Allright, so I've been playing for maybe four or fives years now and in that time a problem has gone on since then. Orcish honor. Now some would argue with me that 'Oh! It's a brutal sort of cultural honor honor!" to which I say no, they were BLESSED with honor for a reason. As we all know, Iblees had cursed Krug and all his descendants with the deep desire to kill things. Okay, so that does support the habit of orcs to go raiding halfings, but they were blessed with honor to curb that right? Yes, it is irrefutable that orcs were blessed with honor to CURB their blood lust. So how does honor do that? Definition below
Okay, so the orcish blessing in another word is integrity or they are someone with good merit. Well how does that play against blood lust? It's quite simple, it just limits what orcs kill or maybe (if you want to get creative) /how/ they kill. Now for some examples of what I am trying to say: An orc sees a much larger human male holding up a defenseless female, so his blood lust rages up and his honor blessing gives him the okay to dispatch the honorless man. An orc walks through a halfing's village and nothing happens, it's hardly honorable to slaughter something that has little to no chance. A strong opponent challenges an orc and they fight to the death, still perfectly okay. A NATION shows no honor ( I don't know, they spit on the rex or just saunter about like an arrogant child) so the orcs declare war. An orc takes a slave, then does not beat the crap out of them so long as the slave does not disrespect the (albeit forced) relationship between master and slave. An orc beats the crap out of a dishonest gambler for cheating him out of money, again his bloodlust rose up and honor said it's okay.
So sorry for the messy post, but I am sick of orcs seeming to pay no heed (or outright say they don't care about) honor. I get the whole thing about /other/ orcs being bloodthirsty creatures, but this is lotc not Dungeons and Dragons.