How does your current game deal with half-races?
>>97554113>half halfling>not quaterlingKek
There aren't any.
>>97554113I don’t deal with half races because racial stats will give me a headache of having to calculate shit then having to homebrew culture and how they’re treated and even more.It’s just a can of worms I don’t want to open.
Pf2e has been doing it for years.And better than D&D
>>97554120Wouldn't a quarterling just be an even smaller halfling? Like a halfling baby? Think about it.
>>97554113Their tribal powers are massively nerfed, they have the inborn powers of both tribes but they are at less than half the power it would be.
>>97554113We call them half-nogs
>>97554366>better then D&DYeah right kid
>>97554120>>97554371So wouldn't a half-halfling be a three-quarterling? Or are we getting into weird fractions in the case of a nonhuman parent?
>>97554113I feel like those feats would be too good compared to the other origin feats. Specifically half-Gnome.
It's funny how the current Reddit/Leftist meta is "AI BAD!!!" Meanwhile this presumably hand-drawn art is utter dreck. Cal-Arts-adjacent cutesy-pie cartoonery, everyone is always happy and smug because they know they're invulnerable in Modern D&D, 99% of the characters are just standing there posing instead of doing anything, the armor and weapons are always some oversized cartoon version of what a 10 year old (or a woman) imagines armor to look like, etc
>>97554113>half-dwarfThey're called mul. How did they forget that!?!?@?
>>97554606Remember that both can be bad, anon. It doesn't have to be one or the other, you can call both shit.
>>97554414Well, you see there are Fullings, which breed with Humans in order to produce Halflings. Then the next generation depends on if the other parent is Fulling or Human if the offsping is quarterling or threequarterling.
>>97554366Pf2e is D&D thoughbeit.
>>97554113Not at all, because only humans are playable.
>>97554113If a half-black is an oreo, just imagine all the racial slurs for tiefling dwarves and elf orc."Ah yes, he's one of them footbeards"
>>97554898What races of humans are available and is there crossbreeding?
>>97554113Pokémon logic. Offspring always matches the mother.
>>97555344Are humans dittoes of the setting?
>>97555286The different human races are mechanically indistinct.
>>97555352A human mother bears a human child, a human father sires a child of whatever race the mother is--same as any other species. Though it's also a setting detail that different species aren't natively capable of cross-breeding. Most marriage rituals, however, involve an invocation of the mother goddess to bless the union, which then allows the happy couple to produce viable offspring. The overall setup does have the side-effect of encouraging most premarital and extramarital sexual exploration to be performed across species lines, given that doing so avoids unintentional pregnancies, which can have some knock-on effects on society and culture if you extrapolate far enough, but I consider that a feature and not a bug.
>>97555406>The different human races are mechanically indistinct.I dislike unrealistic settings like that.
>>97554113There are no halfies. You're either human, synth, or a mutie.
>>97554672Um, Dark Sun is problematic, sweatie? Slavery is for chuds and bigots?>>97554727Pathfinder is D&D for autists who REEEEE'd at 4e not being the same as 3.x and wanted to keep their garbage fire of a game.
>>97555468Then you'll really hate to find out there aren't any black people
>>97554113Most cases I would just go with Elder Scrolls rules (would-be half-breed just become the mother's race). If a player made a particularly interesting pitch, I would consider having some kind of combinatorial half-race that merges the positive and negative qualities of both.
>>97554688Be forgiving, he's tiny brained and also a big tech shill.
>>97554113>halfgoliathgoliath was already a half stone giantat that point make a half half orc too
>>97555344That's Jewish rules.
The "races" are literally different species and can't naturally produce viable offspring normally. Only by artificial means is a hybrid possible, and most countries/societies find such a practice abominable due to historical reason related to mage crafted beings designed solely for war. Basically "half-races" are dreaded leftover living weapons or the result of ghastly contemporary experiments to create current day living weapons. They aren't liked, they aren't trusted, but sometimes they are seen as useful if they prove themselves to be one of the rare few mentally stable enough to not go on a rampage when not strictly controlled. Vast majority are exiled to a island continent where they live short brutal lives of near constant violence.
Playable races are dwarves, elves, humans, and orcs. You can play a half-dwarf, half-elf, or half-orc. Narratively, you look like a full whatever except for having eyes like a human. Some NPCs will find this creepy. Mechanically, you're exactly like a fullblood, except your sorcerous options are human instead of whatever else
Wait, I thought that dwarfs only breed true so generally speaking there are no half dwarfs with the sole exception in D&D being Dark Sun. Otherwise you try to bread a dwarf with anything else you will just end up with a full dwarf child regardless of the race of the other parent.
All of my mutt races are humans mixed with magical, spiritual beings long long ago. I have giants, half-trolls, half-greeks, etc. More offshoots of humanity than wholly distinct races (Dwarves, Frogmen, Goblins)
>>97554113What do you mean by "deal"? Please explain in detail.
>>97554606Yeah, that's why it's better, and you're aging and irrelevant and no one will notice when you die.
>>97554113There are no mechanical effects. If you want to play a big strong guy, you can buy ranks in might and toughness. If you want to be an otherworldy being naturally gifted in art and magic, you can buy ranks in intellect, willpower, charm, and sorcery. Every player can imagine any sort of creature however they want, and make whatever choices they want to represent the concept.
>>97554113>Half-breed individual with "My race as the father" is good and all is well in the world>Half-breed individual with "My race as the mother" is bad and the world is ending at this very momentProbably the most realistic reactions from an irl perspective>>97555344That's Elder Scrolls logic too
>>97554113With Hellfire Rays.
>>97554113We have them. I been making my own system and Half-races are mostly a human thing. (Humans are known to be able to breed with most races.) Though they are other non-human hybrid races.
>>97554113These are the consequences .... of miscegenation
>>97554113I enjoy the fact that almost all of these are the consequences of non-consensual sexual assault
>>97554113>half-dwarf/orcThat's so offensve in so many levels
>>97558824Mixed race individuals are beautiful. Pic related: stunning and brave.
>>97554113Seen, rightly, as an abomination. Party half elf was nearly lynched by the humans and they are keeping it a secret from the few full blood elves they have met
>>97554113With severe and massive racism
>>97555422Sounds like a mashup of Elder Scrolls and Interspecies Reviewers. Not a bad way to handle it.
