Every scro becomes a formidable warrior after enduring years and years of ridicule for the name of their race, as well as their most common male name being "Sue."
Fuck me I love that song. . . Also, I have this visual in my head of their warcry/chant being a really bassy "TUUM!". . . So I just envision them in a warband, stamping the base of their spears in unison, chanting their name followed by warcry in beat of the 'viking-clap-esque' rhythm. . . "Scro-TUM! Scro-TUM! Scro-TUM!"
Alot of people think this is from 40k, but it's not. Space Orcs with horned helmets, guns, and hooligan behavior comes from Ralph Bakshis animated movies from the 1970s, Wizards, and Fire & Ice.
There is a Tale, a Tale of a Scro that had set himself apart from his brethren in the art of war. His name was Tum. Depicted as a godike warrior whose only weakness were his testies were its said his power was held. The other nonhumans gave him the name Scro-tum, no body knows the more private parts of his story. All we are left with are cumulative epics.
He needs to be in my mercenary company from 3.5 Epic Inc. No job to Big or small we do it all. One of the co-founders was a deep orc with the nickname Bhaal.. Ace hollis , bhaal, scro-tum and whebblyskags (a deep gnome with self image issues)
When he says anime, a lot of the unhuman war stuff is literally drawn from anime, like the Bionoids which are very closely modeled after The Guyver. It's interesting that in the novelisation it revealed that after creating them, the elves didn't treat the suvivors that well because they had made them as weapons and didn't like being reminded that they were still people under the transforming chitinous armor
My friend calls his friends "scro" as a mash-up of "bro" and...well...you know... I cannot wait to blow the party's minds when they are confronted by the Scro for the first time in my game.
These are also one of my favorite spelljammer races - everything scary about humans and hobgoblins wrapped in an 400lbs muscled bound and armored package
Greetings, A.J.! I discovered your channel a few months ago, and your videos have opened up the world of D&D for me. I'm learning so much, and every video is fascinating. Currently, I don't have any disposable income, so it might be a while before I can donate to your Patreon, but rest assured, that future is getting closer every day. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Have a good day, and please stay safe out there. :)
Man I loved Spelljammer. Elvish guyvers, hippo-man mercs, neogi pirates, crazy insectoid mad doctors. And witchlight marauders need to make a comeback. They made a great basis for an Elder Evil type monster.
The Halfling-Precursor Hypothesis: By Icari Rell, Hedge-wizard. Position: Halflings (or some earlier form thereof,) are the ancient precursor race (who’s likely origins are interplanar invaders from the far realm,) which either developed into, or provided a template for, virtually all other humanoid life in the prime-material plane. Evidence: 1-No god takes credit for the creation of halflings, (Or humans for that matter,) and no-one knows where they originated from, only scant references in halfling oral tradition remain of reference to “The bad old days” before they received the sponsorship of the goddess Tymora. 2a-Halflings serve as a notable middle-point for humanoid morphology. In simple terms, virtually all humanoid forms are at most, two leaps from halflings. humans are halflings plus height, and likely one of the first offshoot branches. Dwarves are halflings plus a denser muscular structure, Goblins are nocturnal halflings that have adjusted to a more ambush-centered survival strategy, as opposed to a community-centered one. Gnomes are halflings plus caffeine... Etc., etc. 2b-This theory of central offshoots from a base morphology hold true to humans as well, and whether or not the individual humanoid races evolved naturally or were created by a god, this theory posits that halflings or their human offshoots were used as a starting point that divinity or nature modified after the fact. 3- Halfling genetics are remarkably adaptable, with stout, hairfoot, lightfoot, furchin, tallfellows, and strongheart subraces providing convenient midpoints along the evolutionary chain between halflings and other races. Ghostwise halflings are likely the closest to the ancient precursor halflings from the far realm, due to their more barbaric society and psionic abilities. 