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Peak D&D 6e (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
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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 92 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] moody@lemmings.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I resent that remark!

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

*resemble

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 12 points 10 months ago

Better add resentful to the list as well

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 33 points 10 months ago

... she?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months ago

That's a femboy, friend

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Y'all might be hopelessly horny, but I'm very hopefully horny. I know how to dance.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 10 months 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.

[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

I wish everything was more horny.

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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 10 months ago (2 children)

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 11 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's definitely AI copying Dross

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago

Tags include "1 male" and "orc femboy"

Myth confirmed

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My money is nowhere and I just 'want' it to be a femboy orc.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My money is lost, has anyone seen it?

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

There's a thief on the lose, suspect n°1 is a femboy orc!

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Has anyone seen the bard?

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

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

XD

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

He'll be in momentarily, hey hey.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We will cure racism through genetic purity!

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[–] gaael@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Inconvenience by snu-snu.

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

More like a taller version of a goblin

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[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months 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

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] exu@feditown.com 5 points 10 months ago

smash

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not a player nor a DM, so correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it basically photoshop human now? Grab a human, shift colors until skin is green...orc? :|

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes it is. It’s like they wanted to do what PF2.0 did with Ancestries but also do a really shitty job of it. It’s fine though; 3.5e, 5e, PF1.0, and PF2.0 are all still out there for anyone who wants to run better systems that are still “DND.”

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm actually a fan of the general change to races and background. It's more role play friendly because all the tables available to me are run like we're power gaming. Which of course makes us power game to stay alive. So now I can be whatever I want without worrying too much.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty hyped for DC20. I backed the Kickstarter... now I just need life to fuckin' chill long enough for me to pull a game together to test out the beta rules.

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that twink a Goblin, tho?

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

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