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* Going further still, aasimar (celestial), chaonds (chaos), draconics, genasi (elemental), tieflings (fiendish), and zenythri (law), among others, are what happen when some of those half-thingies go around and do it with "normal" people.
* There are also "Heritage" feats and a "Bloodline" option, for adding special powers based on unusual ancestry, including celestial, fiendish, fey, vampire and illithid, among too many others to list.
* In fact, it was implied that humanoid sorcerers have some draconic ancestry, as sorcery is how the dragons use magic - and they're pretty much the oldest race, outside of celestials and fiends - as well as explicitly stated that dragons can mate with [[Anything That Moves]]. Which fits well with their high Charisma and [[Power Perversion Potential|shapeshifting abilities]]. Nowadays it's implied that sorcerers have a touch of magical blood, but this can be from dragons, angels or demons, with different effects depending on which.
* D&D was so bad about everything mating with everything else that the infamous third-party [[Sourcebook]], Book of Erotic Fantasy, featured a ''chart'' explaining which creatures are compatible with which other creatures. It did have some interesting things in it, like prostitute prestige classes and [[
* ''[[Dragonlance]]'' is not immune from this trope: the Dragonlance setting features 'Gully Dwarves', allegedly the offspring of gnomes and dwarves. Aside from being a strange combination, Gully Dwarves are incredibly ''stupid'' creatures, depicted as being totally incapable of counting higher than two. Those that ''can'' count higher than two tend to lick beer from tavern floors.
* The changeling race, from the [[Eberron]] campaign setting of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', are theorized to be descended from the viable offspring of humans and dopplegangers coupling, though this is unconfirmed (various factions have their own varying theories about why, exactly, changelings exist).
* Note that in Standard D&D this is explicitly not the case: Dopplegangers are a [[One-Gender Race]] that breed with other races, their children turn into Dopplegangers at puberty.
* Shifters or "beastkin" are similarly referred to as being a "mixed race" of lycanthropes and humans, although this, too, is unconfirmed and fiercely denied by shifters who belong to the anti-lycanthropic [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|Church of the Silver Flame]]. (Such shifters insist that they existed first and lycanthropes are an unholy union of humans and shifters.)
** The Fourth Edition ''Monster Manual'' and ''Player's Handbook 2'' do make this the default canon explanation how the shifter race(s) came to be; longtooth shifters are descended from werewolves, razorclaw shifters from weretigers. Both are legitimate choices for player characters.
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