Maybe Half-XYZ isn't so strange after all

[Galethorn]

I don't think anyone wants sentient-helicopter PCs...

 

[Altalazar]

South Park did an episode on this - I think it was Kyle's dad that had plastic surgery to turn himself into a dolphin... one of the more disturbing episodes... you'll never look at a lay-up the same way again.

 

[RangerWickett]

Sheep and humans have the same number of chromosomes, so it is possible for a human sperm to inseminate a sheep egg. That's apparently where satyr myths came from, from the strange, stillborn offspring of these, um, couplings.

 

[Khayman]

(...) Meanwhile, a wiener dog and a great dane are the same species, but mating....well.....I'd hate to envision it....

Two words: step ladder.

 

[der_kluge]

Sheep and humans have the same number of chromosomes, so it is possible for a human sperm to inseminate a sheep egg. That's apparently where satyr myths came from, from the strange, stillborn offspring of these, um, couplings.

No way. I don't believe that.

 

[punkorange]

No way. I don't believe that.

I agree, interesting, almost scary, but is there proof?

 

[Aeolius]

Sheep and humans have the same number of chromosomes, so it is possible for a human sperm to inseminate a sheep egg. That's apparently where satyr myths came from, from the strange, stillborn offspring of these, um, couplings.

sounds like ba-aa-aa-aa-d science to me

 

[Khayman]

Domestic sheep have 54 chromosomes; wild types vary slightly (52 to 58).
Most humans have 46 chromosomes.

Even if the numbers were the same, the contents of the chromosomes from different species would be different. (Dogs and chickens both have 78 chromosomes, IIRC.) In such a mating, you'd have no guarantee that you'd inherit a full complement of genes for, say, a head.

Which might explain satyr behaviour.

 

[Khayman]

Dog + chicken = dicken,

or

Dog + chicken = tasty?

 

[SWBaxter]

That is inspiring, since I'll allow pc dolphins when I run underwater adventures. Crazy, crazy... but I like it.

Traveller, IIRC, detailed genetically engineered dolphins as a playable species in one of the Solomani Rim supplements. Or maybe it was a Travellers' Aid Society article.