D&D (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

[Staffan]

Alternatively, you can give them into foster families like and tech them "proper" behavior, similar to what was tried with indigenous children up to a few decades ago.
The orc baby dilemma doesn't really have a satisfying solution, each way of handling it can be questioned.

You could try not expanding your kingdom into ancestral orc lands in the first place.

 

[DarkCrisis]

They don't have to, but I understand they have chosen to do so in order to maximize profits.

This is why I stopped buying their stuff.

Right. I would prefer they not cut things out but I wouldn't be surprised if they do.

What funny, in my decades of play I've never been in a group where they would on purpose slay goblin kids or whatever. Or own a slave.

Yet reading old OD&D playthrough notes and buy a slave? Yup! Blows my mind. Like the real OG's were way more hardcore than I would have thought.

 

[SpellObjectEnthusiast]

Obviously the morally correct choice is to slaughter and pillage the Keep instead.

 

[Demetrios1453]

You immediately made me think of this cartoon..

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An animation on the same subject (while World of Warcraft related, it's the same principle)

 

[pukunui]

I think any Humamoid children are right out, for starters. There is a whole sidebar in Bigby about how theybstrongly recommend not putting Giant children into Encounters to fight.

True. But I also can't think of any time where WotC left them in the line of fire. (I do not own most of their adventures, so it may have happened, but I've never heard it mentioned.)

Storm King’s Thunder features some giant children — for instance, the fire giants have two teenage children who use half-ogre stats.

The 18 yo daughter is more of a RP encounter, but her 15 yo brother will fight you.

I’m pretty sure King Hekaton’s daughters are all adults. I can’t remember if there are any other giant children anywhere.

 

[ezo]

The art needs to represent the "heavy" gamers--the majority IME--out there. Too many are depcited as slender, young, etc. which many of us aren't. It fails to represent IMO.

 

[Velderan]

An animation on the same subject (while World of Warcraft related, it's the same principle)

So the solution is to have the goblin children's parents respawn after being murdered?

 

[DarkCrisis]

Obviously the morally correct choice is to slaughter and pillage the Keep instead.

Weren't the goblins etc there first? It's a Keep on the Borderlands. It's their land. Justified to take out the Keep.

 

[Scribe]

So the solution is to have the goblin children's parents respawn after being murdered?

Listen, this XP isnt going to AOE grind itself....

 

[Scribe]

I take it from the thread title change that they are changing Keep on the Borderlands to Heros of the Borderlands, for reasons unstated?