Orx: Nasty¸ Brutish¸ and Short
A darkly comedic fantasy game about playing orcs¸ creatures hated by the gods and doomed to die. It uses a narration-based dice pool system. Each orc has three attributes: Nasty (social)¸ Brute (physical)¸ and Grok (mental). They also have a Fate stat¸ which starts at 1 and rises as they choose to tempt fate. Players can roll extra dice on any roll¸ but this raises their Fate stat¸ which is used to check if they die when defeated. Character creation is by assigning a d6¸ d8¸ and d10 to the three stats¸ as well as picking three player-defined descriptors such as Fast-Talking or Distance Spitting Champion. Play is in scenes¸ where the GM has a limited amount of opposition dice available per scene. - A description fromdarkshire.netwith kind permission of John H. Kim