orcs a playable raceFollow

i think they should make orcs a playable race, i mean look at how cool they look. It would be a great expansion.

I did play an orc in old EQ, briefly.



I do not lie.



Betcha think I am, but I'm not.



"How is this possible?" you must be thinking.



Well, as an experiment - and we're talking... I wanna say after Kunark and before Velious (but I'm not ironclad sure on that), they had a brief deal where you could come in as a monster.

You had no choice over what it was or where it was. You couldn't talk, initiate attack or anything like that. You could walk around. And adventurers, if they saw you, could and did come up and kill you.

Now, I was a lot of critters. I have no specific memory of being an orc, to tell you the truth, but I'm pretty sure I was once a gnoll pup somewhere. And I might have been an orc pawn. Mostly I was rats and stuff. Anyone else remember this?

Yes! It was only on the Test server, and there was a little button you could press when logging in... I don't remember what it said anymore, but it allowed you to play a monster. You could only be a low-ish level, though, I think it was 15 and under, and you could gain experience and get stronger, but only up to a certain level (again, I think 15 was the ceiling). I was a gobby in Runnyeye, a giant spider in Oasis, a black bear in East Commonlands, a skunk in Butcherblock, a pixie trickster in GFay, and yes, an orc pawn, also in GFay.

That was a BLAST! You could chase normal players around, or other mobs, who were sometimes real players (when I was a giant spider, another giant spider started chasing me - fun!)

If I recall correctly, it was shortly after Velious came out - but I can't be 100% sure. I wish they'd left that in, just for fun.

I believe it lol. Out of the 2-3 years I played EQ1, I never saw a dragon =(. Sucks huh? Anyways, I wish I could've participated in the "Pick Your Mob" game. I would've been a decaying skeleton on a rampage!

You pretty obviuosly had alot of powerleveling and a guild pulling you through all the upper level stuff and backflagging...and then you call the game to easy? Man, I would say play it for real before making a comment like that, but after EQ2 newbies don't really exist there to make groups and raids.

Made it to lvl 70 in three months... gawd, that is fast.

I wonder if old EQ needs to start losing servers - some form of server consolidation.

Why would an orc want to live in a city who's citizens have probably killed a few million of his people?

Orc refugees in Qeynos would be more plausible. :)