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<blockquote data-quote="punterke" data-source="post: 3054527" data-attributes="member: 44408">Hello everybody,I was watching a couple of 9/11 conspiracy theory documentaries on the internet (no, I don't want to start about that in here, it's just what lead me to the idea). And I got an idea of a fantasy world where there's a huge tower in a city during some festival. The PC's come by and see a half-orc runs like he's possessed through the crowd in the direction of that tower. He enters the building and a couple seconds later the building just collapses. The local ruler uses it to proclaim war against (and here it comes) orcs. So this would lead to a problem of how orcs are. In my little story they would be sort of good orcs. I tried to build up a story of an old total war that almost had exterminated both the orc and human societies. Orc women stood up against orc generals who had lost their credibility because of the huge losses. Centuries of rapes among humans and other tribes also might have given the orc tribe more intelligent beings than their ancestors. This might help to explain why orcs changed their evil ways into peaceful ones.But yesterday evening I watched Return of the King for the 454535th time perhaps and I saw how uncomprimisingly evil orcs are. So can they be good? It's probably simpler to replace orcs with barbarian tribes or so as one can imagine more credible. Then again, orcs not being the real evil might be interesting as the PC's (especially if there are Paladins or half-orcs among them for instance) would have to decide who to help (or stay out of trouble as they might consider it to risky, which I can counter with a &quot;you're either with or against us&quot; retorical speech by an NPC). What do you think about it? Let me know! Greets,Gunter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="punterke, post: 3054527, member: 44408"] Hello everybody, I was watching a couple of 9/11 conspiracy theory documentaries on the internet (no, I don't want to start about that in here, it's just what lead me to the idea). And I got an idea of a fantasy world where there's a huge tower in a city during some festival. The PC's come by and see a half-orc runs like he's possessed through the crowd in the direction of that tower. He enters the building and a couple seconds later the building just collapses. The local ruler uses it to proclaim war against (and here it comes) orcs. So this would lead to a problem of [I]how[/I] orcs are. In my little story they would be sort of good orcs. I tried to build up a story of an old total war that almost had exterminated both the orc and human societies. Orc women stood up against orc generals who had lost their credibility because of the huge losses. Centuries of rapes among humans and other tribes also might have given the orc tribe more intelligent beings than their ancestors. This might help to explain why orcs changed their evil ways into peaceful ones. But yesterday evening I watched Return of the King for the 454535th time perhaps and I saw how uncomprimisingly evil orcs are. So can they be good? It's probably simpler to replace orcs with barbarian tribes or so as one can imagine more credible. Then again, orcs not being the real evil might be interesting as the PC's (especially if there are Paladins or half-orcs among them for instance) would have to decide who to help (or stay out of trouble as they might consider it to risky, which I can counter with a "you're either with or against us" retorical speech by an NPC). What do you think about it? Let me know! Greets, Gunter [/QUOTE]

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