questions.True, how much it matters is campaign dependent. But we could really say that about anything. For those (like me) who like to have a consistent multiverse to place my D&amp;D stories in, it can matter.I definitely noticed the orc change. I also noticed the goblin change from LE to NE. I approved of both of them. They better represented what players in general wanted out of those races, I think. I mean, it was just weird that all of the common evil humanoids were lawful. It felt off. I think the reason no one has mentioned it (and your post is about the first time I've seen anyone else indicate they noticed it!) is that it was a very well received change that didn't much affect many campaigns or settings. It was apparently so well received that the oddity of the orcish afterlife being on the LN plane of Acheron was given a feeble explanation in canon and everyone (who thought about D&amp;D afterlife) just thought, &quot;sure, good enough for me.&quot; If they had previously emphasized the lawfulness of orcs, rather than just writing &quot;LE&quot; on the monster entry and then ignoring it, it may have offended rather than passed unnoticed.By the way, keeping their afterlife on Acheron is a great example of doing it right. If they had decided to retcon them into Pandemonium, that would likely have caused some disgruntlement.Elf angels is a good way of putting it.Yes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 6434309, member: 6677017"] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eladrin"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eladrin[/URL] That should answer all of those questions. True, how much it matters is campaign dependent. But we could really say that about anything. For those (like me) who like to have a consistent multiverse to place my D&D stories in, it can matter. I definitely noticed the orc change. I also noticed the goblin change from LE to NE. I approved of both of them. They better represented what players in general wanted out of those races, I think. I mean, it was just weird that all of the common evil humanoids were lawful. It felt off. I think the reason no one has mentioned it (and your post is about the first time I've seen anyone else indicate they noticed it!) is that it was a very well received change that didn't much affect many campaigns or settings. It was apparently so well received that the oddity of the orcish afterlife being on the LN plane of Acheron was given a feeble explanation in canon and everyone (who thought about D&D afterlife) just thought, "sure, good enough for me." If they had previously emphasized the lawfulness of orcs, rather than just writing "LE" on the monster entry and then ignoring it, it may have offended rather than passed unnoticed. By the way, keeping their afterlife on Acheron is a great example of doing it [I]right.[/I] If they had decided to retcon them into Pandemonium, that would likely have caused some disgruntlement. Elf angels is a good way of putting it. Yes. [/QUOTE]

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