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boozerker 05-14-07, 12:06 AM	How often do you use female orcs, goblins, trolls, whatever?
Shadowhowler 05-14-07, 12:13 AM	How often do you use female orcs, goblins, trolls, whatever? Maybe 25% as often as their male counterparts. Most monsterous evil races are ruled with a strength-related sort of structure. IE: Might makes right. In those sorts of sociaties... men tend to be the leaders, warriors... the sort Adventurers are more likely to com into conflict with.
GhostStepper 05-14-07, 12:20 AM	If i recall, troll females are supposed to be larger than males, so it only follows that the biggest, meanest trolls youll run into will be female. I think the same might also be true of gnolls.
loaba 05-14-07, 12:36 AM	I play exclusively with two of the fairer sex, and they both prefer strong female NPC types to show up from time to time. Thus far they've all been Human, Elven or Half-elven. However, they do have, at their joint disposal, a pair of Half-orc sisters named Humpa and Holda Grossegurl... While these two, uh, ladies, have not yet made an appearance, I think it is only a matter of time.
Steven_Arborosa 05-14-07, 12:57 AM	You know, in my ignorance, I've never really put any thought into Orc, Troll or Gnoll females. Now that I think about it, it'd be a rather interesting/funny way to throw my players off... "... What? That's a girl?!"
ashcat_lt 05-14-07, 01:21 AM	IMC- all goblinoids are actually part of one race. the males exhibit quite distinctive traits based on which subrace the father was. the females are all pretty much the same. they enter their reproductive prime as small-sized goblin type creatures. the ones that manage to get their hooks into a successful male end up as large-sized blobs of flesh. i'm going to base some of the aspects of troglodyte society on the yilane from East of Eden. trogs are CE, which keeps them from developing the complex social structure and futuristic technology of the yilane, but all of the workers and warriors will be female. the males are kept completely seperate in their own cave and the prominent females get to buy their favors with trinkets. edit-forgot to mention the gnolls. the entire gnoll pack is centered around the alpha female. she is usually the strongest and always the undisputed leader/ruler/disciplinarian. currently my PCs are interrupting her birthing ritual.
Nifft 05-14-07, 01:29 AM	The players will likely never know... they just see "the troll", "the cleric" and "the vampire". My players take the romance right out of "Necromancer". Cheers, -- N
Raumz 05-14-07, 01:31 AM	Actually with my party I sort of fear putting a female goblin in or a fmeale gnoll or a female kobold for fear of what the party will want to do with the corpse afterwards...I once put a female badnit in and I had her retreat because I had a mental image of what the PCs will try to do...So I dont really put in female monsters or female things that are meant to be killed unless it is important ot the story line just to save game time.
pres_man 05-14-07, 01:31 AM	Well considering 4 out 6 players are female in my group, they show up on a fair basis as PC races. As for NPCs, depends on the race and the situation. Orc war party almost never has females. A lizardfolk village is run by females (that are larger than males in my games, and the dominant force in their culture), males that are mated usually are off hunting/fishing, non-mated males are not part of the society. Gnolls, yeah female gnolls would make a lot of sense as common assuming they follow the hyena model.
ColonelPanic 05-14-07, 03:36 AM	Had a session where parts of the low level party entered a room with two Goblin Concubines. The gnome beguiler (who spoke Goblin), said in Goblin after on of them saved against his sleep spell: -"If you make love to the halfling, I'l spare your life!". But the halfling rogue disliked her seductive attempts and killed her.
Shadowhowler 05-14-07, 03:43 AM	Actually with my party I sort of fear putting a female goblin in or a fmeale gnoll or a female kobold for fear of what the party will want to do with the corpse afterwards...I once put a female badnit in and I had her retreat because I had a mental image of what the PCs will try to do...So I dont really put in female monsters or female things that are meant to be killed unless it is important ot the story line just to save game time. Uhh... What is it you are afraid your players would do to a female gnoll or kobold? Just how sick ARE the guys you play with anyway??? :eek:
Optimized_Commoner 05-14-07, 05:04 AM	I don't really worry about it if they're monsters. I imagine they have a gender, but I doubt the players really want humanizing touches on the things they're meant to kill. As for NPCs I run a pretty even mix, I like my games to be gender-equal with hardcore female warriors as common as the male ones. Basically I just pick a gender that seems to fit with the character's feel.
Sunic_Flames 05-14-07, 07:31 AM	...So they come onto female gnolls huh? I wonder if they're aware of their errr... you know... :rofl:
CaineTheInsaine 05-14-07, 11:16 AM	When encountering a wandering party of monsters, they are generally male. There is occasionally the female who stands out, but mostly male. This is especially true among the goblinoids, orcs, and trogs. Among gnolls, like many of my fellow posters, the hunting packs are almost exclusively female, or at least have a female leader. But, when you talk about lairs, I always include at least one adventure site where the tribe’s young and the subornments sex can be found. So, female goblins, orcs, etc. are in their cave taking care of the young. Or among a gnoll camp, a few males would be tending the young. Now, I must state this, why bother with sex among trolls? I mean, they have no need to reproduce. Need more trolls? Rip off Bubba's arm. Pour some blood over Bubba's arm for 3 rounds, and it begins to grow into a young troll. In my campaign world, all "young" trolls have one limb that is obviously oversized. This is the donor limb from which the young troll is growing. Just my two copper.
Zoycitenega 05-14-07, 11:33 AM	Not normally, but I prefer dragons, fey, and the undead(throw in a human or two for good luck).
weepingminotaur 05-14-07, 11:40 AM	I mix it up when it comes to gender. So it's more than probable I could have a monstrous humanoid female face the PCs. I don't really see the issue.
DoveArrow 05-14-07, 11:48 AM	One of my players wrote into his character background that his family was attacked by orcs when he was a child. His parents were killed, but his twin sisters disappeared. As part of my campaign, I had a battle with orcs already planned, so I just put in a couple of twin barbarian sisters as well.
Vaalingrade Ashland 05-14-07, 12:29 PM	One of the most well known warlords in my campaign world is Big May, a female troll who was *just* smart enough to realize that a solitary life of stealing goats and smashing travelers was bad for her health. So she started beating on younger trolls and ogres and pressing them into service in her own, private army. Once she got the asssistance of a young red dragon, she parlayed her army into a lucrative mercenary buisness. Gnoll packs are almost exclusively female with males being brutish loners. Kobolbs IMC are led by matriachs who are preistesses of dragons.
Hydryh 05-15-07, 11:15 AM	When encountering a wandering party of monsters, they are generally male. There is occasionally the female who stands out, but mostly male. This is especially true among the goblinoids, orcs, and trogs. Among gnolls, like many of my fellow posters, the hunting packs are almost exclusively female, or at least have a female leader. But, when you talk about lairs, I always include at least one adventure site where the tribe’s young and the subornments sex can be found. So, female goblins, orcs, etc. are in their cave taking care of the young. Or among a gnoll camp, a few males would be tending the young. Now, I must state this, why bother with sex among trolls? I mean, they have no need to reproduce. Need more trolls? Rip off Bubba's arm. Pour some blood over Bubba's arm for 3 rounds, and it begins to grow into a young troll. In my campaign world, all "young" trolls have one limb that is obviously oversized. This is the donor limb from which the young troll is growing. Just my two copper. That's... really cool, actually. As for me, mostly I've been throwing males at the party, but the most memorable adversary/companion they've had was the cleric's high elf lover who turned out to be a drow rogue. And I've got some scary ladies waiting in the wings...