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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1722857" data-attributes="member: 9254">I think some half-templates make sense.  Certain creatures (orcs, trolls, etc) are prone to cross-breeding.  Fiends are the most plentiful since there are several temptor/temptresses for willing partners and more than enough power to force the unwilling.  Celestials should be less so, given their easily offended moral/ethical standards. I have one half-dragon in my game (and yes, it's DL).  It took a while for me to come up with a valid motivation, but the short story is his multi-great-grandfather was a red dragon who lost an eye during the War of the Lance.  The evil clerics were scattered so he hid as a human to get it healed.  The first few clerics he approached refused, thinking he was a war criminal or normal criminal, based on the wealth he was throwing around, total lack of references, and evil aura.He figured out he should settle down in a community long enough to become "Good old Bob the smith.  Lost his eye in the war and works like a dog to earn enough to get it fixed."  To not seem unnatural, he took a wife and gave birth to a son.  He put a permanent AlterSelf/Nystul's Undetectable Aura on his son so he would look normal.  When the next war arrived & killed his wife, he left his son with friends and went out for vengeance.  The son grew up never knowing his true heritage and it wasn't until the dragon's magic faded over multiple generations and the character started using magic that he started evolving.  To the best of his knowledge he is unique, or nearly so since dragons tend to kill half-breeds not of their lineage, excluding metallic dragons and good-aligned metallic half-dragons.  Grandsire "programmed" some knowledge into his son and the player is now heir to fragments, including the fact there is a "starter hoard" waiting for him somewhere.  Ooooh, that makes his scales itch!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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