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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radferth" data-source="post: 2496686" data-attributes="member: 5791">Hybrids are very rare in nature, but they do occur.  Two examples I know of are a lynx-cat (half lynx, half bobcat) and this poor fellow I saw on a PBS show who was a hybrid of two kinds of prarie chickens.  His mating behavior was an odd cross of the two species, hence he didn't get to mate (not that he would have been fertile if he could). Since hybrids are sterile they don't produce any offspring of their own, and are only found as an occasional single creature.  I would point out that all those different breeds of dogs are actually the same species (canis domesticus, IIRC), and thus can freely interbreed.As for my campaigns, I don't like the third edition proliferation of half-breeds, but anything is possible for some wizard to come up with.  As for the two standards (half-elf and half-orc), I generally consider orcs and humans to be the same species, and there are whole tribes or populations of "half-orcs" that mostly breed among themselves.  As for half-elves, IMC elves are the decendants of the offsprings of humans and a sidhe/alfar-type race from another plane.  Thus they are much more human than other fey, and can even breed with humans.  Other possibilities (elf/orc, dwarf/human) might be possible, but are so rare not to merit a specific mention (i.e. I'd probably let a player play one if he wanted, but no-one has ever asked).</blockquote>