4- All halflings possess an extremely alien and unnatural residual trait, further hinting at their far-plane origin: A near-immunity to fear. This feature does not make sense in the slightest as a natural adaptation for a race of such small stature, as they are considered ideal prey by all manner of vicious creatures. In a martial communal society, (Hobgoblins, for example,) this could be explained as an outgrowth of the impulse to sacrifice oneself for the survival of the community, but halflings are deeply integrated, interpersonal, largely peaceful,^ and mostly agrarian, all of which would discourage this trait if their biology conformed to the rules and standards of this dimension. 5- Far realm incursions have been well documented to produce creatures with predispositions towards psionic abilities, (again, ghostwise halflings!) Incomprehensible psychology, manipulative appendages, and mutable physiology, all of which are present in halflings. Perhaps the “Bad old days” are a misconstrued reference to their time before this world, or their transition from the far realm to this one, as such a transition has been noted to be incomprehensibly unpleasant in the cases of other aberrant creatures. ^Perhaps that is another way in which halflings are unnatural, that is to say, their cheerful communal outlook on a world that very much tries to kill them. Some aberrations are unnaturally cruel, or curious, or egotistical. Perhaps halflings are unnaturally... wholesome? _What follows after this point in the essay are pages of writing that become increasingly technical and filled with citations of often extremely obscure texts and theories about the nature of interplanar existence. One mildly amusing section tangents into the peculiar proliferation of creatures that look like frogs throughout the multiverse, namely grung, grippli, bullywugs, nergaliid, hezrou, froghemoths, slaadi, hydroloth, and batrachi. As the author rambles about the possibility that this could be evidence of the batrachi becoming an interplanar species after their disappearance from history, your eyes have glazed beyond the point of productive reading._
The famous scro Warrior had achieved many things in his life, slain many dragons, Even conquered kingdoms. Yet he was not happy.. Yes for some unknown reason, the great scro warrior Tum was a very sad man.
Is the general populace of the realms aware of the people from Spelljamer? For example are the elves from Toril even aware of the Spelljamer elves from realm space?
@@foodie135 But are they related in any way outside of ,,they're all elves'' and do they trade or have any political alliance? That's what I want to know
Kind of and yes. Your average person on Toril is not aware of Spelljammers but there are people in pretty much every major society who ARE aware of the larger Spelljammer universe. For elves specifically the knowledge is more widely spread than in the general population. The court of Evermeet has official representatives in the eleven armada, as do many other elven nations on different worlds.
Been years but lets see if i remember : Scrow (orcs spelled backwards, to show they are so far far removed to be almost a different species) do not worship Grumsh. Ducash felt it was Grumsh lack of helping his people that played a critical role in the orc defeat. If Grumsh did not help the orcs the scrow would not worship him. They despise him to a good extent
Not going to lie... this Astral war sounds a little like Star Wars with the Astral Elves being the Empire. Also, I do indeed want to hear more about the war and the mutants.
This article has brought back memories of the Spelljammer novels. That series was an absolute trainwreck, but one that I found a lot of fun (with each book being totally unpredictable). It is the series that I have read where the most noticeable is the change from one author to another in each novel.
Love you spelljammer vids as always. An entire species with Spelljammers and a serious hatred of elves so what your saying is prime candidates for being masters at making Elven-Slayer weapons. Add in the fact ramming someone counts as a melee weapon for smite and you got Space Orcs Paladins smiting with Slayer space ships. Fellow dms I pass that idea to you.
What a great juxtaposition to be hearing about the atrocities these elves were performing only to then hear one was named Leafblower 😅 Taserface flashbacks!
We could build a whole adventuring party based on these guys. A Scro team. They could roll around the land in warmer climates or tighten up formation when they must brave the cold. I'd love to see a Scro team hanging out at the tavern for all to see. I bet that would raise some eyebrows!
I guess that in 5e you can basically play an orc (maybe from the eberron or wildemount books), give them elvish language through some background feature, high intelligence and the artificer class.
