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<blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 2904399" data-attributes="member: 11999">The physical appearance of Orcs in my world was inspired (long ago) by the artwork on the cover of Dragon Magazine #127; three Orcish warriors (in vaguely Eastern-ish armour) making a last stand in a battle with Elves.&nbsp; Even back in 1e and 2e, I was tending to use Orcs as major antagonists throughout the campaign, giving most of them levels in Fighter.With the change to 3E, I've kept Orcs as being Lawful Evil in alignment.&nbsp; I didn't really care for the Chaotic Evilfication of Orcs in 3E.&nbsp; I prefer to keep the number of intelligent species in my world manageable, and I've trimmed down the humanoid races somewhat.&nbsp; I didn't really see the point in having both Orcs and Hobgoblins, so the Hobs got the axe and Orcs fill their role.&nbsp; My Orcs have always had a strong sense of personal and familial honour, but have remained an aggressive and warlike (and sometimes brutal) race.&nbsp; The Orcish nation, and the race as a whole, probably tends more towards Lawful Neutral than Lawful Evil.&nbsp; Obviously, their favoured class is Fighter, rather than Barbarian (same with Half-Orcs).I always thought this made for more interesting villains than a horde of bloodthirsty, barbaric savages.&nbsp; Besides, that's what demons are for.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Keldryn, post: 2904399, member: 11999"] The physical appearance of Orcs in my world was inspired (long ago) by the artwork on the cover of Dragon Magazine #127; three Orcish warriors (in vaguely Eastern-ish armour) making a last stand in a battle with Elves. Even back in 1e and 2e, I was tending to use Orcs as major antagonists throughout the campaign, giving most of them levels in Fighter. With the change to 3E, I've kept Orcs as being Lawful Evil in alignment. I didn't really care for the Chaotic Evilfication of Orcs in 3E. I prefer to keep the number of intelligent species in my world manageable, and I've trimmed down the humanoid races somewhat. I didn't really see the point in having both Orcs and Hobgoblins, so the Hobs got the axe and Orcs fill their role. My Orcs have always had a strong sense of personal and familial honour, but have remained an aggressive and warlike (and sometimes brutal) race. The Orcish nation, and the race as a whole, probably tends more towards Lawful Neutral than Lawful Evil. Obviously, their favoured class is Fighter, rather than Barbarian (same with Half-Orcs). I always thought this made for more interesting villains than a horde of bloodthirsty, barbaric savages. Besides, that's what demons are for. :-) [/QUOTE]

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