The thing is, people could have been doing this anyway, but now it's in the official rules for 5e. Like, among the biggest items in DnD is homebrew and tweaking the rules as you see fit. If people don't want bad orcs, they could just not have evil orcs in their effort, it is so simple.I hear Not Another D&D Podcast and their effort exists in a world where interbreeding is something for millenia, so there are no"races". Every being is a multitude of different racial aspects.

For player characters it let the players pick one civic"class" while using their character look however the desire, and all beings are extremely"human-monster hybrid".

Eg. Emily's PC, Fia, is described as being violet skinned and fanged, slightly"orcish" in her face however extended and gangly elven physique. She utilizes the racial stats of Vedalken. It's a mishmash of different descriptions that works good with a"look how you want, but apply a race's features".

It's also an optional rule. Personally, I think it's a bit OP since you can chose a feat onto every race (a feat is basically like a gift and some are extremely strong), but in the long run it is to create your character more elastic once you wish to play an Orc Wizard f.e. and don't have much use for the bonus strength.It's more fun because you can play some other race as any course but it makes races only another bit of fluff information that you inform your celebration once and then they overlook the whole game their wizard is a half-orc.

Plus the entire thing began because a bunch of people were complaining about orcs being racist because they're D&D depiction of black people seemingly, even though individuals are a distinct race...

I mean if your in a group at which the half orc is ignored today, than it was likely going to be discounted before. It's up to the player to detirmine what they want from the racial option, along with the dm to enforce those decisions on.The first time I saw that I legit didn't get it. . .its since the personality is a color darker? Is it even? Do not these people have real issues to worry about?

If you inform your DM that you wish to be a half-orc, and come to the table with an notion about what that means from a roleplaying standpoint, without having talked to the DM about it, along with your experience is different from what you expected, than that is in you.It seems similar to"caving to SJW's" and much more like leaning into allowing good homebrew. A variety of the current changes seem to be at the direction of helping you play however you want, while helping you not break game balance. As a rules-are-just-guidelines player, this can be super welcome.

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