New to the forum, a question

[The Heretic]

Hi everybody, I've been lurking for a while, but this is my fist post.

First, this looks like a great game, congratulations Jake, you are my hero now.

I have this group I want to convert to TROS from they DnD corrupt ways, Im going to have a chance to show them TROS, and I need advice.

One of my players wants to play with an orc, a big, angry, dumb, killing machine. I tried to explain to him that thas was hard to do (I want to use a very little modified version of Weyrth) as nobody would like him. A Gol is the closest i could find...

I was thinking about letting him use an useelie character, but I think I would need a "tall" gift or something like that...

What do you think? what would you do? advice welcome.


By the way... sorry for the bad english.

[MonkeyWrench]

I'd let him do it. Let the social stigma be apart of the game. Of course he would need to know that most everyone would want to kill him if he was a Gol.

Why has the Gol broken away from his tribe? Why does the Gol associate with "weaker" races? Why not come to a compromise, let him play a half-Gol?

As for a Tall advantage I'd say that it works the opposite off the Little flaw. Depending how big he wants his character give him an extra length of reach. So hand would be changed to short, short to medium, etc.

I hope this helps and welcome to the Forge.

[Ron Edwards]

Hi there,

Here's my suggestion, although it may seem extreme:

Humans only. Why does he want an orc-y guy? To be ugly, scary, powerful, and different. Fine - have him make an ugly, scary, powerful, and different human. The game permits quite a bit of variety among human characters (something D&D does not do) and, arguably, is built to do so in ways that this player isn't familiar with.

Best,
Ron