From:	Andrew <wadycki@********.UIUC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Spike Babies
Date:	Mon, 26 Jun 1995 16:56:16 -0500

On Mon, 26 Jun 1995, cocheese wrote:

> I've read about spike babies and I'm sure there's others who can explain the
> issue better than me. One question- were there ork, dwarf or troll spike
> babies? Surely elves arent' the only ones, if so 1) that's TOO DAMN CHEESY
> and 2) don't the other metahuman races have the same chance of being born
> due to the magic and their DNA?


If I remember correctly, the explanation was that elves have a lower
threshold level and so could, depending on the time and place, spike. If
Orcs or Trolls had lower levels you could have goblinizing, which would
be hard to hide. Dwarfs, well, could be possible, but again depends on
the time and place and the threshold level.

-Andrew