[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 133, Issue 15
Scott Adams
longshotgm at comcast.net
Wed Nov 30 20:11:53 CET 2016
That is a good way to say it. But as even Richard said players are
exceptional so a elf/green lady I'd say is possible. ;)
But I'll wait and see what others say.
But for my char generator I'll just a Race/Half of X
Except Dwarf.
Thanks for reply.
At 09:29 AM 11/29/2016, you wrote:
>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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> > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:47:40 -0500
> > From: Scott Adams <longshotgm at comcast.net>
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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 I did one years ago but its outdated.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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