[PnP] Half Breeds

[Scott Adams]

Ok guys.  Richard is our God and never makes no mistakes.  Its lowly
humans who mis read and interpret these wonderful world of P&P.

First I've been making great progress on my ship project after years
of idle time.  i've cut down the data to half.  A big step. :)  More
work I've done this last couple months in years.

Second I'm also in my spare time (hour there and here) working on
a pc generator.  I did one years ago but its outdated.

I've come up with this confusing thing...half breeds.  We may dislike
them and think it stupid.  But we still need to figure it out.

Recap: Normally we are Human, Dwarf, Elf, Faerry.

So heres the rule:

HALFBREEDS (OPTIONAL)

   There are other races that can have viable offspring with
   humans. The result of such unions is halfbreed characters
   that may share some or all of the talents of their non-human
   sire. If the race is beneficent, the initial training of the
   character depends on the sex of his mother. If she is human,
   he is raised human. If not, he is raised non-human.

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Let's break that down.
  1.  First line other races with humans = half breed.
      So this means a rampaging goblin Human.  It doesn't mention
      Elf/Faerry.  (DWarves we learn later can't have half breeds).
  2.  So next big part is share genetics from non human (X) and Human
      again restricting it to Human only.
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Where the sire is inimical, the sire is always the father. In most
cases, the mother dies giving birth to him and he is fostered to
another human family. No other possibility leaves a character extant
to be played.

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Last line could be seen differently as your either a half human or
nothing else.

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NOTE - I only mention those races whose breeding with humans can
possibly yield a playable character. Among those I omit are the
children of daivas, drugas and high caste Korchi. The first two
are automatically daivas or drugas. The last is rarely found outside
Korchi territory (unless conquering someone).
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So richard seems to imply that his chart below is only for human and
X mixes.  So again this implies no Elf/Faerry.

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BEING A HALFBREED
	Because Characters are exceptional members of their
         race a player who wishes to try for this attribute has
         a 10% chance of having a halfbreed character UNLESS his
         character is a Dwarf. There are no Dwarf halfbreeds.
	If the Character is a halfbreed the Referee may assign
         the non-human parent based on where the campaign is
         starting. If he does not choose to do so, roll on the
         Breeding Races table. Once the race is determined, roll
         1D2 for the non-human parents sex if necessary. The
          parent's sex will affect the Character's starting
          knowledge and other factors.
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So we see here Dwarves can't be half breeds.  Yet we read above it
implies that only humans can be such? Huh?
So Ref can figure out non human parent implying possible Elf/Faerry?
Then h ementions the d2 for non human parent which brings us back to
one must be human.

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BREEDING RACES (Roll D100)
ROLL   RACE          ROLL   RACE       ROLL  RACE
01     Alfar         24-30  Nymph      76-79 Trazire
02+03  Incubus*      31-35  Faerry     80-82 Sernemu
04+05  Pseudothei*   36-42  Jinn       83-86 Devil*
06+07  Anwora*       43-48  Demon*     87-90 Whisper
08-10  Daoine Sidhe* 49-55  Elf        91-93 Seirim*
11-13  Vily          56-58  True Sidhe 94+95 Lunafey
14-16  Troll*        59-64  Nar'morel  96+97 Eld Troll*
17-20  Baobhan       65-67  Romati     98+99 Fusin
21-23  Mir           68-75  Goblin*    100   Green Lady

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So I see Flf in table. Human/Elf fine.
But why not a Elf-Vily?

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* These races are always the FATHER in the union. In some cases this 
is because only males exist. For others, the child with that race as 
mother does not yield a playable character.


    So....

    Are there Human / X Half breeds only?

    Why does he say no Half-Dwarves if its only humans?

    That would imply a Elf / X or Faerry / X

    If that Dwarf wasn't there I'd say its only Human / X.
    But that also seems unfair.  Why can't a Elf and Demon
    mix?

    Wout seems to agree with me that the wording needs work.

    How do you follow these rules.  Thanks!

    So I can code it. :)