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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5036837" data-attributes="member: 2093">I freely mix "real" biology and "fantasy" biology in my campaign world.I have many verminous and ooze type creatures come into existence through abiogenesis (they appear in piles of rotten garbage or cesspools or swamps and fetid water). Even dragons appear to be abiogenetic; dragon eggs are generated by mounds of treasure and hatch when the "parent" dragon finds and warms them. Sometimes new dragons appear where no dragon has been, before.Dwarves are carved from stone and brought  to  life by priestly rituals. But half-orcs and half-elves exist, and they can be true half-breeds with a parent of each "race", or they can be descended of a line of half-breed parents themselves. In this case, elves and orcs are closely-related species. Orcs fill the "drow" role IMC more than anything else, though they have nothing to do with spiders. And although this is a lost historical fact, humans are actually an elf-orc halfbreed.I like my monsters to be fantastical, and when there are small numbers of them, they often have a mythic background. Gods are elevated to that status by having worshippers; monsters are elevated to that status by having believers. So, yeah, the trolls in the swamp are there because the humans have believed they are there for generations (but they were probably normal human refugees when they first went in there, a few hundred years ago).</blockquote>