Got home from my overnight job not long ago, and I see an AJ video. Good morning indeed. EDIT: For the record, your assumption is correct, for me at least. More abominations is always welcome. >:D
I love the Scro, but not for classic reasons. I was an avid reader when I was a young AD&D player who was usually the DM. I saw the Middle Earth connections to AD&D's world and ran with than in my world-building when the original source was absent. As a teen, I created the High Orc, the precursor to just about all goblionoids as well as the superior Orcs. They were the first (or first few) generation(s) of corrupted Elves who became the anti-Elves before the Drow actually failed at being anti-Elves by being the evil Elves. The reason the could breed with anything except Elves is closely linked with them being anti-Elves, becoming the opposite of their blood origin, is because they became the antithesis to being Elf. They had positive aspects compared to Elves (such as not at all being racist except against elves) while being essentially the fantasy world version of being (selectively non-racist) Nazis. Much of their weapons, crafts, etc are technically strongly Elf in technology and quality in all ways save for magic but they are designed in cruel and functional manners. An Elf sword is a work of art that usually glows with a bit of magic. A High-Orc sword is just as good, very similar under a microscope, but is designed to deliver as much pain and as much damage as possible. It's the same weapon, but uglier.... or "the same level of ugly" to a Dwarf weapon smith. When my friend introduced me to Spelljammer and later Scro, I fell in love with this race because I saw Scro as the rebirth of the OG bloodline of High Orc. I had my own canon and Loom of Magus universe that we both did a lot of mental gymnastics to adopt back then to work together. I began my space travel (Prime Material Plane) thing with the Barrier Peaks module as the inspiration, along with the books I read. To be honest, I hated Spelljammer at first for exactly that.
I never really thought twice about why an Orc would know my common tongue and shout out much to my panic, "And so two warriors meet on the battlefield, to do battle, upon a field of battle!"
@@AJPickett "Our shamans have developed advanced magical weapons, specialized war totems. We are calling them Scro-Tems." ***someone laughs*** ***gunshots ring out*** "Did I stutter?"
I have a suggestion: How about a lore video about the "real world" and its place in D & D canon. I remember all those "Wizard's Three" articles from Dragon magazine that took place on Earth. There are a few other references too. I seem to remember a module where you stole the Mace of St. Cuthbert from the British Museum.
@@mikewaterfield3599 eh ogres can be pretty smart. If anything they probably enslave others to build one and then power it with a shaman or even an ogre mage
@@mikewaterfield3599 Yeah plus spelljammer versions of races/creatures are way different from their planet based cousins. Like Lizardfolk in spelljammer are more intelligent and I think they have their own major faction.
Every scro has a job to do in their culture, even if it is nothing but root vegetable farming, that Scro has a purpose and can serve all Scro, those scro who leave their society do so due to Ego more than any harsh treatment, also, as I said, generally speaking all scro whole heartedly support this culture and will not find weaker, smaller or stupider orcs or scro attractive, they will find goliath, half giants, the occasional half ogre or verbeeg, etc. That would be their choice, those who are larger, smarter, stronger, faster. Their culture is built around their family values, which are built around their individual values.
17:17 *in low gothic 40k* "Yes indeed reverend brother pickett, death to thee alien." *levels flamethrower at huddling frightened eldar family and douses them and their strange behaviours religiously* 😤🔥🧝 Usually your videos are good, but in terms of trope weaving, that was like a bolt out of the blue. 🏹🟦🎯 You went places... Looking forward to watching the guns in d&d video and the other draconic stuff... But everything past 17:17 omg. It got DEEP with context. 🌉⬇🧠 Ever the case of "are we the bad guys?" If you don't ever ask it, you probably are. *came to watch a light video about self educated orcs, left realizing that aj pickett was on fire with takes*. 🛡⚔🔥
4:54 For some reason that's a bit terrifying, Elves making Mech suits and all. I don't care what the campaign setting is but I prefer my Elves living amongst trees and communing with Nature, not constructing hyper bypasses and ions cannon-wielding Gundams.
Don't worry I'm right there with you. My sci Fi is aliens my fantasy is "races" it's odd when they blend them. Can't stand that further Warhammer bs either. Let's mix high fantasy with hi-tech and zero plot(sorry Warhammer fans they are terrible books ...worse than star wars. Such bad writing all around...). Great old school version for tabletop medieval battles though.... They should have stuck to it. But I guess they've got a few on their side. 40k should be blowing everyone at Blizzard non stop for allowing them to succeed(any older gamers know exactly what I mean as Warhammer almost died...)
The goblins have a ship called the "blade", which is usually used similar to a kamikaze. Sometimes it's loaded with explosives, sometimes just a big goblin boarding party.
Traveller would be a great RPG to make an intro series on as well, I agree. Many, many more aliens to come, and I will make some sci-fi fantasy adventure modules for free as well.
Well it's kind of more like every elf nation with spelljammer access is a member of Elf NATO with a unified command that all the ships will take orders from. Basically the space elves don't try to rule over planets, just the space between them.
