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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3541338" data-attributes="member: 48692">My orcs are pretty much like what they resemble in the original MM-the bodies of slouched over, neanderthal-like creatures, and a head that looks like a cross between a man and a warthog.  Skin is greenish-pink, and quite often the orcs don't have hair the same way humans do-instead of a full head of hair, they're often bald, with a thin veneer of body hair on their whole body.  Ogres look most like cavemen, standing straight up unlike orcs.  Also unlike orcs, their skin is anywhere between an unhealthy yellow-brown and a blackish-brown in appearance.  Actually, while my ogres are not visually inspired by any media, they are culturally by some late-night cartoons I saw where the husband and wife would get into a comedic argument, and then a fistfight, played up as over-the-top.  I can just see ogres getting into a free-for-all melee with each other for the stupidest reasons.  Also to play up their stupidity, my ogres are so dim they don't even give their clans the same kind of gory names that orcs and goblins do; instead, they name their clans based on what they like to do to their victims: Clan Splat, Clan Bonk, Clan Crash.  The names are self-explanatory, especially for creatures whose religious beliefs can be summed up as "Eat!  Smash!  Kill!"Ironically enough, whenever I imagine hill giants, I instantly think of Homer Simpson.  Take Homer, make him ten feet tall, dress him in a patchwork suit of animal hides, mark him with an assortment of tattoos, give him a large spiked club, and you have your typical hill giant. Medusas are either helpless old crones or shapely maidens, whichever is more likely to get them their prey.  My mental image of halflings is rather influenced by the Nelwyn from Willow, as well as the Shire of Hobbiton from the LotR movies, obviously.  Maybe the Nelwyn are the Stout halflings, or perhaps the Tallfellows, given that they live in the woods and are more apt for magic?  Fire giants are, for me, always dressed in heavy metal armor and wielding huge weapons.  Armor that would be murderously hot for a human to wear, that would cause him to boil to death like a trapped lobster, is luxury for a fire giant, who revels in the increased heat the heavy metal and dark clothing trap for him.   My elves are much more like Tolkien than the standard five-foot elves.  Never understood the reason why EGG made them shorter.  Their appearance also influenced by the design of Deedlit from the Japanese anime Record of Lodoss War.  Very large ears, slim, graceful figures, dressed in simple but colorful travelling clothes, but dressed more like the elaborate Tolkien elves when in council or in war.  My dwarves are stereotypical Tolkien, and my gnomes are stereotypical as presented in 1E.  That means no bungling idiot tinker gnomes in MY setting.  My gnomes are masters of engineering and design!  Honestly, how do the tinker gnomes manage to survive if none of their inventions ever work right?</blockquote>

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