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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 4716532" data-attributes="member: 20715">LOL, the reason insects, reptiles, and other non-mammals have breasts is because many, many gamers and designers are men, and men like breasts.The contents of D&D (and any other work of fiction) are driven more by human psychology than plausibility.  Why do Star Trek and D&D both have a pointy-eared intellectual race and a violent warrior race that can interbreed with humans?  It isn't because one is based on the other -- it is because warrior and wiseman archetypes are extremely common components of human fantasies.  Furthermore, the "humans with funny masks" may have been a budgetary issue for Star Trek, but it is a common trope in fiction because it enables human readers to relate to supposedly "alien" characters.Humans can barely get along with other humans, so it is rare that you see truly alien creatures as anything other than antagonists.  (In fact, the biggest personal issue I have with worlds like Faerun is how humanity coexists with all of these other species without exploiting them or wiping them out.)P.S.:  There is actually a Japanese drink called Pocari Sweat.  I drink called "orcsweat" isn't that hard to imagine...not that I would want to try it myself...</blockquote>