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.

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.

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.

De nada.

"...where everybody knows your name..."

Here's what I've gleaned from 4th edition:

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!!!!"

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.

One of the characters in a game I played in was a human born from troll parents. He had size issues...

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.

...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.

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.