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<blockquote data-quote="Lurks-no-More" data-source="post: 3725254" data-attributes="member: 8226">Well, the by-the-book elves in D&amp;D are described as a bit aloof and tending towards chaotic good; with their long lifespans, they probably consider almost all non-elves as transitory, anyway.So, IMO at least, it isn't that much of a stretch to imagine an elf spending a couple of decades with a human they love, before turning back to other elves' company.Again, using the PHB racial descriptions as a sort-of baseline, I've always assumed that the majority of half-orcs comes from more-or-less willing inbreeding between chaotic (and/or evil) barbarian tribes and orcs; from there, you may actually get actual half-orc lineages.As for the actual subject of this thread, I have no conceptual problems with half-races (nor with half-fiends, half-celestials or half-dragons, although all of those should be quite rare); the problem with both half-elves and half-orcs - especially with the latter - is that they're mechanically pretty boring.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lurks-no-More, post: 3725254, member: 8226"] Well, the by-the-book elves in D&D are described as a bit aloof and tending towards chaotic good; with their long lifespans, they probably consider almost all non-elves as transitory, anyway. So, IMO at least, it isn't that much of a stretch to imagine an elf spending a couple of decades with a human they love, before turning back to other elves' company. Again, using the PHB racial descriptions as a sort-of baseline, I've always assumed that the majority of half-orcs comes from more-or-less willing inbreeding between chaotic (and/or evil) barbarian tribes and orcs; from there, you may actually get actual half-orc lineages. As for the actual subject of this thread, I have no conceptual problems with half-races (nor with half-fiends, half-celestials or half-dragons, although all of those should be quite rare); the problem with both half-elves and half-orcs - especially with the latter - is that they're mechanically pretty boring. [/QUOTE]

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