The Great Debate

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>>48984938
I like my dark orcs for low fantasy

varying colors
my preferred is a dark reddish hue

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>>48984938
All of the above?

>>48984938
Yes.

All of the above; depending on tribe, climate, and gender (if applicable).

>>48984938
Depends on the setting.

I prefer dark or drabgreen. Bright green Warcraft-style orcs are just silly looking.

>>48984938
Blue.

>>48985002
Your setting.

>>48984938
D. All of the above.

Gray is too ashy and grim.

Brown is too unsubtle (we already know who orcs are analogs for...)

Green works.

>>48984981
>gender
u wot?

>>48985025
>Brown is too unsubtle (we already know who orcs are analogs for...)
Huns, Mongols, and similar steppe warrior tribes?

>>48985048
No, niggers

>>48984938
ORKZ ARE MADE FER KRUMPIN'!

>>48984938
B and C to give them some variation.

>>48984938
What a stupid question--it depends on the ethnicity.

>Humans are...
>A. Pale pink
>B. Slightly jaundiced
>C. Tan
>D. Brown
>E. Dark brown

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>>48984938

>>48984938
D, Many Shades.

>>48984938
Northern Orcs range from blueish gray to almost white, with most of their bodies covered in coarse hair
Southern Orcs are brown and look like boars

>>48985014
Then TASTE THE FUCKING RAINBOW
Volcano orcs are orange, red and black, steppe and desert orcs are brown and yellow-grey, arctic orcs are blue and white, forest - green, deep orcs are purple. Fuckers adapt to everything, even to civilised society

>>48985014
I never wrote anything down, clearly they are entirely devoid of color.

>>48985047
Iz weddah yuz got a choppa or a shoota, me thinks

>>48985771
Genda is wetha u choppy or shooty? But muh Shootah is choppy what Genda am I?

>>48984938
Never seen brown orcs outside of LotR and hentai doujins

>>48986181
Das wat dey call bein a tranny, oi fink.

>>48986257
WoW, HoMM, ...

>>48986181
>>48986274
If it woz neivah, youz'd be a grot.

>>48984938
D) All of the above

>>48984938
Kill the Green skin!

>>48984951
>low fantasy
>orcs

>>48986430
Yes and?

Where did green orcs even originate?
Warhammer?

Brownish or pinkish. Also look more like pigmen than greenskins

>>48984938
from green to yellow to red
from white to grey to black

i like my armies of destruction colorful

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>>48986542
>Also look more like pigmen than greenskins

>>48986542
>>48986561
Those aren't Orks, they're Porks

>>48986561
>>48986599
Ganonporc

>>48984938
Are blue orcs acceptable?

>>48984938
Okay, now this one DOES actually depend on the setting. I'm not meming, that's how it actually works.

>>48986430
Either bait, or this guy actually thinks low fantasy means the saem thing as human-only historical fiction.

>>48984938
Green, ranging from the dark green of the outside of an avocado to the yellow-green of the inside of an avocado (in much the same way humans range from dark brown to pale pink).

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>>48986626
>>48985008

How blue we talking?

>>48984938
>all his orcs are the same colour
>the beauty of species diversity hasn't graced his setting
>he's not given himself easy identifiers in conversations
>he's probably just gonna use orcs as fodder
>he's crippling his own creative potential

>>48986626
Blue is an elf color, well also a color for your underwater races, but for land based races most of the time it's an elf color.

>>48984938
I'm not running "my own" setting just my own campaign which is a fair sight more then half of the people on /tg/ seem to have so I can't really tell you anything but the canon standpoint for orcs in the setting.

>>48986660
Anything from the rightmost column, or the upper-middle the of the column next to it.

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>>48986530
Kinda-sorta.
Warhammer Fantasy is where green orcs originated from, but as model wargames were (and still are) niche it was technically WarCraft that popularized it as it's computer games reached a far greater audience.

There's also that rumor that WarCraft was originally going to be a Warhammer Fantasy game, which is likely at least partially true as orcs as huge green muscled Neanderthal-men originates almost completely from there whereas orcs in prior editions of D&D looked like this instead.

>>48985569
That's a troll, mate

>>48986729
>There's also that rumor that WarCraft was originally going to be a Warhammer Fantasy game
Both WarCraft and Starcraft heavily draw from WH and WH40k.

>>48986369
Never played WoW (though I could have sworn they were green there) and I don't know what the other one is

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>>48984965
>>48984973
>>48984981
>>48985002
>>48985017
>>48985585
>>48986640

The only acceptable answers. Green however is my favorite.

>>48986830
"Pure" WoW Orcs are brown, only demonic influenced/corrupted ones and their off-spring are green.

HoMM - Heroes of Might'n'Magic

>>48984938
Reminder that dwarfs in the hobbit had blue beards tucked into their belt.

>>48986830
>not knowing HoMM
WHAT ARE YOU
I'M CALLING MEN IN BLACK

>>48984938
D: Japanese Pig-Men

>>48986812
Which in turn drew heavily from something before them, but I forget what the names of each were.

>>48987118
Nani?!

>>48984938
half-covered with porcine bristle and greyish-brown underneath.

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>>48987118
>>48986542

>>48984973

This. Orcs in the setting I'm making are grey/brown.

>>48987320
Ugh fine. What's the source?

Depends on setting