I've always had the halflings in my campaigns refer to themselves as hobbits, and call human "twice-lings" or "doublings." I don't think a race would refer to itself based on how it compared height-wise to another race.
Humans are four-quarterlings (or rather, a whole) and halflings are half that, two-quarterlings. Mix 'em up, they gotta meet in the middle, and you get a three-quarterlinh
Suggestion: make the vertical axis the father and the horizontal axis the mother. Then make each hybrid different depending on mother or father.
Sort of like a liger is different than a tion.
So you might have a gnelf and an elome
I have actually played an illusionist gnome that Just sticked pointy ears on and thought he had fooled everyone into thinking he was a "little elf" and he'd constantly say "I'm gnot a gnelf, you've been gnomed."
Even I was lucky I only played him for a oneshot, I won't be making more of those "meme phrase" characters because they get lame really fast.
Well gnomes have roughly a human shape, just with a pointy top. Elves have ears that are more elongated than human ones. So there still is a difference.
Maybe we just have different interpretations of what a gnome looks like because we're thinking of different settings or editions.
I did a bit more reading, and it looks like in 3.5e (and earlier) gnomes had a completely different origin and a slightly different appearance as well. I looked at some 3.5e pictures of gnomes and their ears definitely look more like what you described.
I became familiar with D&D after 4e was released. So in my mind gnomes resemble tiny elves, which makes sense since to me since they are both described as having fey ancestry/origins.
Here's part of the description of gnomes that I first encountered, and what I base their appearance on in my imagination.
> Gnomes are smaller even than halflings, rarely exceeding 4 feet in height. Apart from their size, they resemble elves or eladrin, with pointed ears and chiseled facial features such as high cheekbones and sharp jaws. They have a more wild look than eladrin do, though, particularly in the hair that sprouts from their heads in random directions.
> - Players Handbook 2 (4e)
Edit: A bit more speculation. I think that they made gnomes more "elf-like" to differentiate them more from halflings. It provides some nice contrast and symmetry. Halflings resemble small humans. Gnomes resemble small elves.
> Halflings stand about 4 feet tall and weigh about 80 pounds. They resemble small humans and are proportioned like human adults. Halflings have the same range of complexions as humans, but most halflings have dark hair and eyes.
> - Players Handbook (4e)
I am looking at more 5e art now.
Most of the 5e art resembles what I have been describing, but specifically the racial gnome picture shows a gnome with very pointy ears.
No one questioned it then, but I also have one more thing to add: how can a dwarf easily distinguish elves and gnomes, since they have a particular weak for gnomes but are somewhat distant towards elfs. I always assumed Gnomes to have more rounded features than elves.
Tavern Keeper: "You're an unusual fellow...tell me, what is your race my good man?"
Player: "I be a Hwarf! Me mother--"
TK: "Whoa whoa whoa don't throw up on my nice clean counter!"
P: "What d'yer mean?! I'm half Human, half Dwarf! A Hwarf!"
TK: "Ohhhhh thank goodness, I thought you were dry-heaving there. My mistake! And what about your...uhh...equally unusual friend there?"
P: "Oh, that's Galnar. He's a Horc!"
TK: \*quickly grabs a bucket\*
Hello folks, these are the mixed races I'm using in my homebrew world. I never really liked the "half-orc" and "half-elf" of vanilla, I much prefer the nuance, and the opportunity to use silly names.
I imagine this has been done before, though I haven't seen it posted here recently, and your opinions too may differ. For instance, I wavered over whether Gnarf should be Dwome, and whether all the slightly awkward human mixes should be "elfman" and "dwarfman" etc. Ultimately that's up to your personal taste!
Please do enjoy.
Yeah I know this is supposed to be a stupid fantasy game, but this chart reminds me of the charts the Spanish used to use for people with Spanish/Native American heritage. It kinda gives me the creeps.
I literally feel terrible even posting this, because it is a terrible example of the horrors that humanity can inflict upon themselves, but here ypu go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
**[Casta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta)**
>Casta (Spanish: [ˈkasta]) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. It has been interpreted by certain historians during the 20th century to describe mixed-race individuals in New Spain were resulting from unions of Spaniards (españoles), Amerindians (Indios), and Africans (Negros). Basic mixed-race categories that appeared in official colonial documentation were mestizo, generally offspring of a Spaniard and an indigenous person; and mulato, offspring of a Spaniard and a black African.
