How do you like em?
I like 'em in the nice middle ground between green elves and inhuman brutes
>>92684145chaotic evila monster race
Ottoman.
>>92684145For me it's either Tolkien Orcs or TES Orcs. I hate WoW Orcs and D&D Orcs are boring (just like most things D&D).I like 40k Orks but they're a different species.
There's only one correct answer.
>>92684145>How do you like em?Dead.
Big and green.
>>92684145Jackson's LotR movies did them perfectly.
>>92684295Is there that much difference between wow and tes orcs? Both are noble savages that evolved into powerful cultures.
>>92687786Wow Orcs are aliens, TeS Orcs are elves literally turned into shit.
>>92684145
pig-like
>>92684193based.
>>92684145WoW-style orcs are my favorite. They're cool.
>>92684145like villains and evil, but with pride and personality.
>>92688685that hobbit is cute
>>92684145Below ground is Tolkien orcs, they're sickly and depraved but rather cunning, above ground is Warcraft orcs and they're sanguine and muscular but a bit dim. A minority of the above-ground orcs are noble savages (i.e. they won't kill you unless they think it's self-defense). This fulfills Tolkien's desire to show orcs growing up in a better environment and choosing to be better. It's also a commentary on what happens if you spend too much time in the dungeon.
>boarmen>naval potency, basically the only ones that dare to sail on a regular basis through a monster-infested ocean>do raids along the coast, sometimes into the continent just as vikings or polynesian peoples>live for battle; perform hakas, use spears and shields that make up for lack of heavy armor, sometimes axes; but never swords. >have knowledge of bows but their preferred ranged weapons are spears (thrown). This ports to their other profession: Whaling.>their settlements live on fish and monster meat mostly. Their women are highly skilled artisans who make armor and work on ship construction; tend the lighthouses and perform shamanistic duties (male orcs never take magical ocupations). Their islands have little adult males as most of them are outside warring or dead>have +2 str, -2 int (i use d&d)>amongst their tactics are shield walls, covering their skin in ash by rolling over bonfires to be colorless at night or to scare their enemies (as if it was necessary)>cannot conquer lands for long because usually they have inner fights, also they lack women in-land and must kidnap them from the locals>their elite warriors are berserks, which are feared even among orcs>orc navigation charts are very valuable for sailors and cartographers. Normally they are tattoed on the back of a prisoner as it is much more durable than parchment.
>>92689836This is fun, but I think it would be more fun if they didn't fuck human, I don't think that part is necessary for them to be interesting.
>>92684145Like vampires: 99.99% of them absolute inhuman monsters and their halfbreeds can be good but tragic
>>92684145creepy, twisted, yet capable of redemption. I think they're the perfect chance to show that no one is too far from becoming a better person, even if one's culture is horrible and that true beauty is on the inside.
>>92684145Disco OrcsJustDisco Orcshttps://youtu.be/yZ_QUh0lmj4?feature=shared
No one, not the oldest Dark Elf of Mount Dagoth-Ur or the Ancient Sage of Solitude, no one can recall a time when the Orc did not ravage our fair Tamriel. Whatever foul and pestilent daedra of Oblivion conjured them could scarcely have created a more constant threat to the well-being of the civilized races of Tamriel.Orcs are thankfully easy to recognize from other humanoids by their size, commonly forty pertans in height and fifteen thousand angaids in weight, their brutal pig-like features, and their stench. They are consistantly belligerant, morally grotesque, intellectually moronic, and unclean. By all rights, the civilized races of Tamriel should have been able to purge our land of their blight eras ago, but their ferocity, animal cunning, and curious tribal loyalty has made them inevitable as leeches in a stagnant pool.Tales of orcish barbarity preceedwritten record. When Jastyaga wrote of the Order of Diagna joining the armies of Daggerfall and Sentinel “to hold the wicked orcs in their foul Orsinium tower … and burn all” in 1E 950, she assumed that any reader would be aware of the savagery of the orcs. When the siege was completed thirty years later, after the death of many heroes including Gaiden Shinji, and the destruction of Orsinium scattered the orc survivors throughout the Wrothgarian Mountains, Jastyaga wrote, “the people rejoiced for their ancient enemy was dispersed.” Obviously, the orcs had been terrorizing the region of the Iliac Bay at least since the early years of the first era.
>>92689937Yeah i hope so because i dont like to put focus on that. But its at least implied unless i specifically make up some reason for them not to like to be involved with rape
>>92690724They, like most other males on earth, are not attracted to members of other species. Simple as.I like the basic idea of female orc scholars/priestesses/lighthouse-keepers, that's cool, but it doesn't mean that the males have to rape humans. You seem to be suffering from a minor/moderate case of coombrain.
