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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9546858" data-attributes="member: 4534">The first Warcraft game was intended to be an adaptation of Warhammer Fantasy but Blizzard was unable to secure the license.  I've always pictured the D&D orc as I would a Gammorean from Return of the Jedi. For whatever reason, that's the image that was implanted in my little brain as a youth and it's stuck with me ever since. While I played some 1st edition AD&D, I really cut my teeth on 2nd edition as that was when I had enough money to start buying my own books. Orcs were pretty much always green from what I could remember. And it's not just me, supposedly FASA had a hard time with artist who insisted on depicting the orcs in Shadowrun as green when they weren't supposed to be.  [ATTACH=full]391075[/ATTACH]And Clint_L hit the nail on the head before I could.  I also enjoy painting miniatures and grey skin just isn't as fun as green.  I'd rather have an army of greenskins than grey.  It's just a more interesting color.  I don't have any moral objections to grey orcs or anything.  They're going to continue being green for the most part in my games.  I might throw in the occasional orc with a different shade and I wouldn't have a problem with a PC deciding for themself what color their orc is.</blockquote>