@@BrendanKOD So, I've been deployed several times on NATO missions, and although I've never been part of the Command, I'm pretty sure we never destroyed or planned to destroy entire planets! Except for the time, no, wait, It never came up!
I love the scro in my own universe most many orcs are more like scro despite a hate for elves that’s a case by case basis . Love the video make this man famous.
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Every scro becomes a formidable warrior after enduring years and years of ridicule for the name of their race, as well as their most common male name being "Sue."
How do u do. My name is Sue. OUCH! LOL
A Scro named Sue
Well, if ya want your kid to grow up tough, ya name him Sue
Mary Scro?
Fuck me I love that song. . . Also, I have this visual in my head of their warcry/chant being a really bassy "TUUM!". . . So I just envision them in a warband, stamping the base of their spears in unison, chanting their name followed by warcry in beat of the 'viking-clap-esque' rhythm. . .
"Scro-TUM! Scro-TUM! Scro-TUM!"
Other races: Wow, the elves went hyperviolent so long ago
Elves: *sings My dad was a war criminal*
LOL :)
Alot of people think this is from 40k, but it's not. Space Orcs with horned helmets, guns, and hooligan behavior comes from Ralph Bakshis animated movies from the 1970s, Wizards, and Fire & Ice.
There is a Tale, a Tale of a Scro that had set himself apart from his brethren in the art of war. His name was Tum. Depicted as a godike warrior whose only weakness were his testies were its said his power was held.
The other nonhumans gave him the name Scro-tum, no body knows the more private parts of his story. All we are left with are cumulative epics.
He needs to be in my mercenary company from 3.5 Epic Inc.
No job to Big or small we do it all. One of the co-founders was a deep orc with the nickname Bhaal.. Ace hollis , bhaal, scro-tum and whebblyskags (a deep gnome with self image issues)
When he says anime, a lot of the unhuman war stuff is literally drawn from anime, like the Bionoids which are very closely modeled after The Guyver. It's interesting that in the novelisation it revealed that after creating them, the elves didn't treat the suvivors that well because they had made them as weapons and didn't like being reminded that they were still people under the transforming chitinous armor
My friend calls his friends "scro" as a mash-up of "bro" and...well...you know...
I cannot wait to blow the party's minds when they are confronted by the Scro for the first time in my game.
Huh... Sc..?
@@KS-PNW it's bro and...ehem...scrotum
These are also one of my favorite spelljammer races - everything scary about humans and hobgoblins wrapped in an 400lbs muscled bound and armored package
The elvish bio-Mech suits and other stuff from that war you talked about would make a great video
"Shorter the name, the powerful the being. " - Io, probably
Elves, "EXTERMINATUS!"
Wonder what the elven mechs were called. Or do they fall under the umbrella of "the Witchlight Marauders"
we shall soon know all about them
@@AJPickett I wonder if you can hear my sqee of excitement all the way in N.Z.
Greetings, A.J.! I discovered your channel a few months ago, and your videos have opened up the world of D&D for me. I'm learning so much, and every video is fascinating. Currently, I don't have any disposable income, so it might be a while before I can donate to your Patreon, but rest assured, that future is getting closer every day. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Have a good day, and please stay safe out there. :)
Awesome, thank you!
I would love videos on all these other Super Monsters created by The Elves and the Orcs!
Especially the Witchlight Marauders!
> "...Would like to hear about War Machines & Mutant Horrors"
Yes please!
Man I loved Spelljammer. Elvish guyvers, hippo-man mercs, neogi pirates, crazy insectoid mad doctors. And witchlight marauders need to make a comeback. They made a great basis for an Elder Evil type monster.
The Halfling-Precursor Hypothesis: By Icari Rell, Hedge-wizard.
Position: Halflings (or some earlier form thereof,) are the ancient precursor race (who’s likely origins are interplanar invaders from the far realm,) which either developed into, or provided a template for, virtually all other humanoid life in the prime-material plane.
Evidence:
1-No god takes credit for the creation of halflings, (Or humans for that matter,) and no-one knows where they originated from, only scant references in halfling oral tradition remain of reference to “The bad old days” before they received the sponsorship of the goddess Tymora.
