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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7926896" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Half-trees are, in a way: they're called Dryads. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> There's also half-cats (Tabaxi), and doubtless some others I'm forgetting right now.</p><p></p><p>Yuan-Ti are more or less half-snakes and while individuals might only be able to interbreed with Humans or with Snakes (as well as with other Yuan-Ti, of course), as a species they represent a pretty strong Human-Snake link.</p><p></p><p>Which means Tieflings and Dragonborn are...what, exactly?</p><p></p><p>Like it or not, they do seem to have become hardwired into the more recent versions of the game; which also rather hardwires in the notion that Demons and Dragons can interbreed with Humans, in order to produce those species. (having Tieflings and Dragonborn be viable reproducing species in their own right avoids a lot of this headache in that it means the actual Human-Dragon/Demon interbreeding only needed to occur enough times to produce enough variance in offspring to make the new species viable; and nature took over from there)</p><p></p><p>Nor do Elves, it seems; nor Dryads, nor a boatload of other mythical creatures.</p><p></p><p>In my own workings-out of what can breed with what (which I did many years ago in rather great detail), I have Orcs being more or less the genetic melting pot: an Orc can breed with almost anything humanoid that's willing to breed with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7926896, member: 29398"] Half-trees are, in a way: they're called Dryads. :) There's also half-cats (Tabaxi), and doubtless some others I'm forgetting right now. Yuan-Ti are more or less half-snakes and while individuals might only be able to interbreed with Humans or with Snakes (as well as with other Yuan-Ti, of course), as a species they represent a pretty strong Human-Snake link. Which means Tieflings and Dragonborn are...what, exactly? Like it or not, they do seem to have become hardwired into the more recent versions of the game; which also rather hardwires in the notion that Demons and Dragons can interbreed with Humans, in order to produce those species. (having Tieflings and Dragonborn be viable reproducing species in their own right avoids a lot of this headache in that it means the actual Human-Dragon/Demon interbreeding only needed to occur enough times to produce enough variance in offspring to make the new species viable; and nature took over from there) Nor do Elves, it seems; nor Dryads, nor a boatload of other mythical creatures. In my own workings-out of what can breed with what (which I did many years ago in rather great detail), I have Orcs being more or less the genetic melting pot: an Orc can breed with almost anything humanoid that's willing to breed with it. [/QUOTE]
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