Dungeons and Dragons: Scro

Dungeons & Dragons version of Space Orcs, with an interesting twist.
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[@AnonymousAlcoholic772]

Every scro becomes a formidable warrior after enduring years and years of ridicule for the name of their race, as well as their most common male name being "Sue."

[@markcraig4036]

How do u do. My name is Sue. OUCH! LOL

[@DCdabest]

A Scro named Sue

[@johndavidson2365]

Well, if ya want your kid to grow up tough, ya name him Sue

[@citizen_grub4171]

Mary Scro?

[@leviroch]

Fuck me I love that song. . . Also, I have this visual in my head of their warcry/chant being a really bassy "TUUM!". . . So I just envision them in a warband, stamping the base of their spears in unison, chanting their name followed by warcry in beat of the 'viking-clap-esque' rhythm. . . "Scro-TUM! Scro-TUM! Scro-TUM!"

[@BrendanKOD]

When he says anime, a lot of the unhuman war stuff is literally drawn from anime, like the Bionoids which are very closely modeled after The Guyver. It's interesting that in the novelisation it revealed that after creating them, the elves didn't treat the suvivors that well because they had made them as weapons and didn't like being reminded that they were still people under the transforming chitinous armor

[@elwoodbrown7005]

You could insert 'hobgoblin" for scro when talking about their culture.

[@AKNeal81]

What a great juxtaposition to be hearing about the atrocities these elves were performing only to then hear one was named Leafblower 😅 Taserface flashbacks!

[@TheodoreMinick]

Yes please, more info on the war machines and biological horrors of the Unhuman Wars.

[@kylestark1800]

Hooray! I requested this!

[@matthewbennett1972]

I think the name says it all SKRO,orks backward because they are far from your standard ork

[@biglord02]

Definitely want to hear more

[@mrhugh.]

Are there any Snamuh, sevle, sevrawd, Snilbog, Sergo or maybe Snogard living in some far off Crystal Sphere with weird phonetic structures?🤔😁

[@KS-PNW]

Snilbogs were a thing in Spelljammer for sure

[@shadowlight8354]

Kythons soon please :) thought you had a video on them but I can't seem to find it, so if not, I would love to see what you can find on them!

[@zmishiymishi5349]

why do orcs and goblinoids tend to invert their names when thry feel superior..? will they change it back when they become even better?

[@AJPickett]

Scrork!

[@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085]

when they become better they will make it a palindrome. Where they go from there is an absurd proposition to even consider

[@almitrahopkins1873]

It’s a lack of knowledge of world mythology by the game designers. Two of my neutral and advanced goblinoids: The Coblynau (from Welsh) are miners, they’re re the best miners. They can fit into holes that gnomes would fear and come back out again with gems or ore. They aren’t cowardly, they’re shy. They avoid other races at all cost. When coblynau villages are discovered, miners will leave tools and food in the tunnels and when they come back, there will be piles of ore or gems where the food was. The Metsan Vaki (people of the forest, Finnish) are forest goblins. Ancient allies of the wild, wood, green or sylvan elves. They are wild and ferocious hunters, living quietly and far from the eyes of others. Their skin is usually green, mottled with brown freckles, their eyes are almost universally a deep emerald green and they have hair, thick and luxurious. They breed much slower, taking nearly two full decades to achieve adulthood, but from thousands of years of friendly relations with the remaining sylvan elves, the average metsan vaki can live for multiple centuries. They ally themselves to the treant, unicorn, the sylvan elves and most fey, quite easily.

[@kephalai]

tum

[@boonkietime4239]

Alot of people think this is from 40k, but it's not. Space Orcs with horned helmets, guns, and hooligan behavior comes from Ralph Bakshis animated movies from the 1970s, Wizards, and Fire & Ice.

[@pandoraeeris7860]

Scro is just orcs backwards.

[@Sinfilled66]

This is the peak of orc intelligence lol

[@nicolaezenoaga9756]

How are ogres capebal of space travel if they are dumber of wolfs? And yes we want a video on the abominations made during the war.

[@yungo1rst]

Sounds like varied goblinoids among them. Hobgoblins would be the most disciplined to take up engineering.

