I've read Burnt Offerings, though I haven't played Runelords myself. (I DON'T CARE ABOUT SPOILERS, LALALAAAA~)
From what I saw, my favorite part had to be The Shopkeeper's Daughter, with Shayliss Vinder, a PC and Ven Vinder's almighty perception check. I've seen hilarious stories with this situation, particularly one where the GM saw fit to play Yakety Sax (trust me, check my favorites, it's hilarious). It made me wonder, though: How would GMs handle this with less standard races?
Like... oh, I dunno... goblins, kobolds and nagaji?
I'm well aware that fantasy-setting humans are probably willing to bed anything, but have any of you out there had any experience with such cross-species shenanigans? If anyone could make them as hilarious as The Shopkeeper's Daughter, I would bow down at your feet and give you this nice shiny sword with absolutely nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
I once had a world with very detailed rules of how stuff like that worked. . .
I know that there used to be Half-Ogre/Half-Orcs called Orogs in previous editions.
Other than that, Half-Elf, half-ogre, half-orc are the only really common ones. . .
Dark Sun used to have Muls, but they were specifically created out of magic.
What would a half Halfling half gnome be like? That could be interesting to play. . .
Most likely only races with really similar biology could mate successfully-- warm blooded mammalian races with other warm blooded mammalian races (so no half kobold half dwarfs) and the lizard races together. . .
Thing is... kobolds are less reptilian humanoids, and more draconic humanoids.
And we all know how well dragons blend with everything.
That's true. . .
So I guess that Kwarves are still on the table. . .
The most ridiculous thing I ever had a player actually do was a Half-Minotaur War-forged from a 3.5 game which how that happens is beyond m
As long as Tab A fits in slot A, everything is fine.
You do run into problems with say Hill Giants and Halflings...
Personally, I love odd characters though... One of my favourites in 3.5 was a Feytouched Fey-Ri Bard... She was awesome. Not a phyically awesome character at all, but as a social character, she kicked ass.
Had a fighter once in 1st edition who was reincarnated as a Lizardman...fun
Well, there is a 3rd party 3.X book that details all that. Nice tables & everything about what can breed with what. The "book of erotic fantasy" by G.F.M. Kestrel. Despite it's AWFUL name, it's a fairly well built third party book, dealing with reproduction, pregnancy & how different races view relationships (among other weirder things). Dont try to buy the book though, it's been out of print so long that it costs a small fortune.
As for general weird stuff, I'm currently playing a chracter where we were allowed to use the "race builder " so I built a "half human", half human and half...everything else. Basically an extension of the concept "humans (both women & men) are sluts in fantasy". Looks mostly human, but also elvish, a bit of contruct traits, etc...
And you know what one of the NPCs hanging around us is? A half elf/half Jorogumo. Yeah, our GM likes weird stuff. Funilly enough, my character is in a relationship with her too. And it's fun when the weirdness is coming out of the pores.
Makes me think of another thread recently where a druid (centered around balance) who had already had a ton of children with women was looking for a way to become a woman himself and bear his own children.
Like... oh, I dunno... goblins, kobolds and nagaji?
I'm well aware that fantasy-setting humans are probably willing to bed anything, but have any of you out there had any experience with such cross-species shenanigans?
Oh, I don't know that's true. One of the strongest tropes in fantasy is the racial bigotry and fear. Monsters are monsters and people are people. While yeah, an elf looks enough like a human to be merely exotic, and while yeah, the occasional human slaveman gets used by a orc, cross-race relations aren't all that likely.
That said, it's your setting and you can make things work how you will. But the only thing keeping human-kobold relations from being bestiality is a pesky Int score being on the high side. Goblins are deep into the monster category in Golarion, so really, Shayliss getting interested is pretty much like Ellen Ripley suddenly deciding that getting it on with a xenomorph from Alien is a good way to pass time.
Racism is strong. First reactions are "kill it with fire", not "take it to bed".