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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 155 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)
[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 42 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

At first I read this as "these species can fuck each other". Then I realized that this is only concerning conception, all these species could fuck each other as they please.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

No way would I fuck a bugbear without some sort of protection...

[–] Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I see that nymphs bang everything, makes sense. Sprites are only slowing down (with M for Maybe) at very large sized humanoids like Giants and Ogres, that’s pretty hardcore/disturbing.

[–] Eagle0600@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

Half dwarves exist in the default rules, they're just indistinguishable from dwarves. Supposedly they're actually pretty common.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's a small text at the bottom explaining the chart.

[–] Eagle0600@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Then the chart is just wrong (I know which book it's in and it is intended to apply to DnD).

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] elvith@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dragons and Nymphs ~~don't~~ fuck around. Got it.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

And fiends of course

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm so glad this meme transcends platforms

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's not like we could leave reddit while leaving all the worst memes behind

[–] elvith@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have you watched Shrek?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Adult dragons can shapeshift, so the same way you'd fuck anyone else.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Cum all over its trea$ur

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

dryads reject lizardfolk and only lizardfolk

By this I'm assuming lizard-folk lay eggs.

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It never occurred me until now that half dwarves are not a thing

[–] Lemonspeed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Muls from the Dark Sun setting are half dwarves. They’re sterile so I guess maybe they don’t count?

[–] swab148@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was gonna say something about ligers and tigons, but then I did some research (looked it up on Wikipedia) and I learned some stuff. It has no relevance to my life, but it did clear up my misconception that hybrids are always sterile! So, in addition to making $125 donating plasma, making a new friend at the bus stop, and almost immediately getting drunk, I learned that some hybrids can be viable!

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Be sure to continue your research with an image search, because they are cute as fuck.

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Defenestrator@aussie.zone 17 points 2 years ago

One day I'm going to play an asexual bard, just to subvert expectations.

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 years ago

This is the truth they don't want us to know.

[–] Lath@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine being the halfling-giant and you're just some normal guy.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You're gonna have big feet no matter what

[–] swab148@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

You know what they say about big feet...

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago

That'll be from the human half of the half ling.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How that half orc came into existence wasn't a good time for everyone.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haha, unexpectedly wholesome!

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago

The best kind of unexpected!

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is a half halfling a quarterling?

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[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alternative: humans were specifically engineered to be able to half-breed with anything - even elemental beings - so that they'd be able to take over the world.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Too close to great replacement theory to be campaign safe IMO

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Huh... never thought of that. Though I think a key difference is that it's one race diluting many races, rather than... well, in great replacement theory, it's not even whites being diluted by other races, it's them being replaced by way of high immigrations and low birth rates. So if it was like a large group of humans migrating into an elvish city, then yes, but this is more like the elvish country gaining a population of half elves and eventually humans around the edges.

From what I can tell in the wiki, great replacement people aren't so much threatened by half-minorities as they are by flocks of minorities moving in until whites are the minority. It's the culture shock, and you don't get as much of a culture shock from someone who was raised on the edges of your culture.

Not to say you have to include human hegemony in your campaign, of course. Your campaign, your rules, and you know what your players are comfortable with more than I do.

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Depends on the setting, some have other half species