Half Mountain Orc / Half Moon Elf - A custom player race for Forgotten Realms

VixenofVenus

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Ok ... so far, one of my players knows that her mother was a moon elf who uncharictaristically fell in love with a good and noble mountain orc, and she became great with child (good bible phrase). After the child was born and had reached a time of coming of age, the mountain orc died of old age, and her mother soon after (in elven time) remarried another moon elf.

So ... I need to combine Mountain Orc and Moon Elf stats:

Mountain Orc:
+4 Strength, -2 Intelligence, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma
Medium Size, 30ft Speed
Darkvision 60ft
Proficient with Greataxe and Javelin (childhood training)
Light Sensitivity
Orc Blood (Magic Orc Weapons)
Favored Class: Barbarian

Moon Elf:
+2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution
Medium Size, 30ft Speed
Low Light Vision
Immunity to Sleep, and +2 racial vs. Enchantment
Elven Blood (Magic Elven Weapons)
Proficient with Longbow, Short Bow, Longsword, and Short Sword
+2 to Listen, Search, Spot
Favored Class: Wizard


My Combo:
+4 Strenght, +2 Dexterity, -2 Wisdom
Medium Size, 30ft Speed
Darkvision 60ft
Immunity to Sleep, and +1 racial vs. Enchantment
Orc Blood (Magic Orc Weapons)
Elven Blood (Magic Elven Weapons)
Proficient with Longbow, Short Bow, Longsword, and Short Sword
+1 to Listen, Search, Spot
Favored Class: Barbarian
Level Adjustment +1


I gave her the Orcish favored class because I figure it's natural for her to favor her Orcish blood instead of the training intensive magical side, and ... she wants to play a Sorcerer/Barbarian (she thinks).

And, I got rid of light-sensitivity because she's been living with elves her whole life.

I figure with those two things, and the extra bonus to abilities, she is level adjusted +1.

Comments?
 

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I have a different idea on this. Chnages are underlined:

Mountain Orc:
+4 Strength, -2 Intelligence, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma
Medium Size, 30ft Speed
Darkvision 60ft
Proficient with Greataxe and Javelin (childhood training)
Light Sensitivity
Orc Blood (Magic Orc Weapons)
Favored Class: Barbarian

Moon Elf:
+2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution
Medium Size, 30ft Speed
Low Light Vision
Immunity to Sleep, and +2 racial vs. Enchantment
Elven Blood (Magic Elven Weapons)
Proficient with Longbow, Short Bow, Longsword, and Short Sword
+2 to Listen, Search, Spot
Favored Class: Wizard


My Combo:
+2 Strength, +2 Dexterity, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma
Medium Size, 30ft Speed
Low Light Vision
Immunity to Sleep, and +1 racial vs. Enchantment
Orc Blood (Magic Orc Weapons)
Elven Blood (Magic Elven Weapons)
Proficient with Longbow, Short Bow, Longsword, and Short Sword
+1 to Listen, Search, Spot
Favored Class: Barbarian
No level adjustment


I gave her the Orcish favored class because I figure it's natural for her to favor her Orcish blood instead of the training intensive magical side, and ... she wants to play a Sorcerer/Barbarian (she thinks).

And, I got rid of light-sensitivity because she's been living with elves her whole life.

She ought to be more of a compromise between the two races instead of what seems to be more like the best of both. You may want to even consider keeping the -2 to Intelligence to balance things out.
 



Instead of keeping the Intelligence knock, especially since he's being raised by the Elves, I'd keep the Elven Con knock, since the Orc doesn't get a bonus there.

+4 Strength, +2 Dex, -2 Con, -2 Wis.

I'd keep him otherwise as first posted, and keep the +1 LA, or hit him with a -2 Cha knock and leave it even. I'd say it makes up for the Strength and Dexterity, since the player has indicated he wants to play a Sorceror.
 

Why +4 strength? The halforc has +2 strength, being the kid of a +4 strength orc and a +0 strength human.

+2 strength and +2 dex is not balanced with -2 wisdom and -2 charisma.

Check out the DMG.

I'd rather give a +2 strength, +2 dex, -2 con, -2 int, -2 cha.

Halforc + elf.

And I wouldn't grant the elven weapon proficiencies....

Perhaps you could give him the added stats of the halfelf and the halforc.
 

Thanks for the help guys ...

A friend and I actually whittled it down to this:

Half Mountain Orc / Half Moon Elf:
+4 Strenght, +2 Dexterity, -2 Wisdom, -2 Constitution
Medium Size, 30ft Speed
Darkvision 60ft
Orc Blood (Magic Orc Weapons)
Elven Blood (Magic Elven Weapons)
Proficient with Longbow, Short Bow, Longsword, and Short Sword
Elven Aging Process (Half Elf Sleep Requirements)
Favored Class: Barbarian
Level Adjustment +1


We got rid of some things, added the elven agins and Half-Elf sleep times (or meditation ... whatever)

Her character will still be level adjusted, but she doesn't mind as she will be multiclassing between sorcerer and barbarian ... making a nasty combination. We actually made her character and she is a lvl 1 sorcerer right now, and carrying her Greataxe (even with non-proficiency at this point) and a Mighty Composite Longbow +2 (she's from the Dalelands).

By next level ... this character will be really nasty ... but not TOO nasty. Definitely the equivalent of our other characters at third level.


Thanks again for the suggestions!
 

thegreatbuddha said:
Elves and Orcs can't bred, can they?

Or am I still stuck in 2e?

I'm absolutely positive that Corellon would never suffer the existance of such a child. I'm 100% sure that there will never be such half-breeds.

(Half-Orcs are surely the result of orcs raping human women, and I'm sure that orcs occasionally rape elven women, too. But there's no half-elf, half-orc race around, so I'm sure that Corellon, the creator of the elves, has created them so that they can't have children with orcs. And Gruumsh won't be happy with the Idea, either, so I see no chance of such an union!).

But maybe there were such children, and they were invariably killed by their parents or other elves. And you actually do them a favor, for they'll encounter hatred with both races, and won't survive a single encounter with any travelling elven adventurer (especially if that's a sun elf).
 



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