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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 232913" data-attributes="member: 1106">Well, orcs are mooks and thugs as written, so of course they have no class.  An old idea this, but with a bit of thought, orcs can be turned into mongol-types, and the romance of a barbarian horde flows forth with them.  Put them on large, strong horses and arm them with composite bows (and the required feats, may need a fighter or barbarian level or two for that) and hit and run tactics, and let them take over half the countryside in raids.  The kubla-orcs become mooks no more, and the PCs can do pin-cushion impressions if they want a stand-up fight from them.Mind flayers have the potential to be the thinking DM's favourites.  They're more black and white sci-fi B movie horrors from out of space than they are sex, drugs and rock'n'roll like the drow.  But they do have an ineffable sense of gentlemanly class and a scientific disposition which the dark elves lack, and which makes me want to have them strut around with canes, stroking their tentacles in thought - when they're not sucking brains. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I haven't read that book on illithid, but with all that brainpower and knowledge, my money's on them (and maybe D&D's answer to cthulhoid horror, the aboleth) to truly get stuff done at the end of the day.Hmm....</blockquote>

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