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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3016756" data-attributes="member: 19675">Essential?  Nope.Most of my past campaigns have allowed them.However, I'm leaning towards eliminating them.  (The campaign I'm currently designing will not have them, but not for the reasons enumerated below.)<Insert the bulk of fusangite's post here.>Still, I (and others) DO like the concept of miscegenation of races in the context of remote ancestry...it IS a common fantasy trope.  Hercules was half god, half mortal- the original Minotaur was the offspring of a snow-white bull sent by Poseidon (for sacrifice) and Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos, accursed with an unnatural affection.  That's plenty of inspiration for a PC who had storm-giant blood in his ancestry, and is consequently larger than normal for his species...but it is impossible to do such today short of a wish.  And not enough wishes exist to make a half-race viable...only repeated rejuvinations of bloodlines.The difference? In the latter case, the miscegenation happened long ago, in a time when certain powerful magics made unions of dissimilar species viable, and on a larger scale.  Such secrets are now lost.As a result, I'm planning on "replacing" half-races with Bloodline feats, such as those you'd find in DCv1 or UA.  The one problem with THAT is that there are a fair number of "bloodline" feats out there, with a variety of different mechanics behind them.  If I go this route, I'll have to do some weeding or reclassifying them somehow.</blockquote>

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