[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 133, Issue 15
David Sanders
dasandersx at comcast.net
Tue Nov 29 15:29:39 CET 2016
I suspect it has to do with the world (small 'world') the character would be in. PnP is still human-centric. An Elf-Vily offspring might not ever see the human world, but live only in the Elf or Vily world. They might be encountered, but maybe never be characters.
Think of it this way...the Vily might shun the half-breed, but then it goes to the Elves where it might be thought highly of...or also shunned. Will it choose to go to the humans? It comes from a mix of two haughty races. The Elves often look down upon the new human race...will this person do less?
Dave
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> 1. Half Breeds (Scott Adams)
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> Subject: [PnP] Half Breeds
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> 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.
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> 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 I did one years ago but its outdated.
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> 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:
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> HALFBREEDS (OPTIONAL)
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> 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).
> ----
> 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.
> -------
> 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
>
> ----
> So I see Flf in table. Human/Elf fine.
> But why not a Elf-Vily?
>
> -----
> * 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.
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> How do you follow these rules. Thanks!
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> So I can code it. :)
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