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Peak D&D 6e (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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A picture of a skinny female orc with the side of her head shaved. She wears an armless red dress and a black shawl, as well as matching red bracelets and a black choker with a gold heart at the front.

At the top of the image is the text "You may not like it, but this is what" in large bubble font

At the bottom of the image is a screenshot from the new D&D changelog, reading "• Orcs no longer have the Powerful Build feature."

And below that, the text "Peak 2024 D&D orc performance looks like" continues the bubble font from the top.

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[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world 88 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I wish the DnD/roleplaying community wasn't as hopelessly horny as it is.

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This community is a bit like a teenager: moody, a bit horny, is better with animals.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I resent that remark!

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

*resemble

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 11 points 3 months ago

Better add resentful to the list as well

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Tbh I agree that "horny bard fuck dragon" memes are tiring. But I actually didn't read this meme as horny. I thought it was just "hey, you expect your orc to be buff and muscly, but NO! She lithe and slim!" Basically just poking fun at WotC for removing a feature called "powerful build".

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

... she?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 3 months ago

That's a femboy, friend

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 14 points 3 months ago

DM: ... and of course Druids can learn Wild Shape, which allows them to transform into a beast that...

Player: STOP. I want to play that one. A druin or whatever.

[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

I wish everything was more horny.

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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A picture of a skinny female orc ...

If I'd seen the pic without text, I'd have assumed it's a femboy orc. Which I'd also find funnier since the morphology of female orcs already varies a lot depending on the artist's tastes and intentions whereas male orcs are more consistently depicted with a strong build.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My money is on femboy orc as well. Unless she's wearing a super tight binder or something, that looks like visible pecs rather than cleavage.

[–] asqapro@reddthat.com 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Good guess. That appears to be a character by Dross named Onyx, who is male.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/onyx-dross-oc-78426448 (locked behind Patreon)

https://civitai.com/models/309542/onyx-dross-character (AI link unfortunately, but shows the original image and names the character)

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's definitely AI copying Dross

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

Tags include "1 male" and "orc femboy"

Myth confirmed

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

....... there boutta be an explosion in the population of half-orcs.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Has anyone seen the bard?

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

[the bard IS the orc and he's getting rizzed by the whole tavern]

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

He'll be in momentarily, hey hey.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

…well, no: sixth-edition core rules no longer support half-races, something-something-against-racism?..

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The solution to racism is not to let them breed together? 😕

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We will cure racism through genetic purity!

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

...to be explicitly clear: i believe that we're all sarcastically mocking WotC's editorial choice to eliminate half-breeds from the core rules in order to combat real-world racism...

(i wouldn't be surprised to see mixed races included as an advanced option in the new dungeon master's guide, though)

[–] gaael@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Iirc it's more of a lexical change: until now, half-something automatically assumed the other half was human, making the human race central in the setting. To allow for more liberty, most (all?) humanoid species will become interbreedable and you can choose the traits from one ancestry or the other.

[–] SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That was how it worked in the playtest. The sidebar saying "pick a race you really are and pretend to be half the other race" is gone from the 2024 PHB. Rules as written, you can only be fully one race, this of course doesn't actually matter as the whole thing is imaginary bullshit but in organised play it'll sometimes come up.

[–] gaael@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I stand corrected, I didn't know they changed it that way. Thanks for the update :)

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

Inconvenience by snu-snu.

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So, they’re like a different green version of an elf now?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More like a taller version of a goblin

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[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've always been joking about playing an "orc poet" in Shadowrun as a way to do something totally sub optimal :) TIL that you can also play orc in D&D. And cute orcs can definitely change the world building

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Playing smart or charismatic orcs is totally fine in Shadowrun, it's not that suboptimal. You have to spend a bit more karma at the start to overcome the lower starting charisma, but it's not bad at all.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the PHB for D&D 5th edition only had half-orcs as a playable race, but they added a full orc race with the 2016 Volo's Guide to Monsters. idk about the 5e remaster though because I haven't played or been interested in following the news of D&D since about mid 2022. I just found this meme on !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone and thought it belonged here!

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

God dammit I really need to finish and polish the mixed heritage homebrew doc I have. Sometimes I want to be a half-orc-half-gnome and the game should let me

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the new 2024 rules allow for this. All half races/species have been removed, and instead you get to mix and match any two you want.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 5 points 3 months ago

They allow for it, but mechanically you still just pick one. The one I knocked together and mean to refine gives every species for traits, so a three-quarter-drow quarter-dwarf person is actually (slightly) mechanically different to a half-drow half-dwarf one

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 3 months ago

Um, actually, this is not a "bubble font". The font used in this meme is called "Impact", and it's commonly bundled with MS Office. ☝️🤓

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The spoiler description says the orc is female but it's dross' Onyx, it's a male twink orc not a female

[–] boringbisexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So?

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was going to say "misgendering is bad" then I realised its a bisexual joke >.>

[–] boringbisexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Joking about my sexuality and self deprecating humor...it's all I got

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[–] exu@feditown.com 4 points 3 months ago

smash

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not a player nor a DM, so correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it basically photoshop human now? Grab a human, shift colors until skin is green...orc? :|

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yes it is. It’s like they wanted to do what PF2.0 did with Ancestries but also do a really shitty job of it. It’s fine though; 3.5e, 5e, PF1.0, and PF2.0 are all still out there for anyone who wants to run better systems that are still “DND.”

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'm actually a fan of the general change to races and background. It's more role play friendly because all the tables available to me are run like we're power gaming. Which of course makes us power game to stay alive. So now I can be whatever I want without worrying too much.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty hyped for DC20. I backed the Kickstarter... now I just need life to fuckin' chill long enough for me to pull a game together to test out the beta rules.

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that twink a Goblin, tho?

Also, I'm ok with this, helps diffirentiate them from Goliaths. And Orcs were never potrayed as Goliath-sized.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that twink a Goblin, tho?

...No, it's too easy...

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (17 children)

The fucks wrong with the hands? Is this ai generated?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, blatantly. The earrings don't make a ton of sense, the overgarment doesn't make any sense, and all the metallic bits are kinda gloopy.

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