Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 9568721" data-attributes="member: 83242">I've never heard or seen such connotations and I don't see them just from your description. However, I am not trying to suggest that they are not there. I am just stating that I was ignorant of such a connection and at first glance I don't see it.I find that unlikely, but I do say stupid things sometimes and since my daughter died 13 months ago today I have been pretty messed up the past year and sometimes I have found myself saying stuff just to piss people off because I am pissed off myself. I have been trying to work on that.However, if I had to guess, I bet I was saying that for me, in my game,  I have no issues with brutish orcs are evil monsters because I can separate fantasy from reality. I do understand the issue with a mass produced publication though.And, thinking a little deeper, you memory is more suspect as I have repeatedly said, in these forums, that may view of orcs comes mostly from my understanding of the "goblins" in the Hobbit (book and animated movie). They were, IMO, treated as a thinking and nuanced people in that book that were dangerous, but could be negotiated with and talked to, not simply killed. At least that was how my young self understood them.</blockquote>