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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1972698" data-attributes="member: 633">Not really, but they are asexual. If we wanted to strictly look at Planescape, Faces of Evil explicitly says that baatezu have genders but cannot reproduce sexually; yugoloths can with other yugoloths; of the three big fiendish races, only tanar'ri can reproduce with mortals. Still looking at Planescape, nowhere it mentioned the possibility of other outsiders reproducing sexually with mortals, though it didn't deny it either and at least some celestials must be able to since we do have aasimars. Overall, 3E made the Outer Planes a lot more promiscuous. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Point... and even a modron could cast shapechange. Still, in their natural form they are definitely asexual. I reckon that, even in humanoid form, they wouldn't feel like having sex, or even understand it. While this explains the existance of half-axiomatic or half-anarchic creatures, I still think that they would be many orders of magnitude rarer than half-fiends and half-celestials.&nbsp; &nbsp;However, there's another example of the slant towards the moral axis: if a mortal has sex with a tanar'ri, they get a half-fiend. Why not a half-anarchic?&nbsp; &nbsp;I think the half-outside templates should be differentiated by the outsider's species. I can't see a half-devil having the same qualities as a half-demon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 1972698, member: 633"] Not really, but they [i]are [/i]asexual. If we wanted to strictly look at Planescape, [i]Faces of Evil[/i] explicitly says that baatezu have genders but cannot reproduce sexually; yugoloths can with other yugoloths; of the three big fiendish races, only tanar'ri can reproduce with mortals. Still looking at Planescape, nowhere it mentioned the possibility of other outsiders reproducing sexually with mortals, though it didn't deny it either and at least some celestials must be able to since we do have aasimars. Overall, 3E made the Outer Planes a [i]lot[/i] more promiscuous. :DPoint... and even a modron could cast shapechange. Still, in their natural form they are definitely asexual. I reckon that, even in humanoid form, they wouldn't feel like having sex, or even understand it. While this explains the existance of half-axiomatic or half-anarchic creatures, I still think that they would be many orders of magnitude rarer than half-fiends and half-celestials. However, there's another example of the slant towards the moral axis: if a mortal has sex with a tanar'ri, they get a half-fiend. Why not a half-anarchic? I think the half-outside templates should be differentiated by the outsider's species. I can't see a half-devil having the same qualities as a half-demon. [/QUOTE]

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