混种之书：Grendle 格兰戴尔（半巨魔）

Grendle

(Dwarf/Troll or Human/Troll) - Medium-Size Giant

格兰戴尔

（矮人/巨魔或人类/巨魔混血）中等体型巨人

Grendles are rare crossbreeds created by the intermingling of trolls and humans or dwarves. Also called trulkund, trollkin, and blackbloods, they are most common in colder, northern lands and underground kingdoms. Trolls always kill any grendle born among them, so these half-breeds are found only among barbarian humans and dwarf clans of the frozen lands and occasionally in the homes of hermit wizards and blacksmiths.

True grendles do not occur naturally, requiting either shapeshifting magic or other mystic means of combining their parents’ bloodlines. They arc often the children of powerful clerics and wizards who consciously choose to mix their blood with that of trolls. Second-generation grendles can occur when grendles breed with either dwarves or humans. In some isolated cases entire communities of grendles have risen after many generations of such crossbreeding. Grendles can also mate with trolls, although their offspring are indistinguishable from normal trolls.

格兰戴尔是由巨魔和人类或矮人混血形成的稀有杂交种族。它们也被称为特鲁尔肯、巨魔裔和黑血，常见于寒冷的北地和地下王国。巨魔总是会杀死它们当中降生的格兰戴尔，因此这些混血儿只存在于冻土地区的野蛮人和矮人部族之中，偶尔也存在于隐居的巫师和铁匠的家里。

真正的格兰戴尔并不是自然产生的，它需要变身魔法或其他结合父母血缘关系的神秘手段。他们通常是强大的牧师和巫师主动将自己血脉与巨魔血统相结合而诞下的孩子。当格兰戴尔与矮人或人类交配，就会出现第二代格兰戴尔。在一些与世隔绝的情况下，经过几代人的混血，形成了全部由格兰戴尔组成的社群。格兰戴尔也可以与巨魔交配，只是他们的后代与正常的巨魔没有区别。

APPEARANCE

Grendles have the green skin of their troll parent but little else to suggest their monstrous heritage. They are tall, well-formed, and often considered comely by both humans and dwarves. They have very thick builds, pointed ears, and piercing eyes of yellow, black, or red. Most grendles have dark green or black hair, though any color is possible. Dwarf/troll grendles tend to be slightly shorter than the human/troll variety, but nothing else distinguishes the two.

Grendles are always muscular—even the weakest is more than a match for a strong human. They have few facial expressions, never ranging far from a look of intense concentration. They lack the tough hides of their troll parentage, but make up for this weakness with a far more advanced cunning and a natural aptitude for metalworking. As a result many grendles wear metal armor and jewelry.

外表

格兰戴尔有跟他们巨魔父母一样的绿皮肤，除此之外没有别的能昭示他们的怪物血统。他们身材高大，体形匀称，人类和矮人都认为他们很漂亮。他们拥有厚实的体格，尖尖的耳朵，还有黄色、黑色或红色的锐利眼眸。大多数格兰戴尔有深绿色或黑色的头发，不过也可能是任何颜色。矮人/巨魔种格兰戴尔的体型往往比人类/巨魔种的个子矮一些，除此之外没其他区别。

格兰戴尔都是大肌霸，即使他们当中最弱的也远胜过人类的壮汉。他们几乎没有面部表情，总是一副全神贯注的样子。他们没有巨魔血亲的坚韧外皮，但用更高级的精明手段和天生金属加工能力来弥补这一弱点。因此，许多格兰戴尔都穿戴金属盔甲和珠宝。

DEMEANOR

Grendles are not as universally serious as their faces might suggest, but they are not given to easy merriment or mirth cither. They are often seen as pessimists, though they themselves believe a realistic view of life is rarely a cheerful one. Grendles are driven by the need for self-sufficiency. While this can be a positive force that moves them to learn a trade and work diligently, it can also produce a craving for wealth and power as well as a tendency toward isolation.

