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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9117020" data-attributes="member: 7635">Well that's the dirty, underlying thing that has been danced around all thread, isn't it?There has been a trend in millennial and gen Z fantasy for interspecies love, sex, and procreation. Sometimes it requires magical intervention (Tal'dorei says as much). If you go to places where they discuss their OCs, you will see species intermixing is fairly prevalent. And not just the pretty races either, I've seen more than a few half-goblins! It's not just D&D of course, (I pointed out a canonical Star Wars character who is a union of human and twilek) and I absolutely believe this is an extension of the march of "love of love" thinking that is the core of many discussions of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Plus, there are more than a few video games that have latched onto the idea of interspecies scrumping, BG3 pretty recently.In short, the wave is very much that two sentient beings can fall in love despite biological differences and procreate, because with magic/science/the Force/whatever, all things are possible.Which is the problem with presenting half elf and half orc as separate from other species mixing is to tacitly imply they are "acceptable" pairings in the games rules, and somewhat to imply that other options are frowned upon. It's what the game does now; you are at the mercy of your DM to allow a given combo to exist and what kind of stats it will produce, unless your choice is a human/elf or human/orc, then the game has blessed those unions with unique species traits and deemed them explicitly allowed. The issue I've seen here (and I'm not focusing on you exclusively here, but a lot of people in this thread) is that you are making that judgment call. Half-elf is an acceptable combo and worthy of unique stats in the PHB, tabaxi-plasmoid is a bad combo, a joke and should be left to the DM to determine if it is allowed. (With more than a hint that you yourself would not allow it). Those two pairings are not equal, one set is good and the other is bad.That's the kind of language WotC explicitly wants to avoid, and unfortunately that means half-elves and half-orcs lose their privileged status as the acceptable hybrids. It's a generational thing that WotC is going to want to get ahead of.</blockquote>

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