How do you like your orcs?

[The Great Bear King]

With the intelligence and appearance of the orcs of the Lord of the Rings and the ideology of the Nazis, the Fascists, or the Soviet Union. Or as a race of horsebound warriors who raid the villages of other cultures but they don't slaughter all the men, women, and children they find. (Infact they don't take every thing that village has. In all cases if they find an unattened or orphaned child the orcish horde will take the child and raise it as one of their own.) The first orcs I mentioned are Lawful Evil by culture and the second group are Chaotic Neutral by culutre.

 

[Romnipotent]

Orcs, like Tellene Humans, vary from tribe and region to tribe and region!

Other is my vote for ALL

 

[hero4hire]

I like all the answers really....No real preference as long as they're mean!

 

[arwink]

3e orcs, largely because the role of the LotR orc is taken up by the hobgoblin in my campaign.

That, and I like falchions.

 

[Coredump]

Okay, I am going to have to pimp for my favorite race book I have ever read. (from any edition or RPG.)

Fury in the Wastelands by Kenzer creates an image of Orcs that just makes sense. I have never seen a better description of a CE tribe/society that seems like it would work. The orcs are dangerous, yet cowardly; cruel and pragmatic. My current story arc has nothing to do with Orcs, and it is bugging me ever since I read that book.

http://www.kenzerco.com/xcart/customer/product.php?productid=16437

 

[zeo_evil]

Pretty much standard 3rd edition. However I often describe then with all of the above when it fits the nature of the game and to keep things fresh. Luck me FR has like three types of orcs so everything works out. If I had to do it myself I would do it like they did in Dragonlance and the High Orcs (Irda, I think).

 

[Angel Tarragon]

deep fried with ketchup on the side.

 

[jonesy]

If I had to do it myself I would do it like they did in Dragonlance and the High Orcs (Irda, I think).

Just FYI, orcs don't exist in Dragonlance. You're thinking of High Ogres.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I voted "other".

If I were going to use orcs - which is unlikely - they would be something of a hybrid between Lord of the Rings - in that they would be magically mutated from another race, probably humans - and earlier editions of D&D in which orcs and their god were Lawful Evil.

Any orcs in my campaign would be the creation of a force - a nation, a church, a deity - who wanted strong, aggressive, and obedient soldiers.

 

[Klaus]

Tonguez -> I assembled the orc's face by combining a Gorilla (specially the brow and the nostrils) with a wolf (for the ears). Perhaps they do look a bit bat-ey because of the fangs. When I set out to make the hobgoblin, I took a conscious effort to go a different route, with smaller nostrils and a more civilized appearance. Of course, now that I am painting, the goblinoids evolved into a more bear-like appearance (using the bugbear as a basis and altering them from there).

As for handsome half-orcs, check out Krusk in the Iconics gallery...