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Orcs are up there with dwarves and elves
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when it comes to your tried andrue wide
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breed Tolkien expat races of d and d and
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yet somehow they're not even a core race
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replaced by their step cousins twice
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removed the half ORS and the reasons for
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this are complicated and we're going to
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talk about them I'm Antonio Deo this is
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pointy hat and we're going to be
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explaining all the baggage that Orcs and
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half Orcs carry around the dragon game
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and we're going to give them a Twist
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that you can take home to your own games
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in this brand new episode of D and D
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with a Twist T orc Edition so what I
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Think Of Orcs I think
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of orc is the race for Jim Bros and
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professional hmos and that right so as I
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said Orcs are not even a core rate so
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I'm going to discuss them but I'm also
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going to talk about half Orcs when it
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comes to abilities and stuff since those
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are the ones that people are most
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familiar with you know actually playing
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since you couldn't play Orcs for the
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longest time I wonder why that is half
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works and Orcs are the big buff Green P
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Giants of D and D they are the race for
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those that seek to embody that Big
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pauldron World of Warcraft looking roid
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fueled Big Boy in their fantasy
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roleplaying and their lore sort of
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reflects this in interesting ways so
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let's take a look at them personality
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wise Orcs are said to be more prone to
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anger than other races oh boy preferring
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to go for a violent solution to every
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problem cool cool cool very normal and
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very cool they're also described as
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stupid the actual player raise doesn't
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actually have like a negative for
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intelligence but the orc stat block
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certainly does appear wise Orcs are not
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green in D and D joining goblins in the
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bad decisions club with most of them
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being described as having grayish skin
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black hair and sort of pig-like
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appearance with Bor tusks and upturn
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noses personally I just translate this
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in my mind to the dungeon meshy look
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because it looks cooler and also because
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official art looks like this but usually
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I just make them green because it's
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better but what about culture let's take
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a look but let's not talk too loud while
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we do that someone may hear us how
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through your computer of course plenty
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of people have defended themselves from
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scrying through magical means but those
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with ill intent in mind have found ways
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to bypass those safeguards they gather
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your secrets and sell them to those that
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have use for them specific safeguards
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built with the express purpose of
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protecting information you hold dear
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must be implemented specifically against
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those that trade in Secrets safeguards
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like in
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Cockney Real Talk data collection scares
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me a lot it's just a fact that people
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are actually selling your data to the
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highest bit out there and people don't
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buy stuff they don't intend to use
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they're 100% using your data which is
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why we now have to worry about actual
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data Brokers like that's a thing that
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exists and that people dedicate their
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finite amount of time on Earth to do
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great you can technically opt out of
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this this is how they make it legal but
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it's extremely hard and extremely
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timeconsuming to do so and even if you
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manage to remove yourself they just add
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you back so you start all over again
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this is why you get stuff like scan
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mails and phone calls and a bunch of of
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other stuff and that's where incog comes
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in incog is a service that removes you
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and your data from hundreds of these
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list that data Brokers keep they request
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your removal from their list
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automatically and deal with the
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aftermath if they run into any issues
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for you more importantly if your data is
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added to these list again which is very
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likely since this is how they keep this
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whole circus going incog will
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automatically remove you again from the
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lists it constantly Ms to see if it can
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find your data in these trading list
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again keeping your info away from the
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people that want to literally sell it so
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if this sounds like an interesting and
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useful thing for you which for me it is
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I use it I have a 60% off any of their
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annual incog plans for you yep 60% once
