Half-Orcs were a thing because Gygax flips flops a lot between &quot;you can play anything&quot; and &quot;no all these things act the same&quot; and some of the tables he ran literally could not handle any amount of ambiguity on what was good or bad(the whole reason Drow exist is because if Gygax had antagonistic &quot;regular&quot; elves in the game, his players would just murder any elf good or evil on sight). So Half-Orcs started this weird legacy D&amp;D has of what I call &quot;compromise&quot; races and options were you can be a thing but not really that thing you wanted to be but vaguely related. &quot;You can't be a full Orc, those are all bad guys, so be a half-orc that ostenbily looks like an orc but maybe a little scrawnier&quot;