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<blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 3954606" data-attributes="member: 11437"><p>Potentially, you'd need to state which races can breed with one another and that can get kinda yucky for most folks (people who don't like to think about their characters procreating). Not only that, but it becomes a logistical nightmare trying to ensure consistency in this matter across all the core materials and future products.</p><p></p><p>We don't have other intelligent races on Earth, so this concept of a "half-race" is an entirely fantasy idea. You could just as easily rule that humans cannot breed with elves or any other intelligent race (ie cannot create a viable offspring, or that it is always human or whatever), or the other way (humans can breed with any intelligent races and create viable offspring with traits of both parents). You don't have any biology to base this on, so it's really a thematic or setting based decision. You should be consistent though; if elves and dwarves and eladrin and halflings are mammals and humans can breed with any one of them, they should be able to breed with any of them*. Not wanting to breed is not an issue, as we all know that forced breeding can and does occur.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I can see humans not being to breed with dragonborn, since they are reptiles and lay eggs. Tieflings - not sure since they are demons and whatnot.</p><p></p><p></p><p>* I know this seems a little broad at first, but think about it. How are elves, dwarves, halflings, etc, biologically different from humans? Earth humans cannot breed with cats and monkeys and horses because they are significantly biologically different from humans (ie they have different, incompatible DNA). If elves, dwarves, and halflings have live births and conceive the same way biologically that humans do, and they certainly seem to be very similar biologically, it seems illogical that humans could breed with elves but not the others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Insight, post: 3954606, member: 11437"] Potentially, you'd need to state which races can breed with one another and that can get kinda yucky for most folks (people who don't like to think about their characters procreating). Not only that, but it becomes a logistical nightmare trying to ensure consistency in this matter across all the core materials and future products. We don't have other intelligent races on Earth, so this concept of a "half-race" is an entirely fantasy idea. You could just as easily rule that humans cannot breed with elves or any other intelligent race (ie cannot create a viable offspring, or that it is always human or whatever), or the other way (humans can breed with any intelligent races and create viable offspring with traits of both parents). You don't have any biology to base this on, so it's really a thematic or setting based decision. You should be consistent though; if elves and dwarves and eladrin and halflings are mammals and humans can breed with any one of them, they should be able to breed with any of them*. Not wanting to breed is not an issue, as we all know that forced breeding can and does occur. EDIT: I can see humans not being to breed with dragonborn, since they are reptiles and lay eggs. Tieflings - not sure since they are demons and whatnot. * I know this seems a little broad at first, but think about it. How are elves, dwarves, halflings, etc, biologically different from humans? Earth humans cannot breed with cats and monkeys and horses because they are significantly biologically different from humans (ie they have different, incompatible DNA). If elves, dwarves, and halflings have live births and conceive the same way biologically that humans do, and they certainly seem to be very similar biologically, it seems illogical that humans could breed with elves but not the others. [/QUOTE]
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