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<blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8182144" data-attributes="member: 6685541">Something I see brought up in a lot of recent discussions is the &quot;genetic&quot; differences between, say, halflings and minotaurs.This makes me wonder - are there genes in D&amp;D? Is there DNA?In classic Greek Mythology, the Minotaur is obviously not a line of people but a single individual. He is not the result of generations of mutations, but instead a curse by an angry god.In the Forgotten Realms, the dwarves did not become short, stout, and gain darkvision after hundreds of thousands of years of selective breeding. They were forged by Moradin on a giant anvil.So do you think genetics exist in Dungeons &amp; Dragons? Do germs? What about other modern discoveries that were mythologized in a medieval world?-------In my opinion, genes do not exist in D&amp;D. Children are born with brown hair or darkvision or horns because that is the will of the gods, not because of dominant and recessive genes. A rooster can give birth to a cockatrice. Humans can give birth to tieflings not because their great grandfather had hooves, but because they made a bad deal with a devil.That's my two cents, anyways!(Please not this is a very different opinion than I have about real-life genetics!!!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BookTenTiger, post: 8182144, member: 6685541"] Something I see brought up in a lot of recent discussions is the "genetic" differences between, say, halflings and minotaurs. This makes me wonder - [B]are there genes in D&D? Is there DNA?[/B] In classic Greek Mythology, the Minotaur is obviously not a line of people but a single individual. He is not the result of generations of mutations, but instead a curse by an angry god. In the Forgotten Realms, the dwarves did not become short, stout, and gain darkvision after hundreds of thousands of years of selective breeding. They were forged by Moradin on a giant anvil. So do you think genetics exist in Dungeons & Dragons? Do germs? What about other modern discoveries that were mythologized in a medieval world? ------- In my opinion, genes [I]do not exist in D&D[/I]. Children are born with brown hair or darkvision or horns because that is the will of the gods, not because of dominant and recessive genes. A rooster can give birth to a cockatrice. Humans can give birth to tieflings not because their great grandfather had hooves, but because they made a bad deal with a devil. That's my two cents, anyways! (Please not this is a [I]very different opinion [/I]than I have about real-life genetics!!!) [/QUOTE]

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