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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jolt" data-source="post: 3558335" data-attributes="member: 18142">We don't use the half races at all.  Since almost everything in D&D can (apparently) breed with almost everything else, why just the half-elf, why not a half-gnome?  Why just a half-orc, why not a half-kobold/goblin/bugbear/gnoll etc.?  And why do "half's" always have to be part human?  What about a dwarf/gnome or an elf/halfling?  If they wanted to go the "half" route I wish they had done so more completely than they did.  The only reason we seem to have half-elf/orc's is because we had them before.The other core races I allow but tweaked special abilities and favored classes to better reflect that races culture in my world.  For example, if you're a dwarf, you're either a Crown, Anvil or Hammer Dwarf.  They're all considered dwarves but each has slightly different advantages and penalties to reflect what makes them unique.I also allow (again, slightly tweaked) the Mojh, Litorian, Giant and Verrik from Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved.  Giants and Verriks are still human in the way that a Drow (which I don't allow) is still an elf.  I also use the Changeling (also a type of human) from Eberron.No race greater than EL+0 is allowed or it's modified so that it's only EL+0.  But no half-dragons, ogre mages, centaurs or the like.  I like high fantasy but not stoned-out-of-my-mind fantasy.I like Shade's idea of using a Feat to represent a "half" race.  I also think this would be a good mechanic for the plane-touched races as well (which show up far too often for my tastes).  This would fit well into my world as I use Talents (basically Feats that can only be taken at 1st level) as presented, more or less, in Arcana Evolved.As an aside, I always found it humorous that if you drop an elf in the desert, a sub-race of sun elves will spawn.  If you drop an elf in the arctic, a sub-race of ice elves will spawn.  If you drop a human (supposedly the most adaptive and changeable of all the races) in the arctic, you get a cold human.jolt</blockquote>

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