Orcseys - always Evil?

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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Are you saying that wild animals are brutish and mean?!? Wild is no synonym for brutish and mean.

About half-orcs
If orcs have limited free will (they can only do evil, but they can choose what), what about a half-orc? Would he/she have this limited free will? Or a free will of a human?

No. It was a comparison. If wild animals raised by people grow up and still have a need to be wild. Then maybe its the same thing with an orc. If an orc has an instinct to be evil, then it will be evil.

A 1/2 orc would very likely be like those in AD&D I guess. Tolkiens works is where the TSR people got the whole idea, so anytime I think of 1/2 orcs I think of the D&D ones. Given they aren't real creatures, thats the only source I have to really go on.