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Title: Jim tweets some RPG mechanics on Changeling prodgeny
Post by: Serack on April 30, 2014, 03:07:28 PM
Quote from: Zachary Ready ‏@DeusSolis
Question among my @HarriedWizard RPG group for @longshotauthor : would changelings be sterile? and if not how would the genetics work?

Quote from: Jim Butcher @longshotauthor
@DeusSolis @HarriedWizard No, not at all.  And cautiously.

@DeusSolis @HarriedWizard :D Consider it a dormant gene group that could potentially be activated by environmental exposure.

Quote from: Zachary Ready ‏@DeusSolis
@longshotauthor @HarriedWizard So a half-elf changeling could have kids that when exposed 2 faerydom, child could exhibit faery qualities?

Quote from: Jim Butcher @longshotauthor
@DeusSolis @HarriedWizard Yeah, though they'd need more exposure the wider the generation gap was. It would be impractical at some point.
Title: Re: Jim tweets some RPG mechanics on Changeling prodgeny
Post by: Cadd on May 01, 2014, 02:17:46 AM
That sure opens up more changeling character concepts... Interesting, indeed!
Title: Re: Jim tweets some RPG mechanics on Changeling prodgeny
Post by: InFerrumVeritas on May 01, 2014, 01:57:20 PM
That's very much like DC's metagene.
Title: Re: Jim tweets some RPG mechanics on Changeling prodgeny
Post by: Jabberwocky on May 01, 2014, 03:17:42 PM
Heh, what a coincidence. I made an NPC along a similar concept last week :-)
http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Reon/
Title: Re: Jim tweets some RPG mechanics on Changeling prodgeny
Post by: vultur on May 03, 2014, 02:39:49 AM
Interesting.

Assuming the same rule works for other kinds of scions, that also helps explain how the "Temple Dogs are essentially the same things as Foo Dogs since they inherit the power" WoJ is consistent with the implication in the books that Temple Dogs are a consistent bloodline several generations removed from Foo Dogs.
Title: Re: Jim tweets some RPG mechanics on Changeling prodgeny
Post by: MijRai on May 05, 2014, 01:58:11 AM
I was running with this theory when I made a character a while back.  His great-grandfather was a fire demon (NeverNever kind, not Down Below kind), and his family had made a deal.  He ended up getting thrown into the magical world, and became fire-proof!