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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 3983172" data-attributes="member: 14664">Whilst reading the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=215998" target="_blank">"Alternate" half orc backstories</a> thread, a thought occurred to me:Does it make a difference if it was a male human and a female orc, or a female human and a male orc?Why do I ask this?Well if you breed a male donkey and a female horse, you get a mule. When you breed a male horse and a female donkey, you get a hinny - and they're different.Similarly, if you breed a male lion and a female tiger you get a liger, where the other way round you get a tigon. Tigons are around the same size as lions and tigers, but ligers are huge:I've also heard stories about the sizes of cross-bred dogs. Supposedly, like mules and hinnies, the dogs' size is determined by the mother's size (otherwise she might end up exploding if the pups are bigger than her!) So if a male Alsation breeds with a female Jack Russell, you'll get Jack Russell sized Alsation-Jack Russell crosses.Given that Orcs and humans are *very* different, far more so than different "races" of humanity, could the gender makeup not make a difference? Now size isn't so different:According to the SRD, an adult male orc is a little over 6 feet tall and weighs about 210 pounds, whereas a human male (on average) is 5' 9" and weighs 175 pounds.But I could still imagine a situation where half-orcs with a orc mother are bigger than half-orcs with a human mother. Secondly, personality. I could quite believe that personality could be different, with perhaps (say) those with Orc fathers being more violent than those with Orc mothers.What do you think? Interesting setting twist?Or am I thinking about this too much?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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