D&D 5E Do you allow adult situations in your games?

[MechaPilot]

a.k.a. taints table

Players are allowed to describe their character's appearance; you don't need a table to determine the appearance of your taint.

 

[MechaPilot]

Which to me was a colossal disappointment; I was hoping for something better than I'd already made up on my own, and didn't get it. Things it lacked (or didn't do nearly well enough):

- a comprehensive chart of what can breed with what, including monsters, deities, etc.*, and chances of conception for each combination
- a genetics chart and some guidelines to indicate how past interbreeding might affect descendants (e.g. what are the mechanical and-or fluff effects if I am 1/16 Centaur?)*
- a continuation of said genetics chart showing which racial bloodlines tend to be recessive and which are dominant
- a table for use during initial roll-up to determine whether my character is pure in its race or whether it has some odd genetics in its background (a.k.a. taints table)*
- a childbirth table giving gender chance by race, deformity chance, twins-triplets-etc. chance, stillbirth chance, etc.*
- I seem to recall they gave some guidelines on what a child's eventual core 6 stats would probably be if those of the parents were known*, but I also recall it not being very well thought through

* - these are things I've put together myself over the years, but I'd prefer something from a professional designer instead of my homebrew.

I have to admit that I didn't expect that much genetics-oriented info. If I had, I could see being far more disappointed than I was. But, the BoEF has given me a good base for constructing my own version of such a book that addresses the areas where the BoEF disappointed me.

Lan-"taken to the nth degree it is rather frightening how many interbreeding possibilities there are in a typical fantasy world"-efan

That's very true. Mythically-speaking, there are tales of people being impregnated by animals (as seen in the myth of the Minotaur), ghosts, natural events like winds/storms, and even by natural disasters and geographical features like lakes.

 

[nomotog]

Players are allowed to describe their character's appearance; you don't need a table to determine the appearance of your taint.

Some of guides did have tables for your body parts. They would attach rules to it and it just kind of looks really bad on review.