What do your Orcs look like?

[ThaDium]

Ogre Magi

My orcs look very much like the ogre magi in the MM. Only with olive or tan skin tones. They have a big cat/feline quality to them. They're also LN as a race, worship ancestor spirits and rule over a vast empire. Not mainstream.

 

[BASHMAN]

Orcs

WOW! That is EXACTLY how I do it! I even made up weapons equivilent to batlefs (I call them Bat-Claives) for them!

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

Bumpy head Klingons

Same here.

 

[Shades of Green]

I have always rather liked the Shadowrun orcs, well, depending on who they were drawn by. But the slightly more bestial humanoid with tusks and lots of muscle.

Yes, I like them too; Shadowrun had some influence on my perception of Orcs.
Shadowrun was one of the first gaming materials I ran into that shows Orks as more Human-like, less cheap-dungeon-dwelling-broadsword-fodder (as they are in "classical" D&D).

They aren't green, but pinkish-brown and quite hairy. They have short horns, big tusks and uneven teeth. They are as tall as an avarage Human, but much more wide, robust and bulky. Females rarely hunt, and rarely raid, except for in the role of the Shaman - and most Orcish Shamans in my world are female. They worship a bestial goddess of fertility, chaos and nature, a goddess as brutal as the harsh climate the Cors usually live in.

Savage? yes. Brutal? mostly. Evil? not always. Green? not Orcs, only Goblinoids (Orcs are quite different from goblinoids in my world). Orcs do what they have to do for their tribe's survival - and the tribes is far more important than any Human community. My Orcs come raiding mostly when the pasture on their home hills grow scarce; they raid for food, for cloth, for weapons and tools, and (if really straved) for prisoners to eat (which is quite rare). Most Orcs serve their tribes and nothing more.

 

[jasper]

the orcs look like...
my exwife
my ex mother in law
my mother in law
my ex girlfriend
my sister
my brother
diaglo
pirate cat
jasper (we have a winner)

 

[National Acrobat]

Old Fashioned Goodness!

1E Orcs all the way baby! And, they are still LE!

 

[Mark Plemmons]

I admire whomever does the artwork for Kalamar books. Would that be you?

Nah - I'm the Art Director, not the artist. That orc pic is by one of the main Kingdoms of Kalamar artists, Caleb Cleveland.

 

[007girl1]

I am looking for some interesting games!

Sooooooooo.........I am wondering what game are you talking about? I am always in search of new or old ones. Just wondering 007girl1





QUOTE=Christopher Lambert]A synthesis of LotR Uruk-hai, WarCraft and DnD, with most of the influence being WarCraft. I give them +2 Strength and +2 Con... and no light blindness!

I don't like the swine-like version.[/QUOTE]

 

[lukelightning]

Appearance-wise I like the 3e orcs; somewhat boar-like brutes.

I hate the Warcraft "noble savage" orc. Orcs aren't honorable tribespeople with green skin. They are brutal marauders.

I do love Warhammer's greenskins, though. I'd consider importing that concept into D&D, along with the idea that they are closely related to goblins, so that all orcs/goblins/hobgoblins are one group.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Green massive savage brutes.

Very much in the style of Warhammer or Warcraft Orcs. (The former highly influencing the latter.)