• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    Don’t humans have the ability to fuck everything? It’s why half elves and half orcs exist, but no non-human hybrids.

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        Ah, good old Book of Erotic Fantasy. It’s so gloriously stupid that everyone should own a copy. That table is by far not the silliest part of the book.

        It’s only bested by the official sex rulebook for The Dark Eye, which is an April Fools joke that spiraled out of control and has actual rules for intercourse – deliberately bureaucratic and unsexy ones included purely as a “you asked for it” joke at the reader’s expense.

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          Y or M means you can fuck that species. N means you can fuck that species without protection.

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          9 months ago

          If it applies to DnD’s cosmology, than it has to mean with viable offspring, because half-dwarves canonically exist in the Darksun setting and they’re called Muls.

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        Honestly, Elder Scrolls has it right: the offspring of two different races will always be the race of the mother, but with some traits of the father.

        None of that funny crossbreeding stuff, just keep it simple.

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          So basically your mitochondria decides your species?

          Personally I like keeping it a little more complicated. It’s the same race as the mother, unless the mother is a ditto, in which case it’s the same race as the father.

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      9 months ago

      You sure? I believe I remember there being a story about a halfling or a gnome drinking an enlarge potion or two to get hot and sweaty with some giantess.

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      Technically it implies that all these other races are diverged near humans, humans being relatively unchanged remain close enough to produce viable offspring, but with different non human races being diverged from each other to the point of non viability.

      So basically the racial map for a D&D setting would have humans at the center, with half children in each of the spokes of a wheel, and every non human race being nodes located in the environment where they developed in extremity, and then from there you can build the environment under the premise of the conditions that developed elves or dwarves or orcs from the human starting point.

      This would also have to include a backstory spanning tens of thousands of years.

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      9 months ago

      You’re thinking of dragons. Humans only have the ability to fuck elves, orcs, and dragons.

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      Do they fuck everything, or get fucked by everything? How that half orc came into existence wasn’t a good time for everyone.