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<blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 6937286" data-attributes="member: 6855057">It's quite alright! I like talking about my ideas/visions in general, and it shows you're taking an interest.Favorite scale colors? Not that I mentioned in the gazetteer, honestly; I hadn't considered that idea. Rarer colors like purple, orange, yellow or metallic may be more popular due to said rarity, though.Interbreeding with humans? Well... I've been wringing my hands over whether or not to mention this, but in my personal &quot;headcanon&quot; for the setting, humans can basically mate successfully with any humanoid race, even non-mammalian ones. However, the results of such interbreeding depend on the species involved; some species produce full-fledged hybrids (half-elves and half-dwarfs, case in point), some species produce distinctive substrains due to the human blood (for example, a hypothetical halfling/human cross would produce &quot;Strongheart&quot; halflings, much like how Stout halflings and Tallfellow halflings are halfling/dwarf crosses and halfling/elf crosses respectively), and some species produce offspring that are functionally pureblood members of one species or the other, but with definite influence from their &quot;outsider&quot; parent.So, yes, a blue-eyed, blonde human and a red-scaled, yellow-eyed kobold in the Malebolge could have children together. But the result of such a union would randomly be either a bigger, stronger kobold with blue eyes and yellow scales or a shorter and more delicate human with red hair and yellow eyes. This is a gross simplification, but it hopefully conveys the basic point; you'd get either a kobold or a human, in either case with some influence from its non-species parent. This is why &quot;human sorcerer with the Kobold Blood origin&quot; is a thing in this setting.I'm just a little unsure of how much acknowledgement to give this aspect of the setting because, y'know, this is a serious world and not a magical realm. It's simply that I've enjoyed Pathfinder too much to be averse to acknowledging that sex and sexuality is a thing that happens in this world, alongside murder, torture and insanity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="QuietBrowser, post: 6937286, member: 6855057"] It's quite alright! I like talking about my ideas/visions in general, and it shows you're taking an interest. Favorite scale colors? Not that I mentioned in the gazetteer, honestly; I hadn't considered that idea. Rarer colors like purple, orange, yellow or metallic may be more popular due to said rarity, though. Interbreeding with humans? Well... I've been wringing my hands over whether or not to mention this, but in my personal "headcanon" for the setting, humans can basically mate successfully with any humanoid race, even non-mammalian ones. However, the results of such interbreeding depend on the species involved; some species produce full-fledged hybrids (half-elves and half-dwarfs, case in point), some species produce distinctive substrains due to the human blood (for example, a hypothetical halfling/human cross would produce "Strongheart" halflings, much like how Stout halflings and Tallfellow halflings are halfling/dwarf crosses and halfling/elf crosses respectively), and some species produce offspring that are functionally pureblood members of one species or the other, but with definite influence from their "outsider" parent. So, yes, a blue-eyed, blonde human and a red-scaled, yellow-eyed kobold in the Malebolge could have children together. But the result of such a union would randomly be either a bigger, stronger kobold with blue eyes and yellow scales or a shorter and more delicate human with red hair and yellow eyes. This is a gross simplification, but it hopefully conveys the basic point; you'd get either a kobold or a human, in either case with some influence from its non-species parent. This is why "human sorcerer with the Kobold Blood origin" is a thing in this setting. I'm just a little unsure of how much acknowledgement to give this aspect of the setting because, y'know, this is a serious world and not a magical realm. It's simply that I've enjoyed Pathfinder too much to be averse to acknowledging that sex and sexuality is a thing that happens in this world, alongside murder, torture and insanity. [/QUOTE]

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