New Race: Half-Dwarf?

[Grimcleaver]

It's always stuck in my craw that elves can breed with anything and the result is pretty. Dwarves, by contrast can breed with...well dwarves. That's lame, particularly since of the two it seems much more likely that a human and a dwarf would hit it off. Elves just seem so aloof and unlikely to blend into human society enough. Dwarves like clanky whirry stuff, and big stone cities. They're big and burly and loads of fun when drunk. What's not to love, right?

So I was thinking, with places like Janderhoff exporting their citizens around for various reasons I was thinking what if unlike in typical D&D, you could have a half-dwarf? It gets me thinking how much I loved the muls from Dark Sun, and how mad I was that for as cool as they were, that they were pretty much locked into that setting.

Anyway I think it'd just be a neat, flavorful new option without having to introduce half-constructs or bunnyfolk or some other gonzo goshawful thing.

[Fake Healer]

I agree! Muls in Golarian! That just oozes good.

Darkvision 60,
+2 Str, +2 wis, -2 cha(stocky dwarf combined with longer human build adds some power)
Hearty
Normal Speed-30 feet
Skilled
Any favored class.

I am guessing that you couldn't call them 'Muls' though.

[Heathansson]

Th'ain't gotta be bald tho.

[Dale McCoy Jr]

IMO, the lack of half-dwarves is just proof that elves are easy. I've always thought that dwarves COULD produce half-dwarves with humans, but they just DON'T. Its not very dwarvy of them to mate with non dwarves.

[Dreamweaver]

Fake Healer wrote:

I agree! Muls in Golarian! That just oozes good.

Darkvision 60,
+2 Str, +2 wis, -2 cha(stocky dwarf combined with longer human build adds some power)
Hearty
Normal Speed-30 feet
Skilled
Any favored class.

I am guessing that you couldn't call them 'Muls' though.

I think +2 Str, +2 Con, -2 Cha would be better

[maliszew]

Please, no more new races, at least not in the core book.

[Fake Healer]

Dreamweaver wrote:

Fake Healer wrote:

I agree! Muls in Golarian! That just oozes good.

Darkvision 60,
+2 Str, +2 wis, -2 cha(stocky dwarf combined with longer human build adds some power)
Hearty
Normal Speed-30 feet
Skilled
Any favored class.

I am guessing that you couldn't call them 'Muls' though.

I think +2 Str, +2 Con, -2 Cha would be better

I agree but I went with Pathfinder's current standard which seems to be one physical and mental stat boost and one physical or mental stat penalty. I chose strength over con because otherwise they would be almost exactly like dwarves stat-wise.

[Herbo]

Enter the Dorc (half-dwarf/half-orc)....please no...

New races should be relegated to homebrews and supplements that can be embraced or avoided with ease.

[PulpCruciFiction]

One explanation I've often seen for the decline of dwarven civilizations is very low birth rates. So an explanation for the lack of half-dwarves could be that as few children as dwarves tend to have among their own kind, they have even less with other races due to less compatible biology.