Anonymous
6/14/2025, 1:38:25 PM No.95869233
Do you prefer orcs as noble savages like in WoW or brutal squat slave soldiers like in the Tolkienverse?
Post orcs
Post orcs
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 2:01:35 PM No.95869307
Gonna be real I don't really even like Orcs anymore.
Tolkien Orcs are fine. Warhammer Orks as well.
I find every other iteration I've come across boring as fuck.
Tolkien Orcs are fine. Warhammer Orks as well.
I find every other iteration I've come across boring as fuck.
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 3:57:13 PM No.95869781
>>95869307
This. I'm kind of fucking tired of em, gimme more easterlings or some shit
This. I'm kind of fucking tired of em, gimme more easterlings or some shit
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 4:19:31 PM No.95869873
>>95869233 (OP)
Both!
In my shitty homebrew setting, there are two distinct groups of orcs. Orcs living in the Northern continent are a deeply spiritual race of warrior people with a rigid caste system. They enjoy living off the land and fighting each other during the summertime.
Orcs in the South are your typical raiding, raping, enslaving, Gruums worshipping monsters the players can kill by the hundreds without any moral quandries.
Both!
In my shitty homebrew setting, there are two distinct groups of orcs. Orcs living in the Northern continent are a deeply spiritual race of warrior people with a rigid caste system. They enjoy living off the land and fighting each other during the summertime.
Orcs in the South are your typical raiding, raping, enslaving, Gruums worshipping monsters the players can kill by the hundreds without any moral quandries.
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 4:57:41 PM No.95870040
>>95869742
D&D?
D&D?
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 5:30:25 PM No.95870220
>>95869233 (OP)
Industrious evil fucks. Like Warhammer, but a little more functional.
I'm also on board with the Hedon approach
Industrious evil fucks. Like Warhammer, but a little more functional.
I'm also on board with the Hedon approach
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Anonymous
6/14/2025, 6:02:30 PM No.95870405
>>95869233 (OP)
Depends on how they're implemented.
Frankly I'm not a huge fan of the noble savage archetype, because the overwhelming majority of attempts at portraying primitive warrior cultures never properly address their "might makes right" elements less palatable to modern values, and come off as not entirely genuine because of it; something more like a greenskinned Iliad might have potential.
Races that are innately evil don't have as much potential to be interesting either (demons etc get a pass because it's kind of their thing), but they're a lot harder to fuck up, and I'd much prefer it over a hamfisted attempt at moral complexity.
>>95869873
Personally, the direction I've settled on has been to lean into the OG Tolkien portrayal of the average orc as trapped in a giant institutionalized cycle of abuse; Russian military (and to an extent prison) culture has been a surprisingly good source of information on how to represent this.
They're ultimately victims, but in the same way that a rabid dog is, as something that can only be sympathized with from a safe distance. It's possible for them to be rehabilitated, not in the sense of "aww he's just misunderstood (:" but through their own internal struggle to recognize that there is an alternative and to then break the cycle.
Some orcs in small isolated enclaves have managed to stay independent from the horde, even if only by not being notable enough to draw attention; while otherwise far closer to their "natural" way of life, they are violently insular and isolationist, because their entire experience with outsiders has been overwhelmingly negative (both their own kind in the horde, and others who have likewise had overwhelmingly negative experience with orcs for the same reason), and they quite understandably just want to be left the fuck alone.
Depends on how they're implemented.
Frankly I'm not a huge fan of the noble savage archetype, because the overwhelming majority of attempts at portraying primitive warrior cultures never properly address their "might makes right" elements less palatable to modern values, and come off as not entirely genuine because of it; something more like a greenskinned Iliad might have potential.
Races that are innately evil don't have as much potential to be interesting either (demons etc get a pass because it's kind of their thing), but they're a lot harder to fuck up, and I'd much prefer it over a hamfisted attempt at moral complexity.
>>95869873
Personally, the direction I've settled on has been to lean into the OG Tolkien portrayal of the average orc as trapped in a giant institutionalized cycle of abuse; Russian military (and to an extent prison) culture has been a surprisingly good source of information on how to represent this.
They're ultimately victims, but in the same way that a rabid dog is, as something that can only be sympathized with from a safe distance. It's possible for them to be rehabilitated, not in the sense of "aww he's just misunderstood (:" but through their own internal struggle to recognize that there is an alternative and to then break the cycle.
Some orcs in small isolated enclaves have managed to stay independent from the horde, even if only by not being notable enough to draw attention; while otherwise far closer to their "natural" way of life, they are violently insular and isolationist, because their entire experience with outsiders has been overwhelmingly negative (both their own kind in the horde, and others who have likewise had overwhelmingly negative experience with orcs for the same reason), and they quite understandably just want to be left the fuck alone.
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 6:57:34 PM No.95870702
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:19:28 AM No.95873260
>>95870220
how big is her schlong?
how big is her schlong?