2a-Halflings serve as a notable middle-point for humanoid morphology. In simple terms, virtually all humanoid forms are at most, two leaps from halflings. humans are halflings plus height, and likely one of the first offshoot branches. Dwarves are halflings plus a denser muscular structure, Goblins are nocturnal halflings that have adjusted to a more ambush-centered survival strategy, as opposed to a community-centered one. Gnomes are halflings plus caffeine... Etc., etc.
2b-This theory of central offshoots from a base morphology hold true to humans as well, and whether or not the individual humanoid races evolved naturally or were created by a god, this theory posits that halflings or their human offshoots were used as a starting point that divinity or nature modified after the fact.
3- Halfling genetics are remarkably adaptable, with stout, hairfoot, lightfoot, furchin, tallfellows, and strongheart subraces providing convenient midpoints along the evolutionary chain between halflings and other races. Ghostwise halflings are likely the closest to the ancient precursor halflings from the far realm, due to their more barbaric society and psionic abilities.
4- All halflings possess an extremely alien and unnatural residual trait, further hinting at their far-plane origin: A near-immunity to fear. This feature does not make sense in the slightest as a natural adaptation for a race of such small stature, as they are considered ideal prey by all manner of vicious creatures. In a martial communal society, (Hobgoblins, for example,) this could be explained as an outgrowth of the impulse to sacrifice oneself for the survival of the community, but halflings are deeply integrated, interpersonal, largely peaceful,^ and mostly agrarian, all of which would discourage this trait if their biology conformed to the rules and standards of this dimension.
5- Far realm incursions have been well documented to produce creatures with predispositions towards psionic abilities, (again, ghostwise halflings!) Incomprehensible psychology, manipulative appendages, and mutable physiology, all of which are present in halflings. Perhaps the “Bad old days” are a misconstrued reference to their time before this world, or their transition from the far realm to this one, as such a transition has been noted to be incomprehensibly unpleasant in the cases of other aberrant creatures.
^Perhaps that is another way in which halflings are unnatural, that is to say, their cheerful communal outlook on a world that very much tries to kill them. Some aberrations are unnaturally cruel, or curious, or egotistical. Perhaps halflings are unnaturally... wholesome?
_What follows after this point in the essay are pages of writing that become increasingly technical and filled with citations of often extremely obscure texts and theories about the nature of interplanar existence. One mildly amusing section tangents into the peculiar proliferation of creatures that look like frogs throughout the multiverse, namely grung, grippli, bullywugs, nergaliid, hezrou, froghemoths, slaadi, hydroloth, and batrachi. As the author rambles about the possibility that this could be evidence of the batrachi becoming an interplanar species after their disappearance from history, your eyes have glazed beyond the point of productive reading._
How are ogres capebal of space travel if they are dumber of wolfs?
And yes we want a video on the abominations made during the war.
Sounds like varied goblinoids among them. Hobgoblins would be the most disciplined to take up engineering.
@@yungo1rst I could take that as an explanation.
The famous scro Warrior had achieved many things in his life, slain many dragons, Even conquered kingdoms. Yet he was not happy.. Yes for some unknown reason, the great scro warrior Tum was a very sad man.
You could insert 'hobgoblin" for scro when talking about their culture.
Is the general populace of the realms aware of the people from Spelljamer? For example are the elves from Toril even aware of the Spelljamer elves from realm space?
I’m pretty sure elves of Toril have a few spelljamer ships
@@foodie135 But are they related in any way outside of ,,they're all elves'' and do they trade or have any political alliance? That's what I want to know
Kind of and yes.
Your average person on Toril is not aware of Spelljammers but there are people in pretty much every major society who ARE aware of the larger Spelljammer universe.
For elves specifically the knowledge is more widely spread than in the general population. The court of Evermeet has official representatives in the eleven armada, as do many other elven nations on different worlds.
@@KS-PNW Thank you.
@@nicolaezenoaga9756 yea I’m pretty sure they know and trade with the elven armada I don’t know about other world tho
Been years but lets see if i remember : Scrow (orcs spelled backwards, to show they are so far far removed to be almost a different species) do not worship Grumsh. Ducash felt it was Grumsh lack of helping his people that played a critical role in the orc defeat. If Grumsh did not help the orcs the scrow would not worship him. They despise him to a good extent
That would be unwise for any Sage to put into print.
Scro is just orcs backwards.
