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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8851095" data-attributes="member: 42856">The mention that species can freely mix is also a key boon to dissociate totally your mechanical benefits and your appearance/physical form, if you're only interested in the mechanical side of the schlorps.Since, as far as I understand, anything can breed and the child gets to choose the traits. So if you wanted to be Aarockroa with Tortle appearance, you can be thanks to your &quot;parents&quot;. If it weirds you that they'd breed together, you can have them at various point of your family tree, each line keeping only the special traits (= the mechanical benefits) you're interested in. Basically, the new half-X is &quot;I am mechanically a X, but with 100% human appareance and behaviour.&quot; It doesn't even requires one to wear plastic ears.With regards to mechanical differences between humans, this isn't a problem I had considered before. True, if you are an elf, and you breed with a human, your child will no longer be a half-elf (since there is no more half-schlorps) but a human with elf traits. And this child will mate with another human, but the child of this side will have the choice of the special abilities of his parents too... so he can be human, but carry the elven specific abilities from his elven grandparents. At some point you get a big city with lots of humans but very diverse mechanical traits. I am not sure if it's evocative of eugenics or diversity.Edit: after giving it some thought, I think it promotes bad ideas. It would make sense mechanically for a group of adventurer to say &quot;we're looking to hire a human with a tortle ancestor&quot; because they seek the specific mechanical qualities...&quot; and such an ad would be incredibly offensive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8851095, member: 42856"] The mention that species can freely mix is also a key boon to dissociate totally your mechanical benefits and your appearance/physical form, if you're only interested in the mechanical side of the schlorps. Since, as far as I understand, anything can breed and the child gets to choose the traits. So if you wanted to be Aarockroa with Tortle appearance, you can be thanks to your "parents". If it weirds you that they'd breed together, you can have them at various point of your family tree, each line keeping only the special traits (= the mechanical benefits) you're interested in. Basically, the new half-X is "I am mechanically a X, but with 100% human appareance and behaviour." It doesn't even requires one to wear plastic ears. With regards to mechanical differences [I]between [/I]humans, this isn't a problem I had considered before. True, if you are an elf, and you breed with a human, your child will no longer be a half-elf (since there is no more half-schlorps) but a human with elf traits. And this child will mate with another human, but the child of this side will have the choice of the special abilities of his parents too... so he can be human, but carry the elven specific abilities from his elven grandparents. At some point you get a big city with lots of humans but very diverse mechanical traits. I am not sure if it's evocative of eugenics or diversity. Edit: after giving it some thought, I think it promotes bad ideas. It would make sense mechanically for a group of adventurer to say "we're looking to hire a human with a tortle ancestor" because they seek the specific mechanical qualities..." and such an ad would be incredibly offensive. [/QUOTE]

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