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again you know me and math 60% is pretty
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big to me so go ahead and check it out
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just go to incog docomo hat it's the
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very first link in the description
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that's
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incognitomotion talk Orcs orcish culture
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is traditionally unable to chill with
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war playing a big role in how they go
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about living they are structured in
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tribes of course because if you make an
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evil race and fantasy it's either tribes
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or whatever the Dr have going on Orcs
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are led by a Chieftain led to what to
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war of course orc's favorite hobbies are
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War armed conflict fighting scrapping
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and of course hit real good with raiding
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being a big part of how Orcs actually
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get their resources in general D and D
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Orcs don't create but rather borrow
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without permission is that my ring it is
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now they go pay a visit to whoever has
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so rudely decided to live next to them
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help themselves to their stuff maybe
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give them a few pets with their access
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payment and take back some souvenirs
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lovely they don't build cities not often
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but either live in caves bare style or
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take over ruins of existing cities
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sometimes cities they held become a ruin
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and just squat there The Cave Part is
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relevant as that is their natural
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habitat or at least it is for the most
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popular orc sub race Mountain Orcs we'll
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get into it as you can imagine this
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whole burrowing based culture didn't
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help them win a lot of popularity
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contests joining goblins in the everyone
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hates me Club of races that everyone
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hates everyone but especially elves Orcs
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And elves have been locked into a bloody
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conflict that has lasted Millennia these
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twink versus jock Wars have claimed many
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alive it started in Earnest when Orcs
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actually got to the D andd Bas World
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fyin fyon whatever yes Orcs are aliens
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we don't have time to get into that this
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video is already going to be long enough
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I can just feel it and they started
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fighting basically from the moment they
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stepped into the world giving rise to
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the aforementioned twink J Wars or what
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lesser Scholars who are not fun of
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parties call the orc gate Wars and these
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conflicts have left a deep scar in the
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relations between the two races but this
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runs way deeper than the orc jock Wars
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and goes right up to the gods of both
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Orcs And elves that's right the elf
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Creator God coralin and the orc Creator
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God groom have been beefing since since
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time was a thing I guess the two races
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hold two widely different accounts of
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what actually happened you know like
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children elves of course say that Grom
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started it and orc say nuh-uh it was
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Grom started on the Xbox and coralon
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started it the actual problem came when
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the Creator gods were doing what can
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only be described as a Divine raffle to
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decide where the little blow bows they
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created the D andd races would live what
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the other gods including coralon did to
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Grooms during this Divine raffle of
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ultimate destiny that will get to decide
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what place each race will get to call
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home is referred to by elves as a prank
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which you know I I wouldn't use the word
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prank seeing what was on the line but
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sure basically each Creator God pulled
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out a ballot that would assign the place
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where their Creations would live with
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elves getting the woods dwarves getting
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mountains humans getting a European
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passport and Hobbit I mean halflings
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getting non-copyright infringing Hills
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and they just forgot to put a ballot in
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for groom and his Orcs and none for
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Gretchen Wieners bye so Orcs found
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themselves without a place to call home
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and then they started to laugh at Grom I
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see we have graduated from
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six-year-old's fighting for the Xbox to
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Mean Girls tear beef really really cool
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of them groom seeing this said I didn't
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want to go to your stupid house party
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anyway Micha and then he took his Spears
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and pierced a thousand holes in the
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world and declared that these will be
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the caves that Orcs will get to live in
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pause honestly sick creation myth good
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job to whoever wrote that it's a cool
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story but believe it or not this is one
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of only many many times coralon and
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groom have fought they they do that a
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lot the girls are fighting the big one
