How do you like your orcs?

[Dark Jezter]

Warcraft orcs are one of my favorite fantasy races of all times, so they got my vote.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I had a homebrew campaign where Orcs were the great sea power. I had to tweek the race, but it was in Rolemaster (Ugh, why?)

Cool. Orcs are sea-masters in Sovereign Stone, too.

 

[Bront]

Cool. Orcs are sea-masters in Sovereign Stone, too.

We had one who was deathy afraid of duck-billed plytapusses.

So, when I chased him down with a were-plytapuss... it was fun.

 

[babomb]

I mostly use big, dumb, slightly-piggish green orcs, but occasionally I'll throw in a more Warcraft-like tribe. I have an adventure in the works where the PCs will deal with a subtly evil human tribe (or at least the leader's evil) and a good orc tribe.

I like to make the goblins the clever type, but chaotic neutral. They're cowardly when alone, but get a group of them together, and they'll set traps, set up ambushes, and try to surround and mug you, but if you give them some food, they'll probably go away. I always think of this one scene from a game where there's a royal wedding and the goblins storm it. The king simply invites them in and offers them cake. They accept, and at some point leave chanting, "The king is great! He gave us chocolate cake!"

Kobolds are kind of like goblins with inferiority complexes, and more likely to be evil. And they're always the lizard type, though I've thought about including both lizard and dog kobolds as offshoots of a single race but who now hate each other (like the Githyanki/Githzerai, only on the PMP and with a lower CR).

 

[Afrodyte]

I like to envision orcs more like Disney's gargoyles as opposed to animalistic humanoids with a vague resemblance to certain racial stereotypes that have yet (sadly) to go the way of the dodo.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I have become passing fond of the Warlord line by Reaper -

The Auld Grump