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2008-04-23, 05:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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When did they turn green?
There were no green-skined humanoids in 1ed unless you count trolls. When did the whole "green skined hordes" motif first appear?
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2008-04-23, 05:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: When did they turn green?
Warhammer Fantasy, probably. Is there any green skinned 'horde race' not based on the Warhammer orcs?
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2008-04-23, 05:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: When did they turn green?
Warhammer, then Warcraft made them really green. Orcs are mostly gray in 3.5, while Goblins are brown.
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2008-04-23, 05:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-23, 06:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: When did they turn green?
Hmm, this is true. I was basing this off the art. The description does say they vary widely. Green is not on the list, though.
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2008-04-23, 06:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-23, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: When did they turn green?
There's quite a tendency in fantasy art to revert to archetypes; for example, look at Josh Kirby's Discworld book covers. Rincewind is described in the text as young but on the cover looks like Gandalf; Nanny Ogg is described as rotund but is drawn as a stereotyped (thin) crone-like witch. Its a well known fact in fantasy art that average-looking, sensibly dressed women in the text become gorgeous scantily clad women on the cover...
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2008-04-23, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-23, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-23, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Aye, it's like how the sample Eye of Grummsh (a green orc, by the way) is wielding a fairly normal greataxe when mastery of the orc double axe is required to enter the prestige class.
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2008-04-23, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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I, for one, am glad they are green. I think all non-human humanoids should be various shades of green to yellow. It helps keep track of who the enemy is.
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2008-04-23, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-23, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-23, 09:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: When did they turn green?
I think they should make humans "usually evil" in the next version.
I mean, come on, people. Just LOOK AT US.
...it can also contain a note of our horrifying pink skin, tinged with nauseating varieties of white, red, brown, or yellow to mark the various unclean human brood. Some humans have blood-red marks scattered across their deathly, bonelike skin; when angered or humiliated, a human's skin may shift to an unnatural shade of red, which should be taken as an immediate warning. Even the sun itself despises this wretched race; their skin is known to blister and burn when exposed to direct sunlight for extended periods of time.Last edited by Aquillion; 2008-04-23 at 09:31 PM.
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2008-04-23, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Erm...humans should be Usually Good. We are the paragons of what most races should aspire to. The ones that shouldn't aspire to be like us are the ones that are meatsacks filled with XP.
It could contain a note that you can identify the purest of races by their pinkish skin that can range in many colors, except green (of course). The warning sign is a warning for those of inferior breeds that their evilness has crossed the line. The Sun is a cruel mistress and as bad as she is to humans, she is far worse to the green-skins.
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2008-04-23, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, no, no, it's the blue skins who we should aspire to emulate. The frost giants' listing as evil in 3E is just one element of a massive smear campaign started by the Norse gods against the noble and gentle big blue guys.
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2008-04-23, 09:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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"What can you expect from filthy little heathens?
Here's what you get when races are Diverse!
Their skins are hellish red!
They're only good when dead!
They're vermin as I said, and worse!"
"This is what we feared, the paleface is a demon,
the only thing they feel at all is greed.
Beneath that milky hide, theres emptiness inside.
I wonder if they even bleed!"
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Suffer not a greenback to live, be they orc, goblin or Greenstar Adept.
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2008-04-23, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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