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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 8451814" data-attributes="member: 25818">I don't really use alignment for legacies in my current campaign (a "legacy" in my campaign is what is called a "race" in vanilla D&D). Back when I did use alignment (and alignment languages!) back in the 1E AD&D days, I still tried to be nuanced. I took to heart the idea of Roger Moore's old pantheon articles from the Dragon. This bit from the orcs article in issue #62 was informative to my world-building:From the standpoint of the orcs, other cultures tried to rob them of any place to live, tried to in effect make them second-class citizens everywhere, and as a result they have a belligerent attitude to others. They always assume the elves/dwarves/etc. are trying to cheat them, because historically it has been so. And so, the PCs had to deal with a conflict where elves intended to take a forest from the orcs who lived there, because they weren't stewarding it properly and it was affecting the forests nearby. And why did the orcs feel so strongly, it had only been inhabited by them for 400 or 500 years, not even a single elven lifetime. Meanwhile, the orcs had lived there for 30 or 40 generations, and had no intention of letting anybody else tell them what to do with their land.</blockquote>