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Orcs

Sarion Orc Traits

Your orc character has the following traits that it shares with other orcs.   Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by +2.   Age. Orcs grow up fast and reach adulthood by the age of 12. True blood orcs live a life of constant battle and disease, this makes them only live about 25 years on average and at the most live to 50. Roshkian Orcs on the other hand have been blessed with longer better lives by Roshka. They still reach adulthood by 12, but they often live to about 60 years of age.   Alignment. When orcs rose up and began worshipping Roshka they also began to lean towards good, where they were once Chaotic evil, they moved towards more neutral alignments. The Roshkian Orcs Tend towards true neutral or lawful neutral, following tradition and Roshka their new god. True Blood Orcs on the other hand still follow the old ways of Gruumsh. These Orcs are vicious raiders, who believe that the world should be theirs. They also respect strength above all else and believe the strong must bully the weak to ensure that weakness does not spread like a disease. They consider all who turned against Gruumsh to be weak and that they shall feel his wrath when the time comes. They are usually chaotic evil.   Size. Orcs are usually over 6 feet tall and weigh between 230 and 280 pounds. Your size is Medium.   Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.   Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.   Menacing. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.   Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.   Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.   Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Orc. Orc is a harsh, grating language with hard consonants. It has no script of its own but is written in the Dwarvish script.   Subrace. Choose a subrace. Either Roshkian Orc or True Blood Orc.    

Roshkian Orc

Roshkian Orcs have been released from the grasp that Gruumsh had over them and have now be freed to learn and become a real civilization. The curse of ignorance placed on them being lifted, they have now learned how to build and foster a proper society. But they still hold many of the things that make them an orc.   Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by +1.   Strength Focus. After the Roshkian Orcs stopped fighting and pillaging constantly, their pent up strength needed to be put towards something else. Many Roshkian Orcs take up jobs that require physical effort being miners, masons, smiths, farmers and many other jobs that require them to use their strength in one way or another. Doing these jobs has given them the ability to focus their strength on their job to get it done faster and release the strong fighting spirit within. When you make a strength check, athletics roll or a attack roll using strength, you can give yourself advantage on the roll. You can't use this ability again until you have finished a short or long rest.   Sport Fighters. When Roshkian Orcs have free time, they will often brawl with each other. These fights are a common part of their culture, any disagreement or feud is settled with a fist fight. Other races see this as barbaric, but for them it is natural and commonplace to get into fist fights in the streets or for sport in arenas. Because almost all Roshkian Orcs fight in this way through their lives they have learned to be stronger with their fists. These Orcs gain a +2 to damage rolls made with a unarmed strike and can make an off hand attack with their unarmed strike as a bonus action.    

True Blood Orc

True blood orcs are the ones that did not turn against Gruumsh when Roshka rose, they stayed with Gruumsh when he was defeated by Roshka. The fear of their god made them ignore his weakness and continue to follow him as he blessed more of them with strength to destroy the orcs that turned on him.   Ability score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by +2, and your Intelligence score decreases by -2.   Aggressive. As a bonus action, you can move up to your speed toward an enemy of your choice that you can see or hear. You must end this move closer to the enemy than you started.   Savage attacks. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.

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