Help, My Half-Elf is Pregnant!

[kesher]

The 11 strangest questions from the D&D Sage Advice column

First off, writing into a magazine about D&D to ask how you should handle an unplanned pregnancy is basically the greatest thing anyone has ever done with their life. Second, the fact that actual advice is given. Third, that the Sage offers up his thoughts on medicine from "this time period," as though historical accuracy didn't go completely out the window once the wizards showed up and started casting Magic Missile at Gelatinous Cubes.

[jjarvis]

If a half-elf and a half-orc have a child what race is it?

[Mr. Darke]

1/4-erf?

[Koren n'Rhys]

Mongrel.

[vito]

If a half-ling and a half-ling have a child, is it a full ling?

[kesher]

I'm pretty sure it'd be a quarter-ling (law of diminishing returns...)

Oh, wait, maybe it'd be an eighth-ling...

[vito]

Dec 17, 2010 12:42:04 GMT -6 kesher said:

I'm pretty sure it'd be a quarter-ling (law of diminishing returns...)

Oh, wait, maybe it'd be an eighth-ling...

I can still stack four hobbits on top of each other to make a double-ling, right?

[barrataria]

Who was doing the column in the early Dragons? Kask?

I remember EGG talking about getting rules questions on his home phone all the time in the early days... I wonder if any were like this.

[dwayanu]

I think the Sage at that time was Jean Wells (author of Module B3 Palace of the Silver Princess).

[talysman]

I thought the funniest part of the linked article was "...when it comes to cross-alignment marriage to villanous sorceresses, I'm a fundamentalist. It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Evil-Lyn."

[Mr. Darke]

I liked the one about touch attacks. Makes me wonder what that player was trying to touch enemies with.

[Malcadon]

Yep, back then a lot of young elven thieves got molested from touch attack spells. XP

[castiglione]

Dec 18, 2010 8:04:12 GMT -6 Mr. Darke said:

I liked the one about touch attacks. Makes me wonder what that player was trying to touch enemies with.

My guess - the ubiquitous 10' pole.

[Malcadon]

Dec 21, 2010 23:55:42 GMT -6 castiglione said:

Dec 18, 2010 8:04:12 GMT -6 Mr. Darke said:

I liked the one about touch attacks. Makes me wonder what that player was trying to touch enemies with.

My guess - the ubiquitous 10' pole.

My old character pioneered the halfbreed craze well before v3.0 with his not-so-ubiquitous 10' pole! ;D