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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 1531447" data-attributes="member: 2480">In my Shatterd World campaign I very deliberately included an innkeep and wife who were a Human male and an Orc female. I might've played it a bit for laughs, making him a rather small and timid man, and her a big brute who was a little simple. But I was told that it really came across that they genuinely loved each other very deeply.I included it as a moral example, in a town divided over the place of Orcs that had once been slaves (and had been released by the intervention of a powerful adventurer Wizard who was morally opposed to slavery). But it also made players see what Shakespeare described best in A Midsummer Night's Dream:Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.Therefore is wingèd Cupid painted blind.Nor hath love's mind of judgement's tasteWings and no eyes figure unheedy haste!I like the idea that in a multiracial world there will be loves formed that defy convention, and that in a magical world, blessed by the Gods, those unions will produce offspring freely.</blockquote>