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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 1722743" data-attributes="member: 2072">I suppose I'm from the other camp. One PC in my campaign is a half-dragon (topaz) succubus, using monster level progression from Savage Species and additional information from Draconomicon.   D&D has a proud history of crossbreeding. From the humble half-orc and half-elf to the ogrillon, half-demons, and half-ogres of First Edition. I got on the bandwagon with Nigel Findley's "Ecology of the Greenhag" in DRAGON #125, where he asserted that the greenhag was a human/night hag hybrid while the annis was the daughter of a greenhag and either an ogre or hill giant. I built upon that information, deciding that the succubi and erinyes were also daughters of night hags, by demonic and diabolic fathers respectively. The night hag family tree has many branches, now, as my night hags may have children by demon, devil, daemon, demodand, human, elven, and derro fathers; each union producing a unique new hag subspecies.    In my undersea campaign I added half-locathah, half-kraken, and half-sahuagin to name a few. Half-trolls make too much sense to ignore, so I added the trogre (troll-ogre) and gnort (gnoll-troll). The aquatic kresh is the trogre offspring of a merrow and scrag. Then there are the opinaku, children of human weresharks and sea elves.   Then third edition D&D came along and simplified everything through the means of templates. Granted, I did have to decide issues such as whether my half-dragon (turtle) / half-troll (scrag) deserved the half-dragon template (dragon turtles are "true" dragons with age categories in my campaign), the half-troll template, or was simply a unique amalgam of both. I added half-hag templates and a "hag-touched" category, of course.   Half-breeds occur in nature all the time. Mate a jenday and sun conure and you get a sunday conure. Mix a scarlet and blue&gold macaw and you get a catalina. Tigons (lion/tiger hybrids) and zorses (zebra/horse hybrids) are also possible, though it takes man to introduce the parents to one another. And let's not even get into the discussion of dog crossbreeds.</blockquote>

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