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<blockquote data-quote="Jasperak" data-source="post: 4658521" data-attributes="member: 2487">I'm not sure you do understand. I think I have answered your initial question several times that the orcs in my game are EVIL. I'm not talking about other human lands, nor using the orcs as an analogous culture to one you would find in the real world. Because in my games I define the orcs as EVIL the PCs have no issue with orc genocide. There is no redeeming aspect to orc culture since there is no orc culture! In my games you cannot redeem an orc. We do not treat orcs as humans in another skin. We find this play works for us. I really don't know any other way to say we avoid these questions by defining the orcs as EVIL.To answer directly your comment about the PCs setting out to wipe out the orcs of the Red Hills to take their copper mines. In a hypothetical situation, if the PCs were tasked by their liege to assault the orcs to secure the mine for the kingdom, they would generally be happy to do it. Depending on the reward of course <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />To me it is really about what team the PCs are on. We try to keep moral ambiguity out of the equation. The orcs are always on the other team and we tell stories about how we beat the snot out of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jasperak, post: 4658521, member: 2487"] I'm not sure you do understand. I think I have answered your initial question several times that the orcs in my game are EVIL. I'm not talking about other human lands, nor using the orcs as an analogous culture to one you would find in the real world. Because in my games I define the orcs as EVIL the PCs have no issue with orc genocide. There is no redeeming aspect to orc culture since there is no orc culture! In my games you cannot redeem an orc. We do not treat orcs as humans in another skin. We find this play works for us. I really don't know any other way to say we avoid these questions by defining the orcs as EVIL. To answer directly your comment about the PCs setting out to wipe out the orcs of the Red Hills to take their copper mines. In a hypothetical situation, if the PCs were tasked by their liege to assault the orcs to secure the mine for the kingdom, they would generally be happy to do it. Depending on the reward of course ;) To me it is really about what team the PCs are on. We try to keep moral ambiguity out of the equation. The orcs are always on the other team and we tell stories about how we beat the snot out of them. [/QUOTE]

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