Quote Originally Posted by Spriteless View Post
Dice I only meant the story reason for why Orks are no longer playable.
Were you suggesting that "evil gods don't allow their followers free will" is your headcanon for that, then? 'Cause "no longer playable" implies you're talking about 5e and I don't see anything about that in the 5e MM. In that case, yeah, that's a good way to do things if you want to justify orcs being non-playable and kill-on-sight.

That's pretty similar to how they retconned 5e gnolls, though, and I'd say having two "totally normal savage humanoid that's secretly basically a demon with no conscience or morals" races is at least one such race too many, if not two. If they want to make hyena-like demons and boar-like demons, they should do that, not turn classic races into sorta-kinda-demons and nuke all the relevant lore and history.