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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 2984385" data-attributes="member: 3051">Well, long ago IMC we tweaked the existing races a bit to help with this.  Humans gained the "Thin Blood" ability, which had two effects:1> They can crossbreed with any other humanoid race (which means the other races can't crossbreed with each other; no half-Elf half-Dwarves)2> They can't be the selected enemy for Bane-like abilities.  They CAN still be a Ranger's Favored Enemy, though.So, the only half-breeds IMC were half-Humans.Next, we added "Backgrounds", generally referred to as "racial/regional skills".  Depending on your upbringing, you'd get two or three skills tagged as "racial skills", meaning they were always class skills, AND you'd get an extra 1 skill point per level that could only be spent on these skills.  Also, any "racial" weapon proficiencies would be tied to the background.For instance, Dwarves would get Craft (any one related to metal or stone), Knowledge (geology) and Knowledge (Dwarf)*.  They also got Axe proficiency and weapon familiarity with the Dwarven Waraxe and Urgosh.Elves got Craft (any one related to wood or cloth), Knowledge (Nature), and Knowledge (Elf)*, plus the longsword/bow proficiency.To reflect the Humans' greater diversity, they got: any one non-exclusive skill, any one Craft/Knowledge/Profession skill, and either Speak Language OR one weapon proficiency.  We had originally made up regional lists, but that was just too much work.  Also, the Human +1 skill point only applied to regional skills (to balance the fact that they have more selection)*-Knowledge(race) includes all Knowledge skills, including history, geography, genealogy, etc., but only as they applied to that race and its culture.  If the character has sufficient ranks in other Knowledge skills that also apply to any roll, use whichever is higher and add a +1 synergy bonus for each 5 ranks of the lower skill.Anyway, the point is, your background would determine which set of "racial" skills and proficiencies you used.  A human raised by Elves would use the Elf racial skills instead of the Human ones, and vice versa, although the +1 skill point for Humans is tied to true race, not upbringing.  It made it very easy to play around with upbringings; a Half-Ogre raised by Humans, and so on.  We never tied Favored Class into it, though; that would have been too abuseable.</blockquote>

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