Now, as The New Ice Age is released in its updated form in The Second Book of Worlds, we are replacing it with another world which we hope will be as useful and as interesting. We call it Orc Rising.

  In September of 1999, John Wick was creating a new game, Ork World, in open articles on Gaming Outpost.  Discussion of his articles inspired the ideas for this world, which were first published on the Articles forum there late on September 24th of that year.  He went on to create his game.  We created and began playtesting a very different idea, a world in which the orcs are not entirely evil nor completely praiseworthy, but are fighting for their freedom and their way of life against the encroaching civilizing influences of well-meaning men, elves, and dwarfs.

  Willard Bowzer has passed judgment on it, and quite favorably, labeling it "Meaty".

  We invite you to test it, and to send your comments and suggestions to The Architect.  But hurry--it won't be here forever.

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