Half-Orcs?

[Hand of Evil]

In lands where life is hard and you would find barbarians, looks are not as important as being a good provider. IF you have races that interact in these places, such as a yearly trading fair, you can use trade to lead to marriage (Mountian men and indians did this in the west). All you have to do is set a drowy for the bride.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

I was just thinking as I read, I find it rather interesting that most half-races tend to have chaotic source.


Orcs Chaotic Evil
Elves Chaotic Good
Most Half-Fiends Are thought of as half-demon rather than half-devil.


You rarely hear of half-dwarves (muls), and half-kobolds even less.


I think this is becuase like alignments are more likely to come together, and either humans with chaotic alignments are more likely to overlook physical differences or they are just kinky.

 

[JoeGKushner]

alliances between barbarian factions and orcs would often result in such cases.

In addition, I'm probably one of the few who think this, but 1/2 orc to me doesn't necessarily mean an orc parent and human parent as much as having human or orc in your recent (grandfather, great grandfather) blood. Makes things a little more interesting when some minor noble shows some tainted blood and leads to people investigating just what the courts were doing in those times.

Of course there are going to be other exceptions too. Orc adventurers may be rare, but hey, they can't be rarer than drow adventuerers and based off the number of campaigns I've seen with drow plyaers, they're not rare at all.

In addition, some campaigns have slavery so there would be lots of easy ways for orcs to breed intelligent, well, at least more intelligent then themselves, half orcs.

 

[LoneWolf23]

Ever seen The Bros. Grinn's version of Orc Females? They got "tracts of Land" about as big as a muscular orcish frame will allow. I'd certainly want to make Half-Orcs with a femme like that.

Otherwise, I like to follow the "Slayer's Guide to Orcs" that holds that Orcs are primarily focused on the "three F's" of Food, Fighting and Fornicating. In other words, if it looks edible, they'll bite on it, if it looks aggressive, they'll pick a fight, and if it looks the least bit "cute", well...

As for why Orcs, Humans and Elves can make cross breeds, my personal theory is that somehow, those three people are actually offshoots of the same "proto-human" ancestor, adapting differently, but still close enough to interbreed.

As for where those halfbreed all come from... I suspect that Elves, Humans and Orcs all suffer from the same problem: Too horny for their own goods.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Good thread, Terraism, even though I think it was done a few months ago - I'll assume you were referring to my post here:
I'm glad someone picked up the ball and ran with it - I'd like to hear from some people who view orcs as being inescapably evil, therefore have problems seeing a volkuntary union between them and humans.

That's why I like the setting of the Warcraft computer games so much, it deviates from the traditional fantasy cliches concerning orcs. Just a warning, this post will contain Warcraft III spoilers, so if you haven't played the game yet you might want to skip this one.

Traditionally in fantasy settings, orcs have been portrayed as brainless, violent thugs who delight only in killing. In Warcraft III, however, the orcs used to be the slaves of a demon army known as the Burning Legion. Now that they are free, the orcs are returning to the way they were a long time ago; a noble, shamanistic culture that knows little corruption or strife.

Another fantasy cliche is that the elves have always been portrayed as fair and noble defenders of everything that is good in the world. In Warcraft III, however, the haughty and proud elves withdraw from their alliance with the human and dwarf kingdoms. This comes back to bite them, however, when they are attacked by a legion of undead known as the Scourge. As a result, their entire kingdom is overwhelmed, and the only elves who manage to survive are the ones who stayed with the humans and dwarves.

So, as you can probably expect, I'm very excited for Warcraft D20.

 

[Tsyr]

Hmmm... Orcs as Klingons, eh?

And to think, all this time, I've been describing a orc double bladed axe as "A long crecent shaped blade, about 50 inches long, with hand grips in the center"... no one IMC has figured out what I'm hitting at yet...

 

[Xarlen]

I had a transmuter NPC who delt with creating, changing, and cross-breeding monsters for various uses; like a pet store, for guardians, mounts, pets, and even to a lesser extent, concubines and companions.

His bodyguard was a winterwolf female who'd been changed to a bipedial form (Think hybrid werewolf form). The PCs snuck into his room to find he was cuddled quite close to her.

So it's not hard to concieve that some men with some Rough tastes wouldn't favor Orc women. I mean, in some areas, females would likely be more demure, weak or impressionable. But an Orc female would probably be pretty rough and tumble, have some Piss and Vinager in her veins. I could definetly see a barbarian, or a woodsman going for that sort've thing.

Not to mention, in this same area, men who want a... uh... strong woman to take control. And, it's not hard to concieve that orcs, atleast a very few, could have high charisma. Like there can be some really Ugly elves (though not common), it should be possible.

And, hey, once you get past the violent, ugly, hearty orc exterior, there's sure to be a big warty teddybear inside.

 

[Xarlen]

Ever seen The Bros. Grinn's version of Orc Females? They got "tracts of Land" about as big as a muscular orcish frame will allow. I'd certainly want to make Half-Orcs with a femme like that.

WHere can one find pictures of The Bros. Grinn's?

I don't have a problem seeing a Half-Devil. Devils make deals, with laws and such, such. I could see someone bargaining for a slave, or a concubine. The devil could give them that. Just... a infernal-tainted one. Or, part of the deal could be that the devil rapes someone. There y'go. I imagine, too, that Devils could use seduction, to 'plant the seed', and then after the birth, have the child on the 'inside', so to speak. A spy.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I try to cut down on the number of "halves". Otherwise it starts to resemble an epiode of Star Trek. There are very few half orcs, slightly more half elves, and that's pretty much it. For the most part humans and other races have a lot of difficulty breeding with each other. Dwarves and gnomes cannot breed with other races and halflings are...well I've never though about half-halflings!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Hmmm... Orcs as Klingons, eh?

And to think, all this time, I've been describing a orc double bladed axe as "A long crecent shaped blade, about 50 inches long, with hand grips in the center"... no one IMC has figured out what I'm hitting at yet...

I do this too. Orc as Kirk's Klingons (raiders) and Hobgoblins as the next gen's Klingons!