Recent content by Ogrebear

More Orcs Don't forget the 3rd Ed Warcraft book has its own version of Orcs - 'mostly civilized' would be a good way to describe them! The offical Wizards boards also has many varients of the 3.x Half-Orc/Orc. Does the Earthdawn D20 conversion here: http://earthdawn.20m.com/index.htm count...

Bearmen Hullo I made a new race recently and posdted it up for comments, I would be pleased if you could add it to your list. The Bearmen are here: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=101082 I am hoping to finish the monster class version soon.

Hullo Always wanted to build these guys, and I have finally done it. I am hoping to build a monster class version of them as well All contructive comments welcome. Bearmen Medium size monstrous humanoid Hit Dice: 2d8 Initiative: +1 (dex) Speed: 30ft. AC: 15 Attacks: 2 claws (+8 melee)...

I personally like Minotaurs best with Dwarves, Half-Orcs and Werebears following behind.

Sorta reminds me of that Babylon 5 episode where Ivannava (sp) defeated te leaders of two sides in a civl warto stop the chaos on the station only to end up in charge herself...... Sounds like you have a bunch of intelligent players willing to give situations away from the norm a go. Did the...

Very interesting comments. I wonder if Orcs taken out of the CE cultre described in most of the D&D game worlds could change their ways? If removed from the influance of the grown up males and Shamans (who seem to be the root of the 'problem') could a colony of Orc women and children grown...

A fantastic and very accurate summery of Earthdawn - unlike many other settings the races are not at war with each other eg. Orks are not killed on sight like in FR. Orks from Urpa and Elves from Bartertown can get on fine- however Orks, Humans etc from the great slaving Empire of Thera will...

Orcs in other games Many systems treat Orcs better than D&D does, for example: Earthdawn - in that setting they can be Heroes same as every one else, as can the systems version of Trolls and lizard men (T'skrang). There are few restrictions on what they can be/do and they even have their own...

After reading the rather funny cartoon here: http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/nodwick/ffn/ffn.htm I was wondering what the community here would do if placed in such a posistion by their GM? I am presuming a standard D&D world here- not a variant like Sovergien Stone or Dawnforge where Orcs...

Orc Paragons Very interesting work, lots of detail. I am particually impressed with your take on Orcs and Half-Orcs, I feel your version matches more what I want from Orcs (aka Warcraft/Earthdawn) than the offical one (LotR). Well done and good work.

One thing I did in games is to avoid square rooms, or rooms with no features/furniture in. Partly cos medievil rooms where rarely regularly shaped and partly cos it made every room differant simple cos of what was in it if not the shape, that alone encourged them t map- 'oh this is the room with...

Well from my pov- and mine only- I thought some of the background details on the Orcs was lacking, they only really appear in their race section of the book and not much anywhere else. Also details on the Giants seems a little thin- all this compared to the Human Kingdoms. However, I do...

I like Dawnforge it has a nice high fantasy feel that works nicely for my players. Its a bright optimistic world where the players have the oppotunity to create the legends that normally players only hear about as background in a standard world. Midnight on the other hand, while a very very...

D&D Lite So if OD&D and 1st/2nd Ed has things people like in terms of speed, simplicity etc and 3rd Ed has things people like in terms of armour that makes sence etc then has anyone tried combining the two? Is there a 3rd Ed lite out there? Is there a version of the rules without Prestiage...