A Player Wants to be Half-Centaur

[GenericGuy]

And the DM is allowing it... I normaly like to know the backstory of other charcters, but in this case.:smalleek:

So this got me thinking, how about we make a list of the strangest hybrids we’ve run into in our gaming circles.

[mootoall]

I haven't played in a game like this, but reading SCS' campaign logs, it seems as if there's a city where pretty much everything is half-dragon or dragonblooded. Seriously. Their first challenge was killing a bunch of half-dragon rats. After passing through a bazaar selling half-dragon horses.

[Acora]

What, exactly, would be the difference between a normal centaur and a half centaur, other then the fact that ones has a human parent?

But mine's pretty lame. We had a guy who was wondering aloud what would happen if there was a half elf, half dwarf, to which another member of our group replied "Gnome!"

[Drakevarg]

But mine's pretty lame. We had a guy who was wondering aloud what would happen if there was a half elf, half dwarf, to which another member of our group replied "Gnome!"

I played a half-elf, half-dwarf once. Wasn't a gnome, though.

[Zaydos]

Drakken Rat? I mean it is a rat with draconic blood and it is presented as a familiar option in a core book.

Strangest hybrid though would probably be the half-Cthulloid entity (his great uncle was Cthulhu) half-illumian. It was also undead before it was born because its "mom" was a dread necromancer.

[golentan]

Weirdest one I ever saw in a game is easily the Half-Celestial Half-Dragon Tiefling.

Got pretty weird...

[kyoryu]

Given that a centaur is half-horse, half-human to start with, I'm trying to picture what a half-centaur would be.

We won't even get into how he was conceived.

[DementedFellow]

We won't even get into how he was conceived.

True love (a la Shrek) or a drunken bet, I'd hazard a guess.

[sciencepanda]

Given that a centaur is half-horse, half-human to start with, I'm trying to picture what a half-centaur would be.

Three horse legs?

I once came up with a character who was a Half-(Styx) Dragon Anthropomorphic Mantis Shrimp. Twas...interesting.

[Schylerwalker]

Three horse legs?

I once came up with a character who was a Half-(Styx) Dragon Anthropomorphic Mantis Shrimp. Twas...interesting.

Wait.


Three horse legs?

I once came up with a character who was a Half-(Styx) Dragon Anthropomorphic Mantis Shrimp. Twas...interesting.

What?

[sciencepanda]

On that monster class thread in the homebrew forum there is a class for making custom anthropomorphic animals. I went with a stomatopod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomatopod). There is also a Half-Dragon Template. The Stygian aspect is really just flavor though.

[Shyftir]

He wants to be a half-centaur? I'd make him play a satyr but take away anything related to music or having horns. That's pretty close right?

[Thurbane]

Bastards & Bloodlines has such hybrids as Alicorn (Elf/Unicorn), Lasher (Dwarf/Roper), Wendigo (Dwarf/Winter Wolf), Burrower (Gnome/Umber Hulk) and Decataur (Elf/Centaur) - in both biped and quadruped vession...

...as well as templates, including half-rakshasa, half-medusa and even half-beholder.

[Morph Bark]

My second campaign had some fairly normal Half-Celestial Elves, a Half-Fiend Drow and... a Half-Dragon (Gold) Woodling Human. His name was Dorona. He could do anything.

Or so our group keeps saying.

[Gensh]

On another site I was on a few years ago, one of the members made a series of pdfs for his campaign world. In the races chapter, it said that if it wasn't listed, follow the "mom's legs" rule: no matter what they are, they'll always have the same number as legs as the mother because in some cases, the baby wouldn't fit in there otherwise.

[Vemynal]

Given that a centaur is half-horse, half-human to start with, I'm trying to picture what a half-centaur would be.

We won't even get into how he was conceived.

maybe he would be a Sayter? those things with the goat legs and horns? but like...horse legs and a mane?

As for my games, the weirdest was a character I played myself.

Human Duskblade/Dragon Disciple. Got the half-dragon template at level 10 and then became a Lich (Yes i realize this optimization was horrible, at the time I was hooked on "I'll be immune to Fire, Ice and Lightning!!!)

Character is actually in my siggy below

[Schylerwalker]

I don't see what the problem is. Which half is he playing as anyways, the horse or the human?

Yes. This.

[The Pressman]

Drakken Rat? I mean it is a rat with draconic blood and it is presented as a familiar option in a core book.

Strangest hybrid though would probably be the half-Cthulloid entity (his great uncle was Cthulhu) half-illumian. It was also undead before it was born because its "mom" was a dread necromancer.


How did you manage the half-Cthulhoid bit?

[Zaydos]

How did you manage the half-Cthulhoid bit?

Well it's dad was an eldritch abomination from beyond time and space, and its mom was a male dread necromancer. Also magic was contagious in that setting so it's presence made weird things happen.

[panaikhan]

Well, in one party I'm in we have a half-fae Drow, and in another I play a Warforged Juggernaut taking levels in Acolyte Of The Skin...

