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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 7824316" data-attributes="member: 6788732">I tend to use stereotypes. In my current campaign, a tribe of orcs and a tribe of gnolls are the bad guys. Gnolls are batshit crazy, orcs are brutish but can also be cunning, particularly the leaders. Mainly, I want it to be clear who the bad guys are, and as they are the children of the Destroyer, the orcs are bad guys.That said, I don't bring it up in game if a player runs a half-orc with villagers refusing service or snearing or chasing them off with a pitchfork, I want to play a fun game and having every village they enter treat their PC like dirt sounds like it would be exhausting work and not be much fun for anyone. Also, it makes the exceptions stand out more if orcs are pretty much always the bad guys, then the happy marriage between Gorga Skullsmasher and Simon Tiller stands out as a great exception to the standard stereotype. If their town is attacked by orcs, she'll be fighting against them to defend her home side by side with the humans and dwarves of the town.</blockquote>