I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to “I’m an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race”. And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don’t know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.
I wish it was true that this is only “people who only play D&D” problem but I have also seen those argument with people who participate in rpg online communities or forums where they know and play other games. I’ve seen videos whining about orcs come from same channel with something like a 100 reviews of various different rpgs. Sadly I do not think this is only people who only play D&D who are the problem here.
Agreed but each time people forget that DnD isn’t the default context for some groups/communities/countried … it’s annoying.