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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radferth" data-source="post: 2239667" data-attributes="member: 5791">My orcs are mostly based on the orcs from Carl Sergent's various Greyhawk books, with a bit of Runequest trolls (Uz) and LotR orc thrown in.  This sounds like it might be closest to Warcraft orcs from what I have read here, but my knowledge of WoW is limited to that my brother thinks its a cool game.  As for appearance, I envision them like neanderthals with augmented teeth.  Similar to what Zander described.  Like other, I think most current orcs look to beastial or cartoonish, the way half-orcs are drawn now is much closer.  I guess I am used to first edition (borrowed from LotR) in which many half-orcs can pass for human, which is definitely not the way 3rd ed. has them.  I also have been know to make use of communities or tribes of mixed orcish and human ancestory that are statistically half-orcs.  I am hardly original in this, as both Greyhawk and Scarred Lands have used this concept.On a vaguely related note:  Anyone here have an idea where movie Saruman was getting his Uruk-hai?  Was he growing them or mining them?  Or did they have some larval stage and he was digging up the pupae that were ready to hatch?</blockquote>