Orcs are gay now
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As someone who loves orcs and goblins this kills me. I’ve played 5th edition for years and virtually never fight orcs. At this point if they show up in a game I assume it’ll be followed by “but there not the bad orcs they just keep to themselves and sometimes we trade with them”. Oh wow things are really fucking tense now! No evil raiders but guys you sometime buy esty art from! How exciting!!
And I get to smash these creatures en masse with a +5 battleaxe?
WTF, time to dust off the red box again.
We've fallen a long way from Frank Frazetta-inspired fantasy art.
Even Shadowrun isn't this bad with what happened turning Oakland into literal Orkland!
Kinda tangential but this evokes the same feeling I got with Gothic. Not sure if anyone here played that series. In the first game they do have a primitive religion but they are basically stupid tribals just a step above dumb animals. By the third game they are an advanced race just like any other civilization and strong enough to defeat humanity and you can do missions for them.
Of course Warcraft kind of went and ruined the orcs first in WoW, but at least they still looked like fearsome monsters.
These are more like gen-z half-orcs. Miscegenation is a sin.
The Warcraft comment actually does remind me that a fair portion of how Orcs have commonly been portrayed has more in common with the Mongol invasions than what the left has been claiming for the past decade.
Wait I thought orks were black according to the left because they were a barbaric primitive race?
If we were to change Orcs, can we go the Baalbuddy route? I would happily enjoy all the male orcs being the British accented straight men in a crazy world and the female orcs being busty tomboys..
Queers: Orcs are racist because they are meant to be Black people.
Also Queers: makes Orcs look like typical Black people
Queers, once more: Why would White people do this?
At some point they will make nu-orcs have the same demo makeup as los angeles and nu-elves.
It's to make those rape fantasies more California-friendly.
"Orcs could be here," he thought.
Off-topic, but is that guy's profile picture Orange Cassidy?
As always, progressives identify with sick twisted monsters.
I thought orcs were an allegory for the chavs and cockneys who confounded even a life long english ear with their speaking and slang. As if they were an alien race who assumed the form of the locals to try and blend in, but they never could get the language right.
For awhile they were even pig-like in appearance. With tusks and snouts. This was back when kobolds were furred creatures.
Tolkien had them as sort of like mushroom people. They would lay a sort of pod person into the ground, and later when they're full grown, they pop up ready to go.
Warcraft had them as aliens from another planet who finally freed themselves from indentured servitude.
Now they're just a gay brown people allegory. That's not only boring, it's lame.
For warhammer they were based on the soccer hooligans, but I'm not sure about DnD. Probably Gary's bad neighbors.
Walk away and play first edition.
You fools are caring about corporate bullshit and not about YOUR stories told the way YOU want them to be. Why are you listening to them?
I think they made a mistake putting the really fat one on that skinny ledge. None of these are going to reproduce, so I guess they kidnap other orc tribes kids? Is this some kind of LGBTQER@@WW 'we're coming for your kids' agenda?
Even WoW Orcs are more creative, Jesus Christ
So dykes are orcs? I can live with that.
Reimagined for modern audiences. Which is weird because Orcs are kind of a representation of early humans and a fear of being devolved into cavemen, right?
Ehh, orcs can be a lot of things. Thought the left settles 100% on traditional orcs being black people.
Why Waugh when can caughy