Half Orc? Half Goblinoid?

'.... a Neutral aligned one can lead a human unit, and a evil one can lead an Orc unit.' Inference here, I think, is that (neutral) half orcs could lead a band of raiders or no-gooders! Deffo champion or minor hero for (evil) Orcs. More in keeping with earlier rpg basis of WHFB1e & then 2e character development and story/plot building on the tabletop. On races, again reading between lines (+fan interpretations!) the 'modern' take is that old ones created races to fight chaos. Mistakes made- Elves were too easily manipulated, dwarves too stubborn (but less susceptible to magic/ chaos /base desires but not completely), humans were, well, a failure from the start (similar to first men-susceptible to evil/ morgoth and their greed - in Tolkien's world first age, when they appeared), halflings were not completely corruptible as other interests drove their 'desires'. Ogres were on slab (unfinished, an incomplete project) when the gates collapsed. I like someone's suggestion that ogres were just halflings scaled up. :D Also read that in one of the WFRP supplements there was an NPC halfling mage (wannabe Necromancer) that wanted to raise a giant's bones from their veg patch....?!
 
third has Halflings being 'may be' the final attempt by the Slann. Ogre's being believed to be distant relatives to humans with no slann connections. They were from the Forests and mountains of the Old world.

when did the Slann side come in?
 
ManicMan said:
when did the Slann side come in?
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(Old) Slann were also 'Old Ones' a catch all term apparently and according to Gav Thorpe. Later GW fluff had the original star spawned (Old) Slann Old Ones long dead but the new cycle Slann had been (5x) spawned in their image(?) and then become the Slann tech mages-priests, etc but are never respawned (dying race) as original Old Slann long gone. There were other coalition and ancient alien races (Xenos etc. Were Old Ones more developed in RT/earlier eds of WH40k?!?) that were 'Old Ones', but also not Slann. Confusion reigns as 'Slann' also described as creations & servants of the 'Old Ones'. And Lizardman=Old Ones degenerate offspring? Who knows as GW changed stuff over the decades?
 
yeah, I know about that but 3ed doesn't have Ogre's having any connection to the Slann. Just wondered when they changed it to have them being the Ogre's too
 
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