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Thoughts on #Gygax, #Orcs and the infamous Chivington quote. A 🧵
LONG! TL:DR Gygax didn't want you to play the moral questions of the game One Way, but wanted you to consider playing with a archaic mythic mindset. Also the Chivington quote is terrible. #dnd
LONG! TL:DR Gygax didn't want you to play the moral questions of the game One Way, but wanted you to consider playing with a archaic mythic mindset. Also the Chivington quote is terrible. #dnd
Why am I going into this?
Gygax explaining the moral permissibility of a Paladin executing prisoners who convert to LG has done more to render the idea of Orcs as a humanoid monster disposed to evil completely toxic in a way it would not had Gygax never explained it that way.
Gygax explaining the moral permissibility of a Paladin executing prisoners who convert to LG has done more to render the idea of Orcs as a humanoid monster disposed to evil completely toxic in a way it would not had Gygax never explained it that way.
Orcs are, in the AD&D Monster Manual, Lawful Evil "race" of humanoid monsters (illustrated with pig-like faces) that are like Hobgoblins or Kobolds described as grouping together in "tribes" and typically ruled in large numbers by a chief. 
