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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.

23 points

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

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11 points

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 !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone and thought it belonged here!

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7 points

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

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5 points

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.

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11 points

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.

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88 points

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

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58 points

This community is a bit like a teenager: moody, a bit horny, is better with animals.

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18 points

I resent that remark!

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17 points

*resemble

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11 points

Better add resentful to the list as well

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38 points

Tbh I agree that “horny bard fuck dragon” memes are tiring. But I actually didn’t read this meme as horny. I thought it was just “hey, you expect your orc to be buff and muscly, but NO! She lithe and slim!” Basically just poking fun at WotC for removing a feature called “powerful build”.

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32 points

… she?

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15 points

That’s a femboy, friend

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12 points

I wish everything was more horny.

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14 points

DM: … and of course Druids can learn Wild Shape, which allows them to transform into a beast that…

Player: STOP. I want to play that one. A druin or whatever.

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1 point

I wish it wasn’t so obsessed with being upset about miniscule changes.

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33 points

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

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19 points

Has anyone seen the bard?

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10 points

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

XD

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4 points

He’ll be in momentarily, hey hey.

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9 points

Inconvenience by snu-snu.

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16 points

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

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13 points

The solution to racism is not to let them breed together? 😕

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9 points

We will cure racism through genetic purity!

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9 points
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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.

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1 point

so what Pathfinder does?

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4 points

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.

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2 points

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.

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24 points

So, they’re like a different green version of an elf now?

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12 points

More like a taller version of a goblin

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1 point

Tall Goblin is called a Verdan.

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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.

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49 points

My money is on femboy orc as well. Unless she’s wearing a super tight binder or something, that looks like visible pecs rather than cleavage.

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36 points

Good guess. That appears to be a character by Dross named Onyx, who is male.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/onyx-dross-oc-78426448 (locked behind Patreon)

https://civitai.com/models/309542/onyx-dross-character (AI link unfortunately, but shows the original image and names the character)

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7 points

Tags include “1 male” and “orc femboy”

Myth confirmed

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11 points

Yeah, it’s definitely AI copying Dross

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