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<blockquote data-quote="sirius25" data-source="post: 9674571" data-attributes="member: 7052785"><p>It always upsets me when people talk about goblinoids, as well as other “evil” races, and treat them as racial stereotypes for being “born” evil. While maybe that was true for Gygax’s time, I don’t know I wasn’t born yet, it’s long since stopped being true. Every one of these races has cultural reasons to be the way they are, and it usually ties back to their gods. The reason humans are so varied in their beliefs and morals is because they don’t really have patron gods. Like how their language is common, any human god is basically just a generic god that presided over some facet of the world. Similarly, elves, dwarves, etc have many gods, with many different values to follow. Orcs may have a whole pantheon to choose from when deciding who to personally worship, all those gods follow Gruumsh, so they would still be worshipping him. It’s not their fault Gruumsh is so violent.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="sirius25, post: 9674571, member: 7052785"] It always upsets me when people talk about goblinoids, as well as other “evil” races, and treat them as racial stereotypes for being “born” evil. While maybe that was true for Gygax’s time, I don’t know I wasn’t born yet, it’s long since stopped being true. Every one of these races has cultural reasons to be the way they are, and it usually ties back to their gods. The reason humans are so varied in their beliefs and morals is because they don’t really have patron gods. Like how their language is common, any human god is basically just a generic god that presided over some facet of the world. Similarly, elves, dwarves, etc have many gods, with many different values to follow. Orcs may have a whole pantheon to choose from when deciding who to personally worship, all those gods follow Gruumsh, so they would still be worshipping him. It’s not their fault Gruumsh is so violent. [/QUOTE]

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