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 Aug 27 2006, 08:57 PM
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Shadow Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 3,737 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Secret Tunnels under the UK (South West) Member No.: 8,636  |
Hi, Just querying the group mind to find out if there is any cannon information on breeding between metatypes that I may have missed. To the best of my knowledge, a child will favour one parent's race or the other with no pattern predictable. Occasionally a child may favour neither metatype, e.g. two elves having a human child, two humans having a dwarf, though this has settled down somewhat since the awakening. Is this still all correct or has aditional information ever been published and if so where. Thanks for all replies, -K. |
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Aug 27 2006, 09:15 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Thank Ghost. For a minute there, I thought this was another dwelf thread.
Anywho. Generally speaking, a child will be of the metatype of one of the parents. It's theoretically possible the child could be of any metatype, but that hasn't been the case so far. Trolls and orks occaisionally give birth to humans that goblinize at puberty; the giant metavariant actually has a high occurence of giving birth to regular humans, about 1 in 4 kids. One of these days - when I have the time - I'll fix the metagenetics page and try to clear this up. |
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Aug 27 2006, 09:18 PM
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Shadow Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 3,737 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Secret Tunnels under the UK (South West) Member No.: 8,636 |
I've seen your site, AH. And I'm familiar with your posts. I'm going to take this answer as definitive. It's what I thought, but I wanted to rule out having missed something and putting my foot in it.
Thanks, -K. |
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Aug 27 2006, 09:27 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
De nada.
"...where everybody knows your name..." |
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Aug 27 2006, 09:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
Here's what I've gleaned from 4th edition:
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Aug 27 2006, 10:35 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Heh.
In the locker room: Human high school student: "KE KE KE ROFL let's mock Ralph there because he dosen't have his pubes yet. OH MY GOD HE'S EXPRESSING INTO AN ORC!" Ralph: "RALPH SMASH!!!!" |
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Aug 29 2006, 03:30 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
lol
We had a munchkin for a long time who refused to accept he couldn't be a half elf or a half orc. This was the same nit wit who finally had some sense knocked into him, litterally, when one player gave him a beat down. |
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Aug 30 2006, 07:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 834 Joined: 30-June 03 Member No.: 4,832 |
One of the characters in a game I played in was a human born from troll parents. He had size issues...
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Aug 30 2006, 08:01 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
I've always wanted to explore the situation where the child remains human (of ork or troll, heck even giant parents), and what troubles the individual faces living in the environment, any problems from siblings who took after the parents, etc... Still, I think what would be interesting is the kid is at school, the bullies start picking a fight and then finding out to their horror that the kid's is one of the Nelsons' brood (trolls/orks) as they then get their just rewards for bullying.
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Aug 30 2006, 09:35 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...KK was a human born to Elf Parents.
Based on something I read back during the SR1 - SR2 days, If an elfin couple had twins one of the children would be human (which was the case with Kyoto). Don't remember if it was in the core rules, one of the supplements, or novels though. |
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Aug 30 2006, 11:23 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
How Brian-esque. Did the beatdown occur because of an in-game issue, or was it an unrelated outside life issue? |
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Aug 31 2006, 01:11 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
outside. Late one session one player was falling asleep. The twit woke him up by pulling on his beard. The bearded one came up swinging.
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