How to create mixed-race D&D characters
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0:00 Intro
0:46 An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby
1:27 Parentage
5:20 Upbringing
9:11 What's next?
Have you ever wanted to create a Dungeons & Dragons player character that has more than one race? Sometimes "half-elf" and "half-orc" just aren't enough. With this DM's Guild supplement, you can create D&D characters with mixed racial abilities!
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Apologies for the correction but your centaur should have 40 movement speed instead of 70!
I was going through the comments answering questions and realized the 70 ft sounded off.
In the 1.1 Version base walking speed is 30 ft and it increases or decreases based on your parentage. Centaur parentage gives you an additional 10 ft if you choose the ability
Otherwise again excellent video. If anyone has any questions I'm happy to answer them!
Oh my gosh, I see how I misread it now - increases TO forty feet, not increases BY forty feet. All the other traits were suggesting that numbers be added to the base stat, and I just read too fast. Makes sense!
I've cut that bit out of the video to avoid confusion, so there will be an awkward little jump at that point in the video in a few hours when that takes, haha.
Was wondering what the weird jump was haha. A correction text over it would have been fine as well imo. We all make mistakes reading dnd rules sometimes :p.
Amazing costume by the way.
CZcams doesn't let you add correction text over videos anymore, unfortunately!
@@GinnyDi Of course...CZcams always takes one step forward and two steps back.
It can be 70ft if the character uses the rare magic item horse shoes of speed, which boosts the speed of any creature that runs on 4 hoves by 30ft.
Sometimes I wonder if a half-orc and a half-elf got together, but the child inherited both human halves so you end up as just some guy.
There's rules in the book for mixed characters having kids, too, and how the traits inherit, with a three-generation example ^-^
...I want to write this now. It's like the token normie child in the Munsters.
Mayo?!?
There's actually a comic stripe that jokes about the children of a minotaur-mermaid couple: the brother is a fish-tailed minotaur, the second just a regular girl.
@@RozlynM which book?
This supplement basically spending 8 hours in the character creator before you even start the game and I love it.
That is 100% the way I play games with character creators, so I'm all about it 😂
I fail to see the problem.
@@GrokNZ agreed
@@GinnyDi This. ☝️
If you don't spend twice as long on making your RPG character as you do on their first mission then I don't know you
"I don't anticipate any obstacles that I can't hurdle." Lilix is going to be in for a surprise when she comes across her first ladder.
Or bed
or rollercoaster :)
Jeremy Crawford has said that "A centaur can climb a ladder … very … slowly."
But that how a monstrous centaur climbs a ladder is up to the DM.
That's what the Athlete feat is for. As a centaur player I had a DM who thought he was clever and regularly had us dungeon delve and at 8th level (we started at 5) I picked it up and described my centaur cleric in full plate and barding pulling his entire body up and down ropes and salmon ladders as training for the feat. He stopped torturing us with caving after that but it came in handy when we needed to scale castle walls.
Well. If she’s a Druid with wild shape, than it shouldn’t be a problem :D
You were so *proud* of that "catfish" line! It made me laugh so hard I woke up the cats on my lap.
I rewound and watched it three times, lol!
I literally paused the video just to give a like for this joke!
I had to stop and collect myself. This comment is me, after collecting, seeing the best comment was already here. XD
i stood and applauded in my room at that line.
NOOOOOOOO they were very busy sleeping !! You disturbed important business !!
Recently I had someone who wanted to play an "Awakened velociraptor" as their character for my campaign. I thought it was a pretty cool idea, coming from a coven of druids and actually managing to work with my lore on how to fit it in and everything for the homebrew campaign. (To make the race I just gave him the tabaxi ability of double movement, and reflavored the minotaur's gore charge attack to work with the raptor's natural weapons. This allows him to charge and pounce prey.)
Sessions later, he has instantly become the party mascot, and to name him every party member decided on one letter for the name. So now we have Cinque the raptor shrieking at people charging in with a pike as a battlemaster fighter with our kobold bard riding on his back like he's a mount. Every single town he's in he asks hundreds of questions about how society works, and the entire party basically gets to raise and teach this character how the world works. It's been great.
I'm obsessed with the fact that you subverted the dark backstory trope and had her come from a family with love in it. Funny and sweet at the same time!
the mixed race "tragic backstory" is so tiring. you see it in dnd, but also in "realistic fiction" when discussing mixed race people. My parents have been happily married for over 40 years. we can come from happy homes too!
Oh man I love this so much. The catfish joke actually got me, but for some reason I just got REALLY invested in this young tiefling-centaur and her parents. Thinking of her as a lil foal trotting after her mother around the faewilds and her father's perhaps pride in her and it's just. So adorable. I love it.
