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<blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 8442932" data-attributes="member: 67296">I mean, yeah, there's magic, but all the rest is perfectly explainable with modern biology.Look at the owlbear for example. This happens when a... hum... ok, nevermind the owlbear. The centaur on the other hand is born when... ok, lets not go there either... Did you know that the chimera was a genetic fluke that happens when the embryos of... well, it's complicated and science-y and stuff. The cockatrice is clearly a naturally occuring chicken-basilisk cross, meaning that turn-to-stone genes must be dominant. Of course the habitats of wild basilisks and domestic chickens don't really overlap, but that accounts for their rarity, right? Displacer beast - mix of a black panther and, hum, otiugh? Yuk, I'd try to phase out of existence too. Better not dwell on that subject... And of course dragons can shapechange, thus altering their genetic material. That's why they can frolic with butterflies and scorpions. Simultaneously. Giving birth to pseudo-dragons ('cause it's kind-of-dragon-genetics-but-not-quite, hence the scientifically recognized use of &quot;pseudo&quot; in the name).I tell you; D&amp;D genetics, like gravity, physics, and thermodynamics, make complete scientific sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laurefindel, post: 8442932, member: 67296"] I mean, yeah, there's magic, but all the rest is perfectly explainable with modern biology. Look at the owlbear for example. This happens when a... hum... ok, nevermind the owlbear. The centaur on the other hand is born when... ok, lets not go there either... Did you know that the chimera was a genetic fluke that happens when the embryos of... well, it's complicated and science-y and stuff. The cockatrice is clearly a naturally occuring chicken-basilisk cross, meaning that turn-to-stone genes must be dominant. Of course the habitats of wild basilisks and domestic chickens don't really overlap, but that accounts for their rarity, right? Displacer beast - mix of a black panther and, hum, otiugh? Yuk, I'd try to phase out of existence too. Better not dwell on that subject... And of course dragons can shapechange, thus altering their genetic material. That's why they can frolic with butterflies and scorpions. Simultaneously. Giving birth to pseudo-dragons ('cause it's kind-of-dragon-genetics-but-not-quite, hence the scientifically recognized use of "pseudo" in the name). I tell you; D&D genetics, like gravity, physics, and thermodynamics, make complete scientific sense. [/QUOTE]

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