this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
275 points (98.6% liked)

RPGMemes

15770 readers
520 users here now

Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] regdog@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Orcs should reproduce asexually by releasing spores via their blood. So the more orcs fight (and the more orc blood is spilled) the more orcs will sprout from the ground.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that basically how 40k Orcs do it?

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, I should have given credit to Warhammer in my comment

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

That's a really cool concept! But one of my design choices was to stick to D&D5e-compatible races in case I want to run a campaign in-world

So I needed in-world reasons why orcs and elves could hybridize with humans, but the other races couldn't. For example, a human could participate in the creation of a dwarf, and it would contain part of their soul and be as much their child as its other parents', but the result wouldn't be a half-dwarf, it'd just be a dwarf =)