*vaguetwetes intersection of D&D and progressive politics* *prophylactically mutes thread* *says "I am still a good person" and mostly believes it, mostly*
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Homebrewing OSR rules is better anyway. I don't know why everyone sits around and waits for official rules/modules to come out.
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Good for its own sake. Story worlds are always improved by adding nuance
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Making Orcs and Drow not evil will make a lot of teenage boys uninterested in playing Orc or Drow characters.
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Hmm, I always disliked the D&D alignment system and the way it had basically evil races. At the same time I feel like Switch from the Matrix saying "Not like this..." Changing this due to a moral panic and covering their ass is way more lame than seeing it as bad storytelling...
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Do your own worldbuilding. Imagine what happens in: - "cursed paradise", population limited by diseases, not lack of food; - expensive-labor Malthusian; - cheap-labor Malthusian conditions. Then say "the orcs are adapted to an environment like that, of course they are that way".
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This is much more troubling tbh. Like "these creatures are Evil alignment, it's inherently good to kill them" was unrealistic, metaphysical fantasy, but now it's like "hey mercilessly kill a bunch of these Real Sapient Beings of Regular Moral Worth". They've dug the hole deeper.
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The irony is that this invocation of individuality and personal action is 1-2 anti-racism waves back from the shoreline. If they were doing woke proper they’d double down on Orc identity and accuse centuries of Elven oppression for Gruumshish racialism.
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