This is the peak of orc intelligence lol
Your back story build up... Information I never heard of and was a "wow" - thank you... And damn, very well written script...
Scro are to orcs as Hobgoblins are to regular Goblins. Bigger, stronger, and way, way more trained and formidable.
With that last picture I'm just imagining an Orc biker gang with Grug's Angels on the back of their armor😂
10 minutes and 15 seconds until I realized that Scro was orcs spelled backwards
even more the rumors of the one calling himself Tum.... course the rumors of this one are on par with Neeber and Noober
Oh my god ... Scro is just orcs backward ... I feel so stupid
Hey remember when the DnD multiverse became Warhammer 40k for a bit? Yeah... That was wild.
Robotech with orcs.
"Don't worry scro. There's plenty of tards living really kickass lives." -Dr Lexus
What a great movie!
Can be of any alignment and have a tendancy to murder elves are an interesting combination...
You don't know elves like I do.
@@AJPickett Guilt free pest control... 😄
Came to think of the golem Shale in Dragon Age and her (yes) attitude toward pigeons...
Not going to lie... this Astral war sounds a little like Star Wars with the Astral Elves being the Empire. Also, I do indeed want to hear more about the war and the mutants.
those machine of ancient war seems interesting
wonder if there is still some around in current spelljammer
My favorite DnD race there! Awesome video.
This article has brought back memories of the Spelljammer novels. That series was an absolute trainwreck, but one that I found a lot of fun (with each book being totally unpredictable).
It is the series that I have read where the most noticeable is the change from one author to another in each novel.
Love you spelljammer vids as always.
An entire species with Spelljammers and a serious hatred of elves so what your saying is prime candidates for being masters at making Elven-Slayer weapons.
Add in the fact ramming someone counts as a melee weapon for smite and you got Space Orcs Paladins smiting with Slayer space ships.
Fellow dms I pass that idea to you.
What a great juxtaposition to be hearing about the atrocities these elves were performing only to then hear one was named Leafblower 😅 Taserface flashbacks!
We could build a whole adventuring party based on these guys. A Scro team. They could roll around the land in warmer climates or tighten up formation when they must brave the cold. I'd love to see a Scro team hanging out at the tavern for all to see. I bet that would raise some eyebrows!
I'm always down for ancient war machines and mutant horrors.
i def wanna know more about the ancient horrors and war machines
I haven't read hunter trilogy in years and I can still remember exactly how the fight between drizzt and obould went
I guess that in 5e you can basically play an orc (maybe from the eberron or wildemount books), give them elvish language through some background feature, high intelligence and the artificer class.
Your party sets out to battle the great Scro shaman, Tum.
I just realized hours later that scro is literally just orcs backwards...
Does anyone else feel dumb that it took them until the end of the video to realize that Scro is just an anagram for Orcs?
"Anagram" doesn't have an O in it.
@@fjLKA LMAO! I only ever heard the word and never saw how it was spelled. I will fix. Thanks.
Got home from my overnight job not long ago, and I see an AJ video. Good morning indeed.
EDIT: For the record, your assumption is correct, for me at least. More abominations is always welcome. >:D
So this is spelljammer? Cool.
I love the Scro, but not for classic reasons. I was an avid reader when I was a young AD&D player who was usually the DM. I saw the Middle Earth connections to AD&D's world and ran with than in my world-building when the original source was absent.
As a teen, I created the High Orc, the precursor to just about all goblionoids as well as the superior Orcs. They were the first (or first few) generation(s) of corrupted Elves who became the anti-Elves before the Drow actually failed at being anti-Elves by being the evil Elves. The reason the could breed with anything except Elves is closely linked with them being anti-Elves, becoming the opposite of their blood origin, is because they became the antithesis to being Elf. They had positive aspects compared to Elves (such as not at all being racist except against elves) while being essentially the fantasy world version of being (selectively non-racist) Nazis. Much of their weapons, crafts, etc are technically strongly Elf in technology and quality in all ways save for magic but they are designed in cruel and functional manners. An Elf sword is a work of art that usually glows with a bit of magic. A High-Orc sword is just as good, very similar under a microscope, but is designed to deliver as much pain and as much damage as possible. It's the same weapon, but uglier.... or "the same level of ugly" to a Dwarf weapon smith.
