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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4699519" data-attributes="member: 4937">The problem with this is that it's probably going to a personal choice of the DM that varies from campaign to campaign.  I mean I could list mine, but what really would that prove?fey->goblinfey->elffey->humanfey->orinefey->dwarfgoblin->elfgoblin->humanelf->human At some time in the past, but not possible with modern races...human -> giant (offspring are 'hill giants').  If I state that, does that mean that every campaign worlds hill giants are decended from a stone giant human pairing?Again, this is something that varies by campaign.  Who needs rules for campaign specific fluff?Again, this is campaign specific fluff.  IMC, elves and most fey are nearly asexual (they just don't really have alot of interest in it), humans are well human, orine are extremely sexual but only with their own kind, and dwarves, idreth, and goblins generally either consider it a reproductive chore or have emotions regarding it that are difficult to relate to human emotional frames.Generally, 1 in 6.  Less if the character has low health or older.  More if they use fertility drugs, participate in a fertility rite, recieve a blessing, or otherwise take steps to insure fertility. The '1 in 6' dates back to 1st edition.  I've considered using a Fortitude save (failure indicates no pregnancy) for 3rd edition, but it never came up (fewer teenage boys and girls in my more recent games).Are available.  Abortiflects are generally illegal and must be purchased on the black market, because they tend to create some really nasty undead (like Mewlings, for example).  Of course, that isn't generally known - you'd have to make a DC 24 Knowledge (Arcane) check to know why Abortiflects are illegal.  Most, even those enforcing the law, assume that the primary reason is that a bad batch can poison the mother.  This assumption is do to the fact that the society generally doesn't talk about such things, and so forgets over time why it made the rules in the first place.I actually wrote this up for 1st edition, when in an extended campaign the PC's started getting married and producing offspring.  It mainly focused on generating the attributes for the offspring at every stage of life, from infancy to its adult (randomly generated) attributes.  It included modifiers to the stats depending on the child's astrological sign - Pisces for instance got generally negative modifiers but an increased chance of natural psionic ability.  It's not that hard to come up with, and there are tables for randomly generating appearance and personality traits in the 1st edition DMG - and now that I think about it, the astrological signs modified the throws on the personality tables as well.   (Hmmm... that's pretty cool, I forgot I'd done that; I may have to see if someone in my old group still has a copy of those rules.)I've always assumed that for quarter breeds, say a Quarter-Elf, there was a 50% chance of being equivalent to a full blood (though you'd qualify for the Trait 'Elven Heritage') and a 50% chance of being equivalent to a half-blood.  For say 1/8th blooded, there'd be a 75% chance of being equivalent to full blood, and a 25% chance of being equivalent to half-blood, and so forth.  That works out well because there isn't alot of granularity between 'half' and full-blood usually.I've addressed all these questions on my own as they came up.  The above is I think 'grandma-friendly'.  Why would I need a source book for it?  More to the point, why would I need a 'mature' source book for it and even if there was one why would I believe that the answers it gave were anything but specific to the author's campaign?  What range of sexual preference elves might have is a very different sort of question than, 'What is the BAB of a 4HD humanoid?'  It's much more like, 'What percentage of governments are patriarchal monarchies?'  I don't consider questions like that to be something a source book can answer in a general fashion, since its going to very so much from campaign world to campaign world according to DM preference.</blockquote>

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