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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 2649644" data-attributes="member: 35678">IMO, giving the orcs LOTS of bonus profs, via your Weapon Affinity is a bit too much.Look at favoured weapons that orcs use (a few examples here)LOTR > Orcish ScimitarsFRCS (and i am assuming Greyhawk, but i dunno much about GH) > standard orcs use Greataxes (per the MM and through many examples)FRCS (and GH) > Gruumsh's favoured weapon is the spearas you can see, there are alot of conflicting weapons you couls potentially stick orcs with. Probably the one which (given the orc double axe) you couls give them auto-prof in would be Greataxe, Battleaxe, Handaxe and Throwing Axe (I believe someone already had this idea for their orcs, although i am not sure in which of the 3 threads on fixing half-orcs these would be in. Between this and the Orcish double axe for power, I'd go with this; for flavour, the Orcish double axe, but read on about this all . . .Althoguh you do raise a good point with "who's gonna teach the half-orcs about orcish weapons," I think you are looking a wee bit to deeply for that.  there could be a weapons master in town, which taught many tricks to the half-orc (some good training for feats and such here). He could have been raised by orcs, but didnt like their way of life and left the tribe (some nice plots in there). He could have been raised by humans beleiving he was in fatc human, but when he found out his heritage, he trained himself in the double-axe, this all happening before character creation and thus explains the free bonus prof. Etc etc. The fact it, that its fair and balanced and gives the orc enough flavour.While you Weapon Affinity of the bonus Axe profs would work, i thin the axes would be too powerful by a bit and the affinity by far. Just my opinion, but the Eldritch Knight should have A Warrior and a Arcanist for its prereqs > in stating that your half-orc build is superior to other ones you also give its greatest flaw away.</blockquote>

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