D&D 5E Orcs and Drow in YOUR game (poll */comments +)

How is the portrayal of orcs and/or drow changing in your game? Check ALL that apply. (Anonymous)

  • Not applicable (both orcs and drow are absent from our game setting)

    Votes: 13 5.9%
  • Not relevant (both orcs and drow are there but very peripheral in our game setting)

    Votes: 14 6.3%
  • Currently, orcs and drow are Any Alignment in our game

    Votes: 64 29.0%
  • Currently, orcs OR drow are Typically Evil in our game

    Votes: 95 43.0%
  • Currently, orcs OR drow are Always Evil in our game

    Votes: 15 6.8%
  • In our game setting, orcs and drow will continue to be Any Alignment

    Votes: 59 26.7%
  • In our game setting, orcs and drow might change from Evil to Any Alignment

    Votes: 10 4.5%
  • In our game setting, orcs and drow will definitely change from Evil to Any Alignment

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • But we want (more) help or guidance from official published WoTC material

    Votes: 9 4.1%
  • But we want (more) help or guidance from 3rd party publishers

    Votes: 6 2.7%
  • But we want (more) help or guidance from online forums/groups

    Votes: 7 3.2%
  • And we don't need any help to make these changes; we've already got it covered

    Votes: 80 36.2%
  • I don't know / not sure

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Added: In our game setting, orcs and drow will continue to be Typically Evil Alignment

    Votes: 76 34.4%

  • Poll closed .

DarkMantle

Explorer
As you are likely aware, WoTC had announced in June 2020 that:
Throughout the 50-year history of D&D, some of the peoples in the game—orcs and drow being two of the prime examples—have been characterized as monstrous and evil, using descriptions that are painfully reminiscent of how real-world ethnic groups have been and continue to be denigrated. That’s just not right, and it’s not something we believe in. Despite our conscious efforts to the contrary, we have allowed some of those old descriptions to reappear in the game. We recognize that to live our values, we have to do an even better job in handling these issues. If we make mistakes, our priority is to make things right.

Since then, the D&D community continues to engage around the portrayal of humanoids in D&D settings in the context of evil alignments and racially insensitive descriptors.

It seems unclear where we stand today. The intent of this poll is to get a baseline reading on the current status of people's games, no more, no less.

(*) Please participate in the poll everyone!

Also, due to the sensitive nature of this topic...

(+) Please participate in the comments only if you:
  • want to offer constructive comments/feedback
  • agree not to use or discuss here any of the racial/cultural descriptions that WoTC has been removing from published materials (="primitive", "savage", etc.)
  • accept that this particular poll focuses only on orcs and drow, for practical reasons (including preventing debates about definitions of other monstrous people)
  • accept that this particular poll focuses only on alignment, for practical reasons (including preventing debates about racially insensitive problem words)
(-) Please do NOT participate in the comments if:
  • any of the above are not applicable to you
  • you are going to debate any of the above
 

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Not sure if I got lost in the options, but...

Orcs and Drow are Evil in my world. Add 'typical' to taste.
Ya there is a lot of options, sorry :|
There is an "Always Evil" option just below the "Typically Evil" (was trying to mirror WoTC's alignment labels)
 





I voted typically evil. I fully support the removal of default alignments as they appear in the official books, but I am still using them as typically evil, with a few exceptions. It's super easy for me to do so in my own games. In fact, that's why I support removal of default alignments, because I think that should be up to each individual DM and table, and that's harder to do when the rules state their alignment as if it's the default.
 



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