Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

With orcs being in fashion, I thought it might be nice to have a discussion about them. I was looking around for some tips, when I found this great blog which I thought was very insightful and refreshing. It's a way to look at the orc race, and perhaps it can be an inspiration to the Bloody Hand orcs we've roaming around.

So, see what you think of this?

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/bl ... ke-an-orc/

Very interesting, thank you.

Does it bug anyone else when someone plays an orc fighter with no intelligence and speaks perfect common?

Just wondering.

Stompguts15 wrote:Does it bug anyone else when someone plays an orc fighter with no intelligence and speaks perfect common?

Just wondering.

Yes. But what character are you talking about though? Did you get a look at their intelligence score?

Who is to say they don't have a high enough intelligence to speak in perfect common?

Stompguts15 wrote:Does it bug anyone else when someone plays an orc fighter with no intelligence and speaks perfect common?

Just wondering.

Dah Kogan happens to have 10 INT And yes I have RPed that he doesnt speak Common very well, mainly due to brain damage.

Kruc'lok Kogan, is the only other "Fighter" I know of and I beleave he has enough INT to use CE and ICE, so 13< he would more then likely speak common.

An animal has an Intelligence score of 1 or 2. A creature of humanlike intelligence has a score of at least 3.


Any creature that can think, learn, or remember has at least 1 point of Intelligence. A creature with no Intelligence score is mindless, an automaton operating on simple instincts or programmed instructions.

It is also often quoted for D&D that a INT score of 10–11 is Average for a Human (you know...the RL us's). And probably some of us DO talk like mentally stunted Orcs, in RL (well, maybe only Snarfy).