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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2500643" data-attributes="member: 3477">Some of those points reminded me of my own latest homebrew <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.I use the same rule. However, humans and elves are that far apart that the chance of survival for the offspring is extremely low. You can count the number of half-elves in the setting with the fingers of one hand. They are something special, though, slightly insane, but potent oracles. Not suitable for player characters.Same rule here. Technically, I don't have halflings, just very small humans.Dwarfs were eliminated by the elves. The ruins of their underground palaces are adventure grounds.What are your ogres like?Here I go also for infertile offspring. They don't have any special traits. They are also very rare, though. Orc men find human women as ugly as human men orc women; that usually precludes any intercourse, and even then, offspring is unlikely. Additionally, goblinoids and orcs are the same species (mostly regional cultures) in that setting.I use elves and gnomes as the same species, more like regional subtypes. Dwarfs were elves, too, although no human knows. Elves don't talk about that.Which leaves us with elf/orc hybrids. They are also very unlikely and sterile, but one orc nation keeps them at a special place. They are the "dreamers", in a perpetual unconscious state, but forming a large dream realm with their collective minds. This gives orc shamans some special advantages.I don't use celestials and fiends, but fey are a ceremonial advancement option for elves/gnomes, which grants potential immortality, but for a big price (something similar to insanity rules). No interbreeding.That sounds at least slightly like the good old Gloranthan dragonnewts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. I use something like the latter.</blockquote>

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