[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 133, Issue 15- a grammar note
Scott Adams
longshotgm at comcast.net
Wed Sep 6 03:16:59 CEST 2017
Hope you didn't use m book 4 cheat notes file. I made it in '90s
Didn't even care to spell check it.
But I use it for quick reference. I did look online for book 4 and
think i saw it.
But ignored it.
Its not for public really. ;)
Was spur of moment 30 years ago.
At 04:42 PM 9/4/2017, you wrote:
>I have changed this to
>"Where the parent is inimical, the character is always sired by a
>non-human father."
>
>Found a few typo's/scan erros in the NMI section and have corrected
>those. If anyone else has textual chnges/corrections, please let me know.
>
>Wout
>
>On 29-11-16 22:35, Bessie Hadley wrote:
>>"Where a Sire is inimical, the father is always the Sire." Sire
>>means "father, or male parent." Can that be made less awkward, or
>>maybe we need to rephrase it another way - gave me a double-take &
>>a giggle (tch, tch). Thanks for the information anyway.
>>
>>Bess L. Hadley
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>> Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 3:00 AM
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>> 1. Half Breeds (Scott Adams)
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>> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:47:40 -0500
>> From: Scott Adams <longshotgm at comcast.net>
>> To: pnp at list.powersandperils.org
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 I did one years ago but its outdated.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.
>>
>> ----
>> 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.
>> ------
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -----
>> Last line could be seen differently as your either a half
>> human or
>> nothing else.
>>
>> ------
>> 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.
>>
>> ------
>> 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.
>>
>> -----
>> 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.
>>
>> How do you follow these rules. Thanks!
>>
>> So I can code it. :)
>>
>>
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