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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 2496883" data-attributes="member: 17012">I personally like the idea of half-breeds--as something rare and special.  When I played my half-elf many years ago, her mixed parentage was practically the focus of the character.  She was raised among humans, elves were few and far between, and she had a lot of conflicts both internally and externally.  It was great fun roleplaying her.Making half-elves and half-orcs a race unto themselves, as Eberron has done, completely takes any sort of interesting roleplay potential out of the race.  I might feel better about it if they actually had names of their own instead of "half-," but the impact of being a naturally occuring half-elf or half-orc in Eberron is greatly diminished because of their existence.  Half-elves and half-orcs in Eberron are to humans what Tallfellows and Stouts were to halflings (thank God they got rid of those...the thought of a hobbit getting busy with an elf or dwarf/gnome was...uuuuhhhh).As far as half-monsters go...they went a bit far with those.  I had to draw the line at half-elemental.  Half-ELEMENTAL?!?!  How does that happen??  No, wait, don't tell me.  I don't want to know.  Maybe stout halflings weren't so bad after all....  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Anyways, I would say use the half-breeds, but use them very sparingly.  Make their appearance rare and special, and the story of their creation interesting.  In the case of half-elves/orcs, vary their abilities up a bit so that they're not all the same.  Maybe this guy inherited more from his orcish father than his human mother, maybe that guy looks almost completely human, etc.</blockquote>

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