Where do babies come from?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Is it also the home of the fighting Centaurs?

Alas, due to the mine fire, there are few people living there anymore- not enough to support a HS football team, archery squad, or any horseplay like that.

 

[Celebrim]

Where do babies come from in the game? Specifically, there are a couple of races that seem to exist with only a single gender. How does that work?

Those races must mate with another race. When they do, the offspring is always a member of their own race with the same gender.

There are templates for Half Satyr and Half Nymph, which can be either gender, but the Fey parent only occurs in the single flavor.

Which is nonsense, IMO. The offspring of a satyr is always a male satyr. The offspring of a hag is always a female hag. There are no male half-hags or female half-satyrs. If a satyr mates with any female, that female is having a satyr 100% of the time. Generally speaking, birth control is of no preventative. The effect is magical and invasive.

Needless to say, both satyrs and hags are generally despised by the members of other sentient races.

Nymphs are all female, but nymphs are not the offspring of other nymphs. Nymphs are the product of spontaneous generation. They are pure anima. Make a new river, you get a new nymph for free. The same is true of Dryads and their relationship with forests. Dryads babies come from trees, not other dryads. The are incarnated female as a representation of their productivity and nurturing status as habitat for other life.

Additionally, why would sailors be tempted by mermaids? The fiddly bits are all wrong..

Sailors are pretty undiscriminating bunch. For one thing, the usual alternative to a mermaid is another sailor, and the fiddly bits are all wrong their as well and sailors are generally alot less clean than mermaids but none of that stops them. Creative minded sentient beings can usually work out ways to please each other even without compatible fiddly bits. Besides, it's possible that mermaids are attacted to sailors because mermen don't really have as entertaining of an approach to the act or for that matter, as interesting of an endowment in the fiddly bit region. Curiousity, after all, is in the female an urge that springs from the loins*, and really, whose to say what a half mammal-half fish even has in the fiddly bit department.

*In men, everything is an urge that springs from the loins.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

For one thing, the usual alternative to a mermaid is another sailor

I know a LOT of sailors.



...wait...that didn't sound right...




um...anyway...



The most common alternatives to mermaids are abstinence and "self-help", not other sailors. (Monte Python sketch not withstanding.)

 

[Greenfield]

We've played that Satyr's and Nymphs are nature's party animals. And when they get together, well, the product is more Satyr's and Nymphs! The fun never stops, I tell you.

 

[Tharkon]

Make a new river, you get a new nymph for free.

Why a river, they have absolutely no relation to rivers, or water even.

I do like the idea that Fey are the Elementals and Outsiders of the Material Plane.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

The offspring of a satyr is always a male satyr. The offspring of a hag is always a female hag.

So, a Satyr and a Hag get together...

Make a new river, you get a new nymph for free.

Seriously? Now, the Wizard is going to be all over that, because, while wizards don't have any of those charismatic social skills, they can use magic to make a river, and get a free chick! It's like Weird Science!!

I should write that into a Handbook called "How to Make a Girlfriend", it's likely to be more popular than Rust Monsters!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I should write that into a Handbook called "How to Make a Girlfriend", it's likely to be more popular than Rust Monsters!

Chapter 1: Animate Dead
Chapter 2: Awaken Sheep
Chapter 3: Fun with Flesh Golems

 

[Celebrim]

Why a river, they have absolutely no relation to rivers, or water even.

Wikipedia. Nymphs are most heavily associated with springs and rivers, and groves of trees, but also lakes, oceans, and caves (especially caves that had water flowing from them). Nymphs in greek lore - especially the famous ones - bore the names of rivers. In D&D dryads (a form of nymph) take over the role of tree spirit.

I do like the idea that Fey are the Elementals and Outsiders of the Material Plane.

Good. That's pretty much what they are.

 

[Aeolius]

The offspring of a satyr is always a male satyr. The offspring of a hag is always a female hag. There are no male half-hags or female half-satyrs.

Granted, none of that is set in stone. A DM is free to do as they wish, regarding the procreation of single-sexed races. For example, in my games the offspring of a night hag and second night hag Shapechanged into male form is a krampus, a "male hag" born with abilities that make him a natural-born hag killer. He was inspired by Santa's little helper of the same name:

And then there is the option of parthenogenesis - an all-female race need not seek partners at all, to have offspring.

 

[Celebrim]

Granted, none of that is set in stone. A DM is free to do as they wish...

Agreed. I should have made it clearer that these were only how things worked in my campaign. My point when boiled down is only, "Things need not work like they do in the real world.", and in fact, "If you want to maximize interest in a fantasy game, things should not always work like they do in the real world."