[@nicolaezenoaga9756]

@@yungo1rst I could take that as an explanation.

[@lydiaives733]

There is a Tale, a Tale of a Scro that had set himself apart from his brethren in the art of war. His name was Tum. Depicted as a godike warrior whose only weakness were his testies were its said his power was held. The other nonhumans gave him the name Scro-tum, no body knows the more private parts of his story. All we are left with are cumulative epics.

[@joefixxit]

He needs to be in my mercenary company from 3.5 Epic Inc. No job to Big or small we do it all. One of the co-founders was a deep orc with the nickname Bhaal.. Ace hollis , bhaal, scro-tum and whebblyskags (a deep gnome with self image issues)

[@Overlord99762]

Other races: Wow, the elves went hyperviolent so long ago Elves: *sings My dad was a war criminal*

[@AJPickett]

LOL :)

[@Christopher_Pug]

My friend calls his friends "scro" as a mash-up of "bro" and...well...you know... I cannot wait to blow the party's minds when they are confronted by the Scro for the first time in my game.

[@KS-PNW]

Huh... Sc..?

[@Christopher_Pug]

@@KS-PNW it's bro and...ehem...scrotum

[@Babbleplay]

Scro are to orcs as Hobgoblins are to regular Goblins. Bigger, stronger, and way, way more trained and formidable.

[@nicolaezenoaga9756]

Is the general populace of the realms aware of the people from Spelljamer? For example are the elves from Toril even aware of the Spelljamer elves from realm space?

[@foodie135]

I’m pretty sure elves of Toril have a few spelljamer ships

[@nicolaezenoaga9756]

@@foodie135 But are they related in any way outside of ,,they're all elves'' and do they trade or have any political alliance? That's what I want to know

[@KS-PNW]

Kind of and yes. Your average person on Toril is not aware of Spelljammers but there are people in pretty much every major society who ARE aware of the larger Spelljammer universe. For elves specifically the knowledge is more widely spread than in the general population. The court of Evermeet has official representatives in the eleven armada, as do many other elven nations on different worlds.

[@nicolaezenoaga9756]

@@KS-PNW Thank you.

[@foodie135]

@@nicolaezenoaga9756 yea I’m pretty sure they know and trade with the elven armada I don’t know about other world tho

[@DracosDiabolis]

Wonder what the elven mechs were called. Or do they fall under the umbrella of "the Witchlight Marauders"

[@AJPickett]

we shall soon know all about them

[@DracosDiabolis]

@@AJPickett I wonder if you can hear my sqee of excitement all the way in N.Z.

[@doceidoe2291]

Does anyone else feel dumb that it took them until the end of the video to realize that Scro is just an anagram for Orcs?

[@fjLKA]

"Anagram" doesn't have an O in it.

[@doceidoe2291]

@@fjLKA LMAO! I only ever heard the word and never saw how it was spelled. I will fix. Thanks.

[@Redsoul291]

Mutant horrors and war machines olease

[@nickh3205]

The elvish bio-Mech suits and other stuff from that war you talked about would make a great video

[@bbbb-em6jn]

Oh my god ... Scro is just orcs backward ... I feel so stupid

[@Reoh0z]

Elves, "EXTERMINATUS!"

[@ernestlam5632]

10 minutes and 15 seconds until I realized that Scro was orcs spelled backwards

[@christophermills7693]

even more the rumors of the one calling himself Tum.... course the rumors of this one are on par with Neeber and Noober

[@bellat.1377]

"Shorter the name, the powerful the being. " - Io, probably

[@Reoh0z]

> "...Would like to hear about War Machines & Mutant Horrors" Yes please!

[@seekthevisceral]

Greetings, A.J.! I discovered your channel a few months ago, and your videos have opened up the world of D&D for me. I'm learning so much, and every video is fascinating. Currently, I don't have any disposable income, so it might be a while before I can donate to your Patreon, but rest assured, that future is getting closer every day. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Have a good day, and please stay safe out there. :)

[@AJPickett]

Awesome, thank you!

