[Rusted Iron Games] Template Races: Half-Humans

[Russ Brown, Rusted Iron Games]

New Today! Template Races: Half-Humans

Half-elves and Half-orcs have been a staple of fantasy game worlds for a long time. But why limit our games to just those two human crossbreed races? Why not half-dwarves, half-gnomes or half-hobgoblins? That's where the the half-human race template comes in, you can create any human crossbreed races that you need for your game.

Written by Russ Brown.
Art by Liz Courts.

[zainale]

gasp! BLASPHEMER! There is no such thing as humans! There are only dire halflings.

[Rusty Ironpants]

zainale wrote:

gasp! BLASPHEMER! There is no such thing as humans! There are only dire halflings.

Then I guess you can think of this as Template Races: Half-Dire-Halfings. In its pages you will find stats for Half-Dire-Halfling Halflings!*

*If one accepts the premise that Humans = Dire Halflings ;P

[Curtisin]

Do Half-halfling get called Quarterlings?

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Curtisin wrote:

Do Half-halfling get called Quarterlings?

You would think. But due to a quirk of language the halves are considered additive instead of multiplicative, resulting in their name being Onelings.

[Rusty Ironpants]

Curtisin wrote:

Do Half-halfling get called Quarterlings?

Half-human halflings! Logically they are more like Three-Quarterlings. Of course in your game world you can call them anything you like. Half-human dwarves were called Muls in Darksun.

[JosMartigan]

Rusty Ironpants wrote:

zainale wrote:

gasp! BLASPHEMER! There is no such thing as humans! There are only dire halflings.

Then I guess you can think of this as Template Races: Half-Dire-Halfings. In its pages you will find stats for Half-Dire-Halfling Halflings!*

*If one accepts the premise that Humans = Dire Halflings ;P

Add the Dire Creature 3pp template from www.d20pfsrd.com to a Halfling and it will trounce a human.

Even adding the Giant Simple Template to the Halfling yields a much better medium creature. Based on the Halfling ability mods, it nets a +2 Str, +2 Con, AND a +2 Cha. +2 natural armor to boot.

Any GM that would allow me to play a Dire Halfling (or Giant Halfling) in place of a Human would make me very happy LOL.