NotEvilAtAll 9927 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2023 This is the second time the elves have threatened war with the orcs and the orcs have resolved things through diplomacy. Why are the Elves, who should be reluctant to die in battle due to the difficulties of raising another generation of warriors with their infertility curse, so eager to start a war? And why are orcs, who suffer from the curse of rage, able to solve things diplomatically instead of going berserk? Elves roleplay the Orcish curse better than the orcs do. Likewise, orcs roleplay the Elvish curse of infertility better than the elves do. You never hear of large orcish families, yet huge elven families occur quite often in LoTC history. Elves are the second most active race and live in huge cities with high populations whereas orcs are confined to a single nation and have the lowest numbers out of the main 4 races. Thus, orcs roleplay the infertility curse better than the elves do. It’d make more roleplay sense if orcs were actually the infertile ones. My modest proposal is to switch the curses around. Give elves rage, make orcs infertile. Thus, elves can have all the giant families they’ve ever wanted without fear of the ST and orcs don’t have to worry about not being “true” orcs if they aren’t actively murderhobo’ing. This suggestion is only 50% a meme. Other options include banning everyone in West Hub for FailRP and making elves a CA race. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIGH_FIRE 4118 Share Posted February 8, 2023 While this seems like a shitpost I don’t disagree, it just seems like they’re itching for war irply and oocly 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jihnyny 2571 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Elves not rping their curse properly makes my tusks hurt 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBlitzkrieg 1357 Share Posted February 8, 2023 They are eager to knock orcs down a peg or two due to being old enemies or whatever. That is why they use whatever little casus belli they can get, but maybe it just has to do with Celia being mainly led by ferrymen who are pvp oriented. In other words? It's the leadership of each nation and not much else. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearth 873 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Honestly, the swap fits the current reality of the server dead on 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laeonathan 3950 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Let's just forget that humans had an uncountable amount of wars and war-threats inbetween the two the elves had and the last actual elven war... just look at the 5 others, anyone still even remember all these threats? 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizzar 481 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Wagh 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBlitzkrieg 1357 Share Posted February 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, Laeonathan said: Let's just forget that humans had an uncountable amount of wars and war-threats inbetween the two the elves had and the last actual elven war... Humans live very short lives compared to the rest of the races. Just like we irl, we are driven to do something grand and spectacular to ensure their name lives on by leaving their hand/footprint on the world. In noble's and royalty's case, it usually means owning large quantities of land which is tied to prestige and being greater or whatever which is why they have so many wars. They want to be known as conquerors, rulers of grand empires, and liberators. This obviously leads to more wars. As for your regular human mf? Probably raise a family and follow their life purpose idk. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnusualBrit 2053 Share Posted February 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Laeonathan said: Let's just forget that humans had an uncountable amount of wars and war-threats inbetween the two the elves had and the last actual elven war... just look at the 5 others, anyone still even remember all these threats? Yeah, I do. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonke 1873 Share Posted February 8, 2023 2 hours ago, Jihnyny said: Elves not rping their curse properly makes my tusks hurt Orcs roleplaying their curse in a way to ignore pain in combat rp makes my brain hurt 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borin 5256 Share Posted February 8, 2023 38 minutes ago, lemonke said: Orcs roleplaying their curse in a way to ignore pain in combat rp makes my brain hurt Loads of people RP ignoring pain from adrenaline and simply bc they're feeling a little bit angry and upset at the bloke(s) trying to stab them, I could see orcs having it when they're rlly being grumpy. And tbf, racial buffs for orcs in pvp did used to exist, I have so heard... makes some sense? ig? 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonke 1873 Share Posted February 8, 2023 5 minutes ago, Borin said: Loads of people RP ignoring pain from adrenaline and simply bc they're feeling a little bit angry and upset at the bloke(s) trying to stab them, I could see orcs having it when they're rlly being grumpy. And tbf, racial buffs for orcs in pvp did used to exist, I have so heard... makes some sense? ig? The problem is when the curse itself is mentioned to ignore pain and push forward. Yes, the adreline factor is powergamy too but even there it doesn't excuse them, especially their lore doesn't state they are immune to pain. Being immune to pain doesn't protect you from a stab or a shattered limb. Using the excuse of your curse is powergaming and lorebreaking. Whether it's adrenaline or not, it is bad. I'm not saying the elves are less cringe or the perfect race(since they have lot of problems too) but I have noticed an annoying amount of pride on the orcs side as if it is only one side's fault. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Privet 1840 Share Posted February 8, 2023 call it the elven curse of malding and it'll be perfect 👍 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Psit 274 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I think it's an interesting change, something that will definitely be unique to lotc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valannor 6345 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Waaaagh, Mr Bond. Waaaagh. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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