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one is once again hardly debated as to
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how exactly it went out LOL of all
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people is somehow involved and this
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video isn't on God so I'm not going to
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get into it coralon and groom went at it
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and the other elf Gods got involved and
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groom lost if you believe the Orcs that
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was the end of it but if you believe the
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elves it was in this fight that coralon
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tore out one of grum's eyes which is why
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he only has one give me a second eye
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bottom line here Grooms is evil and mean
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and violent and rude and ugly and bad
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and so are orc's natural tendencies he's
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consumed with a need for Revenge which
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you know doesn't make for a great Patron
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deity interesting thought there wonder
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what the implications of that are anyway
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we've talked way too much about this
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inscrutable lore for my liking you got
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theist big bad me zuis simple but what
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can these guys actually do it's time to
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look at those abilities and let's start
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with half since those guys are the core
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race ones let's go if you're playing
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with ability scores halfs get a plus two
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to strength and a plus one to con super
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solid four literally anything strength
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based and particularly good for tanky
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builds with that little con bonus I
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normally don't talk about this but an
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important note here is the age section
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where it said that half folks mature
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faster than humans and live less 75
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years being sort of their maximum life
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expectancy why do I talk about this
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because I'm using it later anyway and
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yet another reason to add to the ever
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growing list of alignment being awful
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half Works were stated to inherit ATT
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tendency towards chaos from their orc
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parents and are not strongly inclined
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towards good cool cool cool give me just
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a second
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guys
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okay moving on size quarterback speed
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normal dark vision one of the most
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justified races to get this since most
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Orcs live in caves since the incident
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okay onto actually fun stuff menacing
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you are intimidating we're not going to
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get into that proficiency and
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intimidation is cool especially if you
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use the objectively good rule of being
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able to roll intimidation with strength
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Riz only intimidation is stupid moving
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on Relentless endurance the signature
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ability of the half fork and honestly
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their best one once a long rest if
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you're boned to below zero HP you're not
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you instead drop to one hit point this
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is it this is why half Works make for
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such amazing tanks most racial abilities
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are situational at best and Relentless
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endurance is absolutely not bad you will
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see this pop up a lot it's an incredibly
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good ability for everyone but especially
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for tanks props to this Savage attacks
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is their sort of second signature
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ability and this one is more situational
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but still good when you score a crit you
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add one additional damage di you can't
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really rely on crits since they are 100%
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random but this will make them feel even
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more amazing when they do happen
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unfortunately this is specifically
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stated to be only for weapon attacks and
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therefore pigeon holes half Works into
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Marshall classes even more but hear me
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out let me tell you a little secret you
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can ignore this make this happen on
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spell attacks 2 who cares if you're the
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type to get rid of ability scores tied
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to your racial Choice like me you can
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change this to the D andd police can get
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you at your own table you're fine you're
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safe and that's it normally I proceed
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onto sub races but half Forks don't have
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any at all pretty rare for a core race
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really what a shame well let's put on an
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asterisk next to that there's
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technically one one of the Eon Mark ones
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but those basically don't feel like sub
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races at all and are more like
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backgrounds and are super setting
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dependent so I'm not going to get into
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it we'll make an eon video someday maybe
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I don't know scream in the middle of
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your garage or in the comments if you
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want that I feel like the ship has
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sailed since the book has been out for
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ages now but anyway since we have no sub
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rist to talk about let's talk about the
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half Orcs daddies or mommies or parents
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I don't judge let's take a quick look at
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orc abilities Believe It or Not D and D
