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A picture of a skinny female orc with the side of her head shaved. She wears an armless red dress and a black shawl, as well as matching red bracelets and a black choker with a gold heart at the front.

At the top of the image is the text “You may not like it, but this is what” in large bubble font

At the bottom of the image is a screenshot from the new D&D changelog, reading “• Orcs no longer have the Powerful Build feature.”

And below that, the text “Peak 2024 D&D orc performance looks like” continues the bubble font from the top.

  • Aielman15
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    891 month ago

    I wish the DnD/roleplaying community wasn’t as hopelessly horny as it is.

  • @loaExMachina
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    1 month ago

    A picture of a skinny female orc …

    If I’d seen the pic without text, I’d have assumed it’s a femboy orc. Which I’d also find funnier since the morphology of female orcs already varies a lot depending on the artist’s tastes and intentions whereas male orcs are more consistently depicted with a strong build.

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    271 month ago

    … there boutta be an explosion in the population of half-orcs.

      • Cyrus Draegur
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        101 month ago

        [the bard IS the orc and he’s getting rizzed by the whole tavern]

        XD

      • @mindbleach
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        31 month ago

        He’ll be in momentarily, hey hey.

    • ...m...
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      131 month ago

      …well, no: sixth-edition core rules no longer support half-races, something-something-against-racism?..

          • ...m...
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            …to be explicitly clear: i believe that we’re all sarcastically mocking WotC’s editorial choice to eliminate half-breeds from the core rules in order to combat real-world racism…

            (i wouldn’t be surprised to see mixed races included as an advanced option in the new dungeon master’s guide, though)

      • @[email protected]
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        Iirc it’s more of a lexical change: until now, half-something automatically assumed the other half was human, making the human race central in the setting. To allow for more liberty, most (all?) humanoid species will become interbreedable and you can choose the traits from one ancestry or the other.

        • SwiggitySwole
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          41 month ago

          That was how it worked in the playtest. The sidebar saying “pick a race you really are and pretend to be half the other race” is gone from the 2024 PHB. Rules as written, you can only be fully one race, this of course doesn’t actually matter as the whole thing is imaginary bullshit but in organised play it’ll sometimes come up.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            In Pathfinder 2e I think Half-Elf, half-Orc, and their equivalent of Tiefling and Aasimar are variants you can apply to other species.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            I haven’t played enough pathfinder to be able to answer your question, sorry.
            Also, I was wrong, see the other comment for correction.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        We didn’t have half-races in BECMI, despite having a guy who was going by the title “Half-Orc”, he was just really ugly.

  • @Ziggurat
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    231 month ago

    I’ve always been joking about playing an “orc poet” in Shadowrun as a way to do something totally sub optimal :) TIL that you can also play orc in D&D. And cute orcs can definitely change the world building

    • ZagorathOP
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      111 month ago

      Yeah the PHB for D&D 5th edition only had half-orcs as a playable race, but they added a full orc race with the 2016 Volo’s Guide to Monsters. idk about the 5e remaster though because I haven’t played or been interested in following the news of D&D since about mid 2022. I just found this meme on [email protected] and thought it belonged here!

      • Skua
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        71 month ago

        God dammit I really need to finish and polish the mixed heritage homebrew doc I have. Sometimes I want to be a half-orc-half-gnome and the game should let me

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          the new 2024 rules allow for this. All half races/species have been removed, and instead you get to mix and match any two you want.

          • Skua
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            51 month ago

            They allow for it, but mechanically you still just pick one. The one I knocked together and mean to refine gives every species for traits, so a three-quarter-drow quarter-dwarf person is actually (slightly) mechanically different to a half-drow half-dwarf one

    • @Barbarian
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      101 month ago

      Playing smart or charismatic orcs is totally fine in Shadowrun, it’s not that suboptimal. You have to spend a bit more karma at the start to overcome the lower starting charisma, but it’s not bad at all.

  • @[email protected]
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    181 month ago

    Um, actually, this is not a “bubble font”. The font used in this meme is called “Impact”, and it’s commonly bundled with MS Office. ☝️🤓

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    The spoiler description says the orc is female but it’s dross’ Onyx, it’s a male twink orc not a female

  • @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

    Not a player nor a DM, so correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it basically photoshop human now? Grab a human, shift colors until skin is green…orc? :|

    • @[email protected]
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      161 month ago

      Yes it is. It’s like they wanted to do what PF2.0 did with Ancestries but also do a really shitty job of it. It’s fine though; 3.5e, 5e, PF1.0, and PF2.0 are all still out there for anyone who wants to run better systems that are still “DND.”

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        I’m actually a fan of the general change to races and background. It’s more role play friendly because all the tables available to me are run like we’re power gaming. Which of course makes us power game to stay alive. So now I can be whatever I want without worrying too much.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        I’m pretty hyped for DC20. I backed the Kickstarter… now I just need life to fuckin’ chill long enough for me to pull a game together to test out the beta rules.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    Isn’t that twink a Goblin, tho?

    Also, I’m ok with this, helps diffirentiate them from Goliaths. And Orcs were never potrayed as Goliath-sized.

    • ZagorathOP
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      11 month ago

      omg I love the term “5Essentials” to refer to the new edition.