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<blockquote data-quote="Claudius Gaius" data-source="post: 3951451" data-attributes="member: 57946"><p>Given the amount of planar travel, the number of worlds and dimensions, and the amount of transformation magic available in many d20 campaigns, "most of them evolved in other worlds and a few were magically split off from other races" seems pretty likely. Any kind of evolutionary origin on one world involves some pretty massive coincidences to have so many sentient races turning up at the same time. </p><p></p><p>Secondarily, given the adaptive value of intelligence, tool, and magic use, I'd expect the first sentient race to evolve in most worlds to occupy pretty much every niche and preclude the evolution of other sentient life forms. Life does tend to expand to the limits of its environment. </p><p></p><p>If you want to use conventional genetics, interfertile races must either be simply divergent - but not divergent enough to become new species - branches of the same race (say, stranded dimensional colonists), have been subjected to something quite impressive in the way of a convergent force to make their genetics compatible, or be the beneficiaries of a truly astounding coincidence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Claudius Gaius, post: 3951451, member: 57946"] Given the amount of planar travel, the number of worlds and dimensions, and the amount of transformation magic available in many d20 campaigns, "most of them evolved in other worlds and a few were magically split off from other races" seems pretty likely. Any kind of evolutionary origin on one world involves some pretty massive coincidences to have so many sentient races turning up at the same time. Secondarily, given the adaptive value of intelligence, tool, and magic use, I'd expect the first sentient race to evolve in most worlds to occupy pretty much every niche and preclude the evolution of other sentient life forms. Life does tend to expand to the limits of its environment. If you want to use conventional genetics, interfertile races must either be simply divergent - but not divergent enough to become new species - branches of the same race (say, stranded dimensional colonists), have been subjected to something quite impressive in the way of a convergent force to make their genetics compatible, or be the beneficiaries of a truly astounding coincidence. [/QUOTE]
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