What's your favorite fantasy monster race?
What's your favorite fantasy monster race?
I love goblins and lizardmen. Goblins because deranged little dudes running around is always a blast. Lizardmen because alligator people with melee weapons are the way I wish dinosaurs evolved instead of being birds.
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Pushing the boundaries of the question, but 40k orks! How can you not love the big green lugs?
And intensely stylish squigs to wear on your head so you can swap out your "hairstyle" at will!
40K orks doesn't really fit, but orcs in general do. 40K just happen to be the best version of orcs. I'm a Badmoons painter myself.
I think it'd be fair to consider them a sub race of orks, not much goofy lovability about Tolkien orks but you can't help but smile listening to Ork hijinks
The orcs from orcs must die probably fit in a similar sub race
The 40k orks do have a couple of Warhammar fantasy counterparts, at least. I'm not sure how similar in personality they are (a brief search suggests the Old World ones were more like 40k's orks than Age of Sigmar's orruks are) but they at least look similar on a surface level
Original warhammer fantasy orcs were more like Middle-Earth Uruk-hai, they even had women, and hobgoblins being steppe nomads analogues were doing normal nomad things, just with big wolves instead of small horses. 40k orks were kinda separate as they started as satire on british football hooligans. But as mext editions came they were defined as the current fungal sexless species and fantasy orcs followed suit (probably to take away the troubling concepts like "misogyny", "sexual assault" or "logistics").
Orruks seems to me exactly like last iteration of Old World orcs, both differing from 40k orks in development level and lesser population increase ratio.
Thanks! I was always more keen on 40k so my awareness of goings on in the fantasy side are more tangential
Oh, there were also half-orcs in 1st edition of WFRPG, which also implies very much about orcs.
They look so similar in fact that I kitbashed a box of Ironjaws Orruk Ardboys with some 40K Nob bitz to create Eavy Metal Nobz. The fantasy legs are shorter so I have some cut up sproose to act as bricks for them to stand on.