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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8754145" data-attributes="member: 2209">In 3e I turned them a bit more Tolkien by having them be subtype goblin and orcish being a dialect of goblin. Still the traditional orc and goblin pantheon enmity with Gruumsh and Maglubiyet, but very related. I also played around with the LE/CE nature of orcs by having an army of a half million orcs attack the planar gate city of Rigus that connects Concordant Opposition to Acheron and which I populated with hundreds of thousands of hobgoblins.In pathfinder I went 40K Ork with them being green skinned, using "choppas" and leaning in on biological aggression.I remember one pathfinder fight going "Seven damage, you decapitate the Ork! [the PC grinned and cheered] Now on its turn it swings at you . . .[PC gives a startled double take]" The orc extra round of fighting after being knocked to negatives paid off narratively very well.I also had a thing where the orcs the party met came from multiple cultures but kept worshipping one eyed gods. Gruumsh, Odin, Balor, Vecna, Talos, etc.In my 5e Carrion Crown adventure path conversion I had orcs be a big cultural and historical influence with multiple conquering of Ustalav or parts of it and being repulsed to the Belkzen badlands throughout the timeline with a major military border being a big deal for the Ustalavan principality.  One of the PCs was a half-orc, culturally and narratively a full orc from the badlands who worked for an Ustalavan professor as a secretary. Class barbarian, background secretary. She modelled her orc culture on Klingons which I went with and we had great fun with it.In my current 5e Iron Gods Thundarr the barbarian/Mad Max style adventure path conversion game orcs are a big faction in the second module which I am running now and the ones they have been dealing with have been pretty straight and traditional, with a religious switch from a normal orcish pantheon to a cult following an insane AI monster truck. It fits the Beyond Thunderdome feel of the part of the AP we are in.</blockquote>

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