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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8847191" data-attributes="member: 6796661">How does any other term solve that? Whether gods or wizards or evolution created the creatures, people are going to group and classify them. You'll still have beasts, humanoids, giants, dragons, fey, fiends, etc. and elves, dwarves, humans, orcs, etc. Whether any can interbreed because of biology or magic, that's just flavor.  Do humans, elves, and orcs share a common ancestor and share the same number of chromosomes to enable, or do the gods just allow, half orcs and half elves?  Personally I would rather they do away with half elves and half orcs and replace with rules for make hybrid species player characters. I think half elves and half orcs may be too iconic now to drop, but it would be good to mention in a side bar in the PHB that other hybrids are possible if they make sense in your game--see the DMG for further guidance.  Actually, full rules for creation of new species of PCs should be given in the DMG to allow players and DMs to work on creating concepts players bring to the table without breaking game balance.</blockquote>