Races of Destiny

[Kalanyr]

Personally I prefer the mechanics, I tend to alter the cultures so much for my own worlds that such details are absolutely useless to me, however mechanics can be adopted for other purposes.

 

[Nifelhein]

I always take original over repeat and flavour over mechanic, that said I don't think this book was spoken of with enough information to actually hook me.

Yes, I thought of Derro, although ther are a race as a whole they have been given some writing on their half humanity in the MM that isnot in the SRD, transcribed below:

Derro are degenerate and evil creatures of the underground, created from dwarves and human stock by some nameless deity of darkness and madness.

Derro are degenerate and evil human-dwar crossbreeds who live in the Underdark.

 

[Filby]

The elf-ogre hybrid race was called the N'djatwa --- featured in Dragon 158, in an Princess Ark instalment titled "A culture with a different sense of taste." Basically, they were once two races whose fortunes dwindled and got reeeeeal good at killing each another in competition for limited resources. Faced with extinction, the peoples (and/or their gods) came up with a compromise... interbreed.

The result was a robust, healthy, simple people... with a penchant for cannibalism. Bad place to shipwreck.

THAT's it. Thanks!

As for the derro... it depends on your source. 3.0/3.5 says that they're crossbreeds, but I prefer the 2E explanation -- that they were created on Oerth by the Suel Imperium, the first two among their number (Diirinka -- the "nameless deity" mentioned in the 3.5 MM -- and Diinkarazan) became gods, and with their new deities escaped their masters; from there they spread into the UnderOerth and from there located or created portals to Abeir-Toril and other planets where the derro are now located.

Of course, that was 2E, and since then WotC has done everything in its power to totally wipe out the unified cosmos concept. Bah.

 

[JPL]

Just think of how many times a human male has screw sheep....
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[JPL looks whistfully off into the distance, lost in thought.]

 

[dagger]

haha

 

[kilamanjaro]

I think you guys are reading too much into it.The way it sounds to me only half orcs, half elves, half ogres and half giants (and maybe man) are in the book. It's not a book of crossbreeds, like Bastards and Bloodlines, it's a race book that has those four crossbreeds in it. No more.

 

[JPL]

I think you guys are reading too much into it.The way it sounds to me only half orcs, half elves, half ogres and half giants (and maybe man) are in the book. It's not a book of crossbreeds, like Bastards and Bloodlines, it's a race book that has those four crossbreeds in it. No more.

That's what I think, too.

 

[Nifelhein]

We may indeed, anyway, this one seems the book with the least potential so far, in my opinion.

 

[Orius]

I was told by a geneticist friend that, because humans and sheep have the same number of chromosomes, theoretically they could fertilize each other's eggs, though the embryo would almost certainly be stillborn.

I'm not sure I want to know how they learned that....

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Destiny...Humanity...it seems...just proper..

Havnt we all noticed how in almost all settings and stories, fantasy or sci-fi, the fate of the known worlds always falls to the hands of man?

From Startrek, to LOTR, to Stargate, to Starwars...Men are those that move forward toward destiny.

Sure the reason for that is because we are humans and we write ourselves in as heroes the majority of the time, but it just seems fitting.