Re: New Race thing.

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

The "High Orcs"  shouldn't be a player race to be rolled up, they are
designed as a marauding group from the mountains, evolved for the
mountains and for general meanness.  Joel is giving them exc. str and wil,
and little else except a bad attitude.

Jevan

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Kris Ames wrote:

> Um,
> 
> Why change the 1/4 ruling (Pretty rare as it is, as long as someone
> isn't cheating) and even if they are a 1/4 the chance of them having
> even one of the cool extra abilities is pretty rare.
> 
> About High orcs - are they really different than normal orcs, but
> just at the top of the stat and height chart.  If they are just at
> the top, no change necessary.  They are already there and hard to
> role up (GMs can always have bizarre population groupings).
> 
> -Kris
> 
> ----------
> > From: Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>
> > To: geleia@cioe.com
> > Subject: New Race thing.
> > Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 12:51 PM
> > 
> > 
> > Couple of mods I just added to the race table for geleia and a
> proposition.
> > 1) No quarter breeds.  If a person rolls the crit to become a half
> > 	breed, they ignore all future half-breed results.
> > 2) High orcs.  Bigger tougher orcs, Foo and Jevan are doing the
> > 	write up on'em.  They'd be very rare, say only 10% of
> > 	orcs that are rolled as PCs are high orcs.  Still get
> > 	the 20K in special abilities as per standard, once the
> > 	write up on'em is done I'll post it, just wanted to see
> > 	an initial reaction to the concept.
> > 
> > Wright
> > 
>