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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6588865" data-attributes="member: 82779">Decoupling it from the assault issue, inter-species procreation is actually quite interesting.  Consider that in the real world there are species of animal whose DNA very closely matches our own (90%+) and that human procreation with those creatures is not possible.  How close would the DNA of an elf have to be to human DNA for the half-elf to actually be possible?  And what does that say about how close the DNA of an elf is to the DNA of an orc if both can produce offspring with humans?The creation of creatures by deities is also an interesting twist on the biological angle.  With divine creation of the races, a race could effectively be programmed to procreate with no other creatures, all other creatures, all other humanoids, or only with select races and/or subraces.In my Tenesia setting, all humanoid races are capable of producing offspring with each other, so you can have half-dwarves, half-goblins, half-bugbears, dwarf-elves, gnome-goblins, and so on.</blockquote>