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<p>Created page with &quot;Originally Posted : Fri Apr 12 19:31:21 2002&lt;br&gt;Posted by : Alexi&lt;br&gt;Title : Orcs and Ogres&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Orcs and Ogres!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For a long time now, the &#039;civilized&#039; races have warre...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Originally Posted : Fri Apr 12 19:31:21 2002&lt;br&gt;Posted by : Alexi&lt;br&gt;Title : Orcs and Ogres&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Orcs and Ogres!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For a long time now, the 'civilized' races have warred with your people &lt;br&gt;and treated them as dirt beneath their feet! The only way an orc could &lt;br&gt;roam the civilized lands and find new realms to explore was to pretend &lt;br&gt;that he had some human blood, that he was a half-breed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ogres have been told for ages that they aren't &quot;real&quot; ogres, that they are &lt;br&gt;mere half-human weaklings.Some say they were told this for their own &lt;br&gt;protection, but that's a pathetic excuse. Ogres may be a little slow to &lt;br&gt;realize when they're being lied to, but their wrath is a terrible thing to &lt;br&gt;behol!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Recently, thanks to a slightly more liberal faction of the Mainland &lt;br&gt;government taking power, these 'hidden' orcs and ogres have come to &lt;br&gt;understand that they no longer have to conceal who, and what, they really &lt;br&gt;are!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Natives have known what these races actually are for a long, long &lt;br&gt;time. Ogres and orcs have such a brutish, primitive nature, that they've &lt;br&gt;long been accepted into the Native ranks. Of course the natives never told &lt;br&gt;anyone else.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-----------&lt;br&gt;the skinny:&lt;br&gt;- half-orcs are now orcs.&lt;br&gt;- half-ogres are now ogres, and are 5 points stronger (and a little less &lt;br&gt;dextrous).&lt;br&gt;- orcs and ogres can still be natives, and the natives will accept members &lt;br&gt;of those races. (let's face it, it just makes sense)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-----------&lt;br&gt;some behind-the-scenes thoughts:&lt;br&gt;i've considered skill mods for ogres, but:&lt;br&gt;- they have such excellent stats to begin with,&lt;br&gt;- they have none of the drawbacks of minotaurs,&lt;br&gt;- any skill boosts that mke sense would be overkill b/c of their great&lt;br&gt; stats (+20 str *and* a bonus to 'smite'? ouch)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;i've also seriously considered a mod to orcs' stat base, giving them more &lt;br&gt;str too, but:&lt;br&gt;- they dont need to lose any dex or con. that would weaken 'em and&lt;br&gt; be unthematic.&lt;br&gt;- losing some int would give 'em the same stat base as muuls... and&lt;br&gt; w/ orcs' other bonuses, there'd be very little reason to play a&lt;br&gt; muul.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-----------&lt;br&gt;check for problems, and if you run across anything - help files, NPCs, &lt;br&gt;whatever - that refers to half-orcs or half-ogres, please bug it for me.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;thanks&lt;br&gt;'lexi&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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