Your half-orc character has certain
Traits deriving from your orc ancestry.
Ability Score Increase: Your
Strength score increases by 2, and your
Constitution score increases by 1.
Age: Half-orcs mature a little faster than
humans, reaching
Adulthood around age 14. They age noticeably faster and rarely live longer than 75 years.
Alignment: Half-orcs inherit a tendency toward
chaos from their orc parents and are not strongly inclined toward good. Half-orcs raised among orcs and willing to live out their lives among them are usually evil.
Size: Half-orcs are somewhat larger and bulkier than
Humans, and they range from 5 to well over 6 feet tall. Your size is
Medium.
Speed: Your base
walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision: Thanks to your orc blood, you have superior
Vision in dark and dim
Conditions. You can see in
dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in
Darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in
Darkness, only
Shades of Gray.
Menacing: You gain
Proficiency in the
Intimidation skill.
Relentless Endurance:
When you are reduced to 0
Hit Points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a
Long Rest.
Savage ATTACKS:
When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon
Attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write
Common and
Orc.
Orc is a harsh, grating
language with hard consonants. It has no script of its own but is written in the
Dwarvish script.
