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Peak D&D 6e (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I resent that remark!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

*resemble

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Better add resentful to the list as well

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 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 33 points 4 months ago

... she?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

That's a femboy, friend

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 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 13 points 4 months ago

I wish everything was more horny.

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[–] loaExMachina 75 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 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)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's definitely AI copying Dross

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Tags include "1 male" and "orc femboy"

Myth confirmed

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My money is lost, has anyone seen it?

[–] loaExMachina 6 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Has anyone seen the bard?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

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

[–] mindbleach 4 points 4 months ago

He'll be in momentarily, hey hey.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We will cure racism through genetic purity!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 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 9 points 4 months ago

Inconvenience by snu-snu.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mnemonicmonkeys 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

More like a taller version of a goblin

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[–] Ziggurat 23 points 4 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 11 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 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 [email protected] and thought it belonged here!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 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. ☝️🤓

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

So?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

smash

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 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? :|

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 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.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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.