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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8489703" data-attributes="member: 4534">I got "licks" at school after Thar was published.  I think 1989-1990 was the last time though it was a big paddle in Texas.Sure.  Interestingly enough, the plot of Porky's II:  The Next Day (1985) revolves around our heroes thwarting the machinations of a religious leader who enlists the aid of the KKK to stop an interracial kiss in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the local high school.  The part of Romeo is played by a Seminole and the part of Juliet by a white actress.  The climax of the film comes when our plucky teens lures a group of klansmen to a darkened school gym only to turn on the lights revealing the bleachers filled to the brim with Seminoles. I get that things change.  But from what I remember of the 80s, mocking American Indians was bad.  And that's why Orcs of Thar surprises me in a way that something similar from 1920 wouldn't.  Even a crummy teen sex comedy didn't make the Indians the butt of the joke.  I can only surmise that TSR got away with this product because it had a relatively small audience and the lines of communication between consumers, creators, and the world at large wasn't nearly so great as it is now. I'm pretty sure the USSR was just a faction in Twilight 2000.I haven't seen Porky's II in about 36 years.  How the hell do I still remember the plot?</blockquote>