Re: New Race thing.

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

1) re: quarter breeds.  Geleian society is more bigoted and frowns on
	misogenation(sp? mixing of the races).  So the number of
	half-breeds is correspondingly lower.  Then the chances of
	a half breed and a half breed, and a full breed breeding are
	really low.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and elven
	eyes find no beauty in orcs, dwarves, or lizards.  Same for
	the other races.  Okay granted this is a bit of a stretch,
	but hey.  The real reason is the insane number of quarter
	breeds I've seen cropping up.  We've always had a problem
	with people being 1/4 orc; dwarf; elf; human or some such.
	The raw starting power benefit to these characters is just
	mega, and its very rare that such characters are missing
	important abilities.  Even if the character is legit, as 
	I believe and hope the majority are, they are still way
	over powered from any other rate 2 character.  Each one
	of those special abilities represents 5K xp extra.

2) re: High orcs.  They have different abilities.  Not the natural
	wrestlers of the standard orc.  They are healthier and
	more in line with Tolkien Uruk'Hai than the runt orcs.

Wright
> Um,
> 
> Why change the 1/4 ruling (Pretty rare as it is, as long as someone
> isn't cheating) and even if they are a 1/4 the chance of them having
> even one of the cool extra abilities is pretty rare.
> 
> About High orcs - are they really different than normal orcs, but
> just at the top of the stat and height chart.  If they are just at
> the top, no change necessary.  They are already there and hard to
> role up (GMs can always have bizarre population groupings).
> 
> -Kris
> 
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> > From: Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>
> > To: geleia@cioe.com
> > Subject: New Race thing.
> > Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 12:51 PM
> > 
> > 
> > Couple of mods I just added to the race table for geleia and a
> proposition.
> > 1) No quarter breeds.  If a person rolls the crit to become a half
> > 	breed, they ignore all future half-breed results.
> > 2) High orcs.  Bigger tougher orcs, Foo and Jevan are doing the
> > 	write up on'em.  They'd be very rare, say only 10% of
> > 	orcs that are rolled as PCs are high orcs.  Still get
> > 	the 20K in special abilities as per standard, once the
> > 	write up on'em is done I'll post it, just wanted to see
> > 	an initial reaction to the concept.
> > 
> > Wright
> > 
>