[@AngelusAnsell]

Got home from my overnight job not long ago, and I see an AJ video. Good morning indeed. EDIT: For the record, your assumption is correct, for me at least. More abominations is always welcome. >:D

[@quincykunz3481]

The Halfling-Precursor Hypothesis: By Icari Rell, Hedge-wizard. Position: Halflings (or some earlier form thereof,) are the ancient precursor race (who’s likely origins are interplanar invaders from the far realm,) which either developed into, or provided a template for, virtually all other humanoid life in the prime-material plane. Evidence: 1-No god takes credit for the creation of halflings, (Or humans for that matter,) and no-one knows where they originated from, only scant references in halfling oral tradition remain of reference to “The bad old days” before they received the sponsorship of the goddess Tymora. 2a-Halflings serve as a notable middle-point for humanoid morphology. In simple terms, virtually all humanoid forms are at most, two leaps from halflings. humans are halflings plus height, and likely one of the first offshoot branches. Dwarves are halflings plus a denser muscular structure, Goblins are nocturnal halflings that have adjusted to a more ambush-centered survival strategy, as opposed to a community-centered one. Gnomes are halflings plus caffeine... Etc., etc. 2b-This theory of central offshoots from a base morphology hold true to humans as well, and whether or not the individual humanoid races evolved naturally or were created by a god, this theory posits that halflings or their human offshoots were used as a starting point that divinity or nature modified after the fact. 3- Halfling genetics are remarkably adaptable, with stout, hairfoot, lightfoot, furchin, tallfellows, and strongheart subraces providing convenient midpoints along the evolutionary chain between halflings and other races. Ghostwise halflings are likely the closest to the ancient precursor halflings from the far realm, due to their more barbaric society and psionic abilities. 4- All halflings possess an extremely alien and unnatural residual trait, further hinting at their far-plane origin: A near-immunity to fear. This feature does not make sense in the slightest as a natural adaptation for a race of such small stature, as they are considered ideal prey by all manner of vicious creatures. In a martial communal society, (Hobgoblins, for example,) this could be explained as an outgrowth of the impulse to sacrifice oneself for the survival of the community, but halflings are deeply integrated, interpersonal, largely peaceful,^ and mostly agrarian, all of which would discourage this trait if their biology conformed to the rules and standards of this dimension. 5- Far realm incursions have been well documented to produce creatures with predispositions towards psionic abilities, (again, ghostwise halflings!) Incomprehensible psychology, manipulative appendages, and mutable physiology, all of which are present in halflings. Perhaps the “Bad old days” are a misconstrued reference to their time before this world, or their transition from the far realm to this one, as such a transition has been noted to be incomprehensibly unpleasant in the cases of other aberrant creatures. ^Perhaps that is another way in which halflings are unnatural, that is to say, their cheerful communal outlook on a world that very much tries to kill them. Some aberrations are unnaturally cruel, or curious, or egotistical. Perhaps halflings are unnaturally... wholesome? _What follows after this point in the essay are pages of writing that become increasingly technical and filled with citations of often extremely obscure texts and theories about the nature of interplanar existence. One mildly amusing section tangents into the peculiar proliferation of creatures that look like frogs throughout the multiverse, namely grung, grippli, bullywugs, nergaliid, hezrou, froghemoths, slaadi, hydroloth, and batrachi. As the author rambles about the possibility that this could be evidence of the batrachi becoming an interplanar species after their disappearance from history, your eyes have glazed beyond the point of productive reading._

[@heathharris2545]

Great video! More world destroying anime creatures please.

[@garvinanders2355]

I'm always down for ancient war machines and mutant horrors.

[@TheCydog1]

Been years but lets see if i remember : Scrow (orcs spelled backwards, to show they are so far far removed to be almost a different species) do not worship Grumsh. Ducash felt it was Grumsh lack of helping his people that played a critical role in the orc defeat. If Grumsh did not help the orcs the scrow would not worship him. They despise him to a good extent

[@AJPickett]

That would be unwise for any Sage to put into print.

[@temmy9]

Man I loved Spelljammer. Elvish guyvers, hippo-man mercs, neogi pirates, crazy insectoid mad doctors. And witchlight marauders need to make a comeback. They made a great basis for an Elder Evil type monster.

