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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3898216" data-attributes="member: 4134">I think it was at some time written in some D&D books that they could not interbreed because their respective gods (or at least the elven ones) made it impossible.... ....and then there's this part......I wonder why the same wasn't always applied to half-orcs (orc/humans): I'd say that they're usually the result of rape, too, and humans are probably not that much friendlier towards orcs than elves. So a human mother (or her family, neighbours and so on) would probably act the same.As for half-orcs born from orc parents, I assume that most wouldn't survive that long, because they're weak.I'd also think that they wouldn't stoop to that. Drow are usually described as very racist, and vain, and orcs are usually filthy and ugly. I think that in the end, they just didn't want to make a half- template for every single race out there, or have huge charts where you could look up your race by determining what his parents and grandparents were and get your racial traits from that. Messy business. Plus, I guess it's to foil powergamers (but then again, dwarves are a standard race...)I want to point out that Midnight has something similar. Not orcs and elves, but orcs and dwarves. All of them the result of atrocities (because those races hate each other with a passion). They're Eredane's physically most imposing race (dwarven toughness combined with orcish strength), probably the most miserable creatures in the whole world, and the only creatures that hate orcs more than dwarves do. They're invariably outcasts (those who aren't killed at childbirth, of course), and invariably live with the Kurgans (outcast dwarves that live on the surface). Non-outcast dwarves don't want them around not least because they seem to be living proof that orcs and dwarves are related more closely than dwarves would ever want to admit.So if you really want orc/elf crossbreeds, you might want to do something similar</blockquote>

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