When my friend introduced me to Spelljammer and later Scro, I fell in love with this race because I saw Scro as the rebirth of the OG bloodline of High Orc. I had my own canon and Loom of Magus universe that we both did a lot of mental gymnastics to adopt back then to work together. I began my space travel (Prime Material Plane) thing with the Barrier Peaks module as the inspiration, along with the books I read. To be honest, I hated Spelljammer at first for exactly that.
Sounds like these boyz know how to Wagh!
Yes please, more info on the war machines and biological horrors of the Unhuman Wars.
Yes I want to hear about ancient war machines and mutants used in the inhuman wars
5:00 why does this make me think of that "elf eater" lovecraftian tripod turtle monster
I’m very eager to hear about the mutant creatures made during their curfuffle
I never really thought twice about why an Orc would know my common tongue and shout out much to my panic, "And so two warriors meet on the battlefield, to do battle, upon a field of battle!"
...Okay, so how in the hell did calling themselves 'Scro' ever catch on? How did they not just get laughed out of the multiverse for that?
By shooting people in the face until they stopped laughing.
Follow-up question how in the hell did their creator(s) calling them that catch on?
@@AJPickett "Our shamans have developed advanced magical weapons, specialized war totems. We are calling them Scro-Tems."
***someone laughs***
***gunshots ring out***
"Did I stutter?"
@@AJPickett If it works, it works
More about the ancient weapons!
Great video! More world destroying anime creatures please.
I have a suggestion: How about a lore video about the "real world" and its place in D & D canon. I remember all those "Wizard's Three" articles from Dragon magazine that took place on Earth. There are a few other references too. I seem to remember a module where you stole the Mace of St. Cuthbert from the British Museum.
i more interested in Spirit warriors. I have an idea for a spelljammer space mecha campaign.
I'd love to hear more about kobold, orc, goblin, and ogre spelljammer ships
Kobolds, Goblins, maybe even orcs, i just can’t imagine ogres building a spell jammer.
@@mikewaterfield3599 eh ogres can be pretty smart. If anything they probably enslave others to build one and then power it with a shaman or even an ogre mage
@@zacharyweaver276 you have a point there, plus well 40k orcs literally use asteroids as ships….
@@mikewaterfield3599 Yeah plus spelljammer versions of races/creatures are way different from their planet based cousins. Like Lizardfolk in spelljammer are more intelligent and I think they have their own major faction.
So it's cannon that scro hate manlets.
I think the name says it all SKRO,orks backward because they are far from your standard ork
So they have become Hobgoblins, assimilated through mating? Also sounds like the elves are on the road to become mind flayers...
" Sc -ro -ro - roo ."
Okay I just show myself out if I can't come up with anything better to feed the algorithm.
Yes! More! all of the anime!
Scro tend to view groundling orcs as being backwards.
That is the most polite way to put it.
@@AJPickett Did you get the pun or not , I can't tell !!!
Awesome pic of The Main Man. Lobo the baddest bounty hunter.
Space orks?
*clears throat*
Ahem. WAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!
The more you described them the more I imagined 40k orks.
Glad to see another quality video! I hope you're doing alright AJ!
Yep, just in the middle of moving house :)
Okay, so the Skro are Orc-Klingons of D&D or Spell Jammer? They also follow the survival of the fittest mentality, interesting.
Every scro has a job to do in their culture, even if it is nothing but root vegetable farming, that Scro has a purpose and can serve all Scro, those scro who leave their society do so due to Ego more than any harsh treatment, also, as I said, generally speaking all scro whole heartedly support this culture and will not find weaker, smaller or stupider orcs or scro attractive, they will find goliath, half giants, the occasional half ogre or verbeeg, etc. That would be their choice, those who are larger, smarter, stronger, faster. Their culture is built around their family values, which are built around their individual values.
Somehow miss this video. Great video AJ
Somehow Wizards of the Coast misplaced this entire race from their latest release.... ;)
Hooray! I requested this!
more lore about made monsters yes yes yes and great work looking forward to more
If you want to play a smart tall orc/goblinoid, why not just play a hobgoblin or gith?
Hey when the new spelljammer book comes out do think you well do a video covering all the lore changes in the book?
Sure
AJ is back! Finished moving? 👍🏻 Scro sound pretty awesome, a more intelligently warlike, lethal, bigger, badder, Orc.
