Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greatwyrm" data-source="post: 6506396" data-attributes="member: 479">Most of my players and I have kids.  Where the adventure goes and how I phrase things are directly affected by whether I think any little ears are present.  Whatever Mom and Dad tell them at home is their business, but I'm not interested in starting any "a very special episode" conversations for any of them.Please don't think I'm picking on you.  I've seen this for years and you're just the last person I saw.I don't really like this and many people don't.  So why do we keep going there with it?  Why can't they be some sorcerer's experiment from ages ago that resulted in a race that outlived him?  That's the actual lore behind a crap ton of stuff in the Monster Manuals over the years and the Tazian Thralls in the Talislanta game.  Why do we have to accept that in a world with chimeras, gorgons, and owlbears that the only possible explanation for half-orcs is assault?</blockquote>