OrkFUDGE Rules for Orkum Creation

Creating Households

If the players are to control one household each, each household points pool is 100 points.

Points not spent on the household are used to create the player character Orks. An average starting Ork character would be built with about 15 points.

Advatage	Cost	Notes
Dowmga	5 per Zhoosha rank	All households starts with a rank 1 Dowmga.
Household Spear	3 per +1 damage bonus	All households start with a Household Spear which gives a +1 bonus to damage rolls.
Reindeer	2 points per reindeer	These are tamed reindeer belonging to the household
Smithy	10 points for bronze smithing, 30 points for blacksmithing	The household must have a rank 2 Dowmga to buy Bronzesmithing, a rank 3 Dowmga to buy Blacksmithing.
Tala	3 points per Zhoosha rank	Every household begin with a rank 1 Tala
Thraka	1 point per Thraka, 1 point per Zhoosha	Thraka cannot start with a Zhoosha higher than the Dowmga.
Dowmgaday	Thraka may be converted into Dowmgaday at the cost of 2 points per Dowmgaday.	The household cannot have more Dowmgaday than the Dowmga's Zhoosha.
Village	5 points per village	These are stopping places during summer migrations
Winter Home	15 points per permanent structure	Winter homes begin with a 1 permanent structure per household

Creating Thraka

Beginning PC Thraka are Rank 1 Zhoosha

Virtues

Courage
Cunning
Endurance
Prowess
Strength

Distribute these levels between your virtues:
1 Good
3 Fair
1 Mediocre Increasing a virtue costs 4 points. No virtue can start higher than Good. It's probably a good idea to adjust virtues before deciding on skills, as starting skill levels are based on virtues.

Skills

Thraka have five free skills - these are written on the character sheets. The beginning level of the free skills are Virtue-1 for for rank one or two zhoosha and equal to Virtue for rank three or higher zhoosha. Starting skills for Tala, Dowmga and Bodelay are listed separately in the Orkworld book.

In addition to these skills, players can make up any additional skill they want. As a guide, each skill should do a single thing. More specific skills will have lower difficulties for checks. Very broad skills will have higher difficulties. There are sample skills in the Orkworld book. Hunting (Cunning) is a strongly recommended additional skill for Thraka; if the majority of your thraka cannot hunt, your household will starve!

Each additional skill is assigned to a Virtue. The default value for an *unknown* skill is Virtue-2. The first point spent on a skill raises it to Virtue-1. Each additional point spent raises the skill by one. No skill can start higher than Good.

Example skills:

Virtue	Sample Skills
Courage	Stare down Intimidate Resist pain Bluff
Cunning	Reindeer Wrangling Hunting Foraging Fishing Leader Sneak! Tell Believable Whoppers Languages (Ogri or Human; see GM for more exotic languages)
Prowess	Throw Throw Spear Spear and shield Riding Bow and Arrow Ork Games (Trees, Timboo, Baloolah, Pilah, Gambling, Fox and Geese)
Strength	Climbing Wrestling Lift big thing
Endurance	Get up again (Bhoola) Running Heroic Drinking Resist cold

Gifts and Faults

Taking flaws for your character can get extra points. Flaws generally only give one to three points. A character may have a maximum of four extra points from flaws. If the player still wants more points, they will have to take extra Trouble (for 5 points per permentant point of Trouble). Sample faults include:
Absent-Minded; Braggard; Bravery indistinguishable from foolhardiness; Can't resist having the last word; Coward; Curious; Easily Distractible; Enemy; Garrulous; Getting old; Glutton; Goes Berserk if Wounded; Gullible; Jealous of Anyone Getting More Attention; Lazy; Overconfident; Phobias; Soft- hearted; Vain, etc.