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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8657604" data-attributes="member: 18">Orcs, and that's from long before recent issues.They're just REALLY BORING and really overused, and have been overused since the mid-1990s at the latest. They have nothing going on, and 5E trying to make them have something going on by that thing being &quot;RACISM&quot; (unintentional as it may be) did not help matters.I don't hard-exclude them myself, but they're really over-used, so I very rarely include them and tend to have them more as bizarre ancient creatures rather than having them be all &quot;Lovecraftian&quot; in the typical sense. The Far Realm is one of the more boring and trite takes on that sort of thing too.I do have a soft spot for Beholders, who are technically Aberrations, though.Also Giants who aren't Hill or Stone giants. I'm just not into these like, &quot;IM A RED VIKING WHO IS 14' TALL AND ON FIRE LOLOLOLZ!!!!!&quot;-type giants, they're so... tacky! So kitsch! So like, ugh... no. No. Just no. They're like something out of a bad videogame, and I've felt that since the '80s! We might as well be fighting sports mascots, but at least that would be kind of funny.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8657604, member: 18"] Orcs, and that's from long before recent issues. They're just REALLY BORING and really overused, and have been overused since the mid-1990s at the latest. They have nothing going on, and 5E trying to make them have something going on by that thing being "RACISM" (unintentional as it may be) did not help matters. I don't hard-exclude them myself, but they're really over-used, so I very rarely include them and tend to have them more as bizarre ancient creatures rather than having them be all "Lovecraftian" in the typical sense. The Far Realm is one of the more boring and trite takes on that sort of thing too. I do have a soft spot for Beholders, who are technically Aberrations, though. Also Giants who aren't Hill or Stone giants. I'm just not into these like, "IM A RED VIKING WHO IS 14' TALL AND ON FIRE LOLOLOLZ!!!!!"-type giants, they're so... tacky! So kitsch! So like, ugh... no. No. Just no. They're like something out of a bad videogame, and I've felt that since the '80s! We might as well be fighting sports mascots, but at least that would be kind of funny. [/QUOTE]

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