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<blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5799101" data-attributes="member: 6685059">I think those questions should be campaign-specific. So in one world, you have chaotic evil orcs. In another world, you have noble savage orcs. At least if that would result in different mechanics (if the mechanics are the same either way, I guess it doesn't matter much).But now you have a practical issue. Do you put the orc entry in the monster manual with no alignment and no flavor, and leave the fluff to the campaign settings? Well, that would read dry and text-book. So do you put the chaotic evil orc in the core monster manual as the default, and the noble orc in the campaign supplement? Or is there no core monster manual and have campaign-specific monster manuals? It all comes down to the presentation really.With paladin concepts, maybe they belong in a default campaign setting, where you have one kind of paladin or another kind of paladin depending on the flavor of that world -- but that doesn't seem to be the way they're doing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LurkAway, post: 5799101, member: 6685059"] I think those questions should be campaign-specific. So in one world, you have chaotic evil orcs. In another world, you have noble savage orcs. At least if that would result in different mechanics (if the mechanics are the same either way, I guess it doesn't matter much). But now you have a practical issue. Do you put the orc entry in the monster manual with no alignment and no flavor, and leave the fluff to the campaign settings? Well, that would read dry and text-book. So do you put the chaotic evil orc in the core monster manual as the default, and the noble orc in the campaign supplement? Or is there no core monster manual and have campaign-specific monster manuals? It all comes down to the presentation really. With paladin concepts, maybe they belong in a default campaign setting, where you have one kind of paladin or another kind of paladin depending on the flavor of that world -- but that doesn't seem to be the way they're doing it. [/QUOTE]

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