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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 8187318" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Is the film Dances With Wolves 'bad' because it portrays an ethnicity as being tribal?In the World of Warcraft film based on the game, orcs were depicted as tribal. Does that mean they were depicted as native americans?Did the film portray orcs negatively, because they are a tribal society?Does it mean that stories that include tribal societies are inherently unacceptable?When I started playing AD&D back in 1979, when I read the PHB I instantly thought that they used the wrong word: 'race' was simply incorrect. The correct word was 'species'. I suppose that all the PC races (including human!) could be described as 'subspecies' and 'humanoid' as the species.And 'humanoid' still has a human perspective, but so does 'half-elf'; I'm pretty sure elves refer to them as 'half-humans'.I like the trope of the Noble Savage. In my D&D career I've played human, elven, and dwarven barbarians from tribal cultures (along with Barbarian PCs from a civilised culture). I imagine tribal orcs to be similar. Not inherently evil or good, just seen that way by their enemies or allies.</blockquote>