FWIW, this is the entry that the MM would use for ACTUAL TRIBAL HUMANS
Can we complain about that? Sure! No issue. It needs improvement. Also: its for wargame-sized groups and tells you what you want to know for a wargame.
also THE PICTURE OF THE ORCS
and ANOTHER thing.... Hobgoblins have almost exactly the same writeup in the text as Orcs. Tribes, Chiefs, rivalries, Building on the ruins of "more sophisticated creatures" etc.
Hobgoblins can actually talk to carnivorous apes.....
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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
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.
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.
Figured since its Friday and I have 60+ new followers I should do a #followfriday and share some of my favorite tweeters out there
One of my favorite commenters on the D&D 5e Scene is Merrick Blackman @MerricB
Since it was Tolkien's birthday this week I want to shout out to @SolomonsaysN who has a biography of JRRT on audio book, as well as a devotional on the book of Proverbs #followfriday