These factors incline grendles to care little about the opinions of others. Most divide everyone else into the inferior (not worth worrying about) and superior (real threats). Grendles do not easily make friends, and many go through life without ever doing so. On the other hand, they know it’s not possible to survive completely alone, so they seek allies they can respect and count on. The best way to gain a grendle’s trust is to prove one’s own self-sufficiency. Grendles are not known for breaking their word or betraying their comrades, and the bonds of a long-term alliance can become friendship.

Grendles are almost always lawful in alignment, though they are evenly divided among good, evil, and neutral. The rare chaotic grendles arc more than a bit insane, frequently speaking only in rhyme, calling people by random names, hallucinating, and getting involved in intricate plots with no real hope of success.

行为举止

格兰戴尔并不像他们脸上显示的那般严肃，但他们也不喜欢轻松愉快。他们经常被看作悲观主义者，因为他们相信生活太现实了不那么令人愉快。格兰戴尔为了实现自立而奋发图强。这可能是促使他们学习一技之长和勤奋工作的积极力量，也能产生对财富和权力的渴望，令性情走向孤立。

这些因素使格兰戴尔不大在乎别人的意见。大多数人将其他人分为低人一等（不值得担心）和高人一等（真正的威胁）。格兰戴尔很难交朋友，许多人一辈子都没交到朋友。另一方面，他们知道完全独自生存是不可能的，他们也寻求可以尊重和依赖的盟友。获得格兰戴尔信任的最好方法是证明自己是自立的。众所周知，格兰戴尔不会食言，也不会背叛自己的战友，长期同盟的羁绊关系可以变成友谊。

格兰戴尔几乎都是守序阵营，他们在善良、邪恶与中立阵营的数量均等。混沌阵营的格兰戴尔非常少见，都有点儿疯狂，经常只说押韵的话，随意给人起名，时刻处于幻觉，不顾毫无成功希望卷入错综复杂的状况之中。

BACKGROUND

Most grendles grow up in small communities, where they are at best grudgingly accepted. In some cases this is due to their legendary ability at metalworking, and in others because they have a powerful patron for a parent. It’s not unusual for a human or dwarven wizard to mate with a troll intentionally, producing a grendle child to serve as a powerful guard and skilled worker and to ensure the wizard’s bloodline remains strong. Such parents arc often more demanding than loving, and do little to increase a grendle’s sense of acceptance.

Grendles do not mature as quickly as humans, with lifespans more similar to a dwarf’s. Unlike most races, grendles suffer no physical deterioration as a result of old age. Because of this, they could live even longer than their aging rate suggests—though few grendles die peacefully in their sleep.

背景

大多数格兰戴尔在小团体里长大，在那里他们最多只能被勉强接受。某些情况是因为他们具有传奇的金属加工能力，另一些情况是因为他们有一个强大的家长做保护人。人类或矮人的巫师有意与巨魔交配的情况并不罕见，生出一个格兰戴尔的孩子，充当强大的守卫和熟练的工人，以此确保巫师世系持久强盛。这样的父母往往要求远多过爱，很少做什么来增加格兰戴尔的接受感。

格兰戴尔不像人类成熟得那么快，寿命更接近矮人。与大多数种族不同，格兰戴尔不会因年老而导致身体退化。正因为如此，虽然很少有格兰戴尔在睡梦中安详地死去，但他们的寿命比他们的衰老速度所显示的还要长。

ADVENTURERS

Grendles who take up a life of adventure are driven by the desire to find some secret knowledge, often relating to metalworking. Many become wizards, or take at least a few wizard levels, not to master spells but to delve into the lore of creating magic items. Of course their natural strength makes grendles excellent fighters, and many end up following this violent path out of necessity.

Grendles do not easily tolerate bards and rogues, for they do not appreciate the lighter, easy-going attitude towards matters that members of those classes tend to exhibit. They respect spcllcasters of any kind, often attaching themselves to one as friend, bodyguard, or both. Being mighty combatants themselves, they are impressed only with those barbarians, fighters, rangers, and paladins who exceed their own skill level.

