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We have used: +2 Con, -2 Int, change Dark-vision to Low-Light Vision, and grant a +2 bonus to Survival and Handle Animal, and Run. Not that Run ever comes up that often. They also counted as both Orcs and Humans for various feats, magic, etc.
Culturally these half-orcs were a race unto themselves, who lived in an arid plains region. Both human and orc nomadic tribes lived in the area and had, in antiquity, produced some mixed or entirelly half-orc clans. Half-orcs bred true, and thus the occasional offspring of half orc+human or orc would be a half-orc, but most were born of half-orc parents. Thus half-orcs were more socially adjusted and not always the products of some horrific event.
I do really like the Scent ability for Orcs. Another possibility, depending on how you want them to work in your world, is let them Rage once per day as a barbarian.
Or you could do what we do with half-elves: just use the racial stats for the human or the elf (or orc in this case) depending on which culture raised the PC. |
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