Dawn of the Orcs: Orc-building Fantasy TTRPG
You are sages¸ wizards¸ scholars¸ geniuses¸ charlatans¸ and assorted other meddlers. Your nation faces destruction at the hands of an overwhelming foe. To save your homeland¸ you have put your occult learning¸ secret arts¸ and esoteric skills to use to build an army of new soldiers¸ who you call the Orcs. Each battle of the war buys you time to improve and modify your Orcs. Can you repel the invaders with a combination of sorcery and strategy? What will you have created when the fighting is over?Dawn of the Orcs is a GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war¸ modify and improve them over time¸ and tell the story of how the Orcs become their own people. It plays in around 90-120 minutes; by the end¸ you will have created a unique Orc people¸ perhaps even one you feel like using in the setting of other roleplaying games.