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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8345604" data-attributes="member: 21169">The chart below is from Dungeons &amp; Dragons Book I Men &amp; Magic (1974). It shows that orcs (and some other monsters, such as ogres and minotaurs), could be either Chaotic or Neutral in the original game. Chaos in 1974 D&amp;D was synonymous with evil.[ATTACH=full]140762[/ATTACH]<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-problem-with-evil-races-is-not-what-you-think.680980/page-14#post-8335349" target="_blank">Post #280 from upthread</a> covers the history of &quot;always evil&quot; monsters in D&amp;D. It provides evidence that orcs were always evil in the AD&amp;D 1e Dungeon Masters Guide (1979), stopped being inherently evil in Roger Moore's article Half-orcs in Dragon #62 (1982), became inherently evil again in D&amp;D 5e (2014), and stopped being inherently evil for a second time with WotC's announcement <a href="https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/diversity-and-dnd" target="_blank">Diversity and Dungeons &amp; Dragons</a> in 2020.Therefore it can be concluded that orcs have been always evil for nine years out of the 47 years D&amp;D has been in existence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 8345604, member: 21169"] The chart below is from [I]Dungeons & Dragons Book I Men & Magic[/I] (1974). It shows that orcs (and some other monsters, such as ogres and minotaurs), could be either Chaotic or Neutral in the original game. Chaos in 1974 D&D was synonymous with evil. [ATTACH type="full"]140762[/ATTACH] [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-problem-with-evil-races-is-not-what-you-think.680980/page-14#post-8335349']Post #280 from upthread[/URL] covers the history of "always evil" monsters in D&D. It provides evidence that orcs were always evil in the [I]AD&D 1e Dungeon Masters Guide[/I] (1979), stopped being inherently evil in Roger Moore's article [I]Half-orcs[/I] in [I]Dragon #62[/I] (1982), became inherently evil again in D&D 5e (2014), and stopped being inherently evil for a second time with WotC's announcement [URL='https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/diversity-and-dnd']Diversity and Dungeons & Dragons[/URL] in 2020. Therefore it can be concluded that orcs have been always evil for nine years out of the 47 years D&D has been in existence. [/QUOTE]

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