D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

[Scribe]

I didn't say they were playable, I'm interested in how these nuanced "beyond good or evil" orcs are different from the classic savage tribal stereotype orcs of D&D.

There isn't any, the game doesn't go into that kind of moral navel gazing.

You have Reaction checks, there is no mandated "kill em all" but Orcs are still presented as a potential foe.

It's that simple.

 

[Remathilis]

There isn't any, the game doesn't go into that kind of moral navel gazing.

You have Reaction checks, there is no mandated "kill em all" but Orcs are still presented as a potential foe.

It's that simple.

So they're just the same stereotypical orcs using the same coded language, but it's ok because they don't have an alignment in the statblock.

Right. I thought they were doing something interesting.

 

[Scribe]

So they're just the same stereotypical orcs using the same coded language, but it's ok because they don't have an alignment in the statblock.

Right. I thought they were doing something interesting.

There is no stereotyping.

Orc -a tusked tall humanoid with gray skin and pointed ears.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

There is no stereotyping.

Orc -a tusked tall humanoid with gray skin and pointed ears.

Replace orcs with kittens. Is everyone still perfectly happy to kill them on sight?

 

[Bedrockgames]

Replace orcs with kittens. Is everyone still perfectly happy to kill them on sight?

Are they imaginary, evil kittens with big claws?

 

[Scribe]

Replace orcs with kittens. Is everyone still perfectly happy to kill them on sight?

Elf has a statblock and so is just as killable.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Elf has a statblock and so is just as killable.

Also cats famously can kill a first level mage

 

[AnotherGuy]

Replace orcs with kittens. Is everyone still perfectly happy to kill them on sight?

Never seen anyone compare an orc to a pet.

 

[Bedrockgames]

There is no stereotyping.

Orc -a tusked tall humanoid with gray skin and pointed ears.

Not all gray skinned people with pointed ears have tusks! Some of us have horns!

 

[Scribe]

Not all gray skinned people with pointed ears have tusks! Some of us have horns!

Tiefling is NOT in the book.