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Hi everybody! I'm new to these messageboards but not to the game. I've been following a few threads but I never had the need to post anything.
I'm currently playing a changeling witch whose father was an elf so she is seemingly an elf too.
Recently, I started having some questions about how do changelings pass their heritage to their children:
I don't think they could produce changeling children as they are not full grown hags.
If my changeling is of elven heritage would her children be half-elven on the case of a Human parent or fully elven if the father is an elf?
Or maybe the other parent will define completely the race of the child?
Would it be possible that the changeling, not being fully grown up as a hag, was completely sterile?
Me and my DM find this question very interesting and we are both curious on how would it work as there is nothing written about it.
Also, my changeling is at this time in some sort of relationship with a human girl. Of course, both being women, there was no risk of pregnancy, but my character once used alter self "just for fun" and turned into a male human as she wanted to try something new. My question is:
Can that kind of union be fertile and what kind of children might it produce?
I'm sorry if you find my post too mature or inappropriate. I don't want to offend anyone, I'm just curious on how would these mechanics would work. Thanks for your attention.
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In mechanical terms no heritage is passed to the child.
The child does not qualify to take feats that require human or elf or any other race the father might have been.
Changelings themselves cannot produce more changeling children as far as I'm aware, and a child of a changeling and human (assuming the changeling's father was human) would probably just be fully human.
For other pairs...it gets complicated but it honestly doesn't matter too much from a rules perspective, as this is more sort of a lore question that the rules simply can't answer.
You're best bet is to ask James Jacobs in his "ask me anything" thread.
My changeling is from elven heritage, which adds some trouble to the question. It's not that important as I don't think it has come to play yet but I'm curious.I might post my question in James' thread to try and get some insight. Thank you !
Changelings can breed. The children are the father's race generally. In OP's case, she would count as an elf for breeding purposes. These unions have a highly likelihood of producing Accursed Bloodline Sorcerers.
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Changelings can breed. The children are the father's race generally. In OP's case, she would count as an elf for breeding purposes. These unions have a highly likelihood of producing Accursed Bloodline Sorcerers.
I also think doing some weird stat/flavor fu might be a good idea. By this I mean taking adopted and picking up a changeling trait even though you're not technically adopted. I had a character whose mum was daddy's eidolon and while she had an 18 STR she "looked" like an adolescent with little muscle definition. I had bone Oracle whose zombie companion was always her dead brother.
Just because mums your not a changeling doesn't mean you can't find it ways to play up changeling ancestry.
Changelings can breed. The children are the father's race generally. In OP's case, she would count as an elf for breeding purposes. These unions have a highly likelihood of producing Accursed Bloodline Sorcerers.I also think doing some weird stat/flavor fu might be a good idea. By this I mean taking adopted and picking up a changeling trait even though you're not technically adopted. I had a character whose mum was daddy's eidolon and while she had an 18 STR she "looked" like an adolescent with little muscle definition. I had bone Oracle whose zombie companion was always her dead brother.
Just because mums your not a changeling doesn't mean you can't find it ways to play up changeling ancestry.
Sounds interesting indeed. My changeling actually has the adopted trait which I used to give her an elf trait just for flavor. Adopted seems like the perfect trait for a changeling.
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Maybe if your changeling identifies as elven and her lover human, the child would be half-elf, but a prime candidate for the Hag-blooded sorcerer bloodline when they get older.
I think accursed bloodline could fit better as my character's mother was a green hag but Y aggree with everything else.
Actually the child doesn't even exist and it depends on my GM if something is going to happen but the possibility of happening made me curious about it.
Read up of changelings.
When the girl hits puberty, she is called by her hag mother. The hag forces the girl into an evil ceremony to change her into a hag. Unless this is prevented, your fate is fixed. :-)
Assuming you can avoid this, then you would just be one more humanoid parent of a child. As half-hag half elf, if you mate with a half elf or a full elf then you will get a half elf for a child. If you mate with an orc, then you get a half-orc. Otherwise, you get an unusual human.
/cevah