Need help with RP ideas for a female half-orc barbarian

>fantasy

>all societies were the same

>FANTASY
I advise a nitrogen overdose.

If sexual dimorphism doesn't mean anything in your fantasy why have sexes at all?

Like I said, I'm probably just explaining it badly - it's clear in my head, but not coming out right when I try to communicate the ideas to others... Damn my Aspergers.

I want a buff orc lady, but not sink into the "just a man with tits" cliche that is so often held over the heads of muscular women even IRL, just because she's got STR and CON pushing near 20 before she's level 6...

I guess... I am kinda bricking on figure a way to add some decent female-ness to this walking she-beast, but fearing I'll go overboard and unintentionally end up turning her femme to a near-ridiculous level.

I'm pretty sure women in Plains Indians societies had it pretty good.

You give physics a break for magic.
Don't be a boob.

She's the kind of girl that gets reasonably buff just to post ass pics on instagram, is that feminine enough?

>implying
In my setting magic is just a mass hallucination caused by drugs.

...

Your setting is shit because in your setting magic runs by arbitrary rules designed top down to benefit characters rather than life adapting to alternate laws of reality caused by magic.

Make her literally she-hulk. Reasonable and logic-based while big and green.

Yes, but I can improve my setting. In the morning, you'll still be you, user.

Wow man you are so cool that was such a sick burn. Where can I follow your tumblr?

...now I'm picturing a barb that starts as a human and turns into an orc when they enter a Rage...

She is on a quest to find the most powerful male, one who can best even her in combat, in order to make the strongest warrior offsprings her Klan has ever seen.

alternatively, her tribe makes all their women do that, thats why they have the strongest warriors in the land.

Now I'm imagining a human trained by orc barbd who channel animal aspects that make them look orcy, even when it doesn't sense.

"Stag rage gives you tusks why?"

>female character
>base her existence around fucking

Oh, how ingenious, user. surely nobody's thought of that before.

How about trying to smash the Patriarchy

she's a half orc? make her look for her human/orc roots.

Parent issues are pretty classic.

Bruh

Do these while making her incredibly noble (only works for "good guys", helps out the "little guys) or extremely mercenary and you're done. Have her want to have a litter for the tribe. Or not. It's your character.

Remember, backstory doesn't matter that much, it's how the character acts. I've played evil dwarves, noble half-orcs, down-to-earth elves, and actually interesting humans. It's all how ya do it.

Seems a bit, I dunno, generic to me.

I'm playing a Half-orc woman in my game right now, but not a barbarian. She's a young medicine woman (houseruled shaman class) who traveled for a few years as a sort of laborer/healer/midwife/storyteller before joining an adventuring party, and I think she's become a pretty developed character so far.

She started as this wanderer searching for wisdom, and maybe also for a place in the world that she finds fulfilling. In roleplay, I said foolish things, only to regret them immediately after. I once tried to impress our half-orc manly man quest-giver by acting all tough, but he was more worldly than me and called me out on it (in orcish, so my mates could only tell that he made me blush in embarrassment). Being young and uncomfortable with my sexuality, I forced one of our party to sleep outside rather than share a room—and the morning after, I clumsily beat around an apology by getting him a bowl of porridge and begrudgingly mumbling kind words. I charged into battle and used my spear as often as my magic, to only moderate effect.
She's already learning, though: how to accept her own vulnerability and how to ask for help. She learned she's in to bara werebears when she had to cast Cure Wounds on one's bare chest. She's slowly thinking of her party as a family to be protected, although she probably wouldn't admit it yet

After a few months as a Half-orc woman, I think I've developed a few tenants to which I adhere. Firstly, I can't be afraid of depicting my character's sexuality, because that's a friggin' goldmine. So what if my DM thinks I'm gay? My most solid roleplaying so far has been in being flustered around hot guys. Second, the best thing about a musclegirl is who she is and how she carries herself, not how buff she is. It's enough to describe acts of strength and femininity throughout a session to build the image of a powerful woman; to describe rippling muscle is solely fetishistic indulgence and doesn't contribute to good storytelling or characterization

Oh and third, I've treated it as a triangle of conflicting identities: Human, Orc, and Woman. That's to say she doesn't quite feel like any of those things, but parts of her character fall in those categories. In the center of this is just a person whose most basic impulses tug her one way or the other.

Do you have to bring your LGBTBBTHEQ-garbage into every thread now?

I recognize your retarded writing style and you try repeatedly to derail threads by making them about your Social Justice shit.

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I've found that sometimes in situations like these you can easily do something creative by simply doing the opposite of the norm. I once wrote a mountain troll character who, unlike most of his species, was part of a small group of more or less monastic trolls who dedicated their entire lives to memorizing, preserving, and passing down orally the ancient epics that their more barbarous cousins had forgotten. Thus, he can recite literally hours of ancient epic poetry and shit off of the top of his head, and is probably the most educated and verbose person in the entire group. You could easily do something similar with her - maybe make her someone who rose to power within her tribe/whatever because she was ruthless and cunning, or something like that, I don't know. Hell, you could sort of do a Genghis Khan-type character maybe.

yeah, you have to make an actual character out of her. what are her dreams? her goals, her fears, ect. why is she even out traveling and adventuring? it doesn't have to be a multi-generational epic of a backstory, it just has to have some core characterization.

a character like that with an emotional richness to them won't be written off as simply a cut and paste archetype, and a character without that core will come off as flat and fetishistic.

