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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 4658082" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Well, I'm not quite sure why whatever minimally-flavoured race text supplied in the PHB is seemingly regarded as so authoritative in regards to the origins, culture, and society of any particular race open to player characters and NPC's alike.Don't most DM's tweak and fit such races into their own campaigns with their own particular history, culture, religion, and so on?In my own campaigns, Half-Orcs are easily explained;(1) Throughout history, various human barbarian tribes have mated with and intermixed with tribes of Orcs, thus producing half-orc offspring. Obviously, some half-orcs are born to the human barbarian tribes, and some are born to the orc tribes.(2) Gradually, over time, various groups of half-orcs gathered together and united different individuals and small family-groups of other half-orcs, as well as some full humans and full orcs and developed their own small tribes of half-orcs. In some regions, small frontier settlements of villages and such communities of half-orcs have been formed. In all such cases, occasional new membership of humans and orcs have added new bloodlines to the various half-orc tribes or small frontier communities. Eventually, the pure-blood infusions of orc or human contributions mix with more generations of half-orcs, thus helping to strengthen and perpetuate the half-orc communities.(3) Various units of Orc mercenaries have been used in wars throughout the lands, allowing for additional contact and intermixing with neighboring humans.(4) Some human kingdoms have made orc tribes defeated in battle into slaves. Over time, the orc slaves breed with, entertain, or otherwise intermix with humans, leading to more half-orcs.(5) Small communities of half-orcs within various human villages, towns, or cities often willingly interbreed with other humans, orcs, and half-orcs--all are welcome. From such customs, more half-orcs develop and grow in number.Thus, there are many ways that humans and orcs interbreed, and half-orcs increase in number and develop throughout the campaign.Rape wasn't even mentioned, nor does it need to be.Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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