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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5614325" data-attributes="member: 1165">First of all, I think you're demonstrating that there are too many subraces here. I don't know (or care) what the difference between a deep gnome and a rock gnome is. A svirfneblin is just a &quot;gnome, deep&quot; on an index card as far as I'm concerned.(And I just cannot picture a medium and small creature making offspring without plenty of squick. So no gnome/dwarf crosses. Although allegedly that's exactly what a gully dwarf is.)Second, as a direct result of horny dragons in 3.x (&quot;I'm JFK Dragon, and I'm here to sleep with your wife&quot;) I don't create hybrid combos that don't already exist in that particular setting. For instance, a half-tarek (a human/tarek cross) and muls (human/dwarf crosses) exist on Dark Sun, but the former don't exist anywhere else, and I don't expect to see the latter on, say, Oerth.It's up to you. Are all these races just branches off a main path? In which case, presumably they can all breed with each other, but having viable offspring is quite another story.In one campaign I was in, elves and humans could breed, but hadn't in hundreds of years because one particularly powerful (and mad) half-elf mage pretty much destroyed a big chunk of civilization. Each race blamed the other. Apparently no relationships had been founded since then. (We butchered one such couple due to a misunderstanding, literally killing a piece of the setting's history-in-the-making.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 5614325, member: 1165"] First of all, I think you're demonstrating that there are too many subraces here. I don't know (or care) what the difference between a deep gnome and a rock gnome is. A svirfneblin is just a "gnome, deep" on an index card as far as I'm concerned. (And I just cannot picture a medium and small creature making offspring without plenty of squick. So no gnome/dwarf crosses. Although allegedly that's exactly what a gully dwarf [i]is[/i].) Second, as a direct result of horny dragons in 3.x ("I'm JFK Dragon, and I'm here to sleep with your wife") I don't create hybrid combos that don't already exist in that particular setting. For instance, a half-tarek (a human/tarek cross) and muls (human/dwarf crosses) exist on Dark Sun, but the former don't exist anywhere else, and I don't expect to see the latter on, say, Oerth. It's up to you. Are all these races just branches off a main path? In which case, presumably they can all breed with each other, but having viable offspring is quite another story. In one campaign I was in, elves and humans could breed, but hadn't in hundreds of years because one particularly powerful (and mad) half-elf mage pretty much destroyed a big chunk of civilization. Each race blamed the other. [i]Apparently[/i] no relationships had been founded since then. (We butchered one such couple due to a misunderstanding, literally killing a piece of the setting's history-in-the-making.) [/QUOTE]

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