[Tonatiuh]

Yeah, I do detect some ethnic tendencies like that. Of course the Irish are Elves too.

[CanRay]

Yeah, I do detect some ethnic tendencies like that. Of course the Irish are Elves too.

Not all elves.   

[Tonatiuh]

Haha yeah. I'm just waiting to see a Hacker Troll. Just for hilarity's sake.

[CanRay]

I'd make one.   

[Bull]

Haha yeah. I'm just waiting to see a Hacker Troll. Just for hilarity's sake.

There's been a handful over the years (Well, Troll Deckers, anyway).  There was one or two in the SR TCG as well. 

And hell, these days, there's nothing stopping a troll hacker, since attributes don't play into hacking at all.  *sigh*

That's one of the reasons I originally played an Ork Decker though.  It kinda played against stereotype.

[CanRay]

One of my characters I write is an Ork that sounds like a Barrens Trog, moves like a Barrens Trog, and seems like one of the people that the stereotype was written for.  It's actually difficult for me to write him as I have to slowly pronounce and spell his sentences phonetically.

He's also exceptionally well read.  Even more so than his highly educated norm chummer.

Based him off of a few folks I know from Ontario (And one fellow that was originally from New York.).

[grimjaws]

One concept that really caught me by surprise was the Maori mystic adepts (mainly trolls, who developed a martial art to take advantage of troll physiology) from Shadows of Asia. I assumed that the Maori would have a higher concentration of elves for some reason.

[Onion Man]

Haha yeah. I'm just waiting to see a Hacker Troll. Just for hilarity's sake.

I sort of made one... but he turned out to be my comically incompetent rigger, NML (soon to die or be retired and the inspiration for my informal checklist of things you better not forget about at character creation).

[theKernel]

I agree hacking should have a little bit of attribute stuff in it but I love playing anything as an ork.

[Mystic]

Ya know, is it me or have Orcs become the new "it" race? In various media, it used to be the elves that got all the lovin, now it seems that Orcs are getting a lot of attention. Take a look (often at your own peril) at the various (and Im using this term VERY loosely, but to each their own) artits and art sites and see how the orc is protrayed. Games like SR and WoW have had a BIG influence on this, IMHO.

Whereas the elves were the "pretty ideal", Orcs seem to become the counter culture to that as a more...rebel kind thing. A lot seem to be fed up with "pretty" and want more "bad-ass".

In short, it's good to be an orc nowadays.

[FastJack]

Orkploitation.

[Bull]

I was an Ork before Orks were cool.

Bull

[SirDelta]

Haha yeah. I'm just waiting to see a Hacker Troll. Just for hilarity's sake.

I made one when my friend's sister wanted to play.  She would accept no substitute.  Granted, everything she did made absoluteley no sense.  During combat in Food Fight 4.0, she grabbed a dozen cakes, hide in the bathroom, and hack the system to do things that were detrimental to us.

It wasn't pretty.

[theKernel]

I was an Ork before Orks were cool.

Bull

Bull, do you play an ork hipster? 

Also I prefer to write ork instead of orc. And I don't do it cuz I think they're badasses I just always loves the whole "goblin" kinda look. But Trolls are boring to me. But D and D Trolls are bad ass and you DO NOT wanna fight em without some source of fire or acid. Imagine a giant troll (I know they already are big but make em like 10 foot big) then think of how starfish regenerate and speed that up. You cut off the arm and it grows back and the severed arm grows a troll lol. But I digress ORKS ALL THE WAY.

[Onion Man]

@Bull: Orks have always been cool.

@Mystic: It's about time that fantasy artists got off of elves.  DeviantArt and the other social art sites are really just following in the footsteps of some of the greats (I'm thinking Vallejo).  Who wants to look at a frail, fragile little elfling when ork is an option?