Races/Orc

Description
Physical Description: Orcs are powerfully built, standing from half a foot to a full foot above humans with a greater amount of muscle mass. Orcs generally have green skin, broad shoulders, dark hair, and some protruding tusk-like teeth.

Male Orcs tend to be anywhere from 5’ 3” to 7’ 2” and from 174 lbs to 328 lbs.

Female orcs range from 5’ to 6’ 9” and from 134 to 288 lbs.

Society: Orcs commonly are very tribal in nature, and rarely forming their own kingdoms. Regardless they tend to hold strength above all else, with the ruler usually being the strongest of the orcs, fighting to prove their worth to lead. Orcs tend to settle their disputes with either threats or displays of might, making their interactions with other races difficult.

Some orcs do reside outside of these systems and live amongst other races, though rare, and more common for those of mixed race, rather than full blooded orcs. For the orcs who do live amongst human or other societies they find their lives still spent as adventurers, mercenaries, and soldiers; though some work as general laborers, with their overall might allowing them to perform tasks with ease that others would find difficult.

Relations: Dwarves and Elves tend to have a bitter history with Orcs, leading to mutual hatred between these races. Humans and Halflings have also had histories with being invaded by Orcs, though this is usually for specific kingdoms rather than the races as a whole.

Type: Humanoid(Orc)

Orc
Description: The common orc; big, muscular, and an overall powerful fighter.

Ability Score Modifiers: Orcs gain a +2 racial bonus to Strength and Constitution, and a -2 penalty to Intelligence.

Size: Medium

Base Speed: 30 Feet

Starting Languages: Low-Light Vision

Special Vision Types: None

Trait: Orcs gain Diehard as a bonus feat, even if they do not meet the prerequisites.

Born Alone (Race)
Prerequisite: Orc(Any)

Benefit: You are so vicious you killed the rest of your litter while still in the womb. Whenever you reduce a foe to 0 hit points or fewer you gain temporary hit points equal to 2 + your constitution modifier (minimum 1) until the end of your next turn. You do not gain these temporary hit points if the opponent has less than half your hit dice.

Deathless (Race)
Prerequisite: Str 13, Con 17, Diehard, Unnatural Resolve, Base Attack Bonus +12, Orc(Any)

Benefit: Even for an orc you seem impossible to take down. When a creature rolls to confirm a critical hit against you, it must roll twice and take the lowest result.

Desperate Rage (Race)
Prerequisite: Orc(Any), Rage Class Feature

Benefit: When the character is below 0 hit points and their Rage is about to expire, you may as an immediate action choose to add your constitution modifier to the rounds remaining on the rage. The rage from these additional rounds immediately expires when they are brought above 0 hit points. When choosing to use this ability the barbarian is exhausted instead of fatigued after the rage.

Fire God’s Blessing (Race)
Prerequisite: Orc(Any), Worshipper of a god of fire.

Benefit: Some orcs have great zealotry in their worship of fire. When in combat if you deal fire damage to an enemy you gain 1 temporary hit point. These temporary hit points can stack with themselves but only last until the beginning of your next turn. Attacks that cause a target to catch on fire grant you temporary hit points each round the target takes fire damage; you gain these temporary hit points at the beginning of your next turn.

Grudge Fighter (Race)
Prerequisite: Orc(Any)

Benefit: You feel great anger at anyone who would attack you. You gain a +1 morale bonus on attack and damage rolls made against any creature that attacked you in the current combat. This bonus to damage is to +2 if you are making an attack with a melee weapon in two hands, or a weapon that adds 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier on damage rolls.

Improved Surprise Follow-Through (Race)
Prerequisite: Surprise Follow-Through, Power Stance, Cleave, Great Cleave, Base Attack Bonus +10, Orc(Any)

Benefit: When in power stance and using the great cleave feat, foes attacked from the additional attacks from the cleave after the attack actions from the great cleave are denied their dexterity bonus against you.

Keen Scent (Race)
Prerequisite: Wis 13, Orc(Any)

Benefit:  Your nose is as sensitive as that of a wild predator. You gain the scent special ability.

Orc Endurance (Race)
Prerequisite: Con 13, Orc(Any)

Benefit: Once per day as an immediate action, you can gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier plus half your base attack bonus. You can use this feat to prevent yourself from dying. You may spend a point of stamina move action to regain the daily use of this feat.

Orc Weapon Expertise (Race)
Prerequisite: Base Attack Bonus +1, Orc(Any)

Benefit: You gain proficiency in Battleaxe, Greatsword, and Strung Axe if you did not already possess it. In addition you treat the Tetsubo, Great Boomerang, Goliath Axe, Waraxe, and War Bow as martial weapons rather than exotic for the purposes of determining proficiency with these weapons. In addition when you gain this feat choose one of the following, you gain these benefits when wielding any of these weapons:


 * Bully: Gain a +2 bonus on damage rolls against creatures at least one size category smaller than you. This bonus to damage is to +4 if you are making an attack with a melee weapon using two hands.
 * Defender: Treat the weapons listed in this feat as having the blocking weapon feature.
 * Disrupter: Add 3 to the DC of concentration checks for enemies within your threatened area. This only applies if you are aware of the enemy’s locations and are capable of taking an attack of opportunity.
 * Killer: Gain a +2 competence bonus on attack rolls made to confirm critical hits.
 * Thug: Treat the weapons listed in this feat as having the concussive weapon feature.
 * Trickster: Choose one of the following: serrated, trip, sunder, or disarm. The weapons listed in this feat are treated as having the chosen weapon feature.

Reverse-Feint (Race)
Prerequisite: Base Attack Bonus +1, Orc(Any)

Benefit: You’ve learned to goad opponents into attacking you in order to make your counter attack all the more powerful. As a move action you may deny yourself your dexterity bonus against a single target. If the opponent attacks you, regardless if it hits you or not, you may attack it as a reaction with a single melee attack, the target is denied its dexterity bonus to AC for this attack.

Smell Fear (Race)
Prerequisite: Keen Scent, Orc(Any)

Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on perception checks to detect creatures with the shaken, frightened, or panicked conditions using scent. In addition the DC to track a creature you had successfully demoralized with intimidate is reduced by 2 for the first 24 hours after you intimidated that foe.

Surprise Follow-Through (Race)
Prerequisite: Power Stance, Cleave, Base Attack Bonus +1, Orc(Any)

Benefit: When in power stance and using the cleave feat, the second foe you attack as part of your cleave is denied its dexterity bonus against you.

Toothy (Race)
Prerequisite: Orc(Any)

Benefit: You gain a bite natural weapon that deals 1d4 damage. You gain 1 temporary hit point anytime you successfully deal damage with this bite natural weapon, these temporary hit points do not stack with themselves and last until the beginning of your next turn.

Trap Wrecker (Race)
Prerequisite: Power Stance, Disable Device 1 Rank, Orc(Any)

Benefit: When in power stance, you can attempt to disarm a trap by striking it with a melee weapon instead of making a Disable Device check. As a full-round action, make a melee attack against an Armor Class equal to the trap’s Disable Device DC. If you miss, the trap activates. If you hit, roll damage. If this damage is at least half the trap’s Disable Device DC, you disable the trap. If this damage is less than half the trap’s Disable Device DC, the trap activates. You can only attempt this on non-magical traps. You must be able to reach some part of the trap with your attack in order to use this feat. At the GM’s discretion, some traps may not be susceptible to this feat.