>>92689253I do this but I make them heroic.
History:>the different people groups, which serve as possible inspiration to Orcs as a caricature of them from the perspective of civilized Urbanites, were actually successful in history, conquered and became the new Elite and warrior class of the civilizations they conquered (Germanics in Europe, Mongols in China, Turks in the Middle East)Fantasy:>Orcs never conquer any Human Kingdom and interbreed with the Humans, so eventually a new Half-Orc civilization gets created, where even the strongest Knights have a little bit of Human in them and even the lowliest peasant-slaves, have a little bit of Orc in them and look mostly like Humans, except for maybe a tusk, a greenish tint or sharper teeth>the Clans, which hundreds of years ago were clearly still tribes, but now developed into basically a Knighthood order in all but name, open for membership to anyone willing to prove themselves, but still keep up weird Orc Clan rituals like ritualistic scaring, a dangerous dare, certain tattoos to mark membership, trials by a shaman, etcI am very disappointed. Don‘t you realize this Union between Orc and Human was necessary to create a superior race of beings, who are destined to conquer the whole world? Pic related is what the average Orc peasant woman from that kingdom is going to look like btw.
>>92691048Why even have them if you're going to turn them into something they weren't intended to be?
depends on my moodnormal mood: evil and savageheroic mood: noble and savagecoom mood: buff mommiespatrician mood: buff femboys
>>92684193>tfw you realize orcs typically eat their newborns in many fantasy setting
>>92684145Soft and queer, because it makes neckbeards seethe.
>>92684145Like this
Or like this
>>92693887That doesn't seem very efficient.
>>92694049Welcome to DnD.
>>92694055From the looks of that pic that is the last thing a Gobo ever sees. Ether that or a guard elf is about to have his vary long life cut vary vary short by an orc raider.
>>92690825you are new on 4chan I see
>>92693591eventually the new race is the base "humans" for the setting, and a new "orc" race appears.
>>92688685With these guys as your regulars no one would dare start a bar fight
Everyone saying blizzard orcs is an absolute turbofaggot and deserves to be purged
>>92699147This. It's funny enough when normies kept asking "why are they taller than humans? this is wrong."
>>92699147They used to be good until they got shat on by BlackRock furry operatives.
Pig Orcs are best Orcs.
>>92684145Urban.
>>92684145Predatory Neanderthal theory, and looking like the age of sigmar ones.
>>92703069I see you're an orc of culture aswell.
There’s so much you can do with them
>>92707281That doesn't even look like an orc? Just looks like a human or elf
>>92699147Blizzard orcs can be nice, just depends how you do them. Warcraft 3 orcs and their allies were cool
>>92684145mean and ugly
In my games Orcs are basically Nomadic, low-tech Klingons.Not the Worf kind, the drinking blood-wine while headbutting one another kind.
>>92707996shh you don't want to upset the DEI agents now do you?
>>92684504>>92687965>>92689836>>92694036>>92703010>>92707941I too prefer pig orcs. Total pigger death.
Finding female pig orcs is hard
>>92711336Slop to the rescue.
>>92711336
>>92711336you just need to know where to look
>>92711451Like a literal furry porn game?
>>92711473yeah, but since this is a blue board, you need to find one that also includes some SFW scenes
>>92711451Not a furry, but I respect the art design of this game
I really like this picture but I downloaded the low res mobile version by mistake, someone fix it!
>>92711908nvm here it is
>>92688685>posts a goblin
I have a question for thread- what should Orc religion and magic be like? I like the idea of stealing a lot of stuff about Malacath from Elder Scrolls. But outside of that what'd be some good ideas?
>>92711274I wonder what happened to the guy that made those
Orcs in shiny armor is nice
>>92707996He’s American, the mere thought of a black person being into the same thing as him causes him to lash out when no one else cares and shitpost. Ignore him and he’ll simmer down.
>>92702303>normiesnormalfag
Was never one for boar orcs until dungeon meshi did them really well. Been basing my OSR orc stuff off of them with a mix of nomadic tribe culture where they hunt megafauna. Their routes have them head from stationary waypoint to waypoint, at which there'll be actual settlements that manage crops as it's the only place they'll actually grow.
>>92694036they made them mad cute though
>>92684193I do not like them in a house.I do not like them with a mouse.I do not like them here or there.I do not like them anywhere.I do not like green elves with fangs.
>>92684295>I like 40k Orks but they're a different species.different species, different genus, different family, different order, different class, different phylum and different kingdom.
>>92715367Would you fight them in a dungeon?Would you treat them to a luncheon?