[@dracorex426]

Nah, they sound far too religious to be Klingon-analogs. The Klingons killed their gods.

[@MoonMoverGaming]

Klingons are very religious, their religion just works differently than human religions typically do - their devotion to the teachings of Kahless is definitely religious in nature.

[@thaen9346]

Definitely. They just don't like gods

[@genobreaker1054]

I would love videos on all these other Super Monsters created by The Elves and the Orcs! Especially the Witchlight Marauders!

[@rayanderson5797]

Hey remember when the DnD multiverse became Warhammer 40k for a bit? Yeah... That was wild.

[@AJPickett]

Robotech with orcs.

[@jacobwilson8579]

Love you spelljammer vids as always. An entire species with Spelljammers and a serious hatred of elves so what your saying is prime candidates for being masters at making Elven-Slayer weapons. Add in the fact ramming someone counts as a melee weapon for smite and you got Space Orcs Paladins smiting with Slayer space ships. Fellow dms I pass that idea to you.

[@Brutalyte616]

...Okay, so how in the hell did calling themselves 'Scro' ever catch on? How did they not just get laughed out of the multiverse for that?

[@AJPickett]

By shooting people in the face until they stopped laughing.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

Follow-up question how in the hell did their creator(s) calling them that catch on?

[@pathwaystoadventure]

@@AJPickett "Our shamans have developed advanced magical weapons, specialized war totems. We are calling them Scro-Tems." ***someone laughs*** ***gunshots ring out*** "Did I stutter?"

[@GeneWarren]

@@AJPickett If it works, it works

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Can be of any alignment and have a tendancy to murder elves are an interesting combination...

[@AJPickett]

You don't know elves like I do.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

@@AJPickett Guilt free pest control... 😄 Came to think of the golem Shale in Dragon Age and her (yes) attitude toward pigeons...

[@AnonymousAlcoholic772]

The famous scro Warrior had achieved many things in his life, slain many dragons, Even conquered kingdoms. Yet he was not happy.. Yes for some unknown reason, the great scro warrior Tum was a very sad man.

[@derekjoyce6152]

Not going to lie... this Astral war sounds a little like Star Wars with the Astral Elves being the Empire. Also, I do indeed want to hear more about the war and the mutants.

[@CDblade]

i more interested in Spirit warriors. I have an idea for a spelljammer space mecha campaign.

[@masonabbey6353]

These are also one of my favorite spelljammer races - everything scary about humans and hobgoblins wrapped in an 400lbs muscled bound and armored package

[@That80sGuy1972]

I love the Scro, but not for classic reasons. I was an avid reader when I was a young AD&D player who was usually the DM. I saw the Middle Earth connections to AD&D's world and ran with than in my world-building when the original source was absent. As a teen, I created the High Orc, the precursor to just about all goblionoids as well as the superior Orcs. They were the first (or first few) generation(s) of corrupted Elves who became the anti-Elves before the Drow actually failed at being anti-Elves by being the evil Elves. The reason the could breed with anything except Elves is closely linked with them being anti-Elves, becoming the opposite of their blood origin, is because they became the antithesis to being Elf. They had positive aspects compared to Elves (such as not at all being racist except against elves) while being essentially the fantasy world version of being (selectively non-racist) Nazis. Much of their weapons, crafts, etc are technically strongly Elf in technology and quality in all ways save for magic but they are designed in cruel and functional manners. An Elf sword is a work of art that usually glows with a bit of magic. A High-Orc sword is just as good, very similar under a microscope, but is designed to deliver as much pain and as much damage as possible. It's the same weapon, but uglier.... or "the same level of ugly" to a Dwarf weapon smith. When my friend introduced me to Spelljammer and later Scro, I fell in love with this race because I saw Scro as the rebirth of the OG bloodline of High Orc. I had my own canon and Loom of Magus universe that we both did a lot of mental gymnastics to adopt back then to work together. I began my space travel (Prime Material Plane) thing with the Barrier Peaks module as the inspiration, along with the books I read. To be honest, I hated Spelljammer at first for exactly that.

