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<blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9128933" data-attributes="member: 66357">Khoravar &quot;breeding true&quot; in Eberron just means that the child of two Khoravar is likely to also be a Khoravar - they are a population that is capable of sustaining their numbers without needing a constant influx of new first-generation Khoravar to do so. It says nothing about the child of a Khoravar and an elf automatically being a Khoravar because it somehow erases their higher percentage of elven blood.By contrast, the &quot;pick whether your Khoravar is really a human or an elf&quot; methodology suggests that Khoravar cannot sustain themselves, and are inevitably pulled back to being exclusively one of their &quot;parent species&quot; or the other. The child of a Khoravar that uses elven stats and an elf would implicitly be an elf, as would the child of two Khoravar that both use elven stats, because in basically every case, the product of two elf statblocks is also going to be an elf statblock.Again, I have no issue with there being a range of options between &quot;fully species X&quot; and &quot;fully species Y&quot; to choose from, there just needs to be some sort of option existing in between X and Y, because without one the world-building implications of &quot;Pick a Parent&quot; are that mixed-ancestry population blocks cannot exist for any meaningful length of time without largely dissolving back into their constituent parent ancestries unless they have what is fundamentally a eugenics program to support them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Veltharis ap Rylix, post: 9128933, member: 66357"] Khoravar "breeding true" in Eberron just means that the child of two Khoravar is likely to also be a Khoravar - they are a population that is capable of sustaining their numbers without needing a constant influx of new first-generation Khoravar to do so. It says nothing about the child of a Khoravar and an elf automatically being a Khoravar because it somehow erases their higher percentage of elven blood. By contrast, the "pick whether your Khoravar is really a human or an elf" methodology suggests that Khoravar cannot sustain themselves, and are inevitably pulled back to being exclusively one of their "parent species" or the other. The child of a Khoravar that uses elven stats and an elf would implicitly be an elf, as would the child of two Khoravar that both use elven stats, because in basically every case, the product of two elf statblocks is also going to be an elf statblock. Again, I have no issue with there being a range of options between "fully species X" and "fully species Y" to choose from, there just needs to be some sort of option existing in between X and Y, because without one the world-building implications of "Pick a Parent" are that mixed-ancestry population blocks cannot exist for any meaningful length of time without largely dissolving back into their constituent parent ancestries unless they have what is fundamentally a eugenics program to support them. [/QUOTE]

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