Source on webm? I like the animation

rune soldier

Thank you

Women are not supposed to be warriors, but daddy always wanted a son. He worked twice as hard to fit in as everyone else anyhow, being a human in a tribe of orcs, so damned if he wasn't gonna train you up to fight like billyoh.

Of course, nothing lasts forever, and daddy died, killed by someone bigger and meaner who wanted mamma for himself. He tried to 'reign you in' set you to pottery, or a breeding slave or any of that shit, but fuck you weren't having that. You drove his own axe through his neck in ritual combat, and took it with you when you set to wandering.

If a woman could not be a warrior at home, you could find a home where she could...

These ideas have given me a lot to think about.

First thing's first, much as you don't want to feel like you're just replacing M with F here a female barbarian shouldn't be too much different than a male. Through and through the barbarian archetype is ill-mannered, strong and ferocious and your genitals aren't going to make much of a difference (unless you're one of those edgelords that advocate women being weaker cause muh realism). Chances are the main differences might lie in some mannerisms, maybe you complain that your feminine assets are a disadvantage in combat or perhaps you scoff at the idea that a man could ever be stronger than you. Beyond relating better to women, making boob jokes and unabashedly going for the nuts there probably wouldn't be a great difference. Also feel free to ask very aggressively for snu-snu

>Male Barbarian
>Constantly blabbering about how all females are weaker
>Complains that huge dick gets in the way of combat
>Makes dick and MAN jokes constantly
>Calls his 'finishing move' the 'cunt crusher'
>Lays maidens with less seduction roll and more intimidation roll

You see how insufferable this is when it's not your fetish, right?
If you're looking to make a character better than [genderflipped archetype] then you should still try not to be [OTHER GENDER and also archetype]

great list of what not to do

>Orc comes from a tribe with a fairly common set of traditions where a male chief leads the clan and sires the entire generation beneath him
>She gets real good at fightan, which is alright but isn't really a great thing since she couldn't become chief and isn't making efforts toward the traditional position of wise-woman
>One brother is very headstrong, power hungry, a savage ass, one hell of an orc. Other is less skilled at fighting but better learned and has much better judgement
>Eventually, strong brother challenges chief to combat for the title, defeats in fair but cruel combat and immediately begins boasting and wants to carry out things destructive for the clan against the pleas of his brushed off weak brother
>She challenges him to combat, defeats him by fighting just as dirty when he's already slightly exhausted thanks to weakness the smart one had previously pointed out
>Knows she has no place becoming chief, tosses the chief's bloodied weapon to the clever brother and sets out on the world

Is that a bad reason for an estranged fighter or nah?
>She

The "chief sires the next generation" tradition sounds kinda like Skyrim orcs. I approve.

Wow!

This is really bad advice.

Family, background &c. don't matter. Their character matters. That's why we call them characters.

They are. It's an Elder Scrolls game.

>rune soldier
My nigga! Literary waifu heaven

Seems like she basically leaves for no reason after killing her brother and garunteeing that any random orc will kill the brother she left in charge to gain power. Shit premis.

He's not as strong as the other brother, but he's obviously tactically adept, so he could defend his position that way.

>not relaizing that where you grow up
>who you grow up with
>the people you are around
>all influence character

You did not create yourself, user.

I'm sure he carved himself from the clay with his bare hands.

>"Hey guys, how do I make an interesting female half-orc character?"
>"Here's what I think makes an interesting female half-orc character."
>derailing

Yes. In case of lack of males like when they died in war and so on a woman could become head of the family by becomming acting/becomming male.

>unless you're one of those edgelords that advocate women being weaker cause muh realism

I've heard this called politically incorrect before but not edgy.

Tell me, user. Where did Anton Chigurh grow up? Tell me in detail about his family.

I am not a character. And social realism is not the only genre.

Oh yeah? Well I've heard it being called edgy before, but not politically incorrect.

I'm not joking, either.

Here is your (You), spend it wisely.

>Lays maidens with less seduction roll and more intimidation roll
To be fair that's how I played my fighter

youtube.com/watch?v=-yUafzOXHPE

>You see how insufferable this is when it's not your fetish, right?
Wait what no that was my opposite impression.

>if I combine tropes to make WHACKY COMBINATIONS, I will be able to hide my total creative bankruptcy

However according to their tribal rules of single combat it isn't that unlikely that someone will just kill the smart brother. I would probably just say my character left in disgust or was banished and leave open the chance to RP a return to the tribe eventually.

Hmm, maybe.

my man

This (You) meme is getting used pretty loosely nowadays. I feel like my post is entirely relevant ITT, but you seem to be implying I'm trolling. I feel like I'm not too extreme in my views, though. What could I do better to show my sincerity?

To be fair, if you read the whole paragraph and not just one and a half sentences you'd notice I was trying to point out that was the extreme, and that unless you want that kind of obnoxious character you SHOULDN'T let it make much of a difference.

Also to be fair that would be a pretty hilarious character that I'd totally be ok partying with. It's not like 99% of barbarians aren't already overcompensating anyway (come on dude, you can't just add great to the start of all your weapons.)

Consider looking at modern female athletes as a model. Nobody would consider Dagny Brynjarsdottir butch, but she cuts an intimidating figure just the same. Or for a more well known example, Hope Solo, who pretty much has the rage class feature but can clean up for Dancing with the Stars.