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Practice pairs? Sure. c:
Black x Lilac tabby
Blue x Fawn
Chocolate x Black
These are this, right. (I just saw this and decided to do it.)
Black X Lilac Tabby
A~ Black, Brown Tabby, Lilac, Lilac Tabby, Chocolate, Chocolate Tabby, Blue, Blue Tabby
Blue X Fawn
A~ Black, Blue, Fawn, Cinnamon
Chocolate X Black
A~ Chocolate and Black
Chocolate X Black
A~ Chocolate and Black
You forgot Blue & Lilac, but otherwise the others look good.
Oh yeah! Thank you and I'm happen that i have improved so much.
XD, um.... I don't think there's anything about cream tabbies x red tabbies on the first post....
There is at the very bottom of her post :3
http://warriorcatsrpg.com/index.php?topic=665014.0
That thread has a nice section about it too.
Cream Tabbies and Red Tabbies( or Orange Tabbies) are always tabbies and if a Black pigement and and Orange pigment are present in a female it will most likely be a Tortie or Torbie(I forget what the difference is.) Males are rarely Torties or Torbies because they do not have to X chromosones like a female does. This is what know and more. 
Torbies are torties with tabby pattern.
I don't really get her explanation.... can someone simplify it please?
Who's explanation? Looking at the link I posted, the 5.0 Lesson on the red factor explains it all really nicely. (:
What about cream tabbies?
Cream tabby is just the dilute of Red tabby, so it'll cover that too.
Sorry my explanation is complecating. It works for me.
I'm ready for some practice...
Alright, how far are you?
What do you mean?
Like, what things do you know so far? Ex; Black factor, red factor, torties, dilutions...yeah. x3
i would absolutely love to learn the red factor, if anyone has the time to teach me? and so far i know black factor and dilutions.
I think a need just a little help with the red factor too please
I'm not to good at explaining these things, so I'm going to quote someone who really knows their stuff about the reds. c:
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Lesson 5.0: Red Factor (Sex-Linked Traits)
[spoiler=Complete Lesson]{ LESSON 5.0: RED FACTOR (SEX-LINKED TRAITS) }
The red factor is the special snowflake of cat genetics. It adds quite a bit of extra complexity as well as defying rules that most of the other genes follow. This'll probably be another long lesson, but definitely an important one.
Unlike the black factor, there is only one gene for red color. Left unaltered, it produces a red tabby. Diluted, it produces a cream tabby. You'll notice that there aren't any "solid" forms of the red gene. It is impossible to get a cat that is "solid cream" or "solid red" (but in later lessons, we'll talk about cameos, which come close.)
What makes the red factor the most different is the fact that it is a sex-linked gene. This means that the gender of both the parents and the kittens will play a very key role in their appearance, and complicates the so-far "relatively simple" genetics we've been working with. I want you to remember; from now on, assume that every pairing listed here is "male x female".
Female cats (and, well, females in general) have two X chromosomes. (XX). This is what makes them female.
Males, by contrast, have an X and a Y. (XY). The Y chromosome is what makes them male, and they always get that chromosome from their father. They get their only X chromosome from their mother.
The red factor is attached to the X-chromosome. Now this all makes sense;
Why can't male cats be tortoiseshells? It's impossible (without mutations). If a male cat has the chromosomes XY, they only have one X-chromosome available for color, which they only get from their mother. When the red factor is involved, male cats can only take on the color(s) passed on by the mother.
Females can be tortoiseshells simply because they have two X chromosomes. Either both of them can hold black genes (XbXb), both can hold red genes (XBXB), or they can hold one of each (XBXb), producing a tortoiseshell. Making sense so far?
In light of this, the following things are important to remember.
> If a pairing is "black factor" x "red factor", the males can only be red factors. The females can only be tortoiseshells (or torbies). Males only inherit the mother's red X-chromosome; females inherit the X-chromosome of both parents, which have a black and red factor, respectively.
> If a pairing is "black factor" x "tortoiseshell", males can be either red factors or black factors. The mother has both factors on either one of her X-chromosomes, meaning she can pass down either one. Females can be black factors -- inheriting the black X-chromosomes from both the mother and the father -- or a tortoiseshell.
(On the flip side, if the father has a red factor, the daughters will be tortoiseshells and red factors.)
Oh, but wait! We have even more potential complexity added by those tortoiseshells. When you think "tortoiseshell", most people think of a black and orange cat. Well, indeed, that is what they are. But this means that the tortoiseshell has black applied to it's X-chromosome. Duh, right? Well, did you know that black can be substituted by the other black factors as well?
This is where chocolate tortoiseshells come from. (Cinnamon tortoiseshells, too.) If you have a cinnamon father and a red tabby mother, all of the daughters would inherit the father's black factor X-chromosome -- which contains cinnamon. Thus, cinnamon tortoiseshell. Pretty cool, right?
Just like every other color, tortoiseshells can be diluted. This adds blue, lilac, and fawn tortoiseshells to the mix. Even more? Tortoiseshells can be influenced by the agouti / tabby genes. These are known as tortoiseshell tabbies, or torbies for short. Just like tortoiseshells, they come in chocolate, cinnamon, dilute, etc. forms, too.
Here on WCRPG, we permit male tortoiseshells. If a male tortoiseshell is fertile, and you have to do the litter genetics, you are allowed to decide which factor is passed on (the male can only pass on one of his two X-chromosomes). So if you see something like this;
Tortoiseshell (black factor) x Cinnamon
It means that the father is passing on his black X-chromosome. At that point, genetically speaking, you could pretend he's an ordinary black cat.
Another fact for you all: A tortoiseshell with partial white (a la the genetics from the last lesson) is known as a calico. This is why there is also such a thing as chocolate calicos, etc.
I'm sure that all sounds pretty complicated. And I won't lie; it kinda is. But it's definitely not as intimidating as it seems once you start to get the hang of it.
I understand the red factor pretty well [Besides calico's. ><] So I can help anyone with questions about it, so long as it doesn't include calicos. xD
Like, what things do you know so far? Ex; Black factor, red factor, torties, dilutions...yeah. x3
Um..... base colors, dilutions, red