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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8532047" data-attributes="member: 7032025"><p>Indeed, all of that mostly comes from bad interpretations, and the problem is that some of these interpretations are malicious. Honestly, the 5e PH original take on orcs was not offensive at all in itself, gods were created by evil gods to serve them, and although good orcs do exist, they have to fight against that influence. Honestly, what is bad in that ? And for drows, who were not created by Lolth, but only influenced by her, it's even easier.</p><p></p><p>The problem comes when mixing it with skin color, and while there is nothing reprehensible with the simple color black being associated with evil (it's a tendency in many cultures due to fear of the night, or so I'm told), races with dark skin (even if it's really absolute black which does not exist on earth) are problematic as well. And for orcs, it's even worse, it comes only from Peter Jackson's interpretation, since orcs in particular in D&D have never been black.</p><p></p><p>But honestly, it takes some serious willingness to find something reprehensible to have crossed the two and said "it's not acceptable that races with dark skin are inherently evil" without seeing that something like that never was said anywhere in the D&D rules.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The thing is that if Warhammer had the same visibility as D&D, this would for sure not have been sufficient excuses. They look enough like humanoids to be some, and would therefore be considered people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8532047, member: 7032025"] Indeed, all of that mostly comes from bad interpretations, and the problem is that some of these interpretations are malicious. Honestly, the 5e PH original take on orcs was not offensive at all in itself, gods were created by evil gods to serve them, and although good orcs do exist, they have to fight against that influence. Honestly, what is bad in that ? And for drows, who were not created by Lolth, but only influenced by her, it's even easier. The problem comes when mixing it with skin color, and while there is nothing reprehensible with the simple color black being associated with evil (it's a tendency in many cultures due to fear of the night, or so I'm told), races with dark skin (even if it's really absolute black which does not exist on earth) are problematic as well. And for orcs, it's even worse, it comes only from Peter Jackson's interpretation, since orcs in particular in D&D have never been black. But honestly, it takes some serious willingness to find something reprehensible to have crossed the two and said "it's not acceptable that races with dark skin are inherently evil" without seeing that something like that never was said anywhere in the D&D rules. The thing is that if Warhammer had the same visibility as D&D, this would for sure not have been sufficient excuses. They look enough like humanoids to be some, and would therefore be considered people. [/QUOTE]
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