>>92713908How else do you get enough people for your sessions?
>>92684145Like picrel
>>92693604This is like asking why make evil elves. Weird question.
which traditional game are you discussing?
I was never fond of any typical portrayal of Orcs in modern fictional settings. If anything, Tolkien's depiction of them has always been the middleground to me. BUT, the one aspect that seems to be completely overlooked novadays is that Orcs are Elvish in nature. Based on the speculation of their origin mentioned in The Silmarillion (they were considered for feral Moriquendi at some point), I never really thought of them as a separate race, they'd make so much more sense as an "evil twisted cousins of regular Elves" subspecies (basically, a stand-in for Dark Elves, as you may call it). I usually prefer to envision them as more independent beings rather than mooks of some greater evil, however, their nature should always remain explicitly vicious. And they are not a lively folk, due to their dark troubled past and long history of being affiliated with evil.
>>92684145BrutalCunningBut most of all...Green
>>92725489(me)To elaborate on their nature a bit: in my vision Orcs, despite being related to Elvish folk, are mostly feral creatures without inclination to form any kind of "sophisticated" societies. If anything, their social structure is close to your typical tribalism, they are also very dedicated to nomadic lifestyle (as Tolkien strongly associated them with Turkic and Mongol archetypes). They mostly keep to themselves but can easily turn hostile towards any other race, as by their dark nature they are prone to violence.
>>92725615(me)and finally, a little about their appearance: I strongly despise both, cartoonish green-skinned orcs and gnarly grimdark monstrosities. Everything is good when in moderation and without extremities, so I usually stick to the medium. By that I mean that Orcs indeed should look like ugly and unpleasant creatures, but not exaggeratedly hideous. To put it in a simple way... picture a bunch of gaunt and wiry creatures with skin of various shades of greyish and sallow, the predominant hair color is pitch-black, their faces are somewhat repulsive and distorted, but you can still make out subtle elvish features (of course, the ears should stand out the most, lol). Ape-like faces and cartoonishly large muscles (like Warcraft orcs) are a big no-no, absolutely.
>>92725687(me)it's honestly hard to put it in words correctly so I'll allow myself to attach picrel, so you can get a somewhat close depiction of my idea.
Also, while we're at it: give me some ideas for orc names that don't sound like typical gurgle words made of mostly consonants.
>>92725755First you need inspiration. I make my orcs Azeri so they have the gurgle sounds.
>>92709584Klingons are already space orcs
>>92712660Goblin Punch's God Hates Orcs.>>92694036>>92715315DM orcs are cartoon cavemen (and that is fine).
>>92684145I like GW's
>>92684145With an axe embedded in their nervous system
>>92684145i don't
Green orcs are the absolute worst.
>>92684145Appearance-wise, porcs with tusks and short fur. In comparison to the "tall and muscular lime-green human" look, I think boar-like orcs look more wild and savage, but also more aesthetically pleasing. Making them look like animals is an (admittedly lazy) shortcut to making them look like they belong in the natural world. Lore-wise, I like the idea of orcs originating from transformed members of another race. The elves in my setting already have enough shit going on, so I'm thinking I'll make orcs the descendants of a tribe of humans that were so bent on conquest that they pledged themselves and their descendants to some dark god in exchange for power. They were granted unnatural strength and mental affinity for battle, and an animalistic appearance to match it. As a trade-off, their natural lifespans were reduced, and the aforementioned god now has claim over their souls. They got what they wanted out of their "blessings", though.
>>92709849>regurgitate low-effort racist jab>DEI is behind this...
Different orcs for different settings:OSR inspired medieval setting: "They are evil poured in to shape of man in a horrible mockery of gods' order! They eat babies! They rape cattle! They are raiders!"1600s setting: "They are horrible barbarians! They attacked Dwallia with no provocation and are fighting against Trolls of Halmar. They take good Monillists as slaves! And what's worse, they worship Gaoren wrong, the heretics! (But they produce nice furs and ores)"In both settings Orcs are colored with earth-tones (so brown like sand, not brown like coffee au lait), mid-height, have fangs and pointy ears but no snouts. They are mid-sized, often with poor postures and rickety legs. Also, they are inventive, cruel and lazy: they prefer to rob or buy tech to bullding it themselves but can and will build serviciable if ugly weapons and fortifications. So, like nomadic tribesmen and later like kingdoms of Rus.
>>92707996Looks like an orc
>>92693931This one.>>92711415Also this.>>92711451This too.
>>92684145"Say hi to the nice customer, Beenz."<oinks>
>>92684145dead.
>>92684145Mostly dead... mostly.
>>92747995cumbrain