As soon as I heard you mention a Merfolk-Tabaxi hybrid, I was waiting for a catfish joke; I was not disappointed 🤣 well played, Ginny, well played 👍🏻
The Catfish line was brilliant, but a Bard trained in fan fiction is something I wanna see.
On a successful Persuasion, you convince your audience that your version is the correct one, and the actual reality is fan fiction 😂🤣
College of Fanfic
Me: Man, I'm really torn between halflings and gnomes as my favorite 5e race.
Elf and an Orc: Por que no los dos?
Now, how do you make a three-way hybrid between a dwarf, a gnome and a halfling?
@@rosenmartin914 With an axe, followed by some very good needlework.
@@rosenmartin914 tiny^3
@@rosenmartin914 ah yes the minthling, only 3 inches tall 2 inches wide, angry creative lucky genuies who are agresivly stubborn and physcally weak
@@arandomguyontheinternet2308 at that point you'd get a Borrower
OK but that costume is absolutely amazing, Ginny what the hell.
I bet she had a Huge amount of fun designing and wearing it 😎
Got here just in time. This is already my fave Ginny Di video because i LOVE Hybrid races in dnd. I am CONSTANTLY saying "You're telling me with all these races we haven't seen some interesting and/or terrifying mixes yet?" Well fine then Wizards of the coast, I'LL DO IT MYSELF.
It's called custom lineage
@@1Heirborn Custom Lineage does not adequately represent the skills and abilities a Yuan-ti Aasimar would have.
I swear I see the "first born child" deal end with the two having a kid together way more often than played straight these days. It's sweet.
I always get excited when it comes to mixing DND races (as someone who is mixed) loved this video :]
Fellow mixed person! so happy to see people like us enjoying it!
Tiefling Drow. The ultimate edgelord sadboi. It must be made.
On the one hand, Ginny's great and cute as a button. On the other, those black and white eyes are going to be haunting my dreams for a week.
that choked me when I saw her...
"but also kinda the happily ever after kind, because they really love each other and it's a healthy relationship" love that for her
This reminds me to put together that "Genetics problems in gaming" talk that I've been meaning to. :)
I would attend that panel!
Look 7th grade biology taught me what punnett squares are, you can't stop me from using them
I loved that fanfiction line, I love to see a fan of rare pairs and when done right they lead to absolute gold
"I dont anticipate any obstacles I cant hurdle" nobody tell her about ladders
@@chrisstoltz3648 that is a funny image
Ok, you had me at centaur tiefling. Honestly, this was a great video, well thought out and designed, as always, but your new character has officially captured me
Me literally today, "I'm going to spice it up and put a half-dwarf (human/dwarf) in my game. Ginny Di, "Hold my ale!"
I can only imagine some cocky rogue encountering the infernal centaur.
"I don't foresee any obstacles on the prime material plane I can't handle!"
"Ladders."
That'll be the moment Ginny thinks maybe she should've gone with the wings...
God, I would love to see Ginny actually play this character in a game. She sounds so interesting!
It’s so clear how excited you are to talk about Elf and an Orc, and build your Tieftaur, this vid was such a delight!
Ginny: "a whopping 70 feet per round."
Me: Holy crap. That is 100% the solution to "I'm a cleric, but the party cannot stick close for healing to save their life, and they expect me to save their life."
and taking one level of barbarian puts it at 80
I think she made a mistake and it's actually 40
@@Jess-ul5ho Correct. Scope the pinned comment.
Tabaxi is the solution..
The answer to "Healers adjust!" is Guiding Bolt, Spiritual Weapon, and Inflict Wounds with Guided Strike
I had a character who's mom was a Dryad and dad was an Avarial elf, he was so much fun to play as
My dad was a half-man, half-bull (minotaur) and my mom was a half-woman, half-fish (mermaid), however I got both human halves.
I highly reccomend Pathfinder’s second edition for this sorta stuff, they added a system called heritages and ancestries to reflect this stuff. You can basically smush any heritage, like tiefling, aasimar, fleshwarped, onto any race/ancestry, or take ancestry feats from one ancestry as another if you’re adopted. Really cool stuff!
This book would've been so helpful when one of my Frostmaiden players wanted to be a tabaxi centaur. We made it work, but this Parentage system sounds like it'll get a lot more usage out of me in the future!
I couldn't afford the book but there are some previews, so I checked and it's basically an almost complete pdf of the book but with SAMPLE FILE written in diagonal over each page. The pdf is still as readable as I think a purchased version would have been, so that's great. I recommend this method to anyone who can't currently afford it. Awesome video Ginny! Rock on and never let anyone tell you otherwise!
