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*tries to roll around on the piles of words, awkwardly+

Hum, maybe if I actually read it?

Could a aberrant mark show up in someone that isnt a member of the "oficial" races but is somehow related?

Well, as in Eberron as elsewhere, Humans Can Fuck Everything. So yes, probably.

What happens when humans fuck everything? I mean, uh... *waves hands vaguely* I don't think I have a clear picture of the the kinds of people in this world and their characteristics, although perhaps this has been explained already and I'm just forgetting.

Kappa wrote:What happens when humans fuck everything? I mean, uh... *waves hands vaguely* I don't think I have a clear picture of the the kinds of people in this world and their characteristics, although perhaps this has been explained already and I'm just forgetting.

I think DnD traditional answer is that the union of two races results in children that belong to the mom's race, except in the cases of half-elf and half-orcs.

Children can be of either race by stats, but will probably be similar to both in appearance. Half-elves and half-orcs have a dedicated separate set of stats just because they're common. (Half-giants are also a thing, but those stats are weird and specific to one setting because all their giants are psychic for reasons I don't know.) There's one race in a splatbooks that is 'mongrelfolk'; they're what happens when the descendants of Humans Fucking Everything get ostracized and become an isolated breeding population; they have a little elf blood, a little goblin blood, a little dwarf blood, etc.

Note, though, that in Eberron half-elves are explicitly a "race" of their own, in that the children of half-elves are also half-elves, and there is even sort of a unique half-elf culture, as you'll see when I talk about Medani and (especially) Lyrandar.

Could a aberrant mark show up in someone that isnt a member of the "oficial" races but is somehow related?

One of the rules of Eberron is that PCs Are Special: they can always break the rules, especially when it turns to background. You can play a *warforged* with an aberrant mark if you want! Just be aware that this *will* mark you as unusual to an even greater extent than having an aberrant mark by itself already does.

Wait, that’s specific to Eberron? I thought PCs Are Special was true in pretty much all places where PCs are a relevant concept.

Also, I have not been participating in this thread much recently and will probably continue that over the next week. My school has a break starting at the end of next week; all my professors want me to have a real break so they assign everything to be due right before that.

And I haven't participated much at all, sorry.

I am back! I am too jetlagged to post anything substantial right now and I expect to spend all my free time tomorrow playing the last episode of Life is Strange, but expect posting to resume after that!

jalapeno_dude wrote:I am back! I am too jetlagged to post anything substantial right now and I expect to spend all my free time tomorrow playing the last episode of Life is Strange, but expect posting to resume after that!

Played today! Let me know what you think of it