[@khingzluv]

i def wanna know more about the ancient horrors and war machines

[@arriasinsanite4886]

those machine of ancient war seems interesting wonder if there is still some around in current spelljammer

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

I just realized hours later that scro is literally just orcs backwards...

[@wikipediaintellectual7088]

If you want to play a smart tall orc/goblinoid, why not just play a hobgoblin or gith?

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

So, the Elves is actually the Empire???

[@KS-PNW]

Yeah they wanted to turn the typical good vs evil dynamic on it's head

[@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085]

@@KS-PNW Not quite. DnD have gods, so good vs evil isn't nearly as subjective as it is in reality.

[@MoonMoverGaming]

@@KS-PNW Well I don't know about that. The Scro and their allies are also evil. It's evil versus evil.

[@BrendanKOD]

Well it's kind of more like every elf nation with spelljammer access is a member of Elf NATO with a unified command that all the ships will take orders from. Basically the space elves don't try to rule over planets, just the space between them.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

@@BrendanKOD So, I've been deployed several times on NATO missions, and although I've never been part of the Command, I'm pretty sure we never destroyed or planned to destroy entire planets! Except for the time, no, wait, It never came up!

[@ianyoder2537]

So it's cannon that scro hate manlets.

[@whooll]

So this is spelljammer? Cool.

[@zacharyweaver276]

Yes I want to hear about ancient war machines and mutants used in the inhuman wars

[@hellgeist_]

"Don't worry scro. There's plenty of tards living really kickass lives." -Dr Lexus

[@AJPickett]

What a great movie!

[@iancowan3527]

Your back story build up... Information I never heard of and was a "wow" - thank you... And damn, very well written script...

[@andrewbenner6349]

How dare a entire race be held responsible for atrocities committed in the past hundreds of years later!

[@hankdetroit2076]

Andrew you are the man

[@raymondharnack4160]

That would be ridiculous if people actually did that IRL………🥲

[@GeneWarren]

@@raymondharnack4160 Too bad that's not what's actually happening IRL

[@raymondharnack4160]

@@GeneWarren so you disagree with reparations? Me too.

[@davidhall9194]

I’m very eager to hear about the mutant creatures made during their curfuffle

[@davidhernando353]

This article has brought back memories of the Spelljammer novels. That series was an absolute trainwreck, but one that I found a lot of fun (with each book being totally unpredictable). It is the series that I have read where the most noticeable is the change from one author to another in each novel.

[@lorenburnham821]

I haven't read hunter trilogy in years and I can still remember exactly how the fight between drizzt and obould went

[@burningbronze7555]

Bring on the mutant horrors.

[@lanterns_glow]

Sounds like Custodes to me.

[@tatsusama3192]

With that last picture I'm just imagining an Orc biker gang with Grug's Angels on the back of their armor😂

[@AfroChef]

Sounds like these boyz know how to Wagh!

[@milo8425]

Astral orogs basically?

[@zacharyweaver276]

I'd love to hear more about kobold, orc, goblin, and ogre spelljammer ships

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Kobolds, Goblins, maybe even orcs, i just can’t imagine ogres building a spell jammer.

[@zacharyweaver276]

@@mikewaterfield3599 eh ogres can be pretty smart. If anything they probably enslave others to build one and then power it with a shaman or even an ogre mage

[@mikewaterfield3599]

@@zacharyweaver276 you have a point there, plus well 40k orcs literally use asteroids as ships….

[@zacharyweaver276]

@@mikewaterfield3599 Yeah plus spelljammer versions of races/creatures are way different from their planet based cousins. Like Lizardfolk in spelljammer are more intelligent and I think they have their own major faction.

[@masonray9881]

Yes! More! all of the anime!

[@ExcaliburForge]

Your party sets out to battle the great Scro shaman, Tum.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

Try and guess what movie I got an add for when I clicked on this video……. 😁 I’m hyped!

[@AJPickett]

Yeah it looks good!

[@timothyyoung691]

yes ancient war machines

[@coreycoffell6219]

Lore caster, is there a... Culture called dragon scales?

[@AJPickett]

I have a video on them, they are called Spellscales

[@gekolvr0734]

-tum If you expect anything other than immature giggles down here you're not going to find it

[@moonringXD]

Hey when the new spelljammer book comes out do think you well do a video covering all the lore changes in the book?

