http://ln.ht/_/images/favicon-4c526c32c48400028d7739cac47cd2a3.svg?vsn=d http://ln.ht/_/feed/orc 2026-07-29T02:24:29.530094Z 2097 https://ln.ht/~2097 <p> Oh I didn’t realize how good the ORC license actually is.</p> <p> No more “this entire book is Product Identity”. The default is all crunch copylefted (strongly copylefted rather than permissive) and all fluff is reserved (proprietary😰). Licensors can designate some or all of the fluff as copylefted but they can’t proprietarize the crunch!</p> https://koboldpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ORC-AxE.FINAL_.pdf 2025-08-14T23:02:41Z 2097 https://ln.ht/~2097 <p> <em>The Rings of Power</em>‘s answer to Tolkien’s moral dilemma seems to be that the orcs are terrified of becoming thralls of Sauron, and that Sauron can mind-control them to some extent but not completely. I like it; it sort of tracks with how some of the men in his army were forgiven in <em>The Return of the King</em>. Like all attempted answers to the dilemma, including Tolkien’s own attempts, there might be a couple of weirdnesses and contradictions.</p> <p> In the Trilemma setting it seems to me that orcs are people who ate the ashes of their ancestors. They are are a faction among others, in the game you can trade with them or even be them. (And of course in Zakhara all enlightened beings are equal; orcs are like any other person and can be good or bad or anything in between. It’s a setting with many lines of conflicts but your species usually isn’t one.)</p> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien's_moral_dilemma 2024-09-05T09:25:29Z