[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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Today's Topics:
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>
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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 I did one years ago but its outdated.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.
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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. :)
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