LogFAQs > #950013543

Yeah, what Wizards of the Coast is doing in their work is making actual Player Character Race have less forced-traits by increasing the complexity of heavily "generalized" and type-cast races in their personal worlds. I don't really have a problem with that, I always thought it was a bit bizarre that 80% of DnD campaigns depict orcs as mostly dumb and brutish when, as a GM, you could really do so much more to create a cool culture for them with more nuance than "They like to kill and raid and burn stuff". You don't need a player race that is just dumb, any member of any race can be pretty stupid if you want them to be--In fact, it would probably be more interesting making an Elf who is a total ignoramus than pushing the same tired tropes.

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