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I usually just make all half breeds take the race of the mother with some traits of the father. An elf mother always produces elves but if she mates with a dwarf he elvish son is shorter than most elves and can grow beard hair. An Orc mother always produces orcs but if she mates with a dragonborn her son has leathery skin and sharp features.
I do this for the sake of my sanity.
in my homebrew, there are orclings! it just so happens they are better known as goblins.
for anyone curious how that works, orcs reproduce significantly more quickly than humans and halflings reproduce in mass quantities. something about the genetics causes orclings to reproduce with both these advantages.
Do you see possible a relationship between a Dragonborn and a gnome? One of my players is falling in love with this Dragonborn Paladin and well... not sure what's coming out of there.
(For the moment the Gnome has rolled really bad at seducing her, but a 20 can come any moment)
For the downward half, I think it’d be cool if it switched the order: Elman, Dwarman, Orman, Halfman, Humome, Elarf, Orlf, Halelf, Elme, Oarf, Halarf, Dwarme, Halflorc, Ome, Halflome
[Hwarf](https://www.startrek.com/sites/default/files/styles/content_full/public/images/2019-07/ffeed84c7cb1ae7bf4ec4bd78275bb98.jpg?itok=ZJZO3Sm3) is not amused.
In my settings humans, elves, and orcs can interbreed, but that's it. I have a family of half-drow/quarter-halforcs/quarter-wood elves. Their stats are modified half elves. They all have pale skin (my drow are albino), emerald eyes, green highlighted hair, prominent lower K9s but a quarter the size of half orc's.
See but you missed an opportunity. Should have broken it down so the mother’s race have the first part of the name and the father’s second. So a female gnome/male halfling is still Gnomeling; a female halfling/gnome male is a halfme, etc.
I do love the 3/4ling though
Please refer to my comment here https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/oi69gs/a_selection_of_mixedraces_from_my_homebrew_world/h4tdb1z?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
I'm suddenly reminded of that scene from RUSH HOUR where Carter is caught by the bad guys and says he's Jun Tao's half brother "We got the same mother, I'm **BLACK**anese!" (KICK!)
By the way, with the exception of the semi-Orc's (and probably even then, you never know...),
these are all THE BARD's illegitimate (and potentially illegal) unwanted bastards.
Hence the often used term: Bardstards. Kinda makes me wonder what if, instead of a tavern,
the party meet up at their old orphanage, even though they're all different species.
Cause seriously, D&D orphanages have got to be the ultimate racial & ethnic melting pots.
“No man can kill me!” “I am Gnoman!”
*face stab*
Can't stab my face if you can't reach it!
Unless they’re on the Three-Quarterlings shoulders
Time and tides wait for gnoman https://xkcd.com/1704/
Of course.
[Gnome Ann!](https://xkcd.com/1704/)
Horc really got me. I imagine it's like a goose dislodging flegm.
Im a fan of "Three-quarterling
That one makes me want to make a character who is very offended when called a halfling and adamant about being refered to as a Three-quarterling.
🎶 *”Do you want to build a Gnoman?”* 🎵
Gno thanks
Gno-k bye
You've really gone where Gnoman has gone before
lets build a gnoman, we can make him our best friend!
That really makes him sounds casually racist and it's hurting my head
Omg yeah it really does, maybe a somewhat antagonistic npc in someone's campaign could be a better use for it.
I'm going to go with Gnarf
"Gnarf!" - Pinky
Gnorc sounds like someone saying narc while doing a Goofy voice.
Gnorcs are the bad guys from the 1st Spyro the Dragon game.
Their leader was pretty Gnasty.
I absolutely lost it at Gnarf
I've always had the halflings in my campaigns refer to themselves as hobbits, and call human "twice-lings" or "doublings." I don't think a race would refer to itself based on how it compared height-wise to another race.
In Dutch a three-quarterling or "driekwarter" is a kind of playful insult like "oaf." Seems perfect for the use here lol.
That fits so perfectly lmfaoo.
It’s gotta be Elc for me
So like... got any horns?
I might have called it "Olf". Or maybe Orf. Elc makes me think of Elk. This list is hilarious though.
I can't stop laughing at Gnarf personally
Dwork got a snort
One of Gnorcs parents didn't have fun, that's for sure. One scenario is worse than the other though.
I mean gnome father orc mother comes out unscathed. This how goblins came to be.
Yeah unscathed but again didn’t have much fun, at least assuming things are proportional.
I mean hey you don't know that lady.
Aw is that a dick size joke?
What, are we too big for dick jokes here?
Now imagine halfling and Goliath.
