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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 6407211" data-attributes="member: 23484">A few thoughts:- let's not essentialize all players of monstrous or half-monstrous races. There will be many reasons that it might appeal to players.- half-orcs as a player race predate Worf; the appeal was there before the character (and I'd imagine the majority of today's players of the game became sentient after TNG went off the air).- mechanically, half-orcs have typically been supported in the PHB. For a lot of games, the DM allows PHB races and not others. - The half-orc was the most "monstrous"/savage race around. Even dragonborn/tieflings were easily romanticized. The half-orc is much harder to see in that light, and that savagery appeals.- By 3.x and 4, more monstrous races were available and were in the core books (e.g. as an appendix in the monster manual). Only then do more monstrous pc races become legitimated. (Yes, they existed before, but (e.g.) in Dragon articles, which in my experience were rejected by DMs as often as they were accepted.)So, sure "tradition": but it's a recoverable an easily comprehensible history, and not some blind allegiance to past practice or fandom of a particular individual.</blockquote>