D&D (2024) How did I miss this about the Half races/ancestries

[Micah Sweet]

It would be a trivial design effort to improve orcs to be at least in the same ballpark as halflings.

Then why hasn't it happened?

 

[Micah Sweet]

I really like the orcs from World of Warcraft. I suppose they evoke some classic orc tropes, but they've got a thriving civilizaiton of their own.

I like them too, but they are full of tribal trappings, and their history has a very LOTR vibe. Not really deviated far from the classic lore.

 

[Incenjucar]

Then why hasn't it happened?

Bad design practices caused by factors I am not able to conjecture on.

 

[MGibster]

I like them too, but they are full of tribal trappings, and their history has a very LOTR vibe. Not really deviated far from the classic lore.

At some point you just gotta realize you can't please everyone, shrug your shoulders, and move forward.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Bad design practices caused by factors I am not able to conjecture on.

Maybe it's harder than you think. Has anyone done it?

 

[Micah Sweet]

At some point you just gotta realize you can't please everyone, shrug your shoulders, and move forward.

Very true. I wish WotC would do that. They won't seem to admit that they can't please everyone, and these constant attempts to thread the needle across the board are not inspiring confidence from what I'm seeing.

 

[Incenjucar]

Maybe it's harder than you think. Has anyone done it?

There are numerous better versions of orcs on the market. DMs and other designers make up detailed player species all the time, and have been doing so since the 70s. And that's ignoring all the fictional species made up outside of RPGs.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There are numerous better versions of orcs on the market. DMs and other designers make up detailed player species all the time, and have been doing so since the 70s. And that's ignoring all the fictional species made up outside of RPGs.

Can you provide an example of orcs that don't use the classic tropes, aren't bland, and still feel like orcs?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It almost seems like you only think you can empathize with someone if you think that person is special, from how you frame "specialness" as the ingredient needed for empathy towards others.

Mod Note:

You just spent a post building a rhetorical castle to empathy, and you finished by exploding a bunch of C4 at its base.

You might want to reconsider practicing what you’re preaching, because your coda really doesn’t help your message.

 

[Hussar]

Then why hasn't it happened?

Because every time WotC even whispers about changing anything, they get shouted down and the screaming hordes shout from every rooftop endlessly that they are destroying the hobby.