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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarril Wolfeye" data-source="post: 2330524" data-attributes="member: 3344">You're all doing it wrong.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Using the Scientific Method we should1. Examine reality (what are the rules for half-races) - human + elf = half-elf; human + orc = half-orc; human + ogre = half-ogre (RoD)...   - half-humans are races, other half-races are templates - half-humans inherit weaker traits from their non-human part - other half-races inherit all traits from their "weaker" part and modify them - some templated half-races can go either way: half-dragon fiend / half-fiend dragon2. Formulate a hypothesis (or just guess at the underlying principles) - half humans result in mixing the "weak" human race with other races, diluting those - other half-races result in superimposing a racial energy on the "weaker" part - half-races can only result from an unequal pairing, two equally "strong" races don't mix - humans are the weakest race, followed by other humanoids, then everyone else - if two "strong" races mix, the resulting half-race is mostly chosen by chance3. Test our hypothesis (against the feel of "what's right", by looking at the consequences) - there could be half-dwarves or half-hobgoblins or even half-halflings  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />  - the "racial energy" seems to be magical, so it breaks even barriers of monster type - there can be no orc/elf-hybrid except via templates - humans are "special" in a strange way; everything can mate with humans - every non-human half-race should use the template rules4. Modify our hypothesis based of the results of 3. - put half-dwarves and other new half-races in our campaigns or explain their non-existence - can we detect this "racial magical energy"; if not, why? Is it even magical? - if we really want an orc/elf-hybrid we must scrap the theory - don't like "special" humans? Just change the theory - if there's a non-human half-race that's not a template, we must adjust the theory.And 5. Start over if there is anything we cannot make fit.We should use genetics only if it fits what we know.(/smartass) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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