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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 8018578" data-attributes="member: 6688858">The depiction of orcs doesn't match the most common and pernicious colonialist depictions of blacks. Orcs are far too dangerous to D&D humans for them to enjoy minstrel shows featuring the trope of the lazy, happy-go-lucky orc. Orcs in D&D Land are obviously not a conquered and colonized people--they're barbarians massing outside the gates, like the Vandals/Huns/Mongols.The problematic aspects of orcs (dark skin, ugly but physically superior, sexually insatiable, etc.) do have similarities with the hysterias of the KKK, and I guess their descendants in today's Alt-Right preoccupied with urban crime statistics and inter-racial couples. It feels like a modern American issue, so I can see why it's so uncomfortable to modern Americans, and since D&D is a modern American game I guess it's inevitable that these aspects will be changed. The question is whether the barbarians-turned-up-to-11 monster must also be thrown out with the bathwater.</blockquote>