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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.

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[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mogoh@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 year ago

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

[-] moody@lemmings.world 19 points 1 year ago

I resent that remark!

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

*resemble

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 12 points 1 year ago

Better add resentful to the list as well

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 39 points 1 year ago

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".

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

... she?

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

That's a femboy, friend

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] EldritchFeminity 48 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] asqapro@reddthat.com 37 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's definitely AI copying Dross

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Tags include "1 male" and "orc femboy"

Myth confirmed

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Has anyone seen the bard?

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

He'll be in momentarily, hey hey.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

We will cure racism through genetic purity!

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...to be explicitly clear: i believe that we're all sarcastically mocking WotC's editorial choice to eliminate half-breeds from the core rules in order to combat real-world racism...

(i wouldn't be surprised to see mixed races included as an advanced option in the new dungeon master's guide, though)

[-] gaael@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] gaael@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I stand corrected, I didn't know they changed it that way. Thanks for the update :)

[-] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

so what Pathfinder does?

[-] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

In Pathfinder 2e I think Half-Elf, half-Orc, and their equivalent of Tiefling and Aasimar are variants you can apply to other species.

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[-] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Inconvenience by snu-snu.

[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 5 points 1 year ago

They allow for it, but mechanically you still just pick one. The one I knocked together and mean to refine gives every species for traits, so a three-quarter-drow quarter-dwarf person is actually (slightly) mechanically different to a half-drow half-dwarf one

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

More like a taller version of a goblin

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[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 1 year ago

Um, actually, this is not a "bubble font". The font used in this meme is called "Impact", and it's commonly bundled with MS Office. ☝️🤓

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The spoiler description says the orc is female but it's dross' Onyx, it's a male twink orc not a female

[-] boringbisexual 6 points 1 year ago

So?

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I was going to say "misgendering is bad" then I realised its a bisexual joke >.>

[-] boringbisexual 3 points 1 year ago

Joking about my sexuality and self deprecating humor...it's all I got

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[-] exu@feditown.com 4 points 1 year ago

smash

[-] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't that twink a Goblin, tho?

Also, I'm ok with this, helps diffirentiate them from Goliaths. And Orcs were never potrayed as Goliath-sized.

[-] webadict@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Isn't that twink a Goblin, tho?

...No, it's too easy...

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

we love an easy twink, especially one who's a' Goblin

[-] Souplex@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think they made the 5Essentials Orc Warcraft-color.

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