PCs as Orcs Adventures


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion

The Exchange

I was wondering if anyone knew a good adventure or series of adventures featuring the PCs as Orcs or Inhumans ? I was going to start a Campaign on Obsidian Portal with that twist. All the adventures I come across involve saving the good peasants from the evil Orcs. Love to find one featuring Orcs as PCs. Thanks.


I don't know of any, but you could try taking an existing adventure or path and just inverting the races. Substitute Orcs for humans, hobgoblins for, say, elves, kobolds for halflings, goblins for gnomes, gnolls for dwarves..

Unless your players already consider the idea cliché, they'll enjoy the flipped perspective of vicious "standard" races brutally putting down their tribesman because of their automatic judgment of being "evil races."

Be cautious, though, because this idea has been explored by well-known sources such as Order of the Stick, Goblins, I Am Legend, Bambi, etc., so use your judgment if your players are willing to buy into the idea before using it.


You could use Throne of Night, an underground adventure designed for either Drow or Dwarven parties.

You could adapt the drow story arch for orcs.

Also, Way of the Wicked is an evil PC module series that could easily incorporate orcs.

The Exchange

Hmmm. Problem with most adventures are that they pre-suppose that the PCs are heroic and good-aligned. Pcs normally do things out of a sense or Right and Justice if not Greed. Many of the adventures are built around this.

Silver Crusade

Always Evil orcs or orcs that can be any alignment? That is, adventures for heroic characters, evil ones, shades of gray?


Thunderslash wrote:
Hmmm. Problem with most adventures are that they pre-suppose that the PCs are heroic and good-aligned. Pcs normally do things out of a sense or Right and Justice if not Greed. Many of the adventures are built around this.

Which is why I suggested one series specifically for evil PCs (Way of the Wicked) and one that has both a "good" and "evil" story arch (Throne of Night).

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