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[–] [email protected] 147 points 10 months 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 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months 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 27 points 10 months 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 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months 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 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] AtmaJnana 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

And fiends of course

[–] fidodo 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] Noodle07 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Witchfire 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm so glad this meme transcends platforms

[–] Noodle07 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Have you watched Shrek?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Cum all over its trea$ur

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

dryads reject lizardfolk and only lizardfolk

[–] johannesvanderwhales 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Wild_Mastic 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lemonspeed 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Dryads: I'll breed with anything

Dryads (earlier that day): I don't care for Lizardfolk

[–] teft 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months 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 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're gonna have big feet no matter what

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You know what they say about big feet...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haha, unexpectedly wholesome!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is a half halfling a quarterling?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

And half a quarterling is a sixteenthling, just like music.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

well it depends on what the half in halfling is. if they're half human already they could be three-quarterslings which doesn't roll off the tounge very well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Too close to great replacement theory to be campaign safe IMO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] cryptiod137 3 points 10 months ago

Depends on the setting, some have other half species