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<blockquote data-quote="eugenemarshall" data-source="post: 7927232" data-attributes="member: 7021147">(Hmm, I'm not sure I follow, but I'll try to reply as best I can. I apologize if I am misunderstanding your comment. I mean all of the below in good humor and a spirit of friendliness.)In canonical D&amp;D, elves and humans can have offspring. And orcs and humans can as well. What is the biological reason, therefore, that elves and orcs cannot? What's more, their offspring are fertile. So, if we are using ideas from real world biology, elves and orcs and humans cannot be different species. I might add that older editions had dwarf-human offspring and many more unusual options as well. On the other hand, this is a magical world; using real worlds concepts of biology probably isn't going to work. And it certainly isn't something I'm interested in or offering here, for sure.What's more, the majority of the rules in our document are about how to handle someone growing up in a different culture from their ancestry, like a human raised by elves (like Aragorn) or a dwarf raised by halflings. The biological reproduction stuff is just a small part of the document.Also, let me clarify: the rules I'm offering are optional, made available for players who are interested in playing these combinations. I'm not trying to take away the PHB classic character creation rules or condemn those who use them.If you want your games to use realistic concepts of sexual reproduction, well, I guess D&amp;D doesn't provide rules for that, so you'd have to home-brew them!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eugenemarshall, post: 7927232, member: 7021147"] (Hmm, I'm not sure I follow, but I'll try to reply as best I can. I apologize if I am misunderstanding your comment. I mean all of the below in good humor and a spirit of friendliness.) In canonical D&D, elves and humans can have offspring. And orcs and humans can as well. What is the biological reason, therefore, that elves and orcs cannot? What's more, their offspring are fertile. So, if we are using ideas from real world biology, elves and orcs and humans cannot be different species. I might add that older editions had dwarf-human offspring and many more unusual options as well. On the other hand, this is a magical world; using real worlds concepts of biology probably isn't going to work. And it certainly isn't something I'm interested in or offering here, for sure. What's more, the majority of the rules in our document are about how to handle someone growing up in a different culture from their ancestry, like a human raised by elves (like Aragorn) or a dwarf raised by halflings. The biological reproduction stuff is just a small part of the document. Also, let me clarify: the rules I'm offering are optional, made available for players who are interested in playing these combinations. I'm not trying to take away the PHB classic character creation rules or condemn those who use them. If you want your games to use realistic concepts of sexual reproduction, well, I guess D&D doesn't provide rules for that, so you'd have to home-brew them! [/QUOTE]

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