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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifelhein" data-source="post: 1515353" data-attributes="member: 14129">Orcs-niNot exactly on my group, but by then they all were.When 3rd Edition came out I converted and started DMing an adventure I had made, in it th orcs were a lawful evil tribe with two powerful leaders, a fighter and a cleric, the cleric wanted nothing but to dispose of the ther one, but he knew he was too weak to do so.The characetrs were sent by a church to a city that tribe, the Star Slasher, had taken over, their job was to observe and study them, no need to say that they have entered the city, I expected them to do so, and started trying to slay the orcs unnoticed.It went well until some unusual and unexplained horn made most of the orcs retreat, leaving but a few stayed on the city (the orcs new an army was coming and prepared a trap by retrteating to the mountain top castle). The characters went right to the city square and attempted to overthrow the left commander in the building that used to be an inn, thus 2 floors.The orcs locked the building's windows in the 1st floor and, after some attempts to set fire to the buildings interior and to make them out the player's decided to take a look at the 2nd floor windows.One player got to a rope and, before looking through the window, he passed his dagger's pummel in front of it, there was an orc archer there and I ruled that given the speed and size of the thing the 1st level fighter orc would hit inly with a 20... It did.The player could not believe and threw his dagge inside the window, then he got another one and did the same. Once again I said he would only hit with a 20. He did.Unbelievable as it seemed it happened and the player went directly to Metagame mode and said "That orc will not roll another 20, I will look at the window, only enough to see where the orc is".I said how he went and saw the room and after some small and slow movement he saw the arrow, the bow and then, the orc eye, all in a direct line with him, with it I rolled an attack and consdering the cover bonus and the fast reaction he would have (even though he was haging at a rope), I said only a 20...He hit. Not only that, it was a critical hit. The characters were 2nd levelby then and the arrow sent the otherwise full character directly to a negative HP, he fell to the ground. I used a speific damage and made him blind of one eye, but that is another question, specially because it is not exactly by the rules and I had a lot of problems with the player because of that.Anyway, ever since that game, which the players left because of the too many discussions and some other problems, they have started calling those Orcs "Orcs-ni" (my name is Raoni, get it?).What I told them is that the orcs in the MM were a lot stronger, after all I took the scale mail and greataxe away from them. It was no use.After some years, those who played with them have learned of the Orcs-ni. My nly problem with it is that they speak of it like I had done a Balrog Orc race, to take Tolkien as a base...I used to think what the players would call me if they rolled 3 20 in a row against a powerful NPC that they would have to spend their lives to take out of game...Cheers,Nif.</blockquote>

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