Does anyone else honestly find the idea of Half-Orcs in the game rather disturbing? Orcs in D&D are meant to be evil to the core, complete violent savages that attack, raid, and kill anyone who isn't them. It's why they're listed as enemies and never as playable (homebrew notwithstanding). Which means there's this odd elephant in the room where you have these half-breeds running around that were conceived from a union between orcs and humans. There's pretty much only one way those people could be brought about, but the franchise doesn't ever consider discussing it, and seems to treat Half-Orcs as perfectly normal even though by all accounts they absolutely are not.
Older editions weren't cucks about it (ironically, given it is NTR), and said straight-up that most half-orcs are rape babies, either of human women in outskirt towns, or of enslaved orc women for men with peculiar tastes.
Ebberon has a neat way of addressing it: The world of Ebberon is very, very young, like only 2000-odd years old, some beings were around when it first came into existence, and kidnapped/abducted a sample of all life to begin there. Half-orcs and Half-elves are among those kidnapped, and the original bloodline of them, breeding true to only other halves to the lineage of the first arrivals, gives rise to Dragonmarks, powerups. Those born of inter-breeding humans and other races, technically resulting in the same half-race, are low mongrels and do not get Dragonmarks. So you can prove if you're a pureblooded half-elf or a bastard child one by showing your tattoos, and there's a clear caste system there.
I think it was Neverwinter Nights, or perhaps Baldur's Gate, that said something to the effect of "due to the implications behind your existence, you get a penalty to speech because people innately dislike you" in the description for half orcs.
The only reason half orcs aren't explicitly called out as rape babies in the original texts is because a DM could build a world in which that's not true. Maybe humans are evil too. Or maybe it's a world like FATAL where everyone is constantly fucking everything they see.
Does anyone else honestly find the idea of Half-Orcs in the game rather disturbing? Orcs in D&D are meant to be evil to the core, complete violent savages that attack, raid, and kill anyone who isn't them. It's why they're listed as enemies and never as playable (homebrew notwithstanding). Which means there's this odd elephant in the room where you have these half-breeds running around that were conceived from a union between orcs and humans. There's pretty much only one way those people could be brought about, but the franchise doesn't ever consider discussing it, and seems to treat Half-Orcs as perfectly normal even though by all accounts they absolutely are not.
Older editions weren't cucks about it (ironically, given it is NTR), and said straight-up that most half-orcs are rape babies, either of human women in outskirt towns, or of enslaved orc women for men with peculiar tastes.
Ebberon has a neat way of addressing it: The world of Ebberon is very, very young, like only 2000-odd years old, some beings were around when it first came into existence, and kidnapped/abducted a sample of all life to begin there. Half-orcs and Half-elves are among those kidnapped, and the original bloodline of them, breeding true to only other halves to the lineage of the first arrivals, gives rise to Dragonmarks, powerups. Those born of inter-breeding humans and other races, technically resulting in the same half-race, are low mongrels and do not get Dragonmarks. So you can prove if you're a pureblooded half-elf or a bastard child one by showing your tattoos, and there's a clear caste system there.
I think it was Neverwinter Nights, or perhaps Baldur's Gate, that said something to the effect of "due to the implications behind your existence, you get a penalty to speech because people innately dislike you" in the description for half orcs.
The only reason half orcs aren't explicitly called out as rape babies in the original texts is because a DM could build a world in which that's not true. Maybe humans are evil too. Or maybe it's a world like FATAL where everyone is constantly fucking everything they see.
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