[@AJPickett]

Sure

[@virtualcircle285]

More about the ancient weapons!

[@Diditallforthexp]

We could build a whole adventuring party based on these guys. A Scro team. They could roll around the land in warmer climates or tighten up formation when they must brave the cold. I'd love to see a Scro team hanging out at the tavern for all to see. I bet that would raise some eyebrows!

[@jasonulysess3652]

Let's hear about the Hobgoblin version of Captain America!

[@cosmicquestion9184]

Would that have been the results if Norman Osborn's super soldier formula had been successful?

[@benjaminweaver5364]

I have a suggestion: How about a lore video about the "real world" and its place in D & D canon. I remember all those "Wizard's Three" articles from Dragon magazine that took place on Earth. There are a few other references too. I seem to remember a module where you stole the Mace of St. Cuthbert from the British Museum.

[@SecondRook]

My favorite DnD race there! Awesome video.

[@PattPlays]

5:00 why does this make me think of that "elf eater" lovecraftian tripod turtle monster

[@Fyre19]

Ever gonna cover the blood War?

[@AJPickett]

I have a lot of videos about the nine hell's, abyss, hags, yugoloths and slaadi

[@krispalermo8133]

Leather armor is an overused fantasy troop. There are plenty of videos on youtube where they weave multi cloth layers for gambesons padded armor that once treated with render down cow milk for glue can stop arrow fire at a decent range. Depending on all the .. fluff .. you hear and seen over the years, proper made gambeson or even multi layer pig skin leather breast plate was good at stopping 90lb bow drawn arrow fire from 50ft range. More or less stating that unless you fire an arrow up into the air and have gravity do your work with little direct aiming. You had to get within 30ft or so with any hope of armor penetration. That being said. I still work with 3.5e rules of multi classing and maxing up skill ranks form PC backgrounds and other social game play encounter. In other videos in the comment section I went through and argue CR for vermin catching to level up PC just by hunting and gathering. Then you have social .. role .. playing in court setting to level up your social skills. Try convincing a group of orc leaders through Intimidation, Bluff, and Diplomacy along with using Preform (stage acting) with Profession ( actor ) to back up your Profession( militia member/soldier which covers small group tactics and the ability to follow orders.) You can kill five orc warband leader and get Xp for that, or you can make a bunch of multiple skill check rolls to convince them to follow you into battle. Mini maxing multi class N/PC, starting with rogue at first level for the most skill points to build up Craft skills and Social skill. Goal to reach in PC development, .. Rogue2/fighter2/ranger1 " feat Tracking"/then npc class Expert2 for 12 bonus skill points. CR: 6 or 8 or how you like it. Orc tough enough to get by on their own passing into adult hood for hunting and maintain their own sewing and leather gear. As for skills, rogue2 grants 5ranks in social skills of bluff, diplomacy " orc style," intimidation, and sense motive. Total: 16pts at 1st-level and 4pts at second level. Then you have profession( soldier) with the same points. There goes your first 24 points with only 3pts at 2nd-level to level up one of your craft or rogue skills by a single rank. Two levels in fighter gives two feats for combat, and due to the limited skill points, you still can assign those points for an extra 3ranks or 4ranks in Intimidation or go with Profession(soldier/tactics.) Then you have the npc class Expert giving the n/pc a +3Will save bonus along with an additional two skills a bonus of 5ranks in social or knowledge skills. 2.) Basic write up, having an 8th-level multiclass N/PC with the Leadership feat, CR:8 in single combat with BAB:+5 or CR:12 or higher controlling a warband. Skills, Profession(soldier): +10 ranks with modifiers, Bluff 5ranks, Intimidation 10ranks (+12) with +2modifier from 5ranks in Bluff. With lucky rolls will socially get a more melee dangerous fighter to follow them. Beside the Star Wars rpg had other skill listing for Imperial officers such as profession( administer) with around 8 to 10ranks to manager star sectors of the fleet. Skills for orcs such as Bluff and preform(acting ) helps them make the correct body language pose to put on a display of strength during Diplomacy exchanges. b.) As for orc females, just start them off as 1st-level rogues due to all the social politicking and backstabbing women can be known for in high school, let alone in the workplace. Most end all results for social pecking order turns into a punching/wrestling contest. So place an adult female that has a few children as a rogue3/fighter2, CR:5 threat. Feats are Improved Initiative and Unarmed Combat along with Point Blank Shot/Throw. If you fail your Bluff check against them, you go to block a high punch and only end up getting kicked in your knee or ankle stomped for an extra 2d6 dmg. Women craft skills such as Weaving and Craft(rope) is used to created gambeson tough armor for winter wear and war supplies. Along with beer brewing. Look at a Viking era fishing village, how much goat/sheep hair was needed to create a boat sail ? .. A lot ?! c.) Over the years D&D started with and went from, Canan the Barbarian, Lord of the Rings, AD&D where players gate keep and whined that orcs/hobgoblins can't have PC levels, and now high fantasy of Harry Potter. This is Medieval .. European .. fantasy, you don't get to PC a character with Sunglasses or any type of Eye Wear ! Unless all lizardmen are part dragon, lizards/reptiles do not run around in snow cover mountains fighting dwarves or giants. d.) Other than the lack of skill points the npc Expert has, or hack/slash dungeon crawls having orcs as 1st-level npc warrior. Start them off as 1st-level rogues with profession/craft skills of lumber jack, carpenters, shipwrights and farmers just to feed themselves and create their own war supplies. My pass gaming shop did use 3e system rules to figure out the number of yearlong Survival checks you need at what rank levels to feed yourself, and your young family members before and during winter. Running a stone age hunter gather nomadic family low magic game is not for everyone. Now being that 6th-level npc Adept creating a +2 stone spear along with a few other items and have those items turn up a few thousand years later in your current campaign is still a cool campaign plot effect. Had a game where a half ogre that ash painted himself and fought with a harden oak staff wrapped in raw hide and set a light with render fat into a " flaming sword," being killed by a pony ridding goat/sheep herder who lost an eye in combat created the myth of Odin/Wotan. Sorry for the rant, hope you are enjoying your weekend.