Reminds me of half-dragons from 3.5, where you could have any race mixed with dragon, which could get very interesting and fun
Why stop there? You could stack templates and have a half-dragon, half-angel, half-devil, half-elf.
@@nickgrout2502 Oh god I have a friend who loves doing that, it can get so special and a bit OP at times
@@nickgrout2502 As a DM, I once created five offspring of a Marilith demon and a red dragon: a fiendish dragon, a half-fiend dragon, a draconic marilith, a half-dragon marilith, and a homebrew that was exactly half of each creature.
there are half dragons in the 5e MM
true, but I don't think they are a player template, I could be wrong though
I created a Dragon Horse in my story's world. This is the same story that has one character that took their story inspiration from Waved- Soaked Maiden. That tune is awesome!
My version is the Green Glass Maiden.
Not a dungeons and dragons player (no interest in my area), but your videos are great for my writing!
3.5e has a creature named the "Drakkensteed" that was a special mount for paladins. Might be worth checking out
@@forestbahamut8253 there was a 2e creature from Spelljammer called a dracon, I believe, that were literally just dragon centaurs. 😂
Please post the lyrics
@@VanNessy97 why?
@@elizabethagnes5994 because I want to sing them
I am totally going to use this to make my dhampir character, I need choose another race to make her a half-vampire 🦇 thanks for another great video! X
In case you didn’t know, there already is an official dhampir race.
@@Specter_1125 Well, its UA which may not be allowed at some tables... Then again if they don't allow UA they aren't likely to allow HB either, but yeah, maybe it just doesn't have the features they'd want for a Dhampir?
@@juliabarrow-hemmings6624 It's not UA. It's in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.
@@SwordKirby110 Ah, I haven't really had to look at it since it was UA, good to know its official now
@@SwordKirby110 in the words of a great man "not at my table" that quote is normally followed up by "why the hell didn't you talk to me about your character first we are playing standard 5 e like i explained
I recently came up with a half-tiefling character, but I haven't *fully* created her yet, so this will be perfect for that!
I've been implementing a similar concept from the "Ancestries and Cultures" supplements and I LOVE it. I'm totally going to pick this book up as soon as I can !
Yoo perfect timing. I'm trying to make a half winged tiefling, half fairy. No idea if its even possible, but I just want a badass winged tiefling with fairy wings ':D
I did manage that kinda- custom heritage from tashas mixing hexblood and winged tiefling
I loved all of this, and I'll definitely add those two books to my stack of, "books I'ma buy for D&D eventually", but I was really happy at the end when you revealed your parents really did love each other. A 10 minute video got me all invested in your cute lil centaur tiefling deceiver and her family 😂
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thank you so much for making this video. I have always loved character creation. My kids got me both An Elf and an Orc had a Little Baby and An Elf and an Orc had a Little Baby 2 for Mother's Day.
We would not have known about it without you!!!
I am spending the month of June making a character each day!
PS: your centaur costume is amazing and I like your character too.
I can only imagine the abominations my players will make using this, and I'm not sure if I'm horrified or deeply intrigued.
Why not both?
"I'm sickened, but curious."
And... bought! The bundle option is also great, you can save eight dollars and THEN apply the coupon code to it to get both for $23,72, which is just a steal! I love the idea behind these books, especially the upbringing part. It's a great replacement for backgrounds!
You can definitely run it like that if you want but upbringing isnt meant to replace background.
For a real world example my personal upbringing would be military brat because that's how I was raised but my background would be more akin to like my profession so game designer.
I once played a Half Changeling/Elf character. To keep it simple, I used the Changeling character traits. It was more of an interesting way of giving him a cool back story. His father was a Noble Elf Wizard, and his mother was a Changeling Cleric. Taladorian and Iona Cloveshire. My character's name was Teloriam Cloveshire. Taladorian traveled far and wide studying the Arcane Arts. After years of adventuring and studying, Taladorian met Iona. It was love at first sight. Taladorian purchased an old military installation, and they fixed it up. Iona wanted to set up a Mission to help people, so the spacious fortress was perfect. Taladorian turned the dungeon into his Arcane lab. Which, not only gave him the space he needed to study Magic, it also provided an Arcane training ground for their children.
One of my favorite characters I've playd was a dwarf who had married an elf and had a daughter. He was at a festival with his grand-daughter and son-in-law when he got involved with a quest to keep the festival safe. The party knew he'd married an elf (because he wouldn't stop talking about her) and at the end of the session he introduces them to his son-in-law...who is an orc, and his half-orc, quarter dwarf, quarter elf grand-daughter.
