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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4547619" data-attributes="member: 41584">Even if Alter Self were ruled not to be able to do this, an enterprising wizard with some extreme views about the usefulness of males might research a transmutation spell that could swap functional gender (but nothing else) and create her own 'Amazon enclave' of reproductively self-sufficient women who don't need no steenkin' menfolk. As for using Alter Self to self-clone, yikes. What happens to a male-transformed-into-a-female-and-impregnated when the spell wears off?  What happens to the fertilized egg, if it's even had time to implant?  Icky. The flavor text describing dragons and fiends and whatever using their transmutation effects to father half-dragons and half-fiends and whatnot lays down the groundwork for this being an option, but I always kinda preferred the notion that dragons and fiends knew some ritual technique to infuse a person with 'draconic blood' or 'fiendish taint' without there being actual cross-species shenanigans going on.  It also seemed a lot more palatable an option for a female dragon who wants some whip up some half-dragon servants, but doesn't want to get herself knocked up by the help (granted, I hadn't considered at that point the notion of the female dragon turning herself into a male and being the knocker-upper instead of the knocked-up...).</blockquote>