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2010-11-28, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Races born at random
I was reading about the Karsite from Tome of Magic, special humans who are randomly born when an ancient bloodline becomes strong enough. It reminded me of the Azurins, humans who are randomly born among humans and touched with Incarnum.
So, then I got thinking... how many races, templates, or other variants are possible for humans, assuming an otherwise natural offspring with no magical tampering? Should humans be glad whenever they have a child who DOESN'T have glowing eyes or spell-like abilities or extra limbs?
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2010-11-28, 01:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Sorcerers. :-p
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2010-11-28, 01:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-28, 01:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warlocks aren't born warlocks, are they? I thought they had to make a pact with an extraplanar power.
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2010-11-28, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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As I understand it the draconic template can pop-up after a long dormancy in a family.
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2010-11-28, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by Complete Arcane
Also, other human-ish subraces/ offshoots include Illumians, Deep Imaskari, Shifters, Changelings, Kalashtar, Elans... I'm sure there are a lot more. And that's before considering feats like Aberration Blood and Illithid Heritage.
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2010-11-28, 01:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-28, 02:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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The text on Krinth is unclear, but seems to indicate they are born of non-Krinth parents.
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2010-11-28, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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The text mentions "demonic creatures made of the same tenebrous substance as the plane itself" (Plane of Shadow) as their progenitors- they are human-shadow demon hybrids.
However, while initially the hybrids were infertile, apparently they became fertile 1000 years before the present Faerun era- and became a true-breeding race of their own.
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2010-11-28, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-28, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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You gotta wonder, is D&D humanity possessed of an ultimately adaptable structure, or simply unstable?
I'm guilty of it as anyone. Nearly all my races are human branch-offs.
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2010-11-28, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not exclusive to humans, but the Unholy Scion template (HoH) can manifest on a baby in the womb...
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2010-11-28, 09:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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depending on the way you end up fluffing Hellbred, it's possibly it applies here too. after all, it's quite vague on how your character gets back into the world once the gods are done scouring him, but everybody seems to agree that it happens in one of two ways - you are either born again, or you simply poof into existence
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2010-11-28, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've always had Hellbred crawl out of their graves, but that's just me.
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2010-11-29, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Dont forget Aasimars and Tieflings just pop up randomly too, happy human couples seem to spawn the occasional goat legged sprog now and then it seems
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2010-11-29, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Seconded.
I secretly decided for my homebrew planar-game that Humans are actually the breeding equivalent of that icky brown-grey you get when you mix all your paint together.
They are basically half-everything, so all manner of throwbacks crop up, not to mention niggly little mutations like extra fingers or the occaisional scaley patch. It's also why you basically find them everywhere, but never with a convincing ancestor god.
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2010-11-29, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-29, 10:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Humans are mongrelfolk given enough generations to refine down to something that passes for a normal race, basically. Yes.
Zarus, if you consider him to exist at all (he's obscure enough to not even have a wiki page, after all), is clearly just a deified early human, rather than any kind of projenitor.
Besides, I hear he prefers to be called Pelor, these days.
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2010-11-29, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-29, 11:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Pretty sure you're thinking of 4E. 3.5 Warlocks were to Sorcs as Sorcs are to Commoners. The lower planes thing might have some ground but i'm not buying the Fey pact in 3.5
Edit. Now that i think about it some of the PrC's give different causes for Warlocks having magicsLast edited by Sir Swindle89; 2010-11-29 at 11:59 AM.
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