[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 133, Issue 15- a grammar note
Wout Broere
broere at powersandperils.org
Mon Sep 4 22:42:05 CEST 2017
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.
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> Bess L. Hadley
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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 I did one years ago but its outdated.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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