[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 133, Issue 15- a grammar note

Bessie Hadley eleabess at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 29 22:35:39 CET 2016


"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: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:47:40 -0500
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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.
 
 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  I did one years ago but its outdated.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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