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== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]'', and most other fantasy roleplaying games, allow players to create all kinds of characters embodying this trope.

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', and most other fantasy roleplaying games, allow players to create all kinds of characters embodying this trope.

** 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].

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** Bugbears, despite being the biggest and toughest of the goblinoid races, are also quite stealthy.

* ''[[Hackmaster]]'', mostly a parody of ''AD&D'', is a bit of a send-up of fantasy roleplaying in general. One subrace for player characters is the ''gnome titan'', a member of a group of gnomes who follow the Gnomish God of War, and are trained from birth to be incredibly bad-ass warriors and battle mages. They still cling to their Cute/Comic Relief origins but in a decidedly twisted sort of way... one racially-specific magic item is the rightly feared ''+3 Gnomish Boots of [[Groin Attack|Groin Stomping]]''.

* ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]'' has Ork Kommandos. Orks are, as a rule, the loudest and least subtle species in the galaxy ([[More Dakka|their word for firepower comes from the sound it makes]]), so of course their having stealth units is regarded as a joke (in true ''40K'' fashion, the Guarsman trying to tell his encounter with them is executed for making stuff up). Meaning, of course, that Kommandos are all the more effective at their jobs when no-one thinks they exist... Ork have a system of color-coding where painting a vehicle/weapon gives it special properties: red is faster, blue is luckier, etc. Fans believe that [[Rainbow Pimp Gear|purple and/or orange]] are the stealthiest colors to an ork. Why? Well, have ''you'' ever seen an purple/orange-painted ork?

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has Ork Kommandos. Orks are, as a rule, the loudest and least subtle species in the galaxy ([[More Dakka|their word for firepower comes from the sound it makes]]), so of course their having stealth units is regarded as a joke (in true ''40K'' fashion, the Guarsman trying to tell his encounter with them is executed for making stuff up). Meaning, of course, that Kommandos are all the more effective at their jobs when no-one thinks they exist... Ork have a system of color-coding where painting a vehicle/weapon gives it special properties: red is faster, blue is luckier, etc. Fans believe that [[Rainbow Pimp Gear|purple and/or orange]] are the stealthiest colors to an ork. Why? Well, have ''you'' ever seen an purple/orange-painted ork?