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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 5563269" data-attributes="member: 41584">If you want to go with Drow-warped former slave/soldiers, you could explain the brutish qualities of the Orcs by taking a page from the pig-headed orcs off 1st edition, and have alll Orcs have a mixture of humanoid blood, tainted by Drow magic and foul experiments to include animalistic traits.&nbsp; All Orcs are deformed, remaining humanoid, but having features of various predatory animals the Drow used ages ago to 'savage them up' into a suitable warrior / brute race.&nbsp; Some might have pig like tusks, others cat-like eyes or elongated snouts or twitching canine ears or feathers and scales along their arms or four fingered hands that look less like a hand and more like on oversized crows talons.&nbsp;The vast majority of these orcs would retain the usual orcish traits, but one in a dozen might have even stronger ties to whatever predatory beast(s) went into it's bloodline, such as a natural bite attack, or a point or two of natural armor, or the scent ability from their wolf-like snout.&nbsp;Again, the vast majority of orcs would be a motley mix of characteristics, but a few would have purer bloodlines, and be more visibly reminiscent of a particular animal, such as a bear or a wolf or a lion.&nbsp; Most of them wouldn't have anything special because of that, but would tend to take on leadership positions, regarding less 'purebred' orcs as being mongrels who have diluted their potential.&nbsp; These orcs would be proud racist totemists, seeking out creatures of their totem types to tame, and encouraging ranger and druid levels in their most powerful warriors and priests, so as to be able to bond with their totem animals.&nbsp;All such animalls would be predatory.&nbsp; Orcs were not made into orcs by imbuing them with the essence of stags or bulls or horses or other potentially powerful animals, since their creators wanted to make them as savage as possible.&nbsp;In retrospect, had they combined their base stock with more tractable and domesticable herd animals (strong and powerful ones), such as bulls and horses, they might have had better luck keeping control of them...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Set, post: 5563269, member: 41584"] If you want to go with Drow-warped former slave/soldiers, you could explain the brutish qualities of the Orcs by taking a page from the pig-headed orcs off 1st edition, and have alll Orcs have a mixture of humanoid blood, tainted by Drow magic and foul experiments to include animalistic traits. All Orcs are deformed, remaining humanoid, but having features of various predatory animals the Drow used ages ago to 'savage them up' into a suitable warrior / brute race. Some might have pig like tusks, others cat-like eyes or elongated snouts or twitching canine ears or feathers and scales along their arms or four fingered hands that look less like a hand and more like on oversized crows talons. The vast majority of these orcs would retain the usual orcish traits, but one in a dozen might have even stronger ties to whatever predatory beast(s) went into it's bloodline, such as a natural bite attack, or a point or two of natural armor, or the scent ability from their wolf-like snout. Again, the vast majority of orcs would be a motley mix of characteristics, but a few would have purer bloodlines, and be more visibly reminiscent of a particular animal, such as a bear or a wolf or a lion. Most of them wouldn't have anything special because of that, but would tend to take on leadership positions, regarding less 'purebred' orcs as being mongrels who have diluted their potential. These orcs would be proud racist totemists, seeking out creatures of their totem types to tame, and encouraging ranger and druid levels in their most powerful warriors and priests, so as to be able to bond with their totem animals. All such animalls would be predatory. Orcs were not made into orcs by imbuing them with the essence of stags or bulls or horses or other potentially powerful animals, since their creators wanted to make them as savage as possible. In retrospect, had they combined their base stock with more tractable and domesticable herd animals (strong and powerful ones), such as bulls and horses, they might have had better luck keeping control of them... [/QUOTE]

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