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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9889800" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Right. And in OD&amp;D they could be Chaotic or Neutral.And AD&amp;D doesn't even say that all &quot;characteristically&quot; evil creatures are inherently so.&nbsp; The Monster Manual has this to say about monster alignments:Which I read as indicating that this is the general, most common alignment, but that exceptions exist. &quot;Bent&quot; here is a synonym for &quot;inclination&quot; or &quot;propensity&quot;.And for concrete examples, we know famously from Gary's D3 Vault of the Drow, the Rakes encounter, that some dark elves can be of other alignments and opposed to their society's evil.I would totally understand Greyhawk as a campaign world going back to some older concepts, getting away from newer ideas like Goblins or Hobgoblins having fey associations.I'd be a little surprised if they went with inherently/invariably evil orcs, but I'm interested to hear more.[USER=7025253]@Lord Gosumba[/USER] is this something you can talk more about? Or no?&nbsp; Casual fan of your shows, BTW.&nbsp; I tune in occasionally and even won a module once. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9889800, member: 7026594"] Right. And in OD&D they could be Chaotic or Neutral. And AD&D doesn't even say that all "characteristically" evil creatures are inherently so. The Monster Manual has this to say about monster alignments: Which I read as indicating that this is the general, most common alignment, but that exceptions exist. "Bent" here is a synonym for "inclination" or "propensity". And for concrete examples, we know famously from Gary's D3 Vault of the Drow, the Rakes encounter, that some dark elves can be of other alignments and opposed to their society's evil. I would totally understand Greyhawk as a campaign world going back to some older concepts, getting away from newer ideas like Goblins or Hobgoblins having fey associations. I'd be a little surprised if they went with inherently/invariably evil orcs, but I'm interested to hear more. [USER=7025253]@Lord Gosumba[/USER] is this something you can talk more about? Or no? Casual fan of your shows, BTW. I tune in occasionally and even won a module once. :) [/QUOTE]

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