There is a book called Bloodlines and bastards that gives you a bunch of help to do exactly this and a few other things in 3.5 apparently it didn't cross over to 5th.
Wait, Centaur / Tiefling WITH WINGS!!!! A horned Centaurasus!!! I kinda need that in my game world.
Absolutely want to play a Horned Pegataur
Yesssssss! This so much!
I wish I could go give younger me this book, or most of the people I played with for that matter. Not to judge kids ofc but I’m sure they all feel the same looking back on their tiefling-drow rogues as I do about my angsty elf-orc warlock haha
in a pathfinder group I was part of, another player had a chais gnome as a character, she was essentially a gnome/spider centaur, favouring big flowing dresses to hide her eight legs and bulbous spider hindquarters.
@@SonsOfLorgar when I turned my light cleric into a half-spider monstruosity I was like "yea you might wanna hide the extra legs, people might look at you even funnier than they did before" and she'd be like "you gotta be shittin me I'm now cool as all hell".
Players surprise you a lot.
Omg I bought that book and I love it! There's so, so many options that helped me with coming up with a character that felt unique
I am a new D&D player and this makes me so happy!! I never knew this existed and this video is so helpful and fun!! I can't wait to build a new mixed race character now! Thanks for sharing all this information! :D
WOW, this is SUCH a cool and creative way to build characters!! also Lilix is way too cool!!
i appreciate the really well written ccs!! ty!!
This video was awesome! Also, I can't get over how perfectly you matched the color of your shirt with your hair/lipstick/background. It's just... *chef's kiss*
This is so helpful, I'm building a campaign where almost everyone is mixed.
This is one of my favorite things in Pathfinder 2e: the versatile heritages. Tiefling, Aasimar, Duskwalker, changeling, the list goes on that’s applicable to any race
Came here to say this. I love the book Ginny referenced for this video but P2E bakes it all right in and it's really good stuff there too.
2:12 God, I love this joke so much!
Thank you!! This is what I never knew I needed but did!
It’s weird.. My first character was kind of like this. Siren Gravemourne was a tiefling orc child who was simply cursed, but I used the basics for tiefling along with the muscle of orcs. Led to the joke of the “Amazonian devil” since.. well.. warlock.
That's really cool! I use something a bit similair for advantages and flaws to tie my character to the world itself. I took the system from Vampire the masquerade where each character typically starts with seven points of advantages to spend on whatever they want and two points of flaws.
It can be spent on how famous a character is, or how influential they are in a certain sphere. To things like allies, retainers and even other contacts that may help them.
The flaws also can give the dm or even you as a dm ideas on how the world reacts to your players and even npc to npc.
The catfish character pun alone got the like from me. Please keep up the great work
I just gotta say this editing is SO GOOD!!!
I've been thinking about a Half Teifling Half Drow character, that this book would help with.
I am so happy you made this video when you did. I'm starting a new campaign within the next month or so, and one of my players was asking about how he could do a Half-Orc Dwarf (Im affectionately referring to them as a Dworc), and I was struggling to figure out how to do bonuses and feats.
The Build-A-Bear AD right after this video almost felt intentional!
Definitely want to check this out, thanks Ginny!
They didn't do a half-baked job of it. This is one of the best supplements I have ever seen!
I have been calling mixed halflings in my setting "quarterlings" for a while, thought that was just a me thing!
YES! Stuff like this is something that DnD’s next evolution needs. I’ve always wanted race to have a tinge more impact and more options for players is always welcome.
Ok this is AMAZING, super helpful, and I LOVE the color scheme/aesthetic of this video!
Really great video. The examples really helped me understand if this was a good option for my table.
Genuinely appreciate you doing a video about this subject and mentioning this supplement material. I have a hard time sleeping and I think up D&D characters to put myself to sleep (my way of counting sheep). This will definitely add to that process and make even more unique characters I'll never get to play. Your character looked AMAZING and had such a fun story. Thank you for your time and hope you have a blessed day.
This sounds awesome! I recently made a mixed Teifling / Aasimar because it seemed like such an interesting backstory option and appropriate to the character. Now I can't complain too much about the free Feat with Custom Lineage, but would have preferred the option to instead mix racial abilities instead.
Tiefling Aasimar already exist!
... Humans.
I didn't know I needed this character or this splat until you did this video
She just likes to dress up and make videos about anything 😂. Whatever cosplay she wants to do she’s gonna make a video saying it’s a good idea to be creative and create a character about it. So nice to see someone put so much effort into their content and giving a great viewing experience. This is amazing. You’re such a warm and relatable person, anyone would love to play dnd with you!