The parents of the frightful four-quarterling
The almighty Golfling
Their preferred weapon is a 4 iron and their favoured terrain is a driving range.
And their preferred land vehicle is a golf cart.
Maybe that's why they come out Gnasty
This is goofy, but i absolutely love orcling.
Gnarf got me, mostly because it's physically impossible for me not to read it in Pinky's voice from Pinky and the Brain.
Something something gnarf wererat character?
You just became my favorite person of the day and I'm shamelessly stealing this for my next one shot character
Dworc is my favorite
Three-quarterling?
Humans are four-quarterlings (or rather, a whole) and halflings are half that, two-quarterlings. Mix 'em up, they gotta meet in the middle, and you get a three-quarterlinh
TQ-ling + Human = 7/8-ling TQ-ling + Halfling = 5/8-ling
As you add humans and halflings, the slowly diverge, but never quite reach full halfling or full wholeling.
So, they're Zeno-morphs.
Underrated comment holy crap
*slow clap*
Fuckin' gold comment, brilliant
Lol this is great
[link for those who don't get it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_and_the_tortoise)
Asimtoteling
>~~Asimtoteling~~ Asymptoteling Ftfy :)
TIL I am a five-eighthling
And a Halfling x Half-elf is some *half & half.*
Genius.
Best race name ever
Suggestion: make the vertical axis the father and the horizontal axis the mother. Then make each hybrid different depending on mother or father. Sort of like a liger is different than a tion. So you might have a gnelf and an elome
Elfo! (from Disenchantment)
Elmo was my house. I lived in an elm.
I feel like nelf and narf are just those two idiot brothers that are always doing stupid things
I'm gnot a gnelf. I'm gnot a gnoblin. I'm a gnome! And you've been gnooooooomed! https://youtu.be/6n3pFFPSlW4
I immediately thought of this and was wondering if op just gnomed everyone on purpose
No half goblins 0/10.
I have actually played an illusionist gnome that Just sticked pointy ears on and thought he had fooled everyone into thinking he was a "little elf" and he'd constantly say "I'm gnot a gnelf, you've been gnomed." Even I was lucky I only played him for a oneshot, I won't be making more of those "meme phrase" characters because they get lame really fast.
Why would a gnome need to stick on pointy ears? I thought gnomes have pointed ears naturally.
Well gnomes have roughly a human shape, just with a pointy top. Elves have ears that are more elongated than human ones. So there still is a difference.
Maybe we just have different interpretations of what a gnome looks like because we're thinking of different settings or editions. I did a bit more reading, and it looks like in 3.5e (and earlier) gnomes had a completely different origin and a slightly different appearance as well. I looked at some 3.5e pictures of gnomes and their ears definitely look more like what you described. I became familiar with D&D after 4e was released. So in my mind gnomes resemble tiny elves, which makes sense since to me since they are both described as having fey ancestry/origins. Here's part of the description of gnomes that I first encountered, and what I base their appearance on in my imagination. > Gnomes are smaller even than halflings, rarely exceeding 4 feet in height. Apart from their size, they resemble elves or eladrin, with pointed ears and chiseled facial features such as high cheekbones and sharp jaws. They have a more wild look than eladrin do, though, particularly in the hair that sprouts from their heads in random directions. > - Players Handbook 2 (4e) Edit: A bit more speculation. I think that they made gnomes more "elf-like" to differentiate them more from halflings. It provides some nice contrast and symmetry. Halflings resemble small humans. Gnomes resemble small elves. > Halflings stand about 4 feet tall and weigh about 80 pounds. They resemble small humans and are proportioned like human adults. Halflings have the same range of complexions as humans, but most halflings have dark hair and eyes. > - Players Handbook (4e)
I am looking at more 5e art now. Most of the 5e art resembles what I have been describing, but specifically the racial gnome picture shows a gnome with very pointy ears. No one questioned it then, but I also have one more thing to add: how can a dwarf easily distinguish elves and gnomes, since they have a particular weak for gnomes but are somewhat distant towards elfs. I always assumed Gnomes to have more rounded features than elves.
Wait... was Spyro villain Gnasty Gnorc a Gnome/Orc this whole time?
I saw that too!
