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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7425530" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I’ve never cared for half-races for the myriad questions they raise. If elves and humans can have fertile offspring, and so can orcs and humans, then all three must be subspecies of the same species. That means half-orc-half-elf should be equally possible. Furthermore, if these three races are the same species, how do we account for some of the more significant differences like elves not needing to sleep and being immune to sleep magic when humans and orcs don’t share this quality? Either half-elves and half-orcs should be sterile, or else humans should have some quality that makes them compatible breeders with any other humanoid race - a little like the Asari in Mass Effect. But in the latter case, we should also have half-dwarves, half-halflings, half-gnomes, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>