Lord Pendragon
First Post
In my campaign I've allowed for the existance of complete interbreeding, with one caveat: The big peoples (humans, half-orcs, elves, half-elves, dwarves*) cannot breed with the little peoples (halflings, gnomes.) I agree that in a society that where the humanoid races are completely intermingled and culturally identical, that interracial breeding is going to occur. However, due to the sizes of the folks involved, I can't see humans and halflings or humans and gnomes being able to produce offspring.
I didn't want to do a huge list of half-and-half racial traits, so I just ruled that half-breeds take after one parent more than the other. So that a Half-Dwarf (half human, half dwarf) might look like a cross between human and dwarf, but would be statistically either a dwarf, or a human. Same with other mixtures. Sort of like Elrond Half-Elven and his brother in Lord of the Rings, where Elrond chose the Elves and was counted for all intents and purposes (including mortality) as an Elf, and his brother chose Man and lived and died as a man.
*Dwarves are on the line between "big" and "small" as far as races go. A particularly large dwarf could breed with the big races, an average to smallish dwarf with the "small" races.
I didn't want to do a huge list of half-and-half racial traits, so I just ruled that half-breeds take after one parent more than the other. So that a Half-Dwarf (half human, half dwarf) might look like a cross between human and dwarf, but would be statistically either a dwarf, or a human. Same with other mixtures. Sort of like Elrond Half-Elven and his brother in Lord of the Rings, where Elrond chose the Elves and was counted for all intents and purposes (including mortality) as an Elf, and his brother chose Man and lived and died as a man.
*Dwarves are on the line between "big" and "small" as far as races go. A particularly large dwarf could breed with the big races, an average to smallish dwarf with the "small" races.