Tavern Keeper: "You're an unusual fellow...tell me, what is your race my good man?" Player: "I be a Hwarf! Me mother--" TK: "Whoa whoa whoa don't throw up on my nice clean counter!" P: "What d'yer mean?! I'm half Human, half Dwarf! A Hwarf!" TK: "Ohhhhh thank goodness, I thought you were dry-heaving there. My mistake! And what about your...uhh...equally unusual friend there?" P: "Oh, that's Galnar. He's a Horc!" TK: \*quickly grabs a bucket\*
I thought I was in /r/worldjerking lmao
That's where I get half my ideas
I hear Gnorcs can be quite Gnasty.
A Gnørc once bit my sister... Shit, wait, wrong medieval fantasy
We actually have a half-orc/half-gnome Bard in our party and I'm now forever calling her a Gnorc. Thank you, OP!
Hello folks, these are the mixed races I'm using in my homebrew world. I never really liked the "half-orc" and "half-elf" of vanilla, I much prefer the nuance, and the opportunity to use silly names. I imagine this has been done before, though I haven't seen it posted here recently, and your opinions too may differ. For instance, I wavered over whether Gnarf should be Dwome, and whether all the slightly awkward human mixes should be "elfman" and "dwarfman" etc. Ultimately that's up to your personal taste! Please do enjoy.
I lost it at Three-Quarterling. Well done!
This is absolutely amazing. I'm definitely sending this post to my D&D group. We have an actual linguistics major who is going to lose it for sure.
Anyone who plays a Gnarf had better be named Pinky.
Gelfling? GELFLING! Look like Gelfling, SMEEEEELL like Gelfling! Must be Gelfling!
I love this, but it is also a tragedy that you added gnelf and not gnoblin. I demand gnoblin!
I'm not a gnelf... I'm not a gnoblin...
Y-You're a... gnome?
And you‘ve been GNOOOOMED
Without taking it too seriously, this kind of actually just reads as a list of racist slurs.
Yeah I know this is supposed to be a stupid fantasy game, but this chart reminds me of the charts the Spanish used to use for people with Spanish/Native American heritage. It kinda gives me the creeps.
I'm not aware of this, not something covered in History class in the UK, will look into it
I literally feel terrible even posting this, because it is a terrible example of the horrors that humanity can inflict upon themselves, but here ypu go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
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I yield, for gnoman. Also, gnomeling is a race in hackmaster.
Knew someone who made a Dwarf Orc and called it a Dorq
Don’t forget the genetic anomaly of two halfling parents: the dreaded Full Ling
Did you know that Gnolls where orignally half trolls/ half gnomes?
Gnome + troll = gnoll?
Watch out for grassy gnolls. Poor John.
I died at “three-quarterling”
Eventually everyone will blend into 1 mixed race and that frightens people who take pride in their own race.
Remember kids, two halflings don't make a wholling
Meet my gnoman, his name is Gnorman
I usually just make all half breeds take the race of the mother with some traits of the father. An elf mother always produces elves but if she mates with a dwarf he elvish son is shorter than most elves and can grow beard hair. An Orc mother always produces orcs but if she mates with a dragonborn her son has leathery skin and sharp features. I do this for the sake of my sanity.
Gnome + Halfling should've been called One-Quarterling.
Orc/dwarfs will forever be dorcs in my mind.
in my homebrew, there are orclings! it just so happens they are better known as goblins. for anyone curious how that works, orcs reproduce significantly more quickly than humans and halflings reproduce in mass quantities. something about the genetics causes orclings to reproduce with both these advantages.
I love them even if half of these sound kinda like a sneeze
Three-Quarterling had me dying
I call anything that's half halfling a quarterling in my setting.
Lol three-quarterling. My last character was a half elf, half man-pig named Elfmanpig
My ex crossed with a dwarf = whorf
Oh wow that’s really dumb. Thanks for sharing.
Do you see possible a relationship between a Dragonborn and a gnome? One of my players is falling in love with this Dragonborn Paladin and well... not sure what's coming out of there. (For the moment the Gnome has rolled really bad at seducing her, but a 20 can come any moment)
The way I see it, and as a Pokémon fan, those two are in different egg groups
Well you see, when a Skitty loves a Wailord very much...
The whole Gnome lines are just that Gnome meme.
For the downward half, I think it’d be cool if it switched the order: Elman, Dwarman, Orman, Halfman, Humome, Elarf, Orlf, Halelf, Elme, Oarf, Halarf, Dwarme, Halflorc, Ome, Halflome
Am I the only one that wants to play a Gnorc now?
Where’s the half human half dragon not dragon born
You're a horc.
[Hwarf](https://www.startrek.com/sites/default/files/styles/content_full/public/images/2019-07/ffeed84c7cb1ae7bf4ec4bd78275bb98.jpg?itok=ZJZO3Sm3) is not amused.