冒险家

从事冒险生活的格兰戴尔渴望找到一些秘密知识，通常与金属加工有关。许多人成为巫师，或者至少提升几个巫师等级，不是为了掌握法术，而是为了钻研制造魔法物品的知识。当然，他们天生的力量使得格兰戴尔成为优秀的战士，许多人最终不得不走上了暴力之路。

格兰戴尔不是很能容忍吟游诗人和游荡者，因为他们欣赏不了这些职业的人处理事务时表现出的轻率悠闲的态度。他们尊重任何类型的施法者，通常把自己当作其中一位的朋友、保镖，或兼而有之。身为强大的战斗员，他们只敬重那些超过自己技能水平的野蛮人、战士、游侠和圣骑士。

GRENDLE RACIAL TRAITS

• +6 Strength, +4 Constitution, -2 Intelligence, -4 Charisma. Though not as strong or tough as pure trolls, grendles are remarkably powerful and hardy. They do not react well to change and often have trouble grasping new concepts, but grendles do not suffer from a troll’s lack of common sense and wits.

• Medium-Size: Though impressive by human standards, grendles aren’t quite big enough to count as Large creatures.

• Grendle base speed is 30 feet.

• +2 natural armor bonus to AC.

• Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.

• Hast Healing 1 (Ex): Grendles regain lost hit points at the rate of 1 per hour. This is just like natural healing and cannot restore hit point loss from starvation, thirst, or suffocation. Although they lack true regeneration, grendles may regrow severed body parts, as long as these were not lost to fire or acid damage. Such limbs regrow after 2d4 days with a successful Fortitude save (DC 20). On a failure, the limb is permanently lost.

• Grendles have a natural aptitude for metalworking They gain a +4 racial bonus on Appraise, Craft, and Profession checks relating to metal or metalwork, and a +2 racial bonus on Disable Device or Open Lock checks dealing with a purely metal device.

•+2 racial bonus on saves against spells and effects causing fear or despair.

• Grendles do not suffer any physical ability loss as a result of age.

• Favored Class: Fighter. A multiclass grendle’s fighter class docs not count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty for multiclassing.

• Level Adjustment: +3. A grendle has an effective character level (ECL) of 3 plus class levels, so a 1 st-level grendle fighter would have an ECL of 4.

格兰戴尔的种族特性

•+6力量、+4体质、-2智力、-4魅力。虽然不像纯种巨魔那么强壮和坚韧，但格兰戴尔很强大和能吃苦耐劳。他们对变化的反应迟钝，理解掌握新概念上有困难，但格兰戴尔不会像巨魔一样缺乏常识和智慧。

•中等体型：尽管按照人类的标准来看，格兰戴尔的体型令人印象深刻，但他还没大到算作大型生物的地步。

•格兰戴尔的基本速度是30英尺。

•+2 天生防御AC。

•黑暗视觉60英尺。

•快速医疗1（Ex）：格兰戴尔以每小时1点的速度恢复失去的生命值。这就像自然治疗一样，不能恢复饥饿、口渴或窒息造成的生命值损失。虽然它们缺乏真正的再生能力，但只要没有被火焰或强酸破坏，被切断的身体部位也可以再生。通过强韧豁免(DC 20)，这类肢体会在2D4天后重新长出来。如果失败，这条肢体就会永远丧失。

•格兰戴尔天生擅长金属加工。他们在与金属或金属加工相关的估价、工艺和专业检定中获得+4种族加成，在处理纯金属装置的解除装置或开锁检定中获得+2种族加成。

•+对造成恐惧或绝望的法术和效果的豁免获得2种族加成。

•格兰戴尔不会因年龄而降低身体能力属性。

•天赋职业：战士。一个兼职格兰戴尔的战士职业在决定他是否因兼职而遭受经验值惩罚时不被计算在内。

•等级调整：+3。格兰戴尔有效角色等级（ECL）为3级，因此1级格兰戴尔战士的ECL为4级。