D&D quarter-orc Barbarian
Client Brief: Bolder and his companions were asked by an archbishop
of Veluna to voyage to the northwest of the city of
Mitrik and try to find out what the plans of the
humanoid tribes were. The orcs and ogres had been
harrying the humans of Mitrik, and defeating them at
every turn. To enable Bolder and his friends to do
this, a powerful spell was cast on them to turn them
into orcs. This was not just an illusion or a
"seeming" spell, this was a high level spell cast by a
wizard that essentially turned Bolder and his friends
literally into orcs. My playstyle with Bolder is that
he is a big, dim, but nice guy. Unfortunately, he
found the whole "being an orc" experience funny, and I
played up him making a lot of crude jokes about his
orc "equipment" and such, and at one point he had to
actually eat human flesh or be discovered as an
imposter by hundreds of orcs (and then probably die).
When we were changed back to
our natural forms, Bolder's transformation didn't go
as planned - he didn't turn back to being fully human.
"A Hint of Orc: The PC was too fond of his
orc body and acted very much like those vile and
despicable creatures. Due to the constant
crude humor, tasteless attacks against others he/she
now has slightly longer teeth and a light greenish hue
to their arms and legs."
Illus. © Eric Pommer, 2003