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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8325976" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Are the conflict stories with 1-dimensional 'human' bad guys as interesting as the stories with some complexity and variety?&nbsp; How are westerns if either all the native Americans or all the settlers are genocidal?&nbsp; How interesting is a WWII story if all of the Germans (military and civilian) are the equivalent of Rudolph Hoess?&nbsp; Insert any number of other real world conflicts present or past.I think several of the other threads on &quot;orcs&quot; came to a fairly agreed upon conclusion that many of the difficulties (in avoiding the one-dimensional and avoiding othering) can be solved by having each humanoid species portrayed as having a range of views and morality and not simply as things that should be mowed down whether combatant or non-combatant, adult or child.&nbsp; It feels like a lot of westerns, fantasy stories, etc... can do that without angsting about every single act of violence or death.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8325976, member: 6701124"] Are the conflict stories with 1-dimensional 'human' bad guys as interesting as the stories with some complexity and variety? How are westerns if either all the native Americans or all the settlers are genocidal? How interesting is a WWII story if all of the Germans (military and civilian) are the equivalent of Rudolph Hoess? Insert any number of other real world conflicts present or past. I think several of the other threads on "orcs" came to a fairly agreed upon conclusion that many of the difficulties (in avoiding the one-dimensional and avoiding othering) can be solved by having each humanoid species portrayed as having a range of views and morality and not simply as things that should be mowed down whether combatant or non-combatant, adult or child. It feels like a lot of westerns, fantasy stories, etc... can do that without angsting about every single act of violence or death. [/QUOTE]

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