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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3563558" data-attributes="member: 4134">What are you talking about? I looked at Cthulhu for 90 minutes straight, without ever blinking. I didn't go insane. And I didn't go insane. Neither did I go insane. And I'm still completely sane!What about the dwarves?You can't really call them a distinct race. They still have to choose one race sooner or later - Elros and Elrond early on (Elrond chose to be an elf, and Elros became a human, albeit one that got half a millennium). His children had to choose whether to become elven by following him back west, or stay in Middle Earth and become human.Beyond that (and Elrond's parents, who were born of the 2 only unions between man and elf ever mentioned in Tolkien's stuff, as far as I know).Probably both due to size and outlook. Humans were too adventurous and too big, and elves too reclusive, and, again, too big.We would have some sort of modular system, where you get the abilities that are carried over to a halfbreed (and the half-breed gets one of these from each parent), and then maybe another set you only get one of - from whatever parent race you favour.I'm not sure whether that sort of space commitment would make sense in the core rules (unless it's just *s and **s added to all racial descriptions)I'm not sure about that. Will it be an actual half-demon half-dragon? Or will it favour one side of the other? Is it random which side will be the favoured one, or ar there dominant and recessive parts? Will there be a whole hierarchy of what dominates what? Humans have a DI (domination index) of 0, elves, dwarves etc of 1 to 2, lesser outsiders of 4, greater outsiders of 8, dragons of 10? The thing is: I could see this as a very simple system, which might not be satisfactory, or something complex that takes too much time to (and uses up too much space) to be worth the hassle.If they can pull of a good compromise, I'm all for it!It's something that has been in D&D for quite a long time, and it doesn't originate there, either.But I could see a third layer to characters: Race, class - and culture. Culture would set the favoured class (unless they do away with it, or improve it so it enriches the game rather than restrict character choices), grant skill bonuses and bonus feats, add some more ability bonuses, stuff like that. If pulled off right, it could greatly enrich the game.</blockquote>

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