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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9546274" data-attributes="member: 42856">Anyway, the point is moot since all half-things died suddenly when the PHB24 was published. Now there are no longer half-creatures, and the sidebar saying that you can mix and match ancestry disappeared as far as I know. So no, you can't mix humans and elves, or orcs and elves, or Cpt Kirk with any other species in the universe in 2024. I haven't learnt the PHB by rote, but I don't remember any blurb saying any of them can interbreed. For what it's worth, there is no indication on how any of the species reproduce, maybe the just sprout from the ground and baby humans are delivered by a stork sent by fertility god. Even human aren't said to breed sexually, and any indication that fantasy human behave as Earth humans is a wild extrapolation.It is the province of the GM to build a world and fill in this gap, but by RAW, no half-X, no Elrond, no Numenoreans.So, even if some species can interbreed in real life, so it's not the definition of a species, interbreeding can't be used as an argument for saying elves, orcs and humans are the same species.</blockquote>