Any reason outside of Roleplaying that someone would pick Half Orc over Human?

[Nightfall]

Oh, for...

...!

-Hyp.

Yes? For what? For Me being bad ass?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Yes? For what?

Just a sudden urge to set fire to a large pile of Scarred Lands books.

-Hyp.

 

[Nightfall]

You do and I'll make sure my Unhallowed Soulless Paladin Death Knight will bring much pain on you.

 

[Darklone]

You do and I'll make sure my Unhallowed Soulless Paladin Death Knight will bring much pain on you.

Bring it on, I see books burning...

 

[Plane Sailing]

Yeah, but with that Wisdom penalty, they're always failing the Listen check to hear the lamentations of the women.

Funny, I thought they got INT and CHA penalties, not a WIS penalty

 

[robberbaron]

Having recently played a Half-Orc Fighter (with a level of Barbarian for flavour) I can state that it is great to be a bit green.

No penalties of consequence (1 feat and a skill point per level - wow) and a handy strength hike.

The problems really only start when you role-play. The Barbarian side doesn't always go down too well with a think-before-you-charge party and the Orc temperament won't make you many friends. At least that is how it went with mine.

Overall, excellent choice but, it's not easy being green.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Funny, I thought they got INT and CHA penalties, not a WIS penalty

That's D&D half-orcs, silly.

Duh.

-Hyp.

 

[cantrip]

That's D&D half-orcs, silly.

Duh.

-Hyp.

From the 3.0 srd

Half-Orcs

The typical ability scores for a half-orc are Str 13, Dex 10, Con 11, Int 9, Wis 8, Cha 8. Half-orcs have 60-foot darkvision but are not sensitive to light.

That sure looks like a Wis penalty

 

[Flyspeck23]

Seems it's a difference in 3.0 if the half-orc is a NPC or a PC
See what cut'n'paste can do to you: WotC obviously took the orc's stats and lowered the strenght...
That alone wouldn't justify the revised edition, but it adds up...


Oh, and I'd really like to know what "darkvision" is

 

[cantrip]

Seems it's a difference in 3.0 if the half-orc is a NPC or a PC
See what cut'n'paste can do to you: WotC obviously took the orc's stats and lowered the strenght...
That alone wouldn't justify the revised edition, but it adds up...


Oh, and I'd really like to know what "darkvision" is

Half-orcs have 60-foot darkvision but are not sensitive to light

hmm... it shows up on the preview... propably should start previewing these
Seems the html-version of the SRD thinks darkvision is funny. Source shows it as dark-vision, but IE shows it as darkvision and when copied here it becomes darkvision