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How ironic - the first Orc I ever came across was the Great Sea Orc from the Italian poem Orlando Furioso which is what Orca whales are named after. Tolkiens Orcs always confused me due to being distinctly not acquatic (I later learnt they were named for Orcus and distinct from the aquatic form)

I’d go even further, if an Orc hero ever got powerful enough it would go and hunt and slay the gods, for the singular purpose of bathing in their divine blood I do wonder do you have Hobgoblins in your game? Ie how are these Romanesque Orcs d distinct from standard Hobgoblins in the d&d bloat?

I wonder if we could get an Arnold Cinematic RPG in which you can play any of the characters he has performed from Conan and Hercules to Commando, Teminator, Kindergarten Cop, Julius Benedict, the Running Man to Douglas Quiad. Every PC is Arnold

Its all fun and games until you remember 2020 made it real :O

The Sarah Connor Chronicles did pretty well at diversifying the plots though, you’ve got FBI agents, Hi-Tech Espionage, Gangsters and Revolutionaries, High School Heroes, the whole Time Travel shtick and a whole lot of competing agendas on what they future should look like.

I looked at Orcs as hunters and developed it to become a ‘Blood Cult’. These Orcs dont have gods and dont actually ‘worship’ anything, instead Orc beleif is that they consume both the flesh and life-power of their prey whether they be animals, monsters or humanoids. The practice then is to catch...

Goodman Games did some Mesopotamia stuff and their was a Dragon article on Mesopotamia in the 2000s too

I've got Charisma 8, so looks like a lot of Grumpy in this crew (though I was thinking maybe more the stoic doesnt talk much at all type)

I've just finished watching La Revolution on Netflix and given the general thread about Historic RPGs and while I'm waiting for visiting hours at the hospital I thought Id do a review. La Revolution is alt.history, and gives a supernatural horror twist to how the French Revolution really got...

I'm with Unwise on the Dragonborn backstory - it means that the most exciting stuff in the characters life has already happened. afterall "Hunting undead in the Shadowfell for a Shadow Dragon patron" could be an entire campaign arc. Where does the PC go from there? As a GM I'm forced to think...

But come on, all those Blacksmiths sons were adopted and are really heirs to Wizard or kings and all have the skill to forge their own magic swords why cant we just get some nice simple pig-farmers ;P

Child of Shar is definitely what I’d pick, its got nice history, dark powers, uncertain relationship with the church and a path that could lead to either redemption or corruption. The other two are okay either way but they involve a degree of being forced into things, whereas the first speaks...

GURPS of course, havent they covered every era? Duty and Honour makes good use of playing cards in the Napoleonic Wars

Can Luxxor be home to a giant frog that spews forth multicoloured orbs? and after a google searh the Egyptian Steampunk genre seems to be very popular - so here’s some inspiration