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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6144781" data-attributes="member: 19675">Over the decades of playing D&D in all its editions, I've become increasingly dissatisfied with the number of crossbreed races.  For one thing, why does EVERYBODY do it with humans?  Its like we each have all the cross-species charm of Captain Kirk...I've done some revision of this in my homebrews: I took all of the Planetouched, renamed them Nephilim, and made them into a racial character class similar to those in Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved.  What abilities you got depended on the bloodline you chose.  It worked pretty well.  Mechanically, the Nephilim were very similar to the source material...and there was also a blueprint for creating cross-planar crossbreeds of kinds as yet unseen.But it didn't address all the other human crossbreeds, the half-orcs, half-elves and whatnot.  Tonight, as I was looking at the 3.5Ed rules for Changelings, I saw the key to revising all of them as well.Why not make Doppelgangers the race all those others crossbred with?IOW, just like the Changeling, a Half-Orc is actually Half-Doppelganger.  So is the Half-Elf.  Etc.Well, that covers the logistics of the parenting procedure...but what are the ramifications of this revision?  Would this require a practical mechanical revision of those races?  Are the Changelings the only crossbreeds who retain any of the shapechanging ability of their Doppelganger parent?Ideas?  Musings?  Rotten tomatoes?</blockquote>

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