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<blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 8022883" data-attributes="member: 6750908"><p>Not really the affected party here, but it seems there'd be <em>a lot less wrong</em> with the standard D&D narrative about clearing "humanoids" from land so "demihumans" could move in if the game simply took step back and let the morality of the PCs' actions speak for themselves instead of making <em>the setting itself</em> validate them.</p><p></p><p>I mean, honestly, doesn't "morality is governened by objective, but opposed, metaphysical forces of Law and Chaos, Good and Evil" strike you as an <em>incredibly specific</em> setting detail to make part of the core rules and a mandatory part of every official setting?</p><p></p><p>Generally, start with the assumption that anything with human-level intelligence, that speaks a language, that lives in social groups and reproduces naturally... anything that <em>behaves like a person, </em>should be regarded as a person by the rules of the game. If Orcs and goblinoids are typically Evil and typically hostile to Humans and their allies, treat them the same as Evil Human cultures that behave the same way. And then, do not identifiably base them on stereotypes and old racist propaganda about existing human ethnic groups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitVictor, post: 8022883, member: 6750908"] Not really the affected party here, but it seems there'd be [I]a lot less wrong[/I] with the standard D&D narrative about clearing "humanoids" from land so "demihumans" could move in if the game simply took step back and let the morality of the PCs' actions speak for themselves instead of making [I]the setting itself[/I] validate them. I mean, honestly, doesn't "morality is governened by objective, but opposed, metaphysical forces of Law and Chaos, Good and Evil" strike you as an [I]incredibly specific[/I] setting detail to make part of the core rules and a mandatory part of every official setting? Generally, start with the assumption that anything with human-level intelligence, that speaks a language, that lives in social groups and reproduces naturally... anything that [I]behaves like a person, [/I]should be regarded as a person by the rules of the game. If Orcs and goblinoids are typically Evil and typically hostile to Humans and their allies, treat them the same as Evil Human cultures that behave the same way. And then, do not identifiably base them on stereotypes and old racist propaganda about existing human ethnic groups. [/QUOTE]
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