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Orcs have gone through three different
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versions of the playable race in all of
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D andd no in 5 alone yep and honestly
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it's a great way to see how the game has
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evolved in its design philosophy when it
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comes to Fantasy Races they were
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introduced in Vol guide to monsters then
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we got the Eon version of them and then
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we got the mor Kanan iteration even
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leaving Eon out of it since it's a
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completely different setting Orcs got
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abilities like aggressive which lets you
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chase people like a mle cop and Primal
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intuition which gives you Proficiency in
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a bunch of skills some of them making
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sense with like an intuition ability but
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I don't know I are they intuitively
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practicing medicine sounds like the
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people pedling healing crystals through
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Facebook Marketplace morn kanan's
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version of the Orcs is inherently better
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because it doesn't have any alignment
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mess and you get to put your ability
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scores wherever like God intended but
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also because their abilities are just
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plain better and more versatile
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Adrenaline Rush allows you to take the
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dash action as a bonus action and
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whenever you do this you get temp HP
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equal to your proficiency bonus this is
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so much better than aggressively jazzer
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sizing towards your enemy because tanky
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builds can use this to tank but bruisers
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can also use this for positioning and
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increasing survivability and casters can
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use this to get away and stay alive much
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more versatile powerful build increases
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your carrying capacity so you don't have
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to make two trips after grocery shopping
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and they get Relentless endurance which
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as we have already established is one of
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the best racial abilities in the game do
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you notice something that's right none
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of these abilities pigeon hold the orc
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into one specific role the orc is
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literally a more versatile racial option
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than the half orc once again change in
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design philosophy so you can very much
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make a very competent orc Caster giving
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you more options which you know is just
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playing better for the game no matter
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what mental gymnastics you want to do
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about it cool so we've looked at orc
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lore orc abilities half orc abilities
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and all that is well and good but what
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if we want to give Orcs a new
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twist so you want to play an orc you all
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I work to get here I put in too many
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hours I sweat too much blood or a half
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work you all I work to get here I put in
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too many hours I sweat too much blood
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Orcs are the absolute units of d and d
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and they are also not conceived as a
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playable race at all if you've seen my
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Goblin video you're familiar with this
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notion Orcs just like goblins were not
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not supposed to be something you play
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they were supposed to be something you
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throw into a wood chipper it's the
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reason why half workk is the core race
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and not orc Orcs were meant to be big
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scary guys that are all evil and all bad
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and so you don't feel bad about running
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them over with a lawn mower and that's
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fine I guess but they haven't stayed
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like that people want to play Orcs the
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needs of the game have changed and so
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has its design and Orcs needed to change
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with them and we're like halfway there
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the moment you want people to be able to
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play these guys or tell more interesting
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stories involving Orcs other than and
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then we went into the spooky cave and we
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killed all the ugly ugly orc meanies and
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found lots of cool stuff and cool swords
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and then we got out Orcs needed to grow
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from the original role of video game mob
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you plow through that they started at
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and d and d has slowly but surely gone
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in that direction now I'm not here to
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make a value judgment on whether all
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Orcs forever in every game should have
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interiority and be allowed to be
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individuals at every table if you want
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to just have mindless fun hitting big
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mean green bean Giants have ated
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although I guess you're already changing
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them if you make them green you know
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what that's not the point I'm not going
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to get hang up on the green thing moving
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on I don't even think that having Orcs
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as this uncomplicated bad guy is a Bad
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Thing necessarily coding notwithstanding
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not every table has to have Orcs sitting
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around arguing on the merits of
