Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 2960106" data-attributes="member: 18363">Very true. As I mentioned in regards to my campaign world half elves are a rarity, and half-orcs non-existent. It doesn't seem necessary or likely, so why bother with it. Half-elves are something of another matter, as less than twenty thousand years ago they and humans were the same race - at least IMCW. So elves and humans can interbreed - but such is unlikely due to their separate settlements and their general animosity / suspition towards each other. I can see it happening amongst truly rare individuals in their societies, but the results of such would be nearly unique - perhaps once a generation or two. Far too rare to ever be considered, collectively, their own race. In general, I note that there are some groups of humans in the world that are around four to four and a half feet tall. Similarly, I can see a race of two and a half to three foot tall people occationally having individuals or even families that approach the three and a half to four foot tall mark - true giants amongst their people, but barely reaching the height of the shorter members of the other race. If such short humans and tall halflings lived long near each other - say a few generations - than sooner or later it is possible that perhaps a couple will form. They would be within a half foot of each other's height - each just unusual for their race in an opposite way. For each other, however, they would be the right height - not unusual at all, at least in each other's eyes. The idea of a half kender / half tinker gnome is . . . odd. If a large enough tribe of each group were trapped together in an isolated region for long enough - say a few thousand years - and survived the experience, then the resultant hybrid race would be . . . interesting. Maybe a sign of a coming appocalypse, but interesting none the less. What would the stats of such a being be, I wonder?True. Very very true, on both counts. Most crossbreeds quite likely may have resulted from such. The half-elven situation is more or less such IMCW. Very rarely do half elves occur otherwise. The only other half-race (half-vrda, the halfling / goblin-esque race) is so rare an occurance that no real generalities can be made regarding them. As for half-elves/half-vrda, I don't think one of those has occurred before, mostly because I'm not sure if the two races have ever had any significant contact with each other. I'll have to think about that one.</blockquote>

Verification