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Orcs may be stronger, but they lack the dicipline to fight in an effective fashion and turn one advantage into another. Also, hitting emotionless skeletons is not as much fun as pounding on the frightened 'umies that ocassionally even begin to run. Oh, and there are 206 bones in the human body to smash to bits [img]tongue.gif[/img]
A more technical argument would be the following:
A NWN orc is a humanoud, has 4 hp (1HD), AC 10 and a 1d12 (critical 20-20 (x3)) slashing great axe, with a +2 STR bonus.
A NWN skeleton is undead, has 6 hp (1HD), AC 10 and a 1d8 (critical 20-20 (x3)) slashing battleaxe.
On average, without criticals, their weapons do 8.5 and 4.5 points of damage respectively. For both sides that is enough to slay the other in a single hit.
This would mean that the stronger humanoids have the advantage as they hit more often. Unfortunately for them, the greataxe does slashing damage, meaning that it is at 1/2 strength vs undead (or should be). At an average of 5.25, two hits are required to exceed the 6 skeletal hitpoints.
The attack bonus the orcs get is not nearly enough to double the amounts of hits they get though, and so they are the ones which would be grinded over time.
QED [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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