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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 8023147" data-attributes="member: 6688277">Thanks for sharing this story.Real life ugliness inspires the birth of the idea of the half-orc, which is cool for nerds during the early years of D&D. As D&D becomes increasingly more mainstream, suddenly the origin of the cool idea begins to affect more and more victims of this real life ugliness. Those luckily enough to still live in a bubble of safety where such ugliness has not affected their lives still enjoy the idea of playing a half-orc without giving the issue too much or ANY thought.Then there is the option where one plays a half-orc specifically to explore their character's past, perhaps in an attempt to right a wrong or come to terms with it - like Tanis did in the Tanis, The Shadow Years novel by Barbara Siegel.</blockquote>