I don't. I don't love orcs. I know it is probably against protocol or something. The gaming community is going to send a nasty letter to my boss and demand I lose my job over this I am sure.
I just never found them interesting. Not when Tolkien wrote them. Not when they showed up in Dungeons & Dragons adventures. Not as a part of the Horde in World of Warcraft (I played a Tauren). Not even in that clever video game where you played a big one and a little one doing nasty deeds.
When I run games, I rarely, if ever, pull on the Orc tab. I'm very much an undead guy. It is probably the Eastern European cultural heritage in me.
I love me the romance and the horror of the living dead.
That said, it got me thinking, what would Orcs need to be like for me to want to draw on them in a game? Maybe if I answered that question, I could create some monsters for Torchbearer and B/X/BECMI Dungeons & Dragons (there has to be a shorter way for me to write that).
So, I am going to try and do just that...
Testament - Swepnos
Swepnos is the final thought before sleep comes. It is the last myth told before the fire. Like those that came before it, each page was block printed, hand painted, and handwritten. Those pages were then faithfully reproduced within.
