Orcs preview

[Mircoles]

They'll be alot more fun to use now, even if they don't speak orchish anymore.

 

[Korgoth]

Villagers cannot survive in the face of the Tarasque as well

True. But the game world is hardly teeming with Tarasques (well, I assume). It is, however, probably teeming with orcs. So how is anybody alive? And if the answer is "heroes" then we've moved into what is essentially a hero-based ecology.

I suppose the only reasonable presumption is that bloodragers are fairly rare. Here's hoping.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Or one assumes that the commoners band up together and attack enforce against the orc. You figure with numbers playing a much more major role in 4e, I think say 10-20 commoners could take it down.

 

[Boarstorm]

Meh, there are only as many bloodragers in the world as the DM places there. But from a simulationist perspective, let's say the tarasques just love orc vittles and travel the earth rampaging in their search for more bloodrager-ka-bobs.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I suppose the only reasonable presumption is that bloodragers are fairly rare. Here's hoping.

True, they are as rare as your DM allows!
Anyway, I guess, that the PoL will have kobolds and goblins close Orcs further away, then further to more dangerous stuff. DnD ecology has always been a can of worms vis a vis disbelief suspension

 

[Stalker0]

Also, if a bloodrager shows up, how is it that he doesn't simply kill off an entire town by himself? How could commoners ever stop that kind of thing?

Dude, commoners are the scariest thing a bloodrager can face!! Being minions themselves, commoners can't be bloodied, and so the bloodrager doesn't get his power.

Power to the common man!!

 

[hong]

The bloodrager is actually kinda screwed if it's only fighting commoners. It heals when it hits a bloodied foe, but it's liable to drop any commoner in one hit, so they never become bloodied....

 

[Boarstorm]

Dude, commoners are the scariest thing a bloodrager can face!! Being minions themselves, commoners can't be bloodied, and so the bloodrager doesn't get his power.

Power to the common man!!

The mental image this conjures up is just priceless.

 

[Ktulu]

I'm not entirely sure the no damage from missed attacks isn't just an Orc minion rule. Just like how kobold minions provide a boost to attack when adjacent to other kobolds, and vampire spawn get a boosted damage/attack when adjacent, as well. It meshes with the orcs being somewhat hard to kill.

 

[catsclaw227]

The HP seems pretty high too. 216 HP for an Orc Chieftain, with a surge of 54 HP. Add in an Orc Bloodrager (194HP and 48 Surge) and maybe a few Orc Warrior minions and that's a lot of damage output.