Stupid elf question!!!!

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

Here is a crazy question I asked to start trouble in the car going to my game over the weekend.

If I want to play a half drow half moon elf what am I. Am I all elf or half elf or half drow?

The same holds true for half orc. What if I wanted to play a half orc, half elf.

 

[pontus]

Here is a crazy question I asked to start trouble in the car going to my game over the weekend.

If I want to play a half drow half moon elf what am I. Am I all elf or half elf or half drow?

A freak. You'll probably be little more than a moon elf with unusually dark skin.

The same holds true for half orc. What if I wanted to play a half orc, half elf.

AFAIK that mix is impossible.

 

[absurdum]

I've read this somewhere before. I don't know where though. But you only get the traits of one parent, deminded randomly I guess. So you're either drow or moon elf not both.

 

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

Why is that mix impossible?
I belive that I read that they have them in FR. Also if orcs can mate with humans and humans can mate with elves why can't orcs mate with elves?

Remember this is all in good fun.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Good taste?

Why is that mix impossible?
I belive that I read that they have them in FR. Also if orcs can mate with humans and humans can mate with elves why can't orcs mate with elves?

Remember this is all in good fun.

 

[Gargoyle]

Why is that mix impossible?
I belive that I read that they have them in FR. Also if orcs can mate with humans and humans can mate with elves why can't orcs mate with elves?

Remember this is all in good fun.

I would suggest forgetting about the science of it. There could easily be magical and/or divine reasons why an elf and orc can't produce "orlfs".

The question isn't so much can they mate, as it is "Which interracial combinations do you want to deal with in your game?"

Whether they can mate and produce offspring with traits of both depends on whether the DM sees a place for such a race in their campaign. The designers of the game obviously felt that there was no such place in the "default campaign" aka the core rules, for elf/orcs, so they don't exist. Same with human/halflings, etc.

Personally, I don't care for too much "half-this and half-that" in my game. IMC, I think there's enough potential for dramatic conflict and intriguing characters with half-elves or even full-blooded humans that have parents from different races or nations. Too often, players try to make their characters interesting by choosing an odd racial mix, instead of using the vast possibilities for personality traits that are present even in an all-human campaign.

All that being said, I don't see anything wrong with having "orlfs" or any other combination in your game. It's just not my cup of tea, and I don't think it belongs in every campaign, or in the core rules.

 

[Darklone]

Yeah!

Give me golfs! Goblin elves are sooo nice !

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I don't think it should be in the game either i mean orcs and elves absolutly hate each other, even thier gods are enemies of thge worst kind, if i was corellon i'd make sure that orcs could't use elves to create such an abomanation.

As for the dark elf moon elf thing thats obvios two elves make an elf, one parent will probably be morer dominat in the mix, but the offspring will be an elf all the same. I think this Dareoon guy is just being a little trollish with that one.

 

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

look here liverman I'm just asking a question. No need to start name calling

It's not as though I want to play a half fiend/half dragon/half elf/half orc lich ghost, vampire!

I'm just asking a fun question. call it a theological debate on the mating habits of fantasy races

 

[Gez]

OK. AFAIK, rule-wise, you only inherit the traits of one parent (so your half-moon, half-dark, elf, would be, rulewise, either a moon or a dark elf); but the appearance (and mentality) being up to you, you can make it a blend of both.

For the orc/elf hybrid, you can go the Arcady way and says that each aspect balance each other, and produce a being that is intermediate between elf and ork: human. Or you can create a new race for this hybrid. IIRC, there's an elf (wild or wood, don't remember) who got +2 Str, +2 Dex, -2 Con, -2 Int, -2 Cha. It could be a good basis, stat-wise, for an elf-ork hybrid. Then remove the "detect secret doors" and "+2 to Search" bonuses, and give him Darkvision 60 ft. For the appearance, imagine an hairy, muscular, elf with a big jaw, and here you go.

Edit: Note that in some world, Gruuuuuuuumsch and Corellon may not exist; and elves and orcs can have different mindset. Even if, by talking about "moon elf", the original poster implied it was in the Realms, don't jump to conclusion too eagerly. It may be a homebrew world with elves copied on those of the Realms, but who are not innately hostile to the orcs.