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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frozen_Heart" data-source="post: 9102172" data-attributes="member: 7029687">That's why I'd like to give half-elves and half-orcs their own species names, and assume the hybridisation happened a long time ago. Basically making them their own full fledged species. This is especially important for eberron where this is explicitly the case.Entirely new species can come from initial hybrid populations irl too. For example the clymene dolphin was once a hybrid between striped and spinner dolphins. But now it's a fully unique species with many thousands of individuals.If treated like this, you can still make a 'half-elf' using either the mixed species rules like everyone else, or by the the 'Khoravar' species entry. Could even have them in an Eberron book rather than the PHB.And one thing I really object to (if the DnD Beyond info is accurate), is scrubbing half-elves/orcs from the lore entirely. With NPC's of those species being replaced with NPC's of other species.</blockquote>