Even though it denies their existence, the Player Companion Bastards of Golarion tells you how to build one. Basically, build a new race for 9 race points and give it whatever combination of Dwarf and Human racial traits seems appropriate.
By any chance would you be referring to "Little Red Goblin Games—Racial Guide 2.5: Halfbreeds & Hybrids"? That one was a little too obviously based on the Dark Sun Mul.
By the way -- an Oread with the Almost Human racial trait might be a pretty good approximation of a Half-Dwarf.
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Maybe...
Medium sized.
Speed: 30 feet.
+2 to one ability score of your choice.
Darkvision 60 feet
Hardy: Half-dwarves receive a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison, spells, and spell-like abilities.
Stability: Half-dwarves receive a +4 racial bonus to their Combat Maneuver Defense when resisting a bull rush or trip attempt while standing on the ground.
Toughness: Half-dwarves gain Toughness as a bonus feat.
Nothing else wants to copulate with a dwarf. That's the obvious reason
In Pathfinder, they say that Dwarves and humans aren't compatible that way...they just don't produce offspring.
Officially, it's because they don't want to water down the world with 1/2 everything and create endless amounts of combinations.
Unofficially, there have been enough suggestions and race guides to do it ourselves.
Personally, I prefer the D&D 2E version. There are no 1/2 dwarves... because the children inevitably are dwarves. They may be on the tall side of the dwarven heights... or have a strange color to their eyes... but mechanically, they were all dwarves.
Why dont they have a half dwarf. I would love to play one. They have half elf. Half orc. And even half drow.
Standard trope on dwarves is that they do not interbreed with other species both because they do not find them attractive and are not 'genetically' compatible, are largely infertile which is why the race is dwindling, and are largely xenophobic so do not 'entertain' non dwarves a lot.
Half drow and half elves are the same car with different options. Drow are just an offshoot elf race.
Orc originated from Tolkein for the most part as it applies to FRPG's and his orc's were actuially magically tortured and mutated elves. Since Elves were fertile with men so were orcs. And it just stuck.
There are many games that change these around. I remember there were tons of half dwarf breeds in the Arduin system and I think there were some half dwarf/half orc hybrids in Midnight to name a few off the top of my head.
That latter of those two btw the most hated race on the planet. Even among themselves.
Half-halflings. It could get muddy.
Nothing else wants to copulate with a dwarf. That's the obvious reason
By that reasoning, half-dwarves should still be more common than half-orcs.
What about dwelfs?
The wide variety of half dwarfs in Arduin came about after a particularly vitriolic Gygaxian pronouncement that there will never be .... (Really bad panel interactions). Dave and Gary did not get along, I was in the "Take a troll to lunch camp."
A lot of people swore that the Dwelf came from Ken St. Andre, from the same panel, but he never copped to it, and it is such on obvious idea that I am sure it came first.
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I remember there being an interpretation (obviously not PFRPG) that had gnomes be the representation of half dwarves.
Their sparce numbers, nomadic tendencies, and lack of a community comes from that.
Nothing else wants to copulate with a dwarf. That's the obvious reasonBy that reasoning, half-dwarves should still be more common than half-orcs.
Ehhhh orc's don't tend to care if something 'WANTS' to copulate... hence their higher number.
Check out the Muls from Dark Sun.
They also have Half-Giants...
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Half-dwarves are everywhere.
Just that their other half is also dwarf.
(You humans always name species from your own point of view...)
Dwarflings. Muddier, still.
