(Not an endorsement. Just story- and lore-relevant.)
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I was wondering if the lorebooks put a limit on which races can interbreed...
"Orcs can intermix with almost all other races (because Gruumsh and his wife made it so, so that Orcs could multiply and conquer) EXCEPT WITH ELVES. Orcs hate elves, Gruumsh hates elves. So he made it impossible for Orc x Elf pairings to produce anything.
Generally speaking humans can crossbreed with anything that can reproduce with other creatures."
There is nothing official in the rules about who can mate with whom. In 2014 there were two official mixed species - half elves and half orcs. In 2024 they changed the rules so there are no official mixed species. If you want a mixed species character you pick between the two species stat blocks taking the one you want. You don’t pick stuff from both - all one or all the other. Then adjust the features, size, hair, eyes, etc to suite your vision.
DM's discretion as well, of course, depending on their concept of the larger setting mechanics and how much suspension of disbelief they want to bring to the setting (live birthing humans and egg laying dragonborn stretch credulity more than two live birthing or egg laying parents, for example).
Relevant: Half-Orc
(Not an endorsement. Just story- and lore-relevant.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
OrioN Tischer
I wonder if races like goblins can cross with orcs?
because I've heard that goblins are not at all related to the playable (official not homebrew) races.
OrioN Tischer
There is nothing official in the rules about who can mate with whom. In 2014 there were two official mixed species - half elves and half orcs. In 2024 they changed the rules so there are no official mixed species. If you want a mixed species character you pick between the two species stat blocks taking the one you want. You don’t pick stuff from both - all one or all the other. Then adjust the features, size, hair, eyes, etc to suite your vision.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.
DM's discretion as well, of course, depending on their concept of the larger setting mechanics and how much suspension of disbelief they want to bring to the setting (live birthing humans and egg laying dragonborn stretch credulity more than two live birthing or egg laying parents, for example).
See Edgar rice Burroughs mars series on that John Carter is human - live birthday, Deja’s Thoris is human - egg laying but they have kids..
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.