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* ''[[Discworld]]''
** It may be easier to list the cases where race ''matches'' profession on the Discworld. Through the series we see vampire photographers, troll musicians, orc footballers, goblin savants, policemen of every race under the sun and hiding from it, and even ''girl wizards''.
** While ''Discworld'' plays with [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]] a lot, they still tend to fall into a lot of the common
* In ''[[Dragaera]]'', Dragons are known as arrogant warriors who are ultra-ambitious and if angered, are direct (and brutal) about it. Kragar, who was booted out of group, has no ambition, preferring to be a [[Servile Snarker]], and is the epitome of stealthy, being an assassin with a [[Stealth Hi Bye]] ability so powerful that it's outside of his control.
* In the very first ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' book, a young Conan's search for a thief daring enough to risk burglarizing an evil sorcerer's tower results in the disdain of the local criminal underclass, his own contempt returned... and an alliance with a master thief whom all the other rogues hail as their superior. He's massively obese and looks like a candidate for quadruple bypass surgery, yet he can shimmy up a rope faster than Conan can (a rope woven from the tresses of dead women's hair, which he stole from their coffins at night, and steeped in wine to give it strength).
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** An old joke regarding character creation involves an "orc bard," where the player admits he just wanted to be able to hit people with a guitar. The counter to this is that a member of a primitive or outright illiterate race is actually ''more'' likely to maintain a strong song and oral storytelling tradition. It's not called an axe for nothing...
*** Amusingly enough, there actually IS a band called "A Band of Orcs." Yeah, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiCldbmWUTU it sounds exactly like you'd expect].
*** There was an old Russian [[Heavy Mithril|FantasyRPG-oriented]] band "[http://community.livejournal.com/trollingstones/ Trolling Stones]". Mocking High Fantasy, "Dark" roleplayers, [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture
*** Funnily enough, in ''[[Pathfinder]]'', ''half-''orcs no longer get a penalty to Charisma, and in fact can get a ''bonus'' to the stat, so half-orcs can actually make pretty good bards.
** ''WOTC'' had fun with this one April: [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/pc/20040401a Humorous PC Portraits], including a Dwarf Ninja.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''
** Belkar Bitterleaf of the Order of the
** A lesser example would be the half-orc ninja Therkla.
* [[Yamara]] Tooke [http://yamara.com/yamaraclassic/index.php?date=2006-05-15 became a barbarian] before Belkar. Also, the strip contains [[Too Much Information]] on halflings:
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