I like the concept of upbringing so much! I think WOTC should buy the concept and make it a important part of 5.5. It fixes the annoying problem you face when wanting a race that don't have bonuses on the right attributes for the class you want...
This reminds me of something from 3.5 dnd. Lol.
I took a moon/silver elf and a stout heart halfling as a mixed breed dubbed a "elfling"
My DM thought it was innocent, cute, and a bit charming till I started prestige classing off.
He did wonder why I smiled when I played a beginning of Alice Cooper "Welcome to my Nightmare"
Roflmao
Really fascinating concept and well executed video, thanks for spreading the word!
I got the Bundle of both books, excited to look through them and put them into use!
I'm such a big fan of VJ Harris (and already own the books), really excited to watch your take on them!
Yyeeeeeesssss, more mixed race dnd characters!!! 🥳 lol
My 2 main OCs are mixed race. One is satyr + changeling, taking predominately the satyr characteristics but can do minor changeling shifting. The other OC is the secret lovechild of a deity & archdevil, so an infernal god/demigod?? :3c
I really like hearing about this! I didn't know until it came up in my feed. Thanks!!
So great concept well explained, but I absolutely love your outfit! The flowers on your shirt match the hair and lipstick so well!
Thank you for spotlighting the book! I worked as a sensitivity consultant on it with the team, and it is so important to highlight and remove bioessentialism in the game!
This was GREAT Ginny thanks for the spotlight on our product!
Thank YOU for these incredible books!! I had so much fun creating Lilix and I barely scratched the surface of everything that's possible!
This is so fun, I just picked up the bundle! I had already been dabbling with my DM on this for my first character that I've been playing for 2 years now. Wood Elf father & Moon Elf mother; his moon elf blood has been awakening giving him access to the Moonbeam spell even tho rangers can't usually cast it. It's been fun to flavor everything, but this helps structure so many more possibilities! Thanks for this great video AND 10/10 pun!
A gnome-firbolg actually sounds really cute. I want to play that now
On one hand, I love the ability to customize racial features and background so diversely. That could help reflect a lot of interesting aspects of life. On the other, I believe that some ASI should be race specific to maintain the very obvious differences between humanoids and because it lends itself better to the general idea of whole “I’m an [insert race] learning to be [insert class] because that’s who I personally want to be, not because OR IN SPITE OF my biological ancestors’ history (and because I like give and takes that don’t have perfect solutions). I might have to get this book for myself and take a look at implementing some of it... though a 70ft. movement speed makes me think that I will want to nerf a good bit of it.
Still, really good ideas, great video, better cosplay, fantastic character, and interesting product: you rock Ginny!
Just want to add the moment speed would actually be 40 not 70, which is in line with the standard Centaur.
You shouldnt have to nerf anything from a balance perspective we were very meticulous.
@@vicharris4096 Ok, 40ft. is absolutely fine. If you really are one the creators, congratulations on a superb product. I took a look at some of this, and I love it. I might tweak one or two things for my own world's rules, but overall this book is a carefully crafted gem. 9.7/10 my friend
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DUDE YOUR NEW INTO IS SO COOL
Ginny is getting so good at these integrated ads, I don't even remember what this video was supposed to be about - but I remember the ads!
Centaur Teifling? Sounds like the highway to hell just got a bit quicker to traverse
I've been slowly developing an oc that is literally a quarterling for use in role plays. Right now I'm primarily using her mentor/guardian though.
I was trying to figure out how to do this , and this helped me soo much
loving the lip color that matches your shirt, it rocks
Love the video already, I've had a half-elf/half-orc cleric in mind for ages, and I had used the rules from Tasha's but these are so much more detailed!
OMG THE NEW INTRO THING IS SO PRETTY
This was the material I've been waiting for.
This is really cool. I gotta check this out now and see how I can use it.
I just recently got into DnD, thanks so much for saving my life with your channel, Ginny DI!!
Gosh I like your cosplays! I love the ideas here
I love all of this the point-buy option sounds perfect! 👍
Best first 10 seconds of any D&D video I've ever seen! LOVED IT!! XD
I am so glad I found this video. It also reminded me of the pony centaur rogue that my cousin played. It was awesome. We all decided because of the shape of the hooves that centaurs are commonly depicted with and because he was a pony, he'd be able to climb like a goat which led to amazing story moments. Then add in that he was raised in a circus and it was definitely a ton of fun. I've also been tinkering around with the idea of half-elves and them having some quirks to explain why maybe some elves aren't too keen on the idea of mixing with humans (or other races if someone wanted to go a different combo). I'm sure these supplements will help a ton with tweaking and coming up with more ideas.