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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evilhalfling" data-source="post: 3728211" data-attributes="member: 16991">I have long tinkered with the idea that all the humanoids are more like tribes of men then species- After reading the travels of Marco polo where he moves quickly between completely differernt cultures, and looking at language diversity and tribalism in human history.In the default fantasy there are only a few types of humans and only a few languages. If humans are only one "tribe" albeit a large and successful one, the completely silly number of intelligent humanoids, and an absurd number of subraces, call all be tribes as well. In this situation complete dominance of racial traits is the only way to avoid unusable numbers of variatons.  Perhaps the ability for humans to produce mixed races (with elves and orcs) is a survival trait or a agreement between gods. A single god for each race would make the most sense, although of course some (like humans) would have several gods that all agreed not to remake the basic human form. In terms of  gentics Just cause racial type/breed does not work this way in RL doesn't mean it can't in a game, especially if it makes life easier.  Human cultures are not very accepting of mix-breeds anyway, they tend to lump people into one catagory or the other. People take on one of the two identities, sometimes they can choose which, more often society makes that decision.</blockquote>