The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: gilshem ironstone on February 04, 2007, 02:26:35 PM
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What races can dwarves have children with?
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Can or should? I mean, who other than a dwarf would want to? Yeachh!
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Hey! Dwarves will always provide for their families, are good savers, and always come home on time... Unless they have been hitting the Sledge Draft.
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Dwarves cannot breed with any other non-dwarven races.
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Dorganath - 2/4/2007 6:12 PM
Dwarves cannot breed with any other non-dwarven races.
I've seen half-dwarves in game... Either mechanically as humans or as dwarves, but they were RPed as half-dwarves.
Now, I can't recall the names, but I'm certain I've seen them.
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Dorganath - 2/4/2007 5:12 PM Dwarves cannot breed with any other non-dwarven races.
What part of that was not clear?
If people are RPing half-dwarves in-game, I'm really doubtful that was approved...and if it was approved, then it should not have been.
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Yeah. The dwarven genome is too tough for the unstocky blood humanoids. Ruptures the entire cell-wall during mitosis.
Now there can be interrcial marraiges and humans raised by dwarves, but never will you see a half-dwarf. It's unprecidented in all fantasy settings.
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The only "Half-Dwarf" I know of was a Half-Elf, Half-Dwarf Paladin of Vorax from Beta Four. I can't remember her name but she was a good friend of Llu's and we pretty much "grew up" together on Layonara.
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Elves explode when they see naked dwarves, it's in the bible.
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I dunno I always thought dwarves and gnomes would be safe with mating
But I guess what Dorg says goes
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Thanks for the answer.
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Well there are Duergar and maybe Azers, but those fall into the "dwarf-ish" category.
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Yep...Duergar are dwarves, though any true Dwarf would never admit as much, nor even consider such a pairing. Still, breeding would be possible....hence my choice of words above.
Azers are dwarves from the Elemental Plane of Fire, so while it may be possible for them to cross-breed with dwarves from the Prime, it may be tricky for said Prime to survive the um...encounter.
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Har. Takes more than a wee bit of scorching heat to kill a dwarf.
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I didn't say "impossible"....only "tricky".
But before anyone gets any funny ideas.... No, we will not be approving any half-Azer dwarven characters....so don't ask. :p
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How about a Half-Dwarf Half-Easybake-Oven?
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*laughs* :D
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i like how we can get half demons and half dragons and such but when it comes to dwarves suddenly its like "ZOMG!!! crossbreed with dwarf?!?!?! NEVER!!!!" lol
on the other hand i could easily see a gnome and a dwarf mixign it up, they are somewhat similar
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Jearick Hgar - 2/5/2007 8:17 AM i like how we can get half demons and half dragons and such but when it comes to dwarves suddenly its like "ZOMG!!! crossbreed with dwarf?!?!?! NEVER!!!!" lol
on the other hand i could easily see a gnome and a dwarf mixign it up, they are somewhat similar
Well...there aren't any PC half-fiends or half-dragons on this server either. At best, a tiefling or aasimar can only have, at most 1/8th planar blood. Given the rareity of dragons, no one can claim half, quarter, eighth or any fraction of draconic blood at character creation. Besides that, fiends, demons, celestials and dragons are supernatural creatures, and so what they can and cannot breed with follows some different rules.
As was stated before, there's absolutely no precedent in any fantasy setting for dwarves breeding with other, non-dwarven races.
D&D 3rd Edition doesn't support it.
NWN doesn't support it.
Layonara doesn't support it, and we would have to go through a lot of pains to create a subrace type to support it (which isn't going to happen)...not to mention that subrace submissions are currently closed.
Also not allowed/supported/permitted:
Half-Halflings Half-Lizardfolk Half-Gnomes Half-Illithid Half-Brownie Half- (keeping in mind the last three are currently closed anyway)
I hope that clears things up.
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Half-Halfling?
Quarterling?
2/3ling?
*breaks down in giggles*
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I believe demons and dragons do the.. encounter as Dorganath said while in a humanoid shape, they can do such things, or some of them can. At least that is the dnd version.
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Dorganath - 2/5/2007 9:58 AM
As was stated before, there's absolutely no precedent in any fantasy setting for dwarves breeding with other, non-dwarven races. D&D 3rd Edition doesn't support it.
Not quite.
In D&D 3rd Edition, there were stats given for Derro, which are suggested to be human-dwarf hybrids.
However, they also happen to be monstrous humanoids, and also incurably insane without magical intervention of such power as Wish or Miracle. Take that as you will. ;)
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On a random sidenote... anyone ever read about Kendelfs? Kenders (Dragonlance's name for a spaz of a Halfling) that mated with Elves to make a Kendelf.
I hear they were killed on birth.
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Yeah, they turned out like those mountain cannibals in The Hills Have Eyes... mixed with the subterranean beasts in The Time Machine. Not even humanoid at that point, more like abberational monstrous midgets.
So please, do not crossbreeed the dwarves.
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Eight-Bit - 2/5/2007 4:49 AM
On a random sidenote... anyone ever read about Kendelfs? Kenders (Dragonlance's name for a spaz of a Halfling) that mated with Elves to make a Kendelf.
I hear they were killed on birth.
oh Kenders... I miss those wierdos. Tass was awesome.
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Anyone remember Dark Sun Fantasy setting? Mul - 1/2 dwarf /1/2 human. So its not entirely unprecendented. ;)
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Ok, if you have a half dwarf from an obscure setting published in 1986, it will be grandfathered in, but only to the pnp tabletop game it came from and not to the campaign on the server. Layo dwarves only make dwarf babies. Any halfbreeds in the timeline were devoured by Ozymandius during the great drought of '106, which was not so much of a drought but just 3 consecutive days in which it did not rain.
There is a mongrelman in Arabel who might qualify kind of, but his bloodline is so polluted we think he's just a very ugly, bartending dog that was birthed from a fish. Smells like one.
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Fine fine...I retract my "unprecedented" comment...
But it's still not happening.
And I always saw Derro as an unnatural crossing, not a product of standard breeding. *shrugs*
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As Doganath stated (multiple times mind you), this is not going to happen or be approved. Lets end this discussion here.
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Dorganath - 2/5/2007 8:10 AM Fine fine...I retract my "unprecedented" comment...
But it's still not happening.
And I always saw Derro as an unnatural crossing, not a product of standard breeding. *shrugs*
how do you unnatural breed back in the days before science and cells? O.O
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Right okay. This is done now. You guys/ladies need to understand that we are so far beyond swamped it is not funny. We can not spend time answering the same thread over and over again. After a while we need to just say enough is enough. And this one has gone on too long.