so last night we met up to play D&D but a few people couldn’t make it last minute and we didn’t want to go on ahead without them so we instead did a semi-canon filler episode and played ‘Never Have I Ever’ but as our characters sat round the campfire and it might be one of the best ideas we’ve ever had
The rules are the same as usual; your character can choose not to drink even if they should, or can lie/omit the truth, and others can call bullshit or ask someone to elaborate on their story. No dice need to be rolled, except maybe Con checks to see how drunk everyone is. It requires very little input from the DM (he actually layed as the NPC accompanying us) so it’s a low-effort session for everyone. It’s actually really good for getting into your character’s head as you’re forced to improv parts of their life you might not have thought about before, and also for fostering inter-party relationships, as we discovered some of our party members had a lot in common and earned some respect for each other. Also it was hilarious because we were also getting drunk in real life
If you want to try it, here’s some good questions that we had:
if you want to live to die in a different battle then you have to stay clean
This also suggests that orcs have some of the best healers and physicians in the world, and they will even make any resulting scars look badass as hell, free of charge.
yes!! I was actually gonna do a continuation of this post regarding that
Somewhat tangential brainstorm since this tag stood out to me:
#how are u supposed to fight if youre very dead
Necromancy, obviously, but there are at least two ways of looking at it:
1) Necromancy is great because you can keep fighting after you die, and thus would be encouraged among orcish society.
2) Necromancy is not good enough because you’re literally a brain-dead zombie, and where’s the fun in that?
A possible middle route would be reanimating shamed and disgraced orcs, since they never did anything worthwhile in life so maybe they can do something worthwhile in death and freeing up other able-bodied orcs for war. Obviously, such undead orcs would be used very carefully or limited to fully-scrubbed skeletons because of the disease risks.
If necromancy was acceptable, then orcs would have some of the best necromancers in the world, and if retaining enough self-awareness to continue being an honorable warrior was a concern, then orcish necromancy would have a lot of useful techniques for creating intelligent or semi-sapient undead. Even unintelligent orcish-made undead would some measure of innate understanding of martial honor.
I imagine that this would be a topic of considerable debate and controversy among orcs and really would depend on which orcish society you ask.
you are so right
1) This SERIOUSLY reminds me of Vikings.
2) Orcs who died dishonorably being burned instead of buried, to kill whatever germs killed them. Reanimated skeletons are charred black. They are used for harvesting crops, which doesn’t require too much ability to think (if it looks like this pick it if it looks like that leave it there). As they walk the fields, their blackened bones flake and leave behind black bone dust, fertilizing the crops. Their job is done when the skeleton disintegrates. They have fed the clan, and regained their honor.
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