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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8893018" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>The humor of the orc queen being portrayed as a short black-skinned heavy set woman with exaggerated big lips who bonks the king on the head with a bone is certainly not for everyone.</p><p></p><p>The humanoid PC classes from what I remember are fairly subpar. The wicca and shaman are like normal PC magic-users and clerics, but lesser across the board in power and spells.</p><p></p><p>That is a big theme of the book, humanoid stuff is all derivative of others in the setting, but lesser, stupider, and often a joke. Classes, cultures, religion, history.</p><p></p><p>This was disappointing to me.</p><p></p><p>The back of the book says:</p><p></p><p></p><p>and the cover is a cool King Conan as an orc scene.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]272223[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>They had been built up as a decently big threat in prior gazetteers. I was looking for pulp barbarians, not stupidity caricatures. I could have even really liked a Warhammer hooligan Orkz kind of humor, but the cross-eyed nose picking type was a big let down.</p><p></p><p>Oenkhmar has some cool stuff, but even there the background story is that the fantasy Aztec evil god tricks orcs into worshipping him and adopting derivative Aztec stuff using a +1 dagger to convince them their big central cultural myth of a quest for a blue dagger of destiny is accomplished.</p><p></p><p>I did like some of the Oenkhmar stuff like the mummies.</p><p></p><p>Bits and pieces of Thar have good parts, but a lot of it rubs me the wrong way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8893018, member: 2209"] The humor of the orc queen being portrayed as a short black-skinned heavy set woman with exaggerated big lips who bonks the king on the head with a bone is certainly not for everyone. The humanoid PC classes from what I remember are fairly subpar. The wicca and shaman are like normal PC magic-users and clerics, but lesser across the board in power and spells. That is a big theme of the book, humanoid stuff is all derivative of others in the setting, but lesser, stupider, and often a joke. Classes, cultures, religion, history. This was disappointing to me. The back of the book says: and the cover is a cool King Conan as an orc scene. [ATTACH type="full"]272223[/ATTACH] They had been built up as a decently big threat in prior gazetteers. I was looking for pulp barbarians, not stupidity caricatures. I could have even really liked a Warhammer hooligan Orkz kind of humor, but the cross-eyed nose picking type was a big let down. Oenkhmar has some cool stuff, but even there the background story is that the fantasy Aztec evil god tricks orcs into worshipping him and adopting derivative Aztec stuff using a +1 dagger to convince them their big central cultural myth of a quest for a blue dagger of destiny is accomplished. I did like some of the Oenkhmar stuff like the mummies. Bits and pieces of Thar have good parts, but a lot of it rubs me the wrong way. [/QUOTE]
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