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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 3646275" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>Currently Orks don't exist imc their role as 'antagonist race' being taken by Sahuagin</p><p></p><p>However I have used Orks in the past although not as a major feature. I just tend to like Ogres, Gnolls and Goblins better. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>When I did use Orks I got anthropological and decided made to have them split into all female clans and allmale mobs. The clans are LN hierarchies dominated by a matriarch and her daughters with other lesser females and whelps subordinated below them. These clans are seminomadic and hold territory. </p><p></p><p>At age 8 all male whelps are expelled from the clans and forced to survive, this is usually achieved by the formation of all-male Mobs. Mobs are not allowed to settle in any territory and instead survive by raiding and brigandage. Mobs will often tail a clan and attempt to abduct a female with whom they will mate (by ritual rape) at all other times females will kill any male who gets too close </p><p></p><p>Occasionally a male Chieftain will unite a number of mobs and claim enough authority to dominate a territory and the females in it, however the females usually resist this more aggresively than they would an incursion by humans...</p><p></p><p>Anyway this set up allows me to have the violent chaotic mobs raiding human villages as well as the more settled noble savages of the 'clans'.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We could always try Gnoll and Pizza or perhaps kobold and Brockwurst</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 3646275, member: 1125"] Currently Orks don't exist imc their role as 'antagonist race' being taken by Sahuagin However I have used Orks in the past although not as a major feature. I just tend to like Ogres, Gnolls and Goblins better. When I did use Orks I got anthropological and decided made to have them split into all female clans and allmale mobs. The clans are LN hierarchies dominated by a matriarch and her daughters with other lesser females and whelps subordinated below them. These clans are seminomadic and hold territory. At age 8 all male whelps are expelled from the clans and forced to survive, this is usually achieved by the formation of all-male Mobs. Mobs are not allowed to settle in any territory and instead survive by raiding and brigandage. Mobs will often tail a clan and attempt to abduct a female with whom they will mate (by ritual rape) at all other times females will kill any male who gets too close Occasionally a male Chieftain will unite a number of mobs and claim enough authority to dominate a territory and the females in it, however the females usually resist this more aggresively than they would an incursion by humans... Anyway this set up allows me to have the violent chaotic mobs raiding human villages as well as the more settled noble savages of the 'clans'. We could always try Gnoll and Pizza or perhaps kobold and Brockwurst [/QUOTE]
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