I'm not sure what the offspring would be called, but according to the 5E Guide to Sex going around, Elves are listed in the compatibility chart as compatible with Orcs and Half-Orcs, despite what may be in their lore before now, meaning it's not out of the realm of possibilities, you just have to take low fertility of the Elves into account and the fact that it's possible Corellon wouldn't bless a fertility ritual if he knew what it was for in that instance, lol. I think you also have to take gender of the Elf and Orc/Half-Orc into account, but it's interesting to think about...
Naturally it goes without saying it’s up to the DM.
if you want a lore answer for the Forgotten Realms, orcs and elves cannot have children together. Neither Corellon Larethian or Gruumsh would permit such a soul to be created. It’s actually one of the few things they agree upon. You can have an orc and drow have a child since the Drow are not under Corellon’s portfolio. Also there is canonical evidence in a novel of a half-orc half-drow character.
Respectfully "lore answer for the Forgotten Realms" doesn't mean much either. FR lore is mutable; At one time it was FR lore that dwarves couldn't worship deities outside the dwarven pantheon or be druids for example, and then Pikel Bouldershoulder came along and shattered both precepts.
In short, I wouldn't get attached to the idea of orcs and elves being unable to have offspring. In fact, we may have a canon example of exactly that from Baldurs Gate 3.
Orcs are Elves who were corrupted by Gruumsh's blood when his eye was cut out by Corellon. So I'd say that an Elf and Orc would produce an Orc. In the Forgotten Realms anybody with Orc blood constantly hears Gruumsh calling for battle. Orcs in Eberron have escaped that corruption.
Respectfully "lore answer for the Forgotten Realms" doesn't mean much either. FR lore is mutable; At one time it was FR lore that dwarves couldn't worship deities outside the dwarven pantheon or be druids for example, and then Pikel Bouldershoulder came along and shattered both precepts.
In short, I wouldn't get attached to the idea of orcs and elves being unable to have offspring. In fact, we may have a canon example of exactly that from Baldurs Gate 3.
Respectfully, you're conflating Lore with Game Mechanics. Player Character Dwarves couldn't be druids because previous editions of D&D didn't allow them to be, it didn't matter what world they were on. The closest any of Salvatore's characters have been to being a PC is when Chris Perkins played Drizzt in Acquisition, Inc. live shows.
And orcs existed in D&D settings well before Corellon cut out Gruumsh's eye.
Here's the Wiki for Orcs. As you can see, Orcs vary in appearance because they have been breeding with other races over the centuries. But they are all still considered orcs.
Custom Lineage covers any race combination you might want (though may not be wholly satisfactory)
Or you could adopt the rules in the species playtest for the 2024 PHB Sorry couldn’t copy and paste on my phone but choose one race to take your traits from and average the two ages
Edit: finally at home and can copy/paste the section:
CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT HUMANOID KINDS
Thanks to the magical workings of the multiverse, Humanoids of different kinds sometimes have children together. For example, folk who have a human parent and an orc or an elf parent are particularly common. Many other combinations are possible. If you’d like to play the child of such a wondrous pairing, choose two Race options that are Humanoid to represent your parents. Then determine which of those Race options provides your game traits: Size, Speed, and special traits. You can then mix and match visual characteristics—color, ear shape, and the like—of the two options. For example, if your character has a halfling and a gnome parent, you might choose Halfling for your game traits and then decide that your character has the pointed ears that are characteristic of a gnome. Finally, determine the average of the two options’ Life Span traits to figure out how long your character might live. For example, a child of a halfling and a gnome has an average life span of 288 years.
In the end, Lore doesn’t matter unless your DM says it does and would be up to them if you could have this combo anyway
I'm not sure what the offspring would be called, but according to the 5E Guide to Sex going around, Elves are listed in the compatibility chart as compatible with Orcs and Half-Orcs, despite what may be in their lore before now, meaning it's not out of the realm of possibilities, you just have to take low fertility of the Elves into account and the fact that it's possible Corellon wouldn't bless a fertility ritual if he knew what it was for in that instance, lol. I think you also have to take gender of the Elf and Orc/Half-Orc into account, but it's interesting to think about...
Which is not remotely canon and who's lore is nothing more than fanfic.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Glad to know that in a world of uncertainty, rule 34 has yet to be violated.
Respectfully "lore answer for the Forgotten Realms" doesn't mean much either. FR lore is mutable; At one time it was FR lore that dwarves couldn't worship deities outside the dwarven pantheon or be druids for example, and then Pikel Bouldershoulder came along and shattered both precepts.
In short, I wouldn't get attached to the idea of orcs and elves being unable to have offspring. In fact, we may have a canon example of exactly that from Baldurs Gate 3.
Orcs are Elves who were corrupted by Gruumsh's blood when his eye was cut out by Corellon. So I'd say that an Elf and Orc would produce an Orc. In the Forgotten Realms anybody with Orc blood constantly hears Gruumsh calling for battle. Orcs in Eberron have escaped that corruption.
Respectfully, you're conflating Lore with Game Mechanics. Player Character Dwarves couldn't be druids because previous editions of D&D didn't allow them to be, it didn't matter what world they were on. The closest any of Salvatore's characters have been to being a PC is when Chris Perkins played Drizzt in Acquisition, Inc. live shows.
No, I'm not. Orcs are not corrupted elves anymore, that was a Tolkien thing. Their current lore is in MPMM.
And orcs existed in D&D settings well before Corellon cut out Gruumsh's eye.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Is there a reason you took my comment about why dwarves couldn't be druids in previous editions and made it about orcs and elves?
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Here's the Wiki for Orcs. As you can see, Orcs vary in appearance because they have been breeding with other races over the centuries. But they are all still considered orcs.
I asked my friends the same thing!
I'm pretty sure orcs eat elves though...
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Custom Lineage covers any race combination you might want (though may not be wholly satisfactory)
Or you could adopt the rules in the species playtest for the 2024 PHB Sorry couldn’t copy and paste on my phone but choose one race to take your traits from and average the two ages
Edit: finally at home and can copy/paste the section:
In the end, Lore doesn’t matter unless your DM says it does and would be up to them if you could have this combo anyway
EZD6 by DM Scotty
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/397599/EZD6-Core-Rulebook?