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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8189118" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>So, in the Essentials Box adventure, as I ran it, there are two groups of orcs. The ones you meet by the dwarven dig site are neutral, just folk trying to get away from something. The dwarves I played as split, with one dwarf leader embarassed by his partner (what I'm queer and the adventure needed some queerness in it for believability) being reluctant to help them "because orcs can't be trusted". </p><p></p><p>The other group are Gruumsh cultists, which in that game I defined specifically to the ranger who had Orcs as a favored enemy as meaning, they exclusively worship Gruumsh, a god steeped in wrath and conquest, whereas most orcs worship many orcish and non-racial gods, and in that more normal practice Gruumsh is seen as a god of ecstatic frenzy, justified wrath, the strength to stand against seemingly stronger enemies, and a goad to compete and excel and challenge eachother, a dangerous but ultimately not evil god. The cultist tribe was known to eat humanoids, kill the weak simply out of contempt for weakness, etc, and thus worked as a sort of "kill on sight" enemy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8189118, member: 6704184"] So, in the Essentials Box adventure, as I ran it, there are two groups of orcs. The ones you meet by the dwarven dig site are neutral, just folk trying to get away from something. The dwarves I played as split, with one dwarf leader embarassed by his partner (what I'm queer and the adventure needed some queerness in it for believability) being reluctant to help them "because orcs can't be trusted". The other group are Gruumsh cultists, which in that game I defined specifically to the ranger who had Orcs as a favored enemy as meaning, they exclusively worship Gruumsh, a god steeped in wrath and conquest, whereas most orcs worship many orcish and non-racial gods, and in that more normal practice Gruumsh is seen as a god of ecstatic frenzy, justified wrath, the strength to stand against seemingly stronger enemies, and a goad to compete and excel and challenge eachother, a dangerous but ultimately not evil god. The cultist tribe was known to eat humanoids, kill the weak simply out of contempt for weakness, etc, and thus worked as a sort of "kill on sight" enemy. [/QUOTE]
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