Mul

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Finally: Half-dwarves!

The Mul (which, at least in 4e, nobody can agree on how to pronounce, but pronouncing it "Mule" is a way to get your face punched in) are half-dwarf and half-human; in other words, half-awesome and half-sucky. They have shown up in various incarnations of the Dark Sun campaign setting, wherein dwarves are primarily a slave race, as the result of some seriously creepy slavedrivers deciding that their slaves deserved to be taller and less awesome. They are as tall as humans but as stocky as dwarves, making them one of the heaviest races in 4th edition. Their racial bonuses are +2 Con, and a choice of +2 Str or +2 Wis. 4e Muls only need to rest for 6 hours in a 72 hour period, and have a racial power that allows them to end any ongoing damage or dazed, slowed, stunned, or weakened condition at the start of their turn. They also count as both dwarves and humans for feat purposes.

They make good tanks and in 2nd Edition Dark Sun they made excellent choices for Gladiators, otherwise known as "Fighters better than all other fighters." The damage a Mul gladiator with a strength of 20 could inflict with Cahulaks was a beautiful thing to behold.

Muls had some very weird racially specific abilities, such as...work. No really, due to their mix of human and dwarf parentage that was one of their special gifts. The ability to work for literally days at a time. Generally speaking, this had zero practical use campaign wise as there aren't many GMs who are going to feature a campaign where you have to dig a ditch in a hurry. This had happened precisely once in all the campaigns I played where my Mul Gladiator cut down a bunch of trees and trimmed the logs for a palisade, the combat benefits of which while not being negligible, were close to negligible.