[@unintentionallydramatic]

Your table sounds like an emotionally abusive marriage.

[@krispalermo8133]

@@unintentionallydramatic Nah, far from it. My first gaming shop during the late 1990's playing AD&D were pretty bad but most of the players were cool, we a had a few dozen players. Yeah some of the thirty year olds were total d1cks. Then you had the Whitewolf/World of Darkness(WoD): Vampire the Masquerade larpers were total posers. Overall, the shop owner, DMs and players were very freewheeling. We were playing AD&D mind flayer illithids as 14th-level wizards. And the AD&D shop DM back in 1998 allow my PC to bribe a Drow patrol with maple candy, lemon honey cough drops , and sour lemon head candies. Main reason because I had a book covering the history of the late 1800's mafia war in Sicily to control the lemon/orange orchards. So, orange flavor taffy and brandy was very valuable up till the 1900's with steam power ocean shipping. Half the players came from bad backgrounds and were bully for being smarter/creative than average, or at least interested in reading books. Along with finding it Fun to do word math problems. We grew up in physical abusive childhoods so we were looking for a more structure life in game play where everyone agreed to avoid alcohol and establish rules to go by, and to bend and break when needed. Without a drunken parent punching you. We got into playing Stone Age settings due to the 1980's movie " Clan of the Cave Bear," along with a comic series called " Elf Quest." We did more than a few Elf Quest games. Both of my gaming shops over a ten year frame had a weight bench, along with six 50lb truck tires, and house rule, " If you can press and dead lift it, then it is your character's strength score." Most players prefer to Role play PCs with lower strength scores cause it was an added challenge. Like a football jock PCing a bad eyesight rogue with low dexterity. 2.) My second gaming shop I went to played mostly 3.5e, with very strong home brewing house rules, it was a fun mad house. One player interrupted the DM role playing a red dragon during a " bully " intimidation encounter and spoke as a red dragon with a Lisp and stuttering problem. He just stole the DM's moment. Well, the DM did lose her train of thought and strutted, and he just ran with it. We all were just in tears. Since that moment the DM had him run that given dragon during all encounters. Also if your PC was making unbelievable die rolls in the social skills of Bluff, Diplomacy, and Preform( dry humor, slap stick due to bad dexterity rolls.) She would just hand out levels in rogue/bard to reflect that given character interaction at the gaming table. Ironic enough even with being handed two to four class level above everyone else and gaining a +4/+6 to Reflex saves, the dice just hated that PC/player and still fails any important require dexterity rolls. Which just added to the comic moment. And if your PC is the most prone to falling down greased staircases, they need the extra hit points.

