Half-Dwarves and Half-Gnomes...

[Kaji]

Or maybe even half-dwarf gnomes. I'm working on an idea where dwarves, gnomes and humans living in an isolated environment have been interbreeding for many centuries, and I was wondering if there are already some templates/races already drawn up to help me be lazy. Pdf products are preferred. Anyone know a good source for this?

BTW, welcome me back, I've been on a DND hiatus during my wedding plans (done deal now!) so I'm eager to start work on my home-brew, which I've been pining to do for a couple of years now. Feels better already...

 

[Crothian]

Green Ronin had a book on half races, I think that is your best bet for this type of thing.

 

[Kaji]

Like Advanced Bestiary, or was it all half-races? I trying to ferret it out of their catalog right now...

 

[Crothian]

it was all on half breads, it was written a few years back.

Bastards & Bloodlines: A Guidebook to Halfbreeds

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

The Midnight campaign setting has some interesting halfsies. As I recall, there's a half-dwarf/half-gnome race, a half-halfling/half-elf race, and a brutal half-dwarf/half-orc race.

 

[Kaji]

it was all on half breads, it was written a few years back.

Bastards & Bloodlines: A Guidebook to Halfbreeds

Cool, although when it comes to half-breads, I prefer banana bread

I'll look it up.

 

[Napftor]

I wrote an article detailing a dwarf-elf crossbreed race. Like your origin story, these two races were cut off from others for centuries and had no choice but to, er, mingle. The article is called "Valley of the Dwelves" and you can get it as a free download here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1859&

 

[Voadam]

The silverthorne pdf book of templates has a half-human template that could be applied to half-human half dwarves or gnomes.

 

[Kaji]

Hmmm...Bastard and Bloodlines looks interesting, but is not quite what I want for this plan. I'll keep poking around.

 

[Chris Durham]

Bastards and Bloodlines is pretty cool. A player in my game has it and I let him run a Morlock, which is essentiallly a half-gnome-half-troglodyte (or is it half-halfling(quarterling?)). Anyway, It's a decent book. My question is why not design your own race for this purpose? I'd think that after several centuries of inter-breeding there might be just one composite race, depending on the combination of parentage and breeding patterns. One Idea would be to allow characters to choose from a pool of racial traits. Or just create one race with a standard set of traits and create 6-12 bloodline or "heritage" feats.