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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8622720" data-attributes="member: 5948">If it were up to me, I'd reinvent the scro as a culture, rather than an orc subrace.  The survivors of the genocide in the first unhuman war, banding together for survival and becoming something new, a multi-racial society built from the ground up under the leadership/teachings of Dukgrash, or whatever the guy's name was.  You saw this a lot in the first scro-related module, you've got a huge space station, but while the scro at unquestionably at the top, there's hogoblins, ogres, bugbears, goblins, etc etc.  As you suggest, this puts the responsibility for creating the scro firmly on the shoulders of the genocide elves.  And it's pretty clear that the first unhuman war was a huge murderous overreaction on the part of the Elven Armada, basically retaliating against some sporadic over-border raiding and piracy from disorganised orc/goblinoid warbands with massive planet-destroying overkill.  Having this result in the creation of a legitimately dangerous and nasty enemy is nicely poetic and ironic, I think.  And since it's only been 400 years, a lot of the elves who made the decision in the first war are probably still around, which has all sorts of plot possibilities...Have to admit, when I first read the Spelljammer boxed set, and the Lost Ships book, my sympathies were hard on the side of the scro and the goblinoids.  The later modules had to really work to make you want to side with the elves against them.  (PC idea - grubby goblin monk-rogue, works in some sort of servile position out in Wildspace, a janitor on Bral or something, but who is really a member of a scro monastic order who filter out into the wider Astral Sea to try to track down legendary elven war criminals from the first war.  Other PC idea, a half-elf who was half-elf and half orc.  Maybe a barbarian, to mechanically reflect the orc influence.  You'd almost have to go with the 'dumped at the orphanage as a baby' origin for this one, and have her deal with the implications of her parentage, and the people on both sides who see her as an embarrassment or aberration)</blockquote>

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