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postmodern Hedonism versus stoicism as
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they adjust their glasses at each other
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as hot as that may be to me but as the
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game evolves and more and more people
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want to give these guys a go as that
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Adventures the game needs to account for
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that and allow for Orcs to be complex
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and actual individuals for those that
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want to use them like that it's about
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getting the option for complexity the
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option for different stories the catch
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here is how do you do that just like
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goblins are fun because the identity the
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concept behind the race is a little
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raccoon that walks on two legs and lofs
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Chaos Orcs have a clear identity behind
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them that people have grown accustomed
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to and love the game makes Orcs evolve
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to adapt to the needs of a growing game
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which is a sign of a healthy game by the
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way but redc conning all of the orc lore
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and doing away with their identity
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without any care of what was already
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established in order to make them all
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about I don't know competitive epicurian
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ism is in my opinion not the way to go
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and I think that's a shame and I don't
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know we can do better so we have a
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complicated task ahead of us we need to
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make a way for people to play an orc or
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tell stories our Orcs that is not always
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an evil guy that is inherently evil
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because all Orcs are destructive evil
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idiots but we have to also leave space
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for that to also be an option for people
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that want to run Orcs like that like a
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video game mob tough stuff when I did
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this with goblins I leaned on existing
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Goblin Lord that explained that goblins
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are basically a stolen race from the
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Fate wild taken by a conqueror God that
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is not their original God so I chose to
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develop a race that got away from that
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God's control and stayed in the Fate
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wild watch that video by the way people
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really like the brownies and they are a
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personal favorite of mine but I can't do
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that here groom is the god of Orcs And
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changing that would be red cing and
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that's for cowards and I'm not a coward
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and I've already explained why that's
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not what I'm after so what dud well what
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if we lean into the existing lore of
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Groom there's a lot to pull from what if
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hear me out we finally give an answer of
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who was right in the jock versus twink
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Wars at least originally what if we make
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it so that gasp gasp groom was right
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originally and his anger was justified
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but something happened to make him what
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he is today this crazy maniac hellbent
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on Revenge what if we make it so that's
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not his Natural State that's not who he
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truly is what if the Elven story of
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Groom losing his eye is the true one but
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he didn't just lose his eye he lost his
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Essence as a Creator God let's
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go much has been said about the fateful
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day when the Creator deities divided the
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world to give a home to their races what
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has been lost from memory is the reason
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why groom's children were cheated out of
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a place to call home groom one of the
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forest for his Orcs to live as they
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needed them most but coralon wanted the
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same thing for their children and so the
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scheme to trick rsh was set in place
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this betrayal planted the seed of
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Vengeance in groom's heart but this did
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not make that seed consumed the god in
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its entirety the Fateful fight between
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coralon and groom did when coralon dealt
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the final blow to Grom in that battle it
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not only destroyed grum's eye but grum's
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Essence coron being the god of of Not
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Just Elves but also magic laced his
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sword in a magical poison just like lol
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laced grous spear but coron's poison did
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not Target the body it targeted the mind
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when the sword pierced goma's eye it
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also pierced his psyche Ming it forever
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groom the caring father of all Orcs lost
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everything that made him himself
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consumed only by the strongest emotion
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he felt at the moment that he lost his
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eye and his mind and at that moment and
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ever since his children were were
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deprived of their homes the strongest
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feeling groom felt was Revenge this
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maming destroyed groom as the Orcs and
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all other gods knew him he was no longer
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the father to all Orcs but a killing
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machine hellbent on revenge against
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corlon willing to sacrifice the children
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he loved so much in the process Grooms
