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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 3979958" data-attributes="member: 18182">No, they didn't say that.&nbsp; They stated there would be no &quot;magic formula&quot; to convert your 3e half-orc to a 4e half-orc, and that you should just &quot;reconceptualize&quot; your character using the new rules rather than &quot;converting.&quot;If no half-orc race is provided at all, then how do I play 4e with Grunk Toesplitter, my half-orc factotum?&nbsp; I can use existing (well, existing in June) 4e classes to replicate the feel of my 3e factotum class, but what about race?&nbsp; Give him human stats and color him green?&nbsp; That could be done, sure, but is somewhat lacking.So, WotC isn't comfortable with the fantasy trope of the half-orc in the core game.&nbsp; But they know a lot of us gamers love us our half-orcs, so they're gonna give us what we want anyway, just not in the core books.I just can't believe there are so many cranky gamers who are upset at this.&nbsp; I, for one, THANK WotC for going out of their way to provide us with the half-orc in Dragon Mag.&nbsp; And I'm totally cool with the half-orc not being in the core books.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 3979958, member: 18182"] No, they didn't say that. They stated there would be no "magic formula" to convert your 3e half-orc to a 4e half-orc, and that you should just "reconceptualize" your character using the new rules rather than "converting." If no half-orc race is provided at all, then how do I play 4e with Grunk Toesplitter, my half-orc factotum? I can use existing (well, existing in June) 4e classes to replicate the feel of my 3e factotum class, but what about race? Give him human stats and color him green? That could be done, sure, but is somewhat lacking. So, WotC isn't comfortable with the fantasy trope of the half-orc in the core game. But they know a lot of us gamers love us our half-orcs, so they're gonna give us what we want anyway, just not in the core books. I just can't believe there are so many cranky gamers who are upset at this. I, for one, THANK WotC for going out of their way to provide us with the half-orc in Dragon Mag. And I'm totally cool with the half-orc not being in the core books. [/QUOTE]

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