Halfbreed

Halfbreed by Shadowknight

While Palladium Games frowns on halfbreed like Half/Elf or Half/Orc. It part & parcel Superhero comics to have Halfbreeds from Half merman, to people who had an otherworldly parent, in fact most ancient religions aren't complete without a few gods or goddess mating a a mortal they fancied and bearing them a child, and who haven't heard of angels or devils mating with humans. So how do you create such a mixed breed without creating 10 thousand or so variation of a human being. This is my attempt. First they must be able to have sexual congress and both race be able to bear a child. Secondly they must have a genetic similarities. So a Half/vampire isn't possible since Vampire can't bear children, nor is a Half/Dragon since Human are descended from Primates and Dragon from Dinosaurs. While a titan and Human have genetic ancestor the fact is a Titan is 3X the size of a human so sexual congress is impossible, so no half/titans either. So what does that leave? On top of my head

Half/Elf

Half/Ogre

Half/ Angel

Half/Devil

Half/Alien

Having said that how for example would you create a (Half/ Elf)? Simple a Elf has these stats I.Q. 3D6+ 1, M.E. 3D6, M.A. 2D6, P.S. 3D6, P.P. 4D6, P.E. 3D6, P.B. 5D6, SPD 3D6. This is how I strongly recommend. The I.Q of an Elf is usually 1 point better than for an Equivalent human. So I would simply give the Half/Elf +1 to I.Q just like 1 of it's parents, M.E of an Elf is identical to a Human so there's no change. But now here comes the tricky part the Elf M.A is 2D6 the Human is 3D6 so what would be that of an Half/Elf? Simple Anytime there's a dice or more difference in stats difference you add both parents dice together and divide by 2. So in this it's 5D6/2=2D6+3 so a Half/Elf would roll a 2D+3 for M.A but he would roll 1's over. This way he would clearly have a better M.A than His or Her Elf parent but most of the time slightly inferior to his or her Human parent. Using this rule you would have 7D6/2 or 3D6+3 for a Hal/Elf P.P & 8D6/2 or 4D6 for a Half/Elf P.B. in a like manner yo can create a Half/Orc, Half/Angel and so on. Needless to say the Half Human breed would resemble both his or her parents. So a Half/Elf would have slightly pointy ears but not to the same degree as a full Elf, a Half/Ogre would be taller than a regular human but not as tall as a full Ogre. The negative aspect of the Half Breed is it would inherit most of it's parent weakness or strength but at a lesser intensity. For example an Elf lifespan is 600 yrs by Palladium Books, so a Half/Elf baring getting killed would live to 300 yrs old, but any potion, magic or magical tattoo would work or affect them in a similar manner as if they were an Elf but to a lesser degree. So a Magic Tattoo would give a Half/Elf half the minus and aging penalties that a full Elf would receive.

Cost: 2 feats

Natural abilities: As long as they aren't magical I don't have a problem given them the best natural abilities of the parent race, like an Elf +5D6 P.P.E since it doesn't unbalance the game. But warn them if a race has a racial enemy they would consider you an enemy also even-though you are a halfbreed.

Bonus: As a half Breed you re-roll any 1 that you rolled for stats when creating your character

Limitation: 2 different Halfbreed can't mate unless they are the same Halfbreed. So a Half/Elf can't produce children with an Half/Ogre. But 2 Hal/Elves could breed or for example the Half/Elf could breed with a Full Elf or Human. For all intents in purpose there's no such thing as a 1/4 breed such a creature would have no advantages from his grandparents race except having slight resemblance to its grandparents.