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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Badwe" data-source="post: 4758101" data-attributes="member: 61762"><p>As someone who played the crap out of warcraft 2: tides of darkness, I have always found orcs a fascinating and enjoyable set of villains.  This definitely helps flesh out a larger number of possible orc encounters, as well as creating the potential for differentiating tribes of orcs based on their racial trait.  Also, the alchemist/pyromaniac and the beastmaster seem to offer good options for mixing in other monsters with orcs to keep the encounter set diverse.  My first inkling when reading the beastmaster was to use the dire wolf from the MM (since in my own orc encounters I’d already employed them as mounts), but the swarm was a nice touch.  My only quip is that, if we follow the advice from Open Grave, the group of hounds should really be large rather than medium and be referred to as a “throng”.  Minor complaints, though, I really enjoyed this article.  Now all we need are some decent half-orc monsters to complete the “hobgoblin empire controls orc tribes” trope.</p></blockquote><p></p>