• SavvyWolf
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    1534 months ago

    Don’t humans have the ability to fuck everything? It’s why half elves and half orcs exist, but no non-human hybrids.

      • @[email protected]
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        384 months ago

        Ah, good old Book of Erotic Fantasy. It’s so gloriously stupid that everyone should own a copy. That table is by far not the silliest part of the book.

        It’s only bested by the official sex rulebook for The Dark Eye, which is an April Fools joke that spiraled out of control and has actual rules for intercourse – deliberately bureaucratic and unsexy ones included purely as a “you asked for it” joke at the reader’s expense.

      • @[email protected]
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        254 months ago

        Honestly, Elder Scrolls has it right: the offspring of two different races will always be the race of the mother, but with some traits of the father.

        None of that funny crossbreeding stuff, just keep it simple.

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          4 months ago

          So basically your mitochondria decides your species?

          Personally I like keeping it a little more complicated. It’s the same race as the mother, unless the mother is a ditto, in which case it’s the same race as the father.

      • @[email protected]
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        224 months ago

        At first I read this as “these species can fuck each other”. Then I realized that this is only concerning conception, all these species could fuck each other as they please.

        • Ultragramps
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          I see that nymphs bang everything, makes sense. Sprites are only slowing down (with M for Maybe) at very large sized humanoids like Giants and Ogres, that’s pretty hardcore/disturbing.

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          54 months ago

          If it applies to DnD’s cosmology, than it has to mean with viable offspring, because half-dwarves canonically exist in the Darksun setting and they’re called Muls.

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            34 months ago

            Half dwarves exist in the default rules, they’re just indistinguishable from dwarves. Supposedly they’re actually pretty common.

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          64 months ago

          Muls from the Dark Sun setting are half dwarves. They’re sterile so I guess maybe they don’t count?

          • swab148
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            74 months ago

            I was gonna say something about ligers and tigons, but then I did some research (looked it up on Wikipedia) and I learned some stuff. It has no relevance to my life, but it did clear up my misconception that hybrids are always sterile! So, in addition to making $125 donating plasma, making a new friend at the bus stop, and almost immediately getting drunk, I learned that some hybrids can be viable!

      • The Octonaut
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        14 months ago

        Dryads: I’ll breed with anything

        Dryads (earlier that day): I don’t care for Lizardfolk

    • Lath
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      144 months ago

      You sure? I believe I remember there being a story about a halfling or a gnome drinking an enlarge potion or two to get hot and sweaty with some giantess.

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      94 months ago

      Technically it implies that all these other races are diverged near humans, humans being relatively unchanged remain close enough to produce viable offspring, but with different non human races being diverged from each other to the point of non viability.

      So basically the racial map for a D&D setting would have humans at the center, with half children in each of the spokes of a wheel, and every non human race being nodes located in the environment where they developed in extremity, and then from there you can build the environment under the premise of the conditions that developed elves or dwarves or orcs from the human starting point.

      This would also have to include a backstory spanning tens of thousands of years.

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        104 months ago

        Alternative: humans were specifically engineered to be able to half-breed with anything - even elemental beings - so that they’d be able to take over the world.

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            14 months ago

            Huh… never thought of that. Though I think a key difference is that it’s one race diluting many races, rather than… well, in great replacement theory, it’s not even whites being diluted by other races, it’s them being replaced by way of high immigrations and low birth rates. So if it was like a large group of humans migrating into an elvish city, then yes, but this is more like the elvish country gaining a population of half elves and eventually humans around the edges.

            From what I can tell in the wiki, great replacement people aren’t so much threatened by half-minorities as they are by flocks of minorities moving in until whites are the minority. It’s the culture shock, and you don’t get as much of a culture shock from someone who was raised on the edges of your culture.

            Not to say you have to include human hegemony in your campaign, of course. Your campaign, your rules, and you know what your players are comfortable with more than I do.

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      84 months ago

      Do they fuck everything, or get fucked by everything? How that half orc came into existence wasn’t a good time for everyone.

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      4 months ago

      You’re thinking of dragons. Humans only have the ability to fuck elves, orcs, and dragons.