The Great Debate

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I like my dark orcs for low fantasy

varying colors
my preferred is a dark reddish hue

All of the above?

Yes.

All of the above; depending on tribe, climate, and gender (if applicable).

Depends on the setting.

I prefer dark or drabgreen. Bright green Warcraft-style orcs are just silly looking.

Blue.

Your setting.

D. All of the above.

Gray is too ashy and grim.

Brown is too unsubtle (we already know who orcs are analogs for...)

Green works.

>gender
u wot?

>Brown is too unsubtle (we already know who orcs are analogs for...)
Huns, Mongols, and similar steppe warrior tribes?

No, niggers

ORKZ ARE MADE FER KRUMPIN'!

B and C to give them some variation.

What a stupid question--it depends on the ethnicity.

>Humans are...
>A. Pale pink
>B. Slightly jaundiced
>C. Tan
>D. Brown
>E. Dark brown

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D, Many Shades.

Northern Orcs range from blueish gray to almost white, with most of their bodies covered in coarse hair
Southern Orcs are brown and look like boars

Then TASTE THE FUCKING RAINBOW
Volcano orcs are orange, red and black, steppe and desert orcs are brown and yellow-grey, arctic orcs are blue and white, forest - green, deep orcs are purple. Fuckers adapt to everything, even to civilised society

I never wrote anything down, clearly they are entirely devoid of color.

Iz weddah yuz got a choppa or a shoota, me thinks

Genda is wetha u choppy or shooty? But muh Shootah is choppy what Genda am I?

Never seen brown orcs outside of LotR and hentai doujins

Das wat dey call bein a tranny, oi fink.

WoW, HoMM, ...

If it woz neivah, youz'd be a grot.

D) All of the above

Kill the Green skin!

>low fantasy
>orcs

Yes and?

Where did green orcs even originate?
Warhammer?

Brownish or pinkish. Also look more like pigmen than greenskins

from green to yellow to red
from white to grey to black

i like my armies of destruction colorful

>Also look more like pigmen than greenskins

Those aren't Orks, they're Porks

Ganonporc

Are blue orcs acceptable?

Okay, now this one DOES actually depend on the setting. I'm not meming, that's how it actually works.

Either bait, or this guy actually thinks low fantasy means the saem thing as human-only historical fiction.

Green, ranging from the dark green of the outside of an avocado to the yellow-green of the inside of an avocado (in much the same way humans range from dark brown to pale pink).

How blue we talking?

>all his orcs are the same colour
>the beauty of species diversity hasn't graced his setting
>he's not given himself easy identifiers in conversations
>he's probably just gonna use orcs as fodder
>he's crippling his own creative potential

Blue is an elf color, well also a color for your underwater races, but for land based races most of the time it's an elf color.

I'm not running "my own" setting just my own campaign which is a fair sight more then half of the people on Veeky Forums seem to have so I can't really tell you anything but the canon standpoint for orcs in the setting.

Anything from the rightmost column, or the upper-middle the of the column next to it.

Kinda-sorta.
Warhammer Fantasy is where green orcs originated from, but as model wargames were (and still are) niche it was technically WarCraft that popularized it as it's computer games reached a far greater audience.

There's also that rumor that WarCraft was originally going to be a Warhammer Fantasy game, which is likely at least partially true as orcs as huge green muscled Neanderthal-men originates almost completely from there whereas orcs in prior editions of D&D looked like this instead.

That's a troll, mate

>There's also that rumor that WarCraft was originally going to be a Warhammer Fantasy game
Both WarCraft and Starcraft heavily draw from WH and WH40k.

Never played WoW (though I could have sworn they were green there) and I don't know what the other one is

The only acceptable answers. Green however is my favorite.

"Pure" WoW Orcs are brown, only demonic influenced/corrupted ones and their off-spring are green.

HoMM - Heroes of Might'n'Magic

Reminder that dwarfs in the hobbit had blue beards tucked into their belt.

>not knowing HoMM
WHAT ARE YOU
I'M CALLING MEN IN BLACK

D: Japanese Pig-Men

Which in turn drew heavily from something before them, but I forget what the names of each were.

Nani?!

half-covered with porcine bristle and greyish-brown underneath.

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This. Orcs in the setting I'm making are grey/brown.

Ugh fine. What's the source?

Depends on setting