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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9123921" data-attributes="member: 7635">To what? What half-elf or half-orc lore could you give that doesn't radically redo the species? If you keep them as a separate species representing human and elf/orc blood, you are effectively endorsing they are the only two combos who matter. That half-dwarves or gnome/halflings or dragonborn/tieflings do not exist, cannot exist, or are such freaks of nature they don't warrant mechanical expression. Even if you say that a half-elf is a blessing to the community and a half-orc a reward from Gruumsh (stripping away all negative connotations) you're still saying only they are special enough to exist.Now you could scrap the lore and make half-elves the result of fey influence on a mortal, or half+orcs literally created by Gruumsh blesses a child with the heart of a warrior (regardless of what his actual parents species are) but we've lost the "born of two worlds" story that made them compelling to mixed ancestry players. You can't just change the lore without keeping them as a model minority, or losing their status as hybrid.</blockquote>