[Premier]

Ignore the Half-Centaur - Half Man.

What about a Half-Centaur - Half Horse?

[Morph Bark]

Where do normal Centaurs pee from anyway?

[herrhauptmann]

From the horse part I believe. It's gotta be hidden under the horsebody, or WoTC would've given the centaur a loincloth or similar.

Seen (on this forum) celestial tiefling. Also a half devil, half fiend something.

[Jarawara]

I don't see what the problem is. Which half is he playing as anyways, the horse or the human?

So he's have the choice of either playing a human... or playing a horse's ass! :smalltongue:

[Snake-Aes]

Wouldn't a half-centaur be 3/4 human? What is that then, a human whose butt extends into a horse's butt with two more legs?
Or a horse with a human head?
Just make him play a horse druid with a human animal companion.

[SilverLeaf167]

Bastards & Bloodlines has such hybrids as Alicorn (Elf/Unicorn), Lasher (Dwarf/Roper), Wendigo (Dwarf/Winter Wolf), Burrower (Gnome/Umber Hulk) and Decataur (Elf/Centaur) - in both biped and quadruped vession...

...as well as templates, including half-rakshasa, half-medusa and even half-beholder.
How does that happen? Tentacle rape? :smalleek: Same for beholder.

Most of those are probably results of some VERY WEIRD beastiality, but judging from the name, I guess what the whole book is about...

[PairO'Dice Lost]

Strangest hybrids, huh? Reposting this from another thread about strange PCs:


Oh boy. Two campaigns ago, everyone wanted to play templated monstrosities, so every PC was ridiculous. Two parties of five, and everyone started with incarnate construct ice beast+incarnate construct elder eidolon+incarnate construct effigy for -6 LA to fill up with templates, and there were some special allowances on top of that. Let's see if I can remember the exact builds...

Party the First
The Shadow. If there's an elemental template for it, he had it, plus paraelemental-ish ones like dustform. We nicknamed him the Shadow because he ended up with ridiculous Dex and could be really small and sneaky, so in-game the party didn't even know he was there half the time. Combat modus operandi? Using the smoke-elemental creature's "go into your lungs and kill you from the inside" abilities with his humongous claw damage.
The Achilles. He had wendigo, half-brass-golem, half-troll, and a few other templates that granted more immunities and resistances. It wasn't quite Emerald Legion-level invulnerability, but it was close. We called him Achilles because he had exactly one weakness that could be exploited occasionally without obvious DM fiat: a graymantle spell to suppress regeneration, made into a (Su) ability to bypass spell immunity (luckily one of the recurring villains was a dweomerkeeper, huh?). That didn't work often, but it struck fear into his heart when it did. Also, he wanted to ascend to become the God of Weasels; long story.
The Thrower. Tauric dire-something goliath with other brute-type templates on top. It was a basic hulking hurler build (the player was a fan of "Hulk smash!" barbarians) except that he counted as a Colossal quadruped with something like 60 Str and had levels in Bloodstorm Blade, so his weapon of choice was ricocheting houses.
The Zombipocalypse. This one was relatively straightforward: Greater Spawn of Kyuss and Half-Illithid, plus several applications of Evolved Undead. His mission was to voidmind-ify and spawn-of Kyuss-ify everything he came into contact with, and he had two spawnified elven children follow him around everywhere. Did I mention that this was an all-evil party?
The Arm-y. Phrenic Insectile Warforged with a thing for grafts. He'd cut the arms off every creature they killed and graft them onto himself, using generous interpretations of Multiweapon Fighting and Multiattack to get attacks with all of them.
Party the Second
The Host. A half-Daelkyr who went crazy with symbionts and the symbiotic creature template and then went into spellwarp sniper as a focused specialist evoker. He had fireball rays, lightning bolt rays, symbiont rays, beholder eye rays, and more.
The Pyro. Every fire-related template he could fit, he used. Half-red dragon, half-fire elemental, everything. He went focused specialist evoker/warlock/hellfire warlock/eldritch theurge and relied on hellfire blast and Searing Spell. Also had a Holocaust Disciple (Fire Avatar of Elemental Evil) cohort.
The Dragon. He had at least six half-dragon templates, one or two levels in every vaguely dragon-related class (he didn't take a second level in any class until 8th level), and was a dragonborn of Bahamut spellscale. He also acquired breath weapons from as many other places as he could. This party was very much the blasty type.
The Controller. Another multi-Evolved undead, this time a flaming frozen acidic skeleton. He went wizard/archivist/true necro with a few levels in sovereign speaker to pick up every domain that lets you rebuke creatures. He had enough minions to fill several monster manuals.
The Monk. Thri-kreen with every Cha-boosting template he could find, going into monk/wilder/fist of Zuoken, dipping sorcerer for Ascetic Mage, and ended up the party face. Ugliest sonofabitch you will ever meet, but every NPC forgot that once he opened his mouth mandibles.
So...yeah. :smallamused: Coming up with challenges for the parties (much less for the encounters for when they came together for a session) was...challenging.