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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 2552567" data-attributes="member: 7624">I go under the assumption that orcs and similar humanoids enter adulthood within 12yrs of birth and within six years are able to weild a weapon and defend themselves even with tooth and claw if necessary. I make this assumption to explain the relatively explosive growth of orc hordes.I think that individual orcish children could theoretically be rescued by caring individuals (PCs) but there are going to be non-combatants who are unable to care for themselves and will die because the tribes great hunters and warriors are now dead. This is something I feel would be of no consequence to 98% of even good aligned folk who would actually see the creatures as something akin to roaches to be crushed and good riddance if the young die, at least they won't grow up to slaughter human, elven and dwarven children in 10-12yrs.The races plagued by orcs are often dwarves and elves. Dwarves in many settings are good aligned but at the same time suffer genocidal attacks at the hands of orcs in their halls. In FR dwarven nations were literally wiped out by these creatures.Any rational species would, if possible crush the orcish armies and then move to sweep the threat from the region so that they are themselves no longer bordered by a genocidal threat. The dwarves, if they have the brains they were born with, will sweep into the villages of the defeated orcs and drive them from the map altogether so as to protect their own women and children from a threat that rises over and over again, a threat from a race more fecund than they and one that can, unless destroyed utterly, overwhelm them.Chris</blockquote>

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