1/2 orc caracter creation

[Astro Nzo]

I find it strange that we can make a big and bulky elf, while a half-orc is limited to being skinny.

Apparently, I seem to be the only one bothered by this. I have nothing against a muscular elf (well, maybe a little...), but a half-orc being only scrawny is really disappointing.

Worse than that, I can't find any mod that fixes this.

[Thomas D.]

Look at how females can or do look in this game and you are just wondering about Orcs?

[Starwight/ttv]

That's literally just the character creation in general, not just with half orcs. They have the type 1 and 2 builds, one tends to be lankier, the other I wouldn't say is strong and bulky, more tall.

ANd yes, people have talked about this before. Look on Nexus Mods, there's body type mods out there, though to what extent it bulks up characters, I have no idea because it doesn't bother me enough to add to my already extensive mod list for it. Even if you did find one, because you'd be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with the body shape, unless the mod author also edited the vanilla clothing/armor, chances are it would have terrible clipping issues. Made worse if you also use mods that add custom armor/clothes.

And why do you take issue with muscular elves? Nothing in any of the descriptions in the source material for DnD says they can't be muscular. Elves have archers, mages, warriors, a wide variety of people just like humans do.

[Thomas D.]

D&D was initially a rip off of / based on Tolkien and elves as orcs were basically copied from it, they even got sued for it despite altering some stuff (elbs => elves).

So elves are basically what they are in Tolkiens saga and as far as I know they can be for sure warrior but usually they aren't bulky or black (even amazon thinks different...) or whatever some people want it to be.

Races in D&D (they aren't even called races anymore...) and in Tolkien were initially distinguishable and had very specific traits (which added flavour and even made some to like them in the first place whether they were elves, orcs, dwarves, halflings/hobbits or whatever). But modern audience just thinks and wants that with enough imagination and believe everyone can become anything (there are even people that are dead serious about men that can get pregnant) and the result is what you get in this game...

So an orc can cosplay an elf and vice versa...

[Mosey]

There's only one male and one female body type of half-orc's, and both of them are basically body builders. Not sure what OP means by 'skinny'.

[Hobocop]

Half-Orc fellas literally built like Arnie in his prime playing Conan but they're 'skinny' is certainly a take.