D&D General A Gnome and a Halfling have a Baby. What is it?


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I once DMed a hilarous in-character argument among a party - while they were engaged in combat! - as to whether the half-Human/half-Hobbit they had in the party should be called a quarterling or a threequarterling.

As for the Gnome-Hobbit cross? Not possible in my game without divine intervention. I long ago worked out a huge great spaghetti-like chart of what can breed with what, and it boiled down to two separated groups where Giants-Ogres-Dwarves-Gnomes are one line and Humans-Hobbits-Elves are the other; with the main crossing point being Orcs who can breed with both Humans and Ogres.
That means you can't have Dwelves though!


In my personal setting, Gnomes are a hodgepodge species between Halflings, Elves, and Dwarves. And to distinguish Halflings from small sized Humans, Halflings are more related to Orcs in my setting – the agrarian pigs to the Orcs' wild boar, if you were.
 




Fair point; and I really did like that little sub-plot.

That said, the odds of their ever being able to reproduce would still be vanishingly close to zero. :)
Fair, it's your world after all!

Also, in Arda, they're probably the exception that proves the rule.

There is the occasional setting where Dwarf and Elf are respectively the male and female of the same species, but that assumes a gender-binary…
 


I'm curious what other people have thought of when they consider this possibility. I'm interested in what other people have come up with -official and personal homebrew.

My current thinking is "that's where Whisper Gnome come from" but I'd love to hear other ideas.

You make a Kender
 


A Gelfling.
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