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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3357373" data-attributes="member: 29398">Why does everything have to be &quot;half&quot;, is my question?&nbsp; If 3 of my grandparents are Human and the other one is an Elf, that makes me 1/4 Elf.&nbsp; And if I have kids with a Human they'll be 1/8 Elf.....Once, long ago, I sat down with the 1e monster books and tried to figure out just what could breed with what.&nbsp; I ended up with a great big chart with lines connecting different races and species...looked like a plate of spaghetti by the time I was done...and spawned what I call my &quot;taints table&quot;: what might be in your genetic background.&nbsp; It turned out to be a rather fascinating exercise.&nbsp; I went in sort of expecting Humans to be the genetic nexus point that everything linked to or went through, and was surprised when it turned out instead to be Orcs....they're the link between the &quot;Giant&quot; branch (includes pretty much everything from Gnomes and Dwarves up to Bugbears, Ogres, and Giants) and the &quot;Human&quot; branch (includes Elves, Hobbits, the various woodland critters, and so on).What prompted this was my wondering what the chances would be of having a character descended from a deity, or demon, or whatever; it just took off from there.Result of all this is you now roll for taint during char-gen, to see what might be lurking in your family tree; the odds are very low of getting anything significant enough to change the general makeup of your character, but it can happen...On my chart, Hobbits and Kobolds are separated by several steps (I don't have the chart in front of me, but I know it'd have to go at least Hobbit==&gt;(Human?==&gt;)Orc==&gt; various steps to get to Kobold) so a straight Hobbold would probably be impossible.Lane-&quot;pure Human&quot;-fan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 3357373, member: 29398"] Why does everything have to be "half", is my question? If 3 of my grandparents are Human and the other one is an Elf, that makes me 1/4 Elf. And if I have kids with a Human they'll be 1/8 Elf..... Once, long ago, I sat down with the 1e monster books and tried to figure out just what could breed with what. I ended up with a great big chart with lines connecting different races and species...looked like a plate of spaghetti by the time I was done...and spawned what I call my "taints table": what might be in your genetic background. It turned out to be a rather fascinating exercise. I went in sort of expecting Humans to be the genetic nexus point that everything linked to or went through, and was surprised when it turned out instead to be Orcs....they're the link between the "Giant" branch (includes pretty much everything from Gnomes and Dwarves up to Bugbears, Ogres, and Giants) and the "Human" branch (includes Elves, Hobbits, the various woodland critters, and so on). What prompted this was my wondering what the chances would be of having a character descended from a deity, or demon, or whatever; it just took off from there. Result of all this is you now roll for taint during char-gen, to see what might be lurking in your family tree; the odds are very low of getting anything significant enough to change the general makeup of your character, but it can happen... On my chart, Hobbits and Kobolds are separated by several steps (I don't have the chart in front of me, but I know it'd have to go at least Hobbit==>(Human?==>)Orc==> various steps to get to Kobold) so a straight Hobbold would probably be impossible. Lane-"pure Human"-fan [/QUOTE]

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