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no longer sought retribution and his
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children's rightful home he lost his
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status as a Creator God turning into a
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Godlike monster a being that could only
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think of Revenge without just or sense
00:19:00
losing the protection of their Creator
00:19:01
God changed Orcs irreparably the reason
00:19:04
why Grim was so insense when his
00:19:06
children were left without a place to
00:19:07
call home is because it wasn't the orc's
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nature to live in verdant forests the
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domain coralon also wanted for their own
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children banished from the forest that
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were to be their homes and confined to
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the dark caves that Grooms made with a
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spear Orcs lost their ability to feed
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off of the sun Orcs being caught from
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the essence of the Creator God reduced
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their lifespan their verden skin was
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drained of color turning gray and
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lifeless they became a shadow of what
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they were created to be but these are
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not the only things that Orcs lost along
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with groom the title of Creator is not
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given to a god lightly the blessing of a
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Creator deity allows the children of
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this deity the power to create
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themselves groom's maming maimed the
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orc's ability to create crops wit when
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an orc tends to them livestock is unruly
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metal refuses to smelt correctly
00:19:58
everything and orc tries to make is made
00:20:00
weaker by groom's maming this is why
00:20:03
Orcs are relegated most often to
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pillaging they have to survive off of
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the creations of other races as they
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cannot create themselves Grom in his
00:20:13
current state only allows Orcs to
00:20:15
reproduce to strengthen the number of
00:20:17
his army he intends on using in the
00:20:19
Eternal War he's been locked into but
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grch even in his current main State
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loves his children too dearly to let
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them languish orphant of their Divine
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father a small part of who Grooms truly
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is behind that crazy need for revenge
00:20:32
and coron's poisonous spell remains
00:20:35
within the garden and that part fights
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against its own psyche reaching out
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towards his children much like humans
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Chang into teelings due to fish
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influence the Orcs that the true groom
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manages to touch form a connection to
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their creator their skin regains its
00:20:50
natural Green Glow once more as it
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always was intended to giving them the
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name of verdant Orcs verdant Orcs are
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blessed by the their father and
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represent what Orcs can be while under
00:21:01
the protection of a career deity though
00:21:04
few and far between their numbers are
00:21:06
ever growing as more and more of them
00:21:08
are either birthed or awakened by groom
00:21:10
himself verdant Orcs seek the home that
00:21:13
was owed to them creating orcish Groves
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deep within Forest away from the eyes of
00:21:17
all you might think that their culture
00:21:19
is one of Revenge and hatred against
00:21:21
elves and that could not be further from
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the truth verant Orcs have seen what
00:21:25
Revenge has done to their father and
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they will not follow that path instead
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their path is one of calm and calculated
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need for justice they will grow their
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numbers until they are powerful enough
00:21:35
to heal their father curing his meing
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and once done so they'll claim the
00:21:40
rightful place in the world for groomes
00:21:42
children are nothing but strong
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persistent and
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numerous ha you thought I was going to
00:21:48
let go of that green skin thing think
00:21:51
again I think that's cool making Grooms
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a kind Creator deity that was twisted
00:21:55
into what he is today makes it so that
00:21:57
Orcs can stay exactly as they are but
00:22:00
also gives a reason as to why they are
00:22:02
the way that they are and more
00:22:03
importantly an option to play them
00:22:05
differently with like an actual reason
00:22:08
why and also even more importantly gives
00:22:11
you so many stories to tell I am not in
00:22:13
the business of killing gods and
00:22:14
campaigns because I think that's just a
00:22:16
bit too much but I am definitely in the
00:22:18
business of healing gods imagine that
00:22:21
campaign story bringing groom back to
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his uncorrupted State healing him
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helping the Orcs find a rightful place
00:22:27
would you play that I mean I I don't
00:22:28
know know I I I would it sounds sick it
00:22:30
tracks with a bunch of existing orc lore
00:22:32
even down to Orcs AR even saying gr's
00:22:35
name out loud unless they are priest of
00:22:36
Groom this could be because groom having
00:22:39
a literal poisonous effect on Orcs in
00:22:41
his current state and those that get too
00:22:43
close to him are taken over by his need
00:22:45
for Revenge it also makes quiron a
00:22:47
little bit more interesting than just
00:22:49
she's nice I mean what he did was pretty
00:22:51
messed up but he did it to give his own
00:22:53
children a place in the world it just so
00:22:55
happened that the Orcs also needed that
00:22:57
same place as elves that's Rama baby I
00:22:59
mean regardless of if you like it or not
00:23:01
you got to admit that making the reason
00:23:02
why Orcs are green be literal
00:23:04
chlorophyll to be at least original they
00:23:07
are currently gray because they were
00:23:08
relegated to live in caves and they lost
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their green coloration I don't know
00:23:12
that's the sort of World building I love
00:23:14
it's just a shame that ver Orcs are just
00:23:16
not a thing so you can't really put them
00:23:18
in your campaigns or much less play one
00:23:21
oh what's that you feel a divine
00:23:23
presence calling you calling you to use
00:23:25
The Verdant Orcs like Grooms calls to
00:23:28
them
00:23:28
well my child it is no other divine
00:23:31
presence than mine indeed my children in
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my infinite Glory I haveth madeth the
00:23:38
verin orth and it's for thee to use thus
00:23:41
saith the Hat yep the verin orc and
00:23:44
their lore and their everything you ever
00:23:46
need to put them in your games or play
00:23:48
one including art made by yours truly is
00:23:50
in the description of this very video
00:23:52
you're watching and it's for 100%
00:23:54
certified pointy hat free praise be but
00:23:57
what if Orcs are not your thing what if
00:23:58
this whole video was orc propaganda and
00:24:00
you are an elf simp aiser well here's
00:24:03
this ancient video on elves and it has
00:24:05
two elf subspecies for you to use and if
00:24:07
this whole Grooms thing has peed your
00:24:09
interest in starting your own campaign
00:24:11
how about this video on how to do
00:24:13
exactly that hope you like
00:24:15
it
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