A thought occurred to me a few years ago and I have been kind of toying with it. What if you got rid of half-orc, half-elf and anything that is really half any other race and made it a half-human? Then from there you could pick abilities based on flavor of character. The system would have to be devised using a point system to build a half-human race. You could accomplish this by putting in different abilities with different categories and making each category's power relatively the same for each.
Any thoughts?
A thought occurred to me a few years ago and I have been kind of toying with it. What if you got rid of half-orc, half-elf and anything that is really half any other race and made it a half-human? Then from there you could pick abilities based on flavor of character. The system would have to be devised using a point system to build a half-human race. You could accomplish this by putting in different abilities with different categories and making each category's power relatively the same for each.
Any thoughts?
Or perhaps make a "Half-Human" template that could be added to various creatures.
My intent was to avoid an ECL/level adjustment. Kind of like a base race but with more customization if you wanted to play a half-human. Am I misunderstanding?
damn those promiscuous humans, they'll sleep with anything with a pulse.
i've always wondered why no half-dwarves myself.
damn those promiscuous humans, they'll sleep with anything with a pulse.
i've always wondered why no half-dwarves myself.
Dwarven women have more hair than human men.
where is that written? dwarves of golarion maybe? anyway bearded women needs the lovin' too
Dwarven women don't have beards in Pathfinder's default assumptions(thank God).
As for the template, I'm really not for anything that removes half-orcs in terms of visibility and importance unless full orcs are added as a standard player race.
In my opinion having full Orcs as a standard race would be awesome. I hate the whole idea of races/creatures that exist solely to be slaughter by the heros. Maybe it comes from playing Shadowrun and Warcraft but Orcs is peepuls too! Violent brutes that want to rip your face off but people none the less. >.<
Some of my intent was the Half-Orc and Half-Elf have a singular common component. That component is having human blood. So it just make more sense to call them half human. I just think it would be awesome to open the floodgates of customization on character creation by being able to pick and choose racial abilities for being Half-Human. I think the hard part would be trying to make a list of abilities that would be relatively balanced.