Lol that bit at the end there about traditional family values
:) sneaky sneaky AJ
I'm playing an arrogant elf in the against the giants campaign. Ya he'd fit right in with these genosides!!!!
Sure would!
17:17 *in low gothic 40k* "Yes indeed reverend brother pickett, death to thee alien." *levels flamethrower at huddling frightened eldar family and douses them and their strange behaviours religiously* 😤🔥🧝 Usually your videos are good, but in terms of trope weaving, that was like a bolt out of the blue. 🏹🟦🎯 You went places... Looking forward to watching the guns in d&d video and the other draconic stuff... But everything past 17:17 omg. It got DEEP with context. 🌉⬇🧠 Ever the case of "are we the bad guys?" If you don't ever ask it, you probably are. *came to watch a light video about self educated orcs, left realizing that aj pickett was on fire with takes*. 🛡⚔🔥
A video of lore on powerful machines and biological horrors bred for war? Yes please.
Ever gonna cover the blood War?
I have a lot of videos about the nine hell's, abyss, hags, yugoloths and slaadi
4:54 For some reason that's a bit terrifying, Elves making Mech suits and all. I don't care what the campaign setting is but I prefer my Elves living amongst trees and communing with Nature, not constructing hyper bypasses and ions cannon-wielding Gundams.
Don't worry I'm right there with you. My sci Fi is aliens my fantasy is "races" it's odd when they blend them. Can't stand that further Warhammer bs either. Let's mix high fantasy with hi-tech and zero plot(sorry Warhammer fans they are terrible books ...worse than star wars. Such bad writing all around...). Great old school version for tabletop medieval battles though.... They should have stuck to it. But I guess they've got a few on their side. 40k should be blowing everyone at Blizzard non stop for allowing them to succeed(any older gamers know exactly what I mean as Warhammer almost died...)
Not a fan of Dungeonhammer 20k?
Let's hear about the Hobgoblin version of Captain America!
Would that have been the results if Norman Osborn's super soldier formula had been successful?
With all this occurring I'm just like when did humans show up in lore?
Humans are an ancient species.
I wonder if space goblins are a thing. I can certainly see hobgoblins being organized enough to get a working spelljammer
feudal japanese hobgoblins in Gozabune style Spelljammers are a mood.
That's an actual thing :D
The goblins have a ship called the "blade", which is usually used similar to a kamikaze. Sometimes it's loaded with explosives, sometimes just a big goblin boarding party.
More Spelljammer , more Palladuim gaming .. more aliens ! maybe something on Traveller ?
Traveller would be a great RPG to make an intro series on as well, I agree. Many, many more aliens to come, and I will make some sci-fi fantasy adventure modules for free as well.
Sounds like Custodes to me.
Kythons soon please :) thought you had a video on them but I can't seem to find it, so if not, I would love to see what you can find on them!
So, the Elves is actually the Empire???
Yeah they wanted to turn the typical good vs evil dynamic on it's head
@@KS-PNW Not quite. DnD have gods, so good vs evil isn't nearly as subjective as it is in reality.
@@KS-PNW Well I don't know about that. The Scro and their allies are also evil. It's evil versus evil.
Well it's kind of more like every elf nation with spelljammer access is a member of Elf NATO with a unified command that all the ships will take orders from. Basically the space elves don't try to rule over planets, just the space between them.
@@BrendanKOD
So, I've been deployed several times on NATO missions, and although I've never been part of the Command, I'm pretty sure we never destroyed or planned to destroy entire planets!
Except for the time,
no, wait,
It never came up!
Thanks for the great video AJ
Yes please we would like to hear more.
I love the scro in my own universe most many orcs are more like scro despite a hate for elves that’s a case by case basis . Love the video make this man famous.
Definitely want to hear more
Ah, finally another desert of gourmet glue. :9
Yes tell me about those Goblin based Gundams
Astral orogs basically?
Yes Please, on the mutant horrors!
Are there any Snamuh, sevle, sevrawd, Snilbog, Sergo or maybe Snogard living in some far off Crystal Sphere with weird phonetic structures?🤔😁
Snilbogs were a thing in Spelljammer for sure
Bring on the mutant horrors.
Yes another good one Mr pickett
Hands down my favorite race in any edition. Dukagsh has some fascinating lore sprinkled around out there.