[@kbPhionex]

funny how Orc history is always, " The humanoid purge of goblinkind reached a fever pitch, then Orcs became too big and strong for the elves to pick on them and that's why Orc's are evil" and people get all offended when some people find dnd lore to be a little racist

[@dantedetoussaint209]

Wait so the scro kinda sounding like the korks, speaking of wh40k

[@terrainaholic]

I'm playing an arrogant elf in the against the giants campaign. Ya he'd fit right in with these genosides!!!!

[@AJPickett]

Sure would!

[@fjLKA]

Scro can be orange, black, or white, but GREEN IZ BEST!! WAAAAGH!!!!

[@MoonMoverGaming]

Scro tend to view groundling orcs as being backwards.

[@AJPickett]

That is the most polite way to put it.

[@IchimaruGin19877]

@@AJPickett Did you get the pun or not , I can't tell !!!

[@Kid_illithid]

Space orks? *clears throat* Ahem. WAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! The more you described them the more I imagined 40k orks.

[@Greenscyth22]

4:54 For some reason that's a bit terrifying, Elves making Mech suits and all. I don't care what the campaign setting is but I prefer my Elves living amongst trees and communing with Nature, not constructing hyper bypasses and ions cannon-wielding Gundams.

[@bayoubilly5176]

Don't worry I'm right there with you. My sci Fi is aliens my fantasy is "races" it's odd when they blend them. Can't stand that further Warhammer bs either. Let's mix high fantasy with hi-tech and zero plot(sorry Warhammer fans they are terrible books ...worse than star wars. Such bad writing all around...). Great old school version for tabletop medieval battles though.... They should have stuck to it. But I guess they've got a few on their side. 40k should be blowing everyone at Blizzard non stop for allowing them to succeed(any older gamers know exactly what I mean as Warhammer almost died...)

[@Michael-du2fv]

Not a fan of Dungeonhammer 20k?

[@spaceorochi]

I guess that in 5e you can basically play an orc (maybe from the eberron or wildemount books), give them elvish language through some background feature, high intelligence and the artificer class.

[@jamestucker2013]

Yes another good one Mr pickett

[@alonassoolin2968]

Scro is Orcs backwards😅

[@joshuabevins8244]

Scro is just orcs backwards....

[@blackgriffinxx]

Scro= high org

[@thedarkmaster4747]

17:17 *in low gothic 40k* "Yes indeed reverend brother pickett, death to thee alien." *levels flamethrower at huddling frightened eldar family and douses them and their strange behaviours religiously* 😤🔥🧝 Usually your videos are good, but in terms of trope weaving, that was like a bolt out of the blue. 🏹🟦🎯 You went places... Looking forward to watching the guns in d&d video and the other draconic stuff... But everything past 17:17 omg. It got DEEP with context. 🌉⬇🧠 Ever the case of "are we the bad guys?" If you don't ever ask it, you probably are. *came to watch a light video about self educated orcs, left realizing that aj pickett was on fire with takes*. 🛡⚔🔥

[@michaelmorford3932]

AJ is back! Finished moving? 👍🏻 Scro sound pretty awesome, a more intelligently warlike, lethal, bigger, badder, Orc.

[@DCdabest]

Sounds like my last game of Stellaris lol

[@michaelmorford3932]

Lol, I use D&D races in my games too.

[@thedarkmaster4747]

I'm pretty much the same lmao!

[@skulldraconos6121]

more lore about made monsters yes yes yes and great work looking forward to more

[@bloodhaze101]

Yes tell me about those Goblin based Gundams

[@blackmoonco]

Scro!