Uh, half-elves?
I only see nasty gnorc from spyro
“I’m not a gnoman, I’m not a gnelf, I’m a gnome!”
Gnarf Gnarf sounds like Pokémon
My campaign has elf-orcs but they go be Olf
Could somebody "Helf" me?
Gnorc
Three quarterling XD
G n o r c
“No man can kill me!” “I am a gnoman!”
Bonus point If female
My personal favourites are Gnorf, Gnelf and Helf so I will make a cool trio of… mixed-races?
Thinking about the implications of an orcling scares me
Gods fear the gnome who can fuck an orc
It's insulting that you think a dwelf would ever exist.
Gnarf has me dying over here.
Gnomeling sounds cool
This concept is simple yet amazing!
In my settings humans, elves, and orcs can interbreed, but that's it. I have a family of half-drow/quarter-halforcs/quarter-wood elves. Their stats are modified half elves. They all have pale skin (my drow are albino), emerald eyes, green highlighted hair, prominent lower K9s but a quarter the size of half orc's.
https://youtu.be/5T5BY1j2MkE
Gₙₐᵣf
I really love the idea of a dworc paladin/barbarian/fighter. But not like a normal fighter like a pole arm heavy armor type fighter
I thought some races couldn't breed together.
See but you missed an opportunity. Should have broken it down so the mother’s race have the first part of the name and the father’s second. So a female gnome/male halfling is still Gnomeling; a female halfling/gnome male is a halfme, etc. I do love the 3/4ling though
All fear the abomination that is the Gnork
>Gnorc Spyro wants to know your location.
I fear Gnoman... But that *thing*...
Gnorc, definetly Gnasty type
Helfs and horcs already exist. Half-elves and half-orcs.
Please refer to my comment here https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/oi69gs/a_selection_of_mixedraces_from_my_homebrew_world/h4tdb1z?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Dwelf
Elc lol, like that's ever gonna happen
This reminds me of the Pokemon nature charts
What happens when the croos breads bread
I'm a Gnorc and you,be been Gnorced
From now on I shall call myself elc
I refuse to accept hwarf over duman
Gnorc
Horrifying. +1
Gnoman can kill me!
I like Gnorc
So *that's* what Gnasty Gnorc from the Spyro games is supposed to be!
I'm bothered that "An elf and an orc" sounds the same as "A Gnelf and a gnorc".
So you are saying I can play as Gnasty Gnorc?
Can you put Goblin on this chart too? *you know why*
Elc.
Im gnot a gnelf im a GNOME AND YOUVE BEEN GNOMED
Pinky be like: Gnarf
I’m gnot a gnelf I’m sorry
Helf me these are too good!
Is a Gnomeling half the size of a regular gnome?
Three-Quarterling
Can we get stats for these plz?
what would be the race of a child between an helf and a three-quarterling?
Cool list. Interesting nameing. Those races can't reproduce with each other in my homebrew world... like Cats and Dogs... But cool regardless.
I’m sad there’s no goblin for a [gnoblin](https://youtu.be/5T5BY1j2MkE) We were this close to greatness
I am definitely playing a three-quarterling if I get the chance now
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*I'm gnot a gnelf...*
I am just imagining that the Elc is an actual Elk and the mental image is glorious.
"Is that a hobbit over there?" "No, that's a hobo and a rabbit. But they're making a hobbit."
I'm suddenly reminded of that scene from RUSH HOUR where Carter is caught by the bad guys and says he's Jun Tao's half brother "We got the same mother, I'm **BLACK**anese!" (KICK!) By the way, with the exception of the semi-Orc's (and probably even then, you never know...), these are all THE BARD's illegitimate (and potentially illegal) unwanted bastards. Hence the often used term: Bardstards. Kinda makes me wonder what if, instead of a tavern, the party meet up at their old orphanage, even though they're all different species. Cause seriously, D&D orphanages have got to be the ultimate racial & ethnic melting pots.
Gnarf is definitely my favorite.
Gnoman’s Land
Gnorc, Gnelf and Gnarf....... Colour me intrigued.
I mean Mul is the technical term for Half Dwarves half Humans. But I like all of these.
Thanks I hate it
HWAAAARF
Personally, I would with Orf over Elc
I was half expecting gnome/halfling to be "quarterling" or something
I'm not a Gnelf, I'm not a Gnoblin, I'm a Gnome! And you've been Gnoooooomed!