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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 951231" data-attributes="member: 8461">I agree with Sorn pretty much on the whole in regards to the crossbreeding issue.The sticking part here seems to be that if there can be half-orcs and half-elves, why not others? And races where the other half isn't human, etc. Those are what open what could be, as he said, a can of worms.There was a very nice article about this in the first issue of Asgard (downloadable elsewhere here on EN World) that I think is the best take on the issue, but it'd still be hard to apply everywhere. We may just want to bar crossbreeding altogether, and have a long sidebar about what to do if you want that in your campaign (we may want to use OGC from Mongoose's book also).Irregardless though, I do think we should give something to the people who want rules for outrageous crossbreeding to be a possibility; something has to happen with those pure maidens who dig unicorns. This may or may not be something that we may want to shunt off to VVrayven's HEx project.Anabstercorian: you've got some good ideas on pregnancy, but the system seems too inclined to making it a rarity. In every case, the rules are very much opposed to getting the female pregnant: a 1 must be rolled, then both parties make Fort saves against separate DCs, taking the highest DC and the lowest result...that's going to make it rather difficult in any circumstance for conception to happen.Likewise, this will also be a bit of work to create (rather abstract) "pregnancy dice" for each species, as well as a "Pregnancy DC" for each species as well for that Fort save. It seems rather superfluous. The idea is good, but too much new mechanics would have to be crafted.</blockquote>

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