Pathfinder Bastards of Golarion
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beccaelizabethI must read descriptions more carefully. I thought this one was all half elf and half orcs, but it's a more vague definition of bastard as outcast, so a human gravedigger might count for some of it. Still interesting though.
But the art for half orcs is half the people green skin and half of them brown.
Description says grey or green, picture is black people with the teeth.
Unless I point a torch directly at it ie much brighter light, then there might be a hint of olive green in the highlights.
There are actual brown skin humans in the game as well, so maybe they're meant to be orcs with a different mixture of heritage. But it still makes me sort of hmmm about orcs in general.
Also there's a little map of where mixed race kids are most likely, and on the map every race has a symbol, and the symbol for half orc is a little purple fist. Like, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power , but purple. Which is an odd choice for green people.
I just don't always know if they were thinking about race or if they were just being very rpg setting about it. It's not always a good look.
At least there's options here for a half orc town and places where they're raised right, not just outcasts with violent backgrounds.
The more I read about Pathfinder orcs the more I think they're treated badly. Driven before the dwarves to the surface, left to live in places where the river only runs in summer, drafted into undead armies, and then considered evil. It's not right.
Orc rights, I say.
... which is one way to play the game.
Stick one of my castles in the Hold of Belkzen up near the demonic bit of the border, get a half orc friend to run it, write how orcs save the world from demons. Much better.
... I got more books in today and will be distracted for a while until I read them all.
:-)
But the art for half orcs is half the people green skin and half of them brown.
Description says grey or green, picture is black people with the teeth.
Unless I point a torch directly at it ie much brighter light, then there might be a hint of olive green in the highlights.
There are actual brown skin humans in the game as well, so maybe they're meant to be orcs with a different mixture of heritage. But it still makes me sort of hmmm about orcs in general.
Also there's a little map of where mixed race kids are most likely, and on the map every race has a symbol, and the symbol for half orc is a little purple fist. Like, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power , but purple. Which is an odd choice for green people.
I just don't always know if they were thinking about race or if they were just being very rpg setting about it. It's not always a good look.
At least there's options here for a half orc town and places where they're raised right, not just outcasts with violent backgrounds.
The more I read about Pathfinder orcs the more I think they're treated badly. Driven before the dwarves to the surface, left to live in places where the river only runs in summer, drafted into undead armies, and then considered evil. It's not right.
Orc rights, I say.
... which is one way to play the game.
Stick one of my castles in the Hold of Belkzen up near the demonic bit of the border, get a half orc friend to run it, write how orcs save the world from demons. Much better.
... I got more books in today and will be distracted for a while until I read them all.
:-)
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Date: 2020-01-13 06:59 pm (UTC)... yes this is all plot bunny noodling because no actual game. so I am all the characters.
half orc doesn't seem like me though.