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* Daddy, where do half-[[Our Orcs Are Different|orcs]] come from?
** Many sources have presented them using the [[Child by Rape]] scenario, but not always. And in some cases where it ''is'', the father is the human side.
** At least some stories do show half-orcorcs that came from consenting parents. The ''[[Planescape]]'' setting had at least one half-orc character whose parents were a genuinely loving human/orc couple (male human, female orc). There was also the ''[[Dungeon (magazine)|Dungeon Adventures]]'' module "Rudwilla's Stew" where the villains were three half-orcs and their human mother, who was a moderately powerful wizard. One of the brothers kept the skull of their father in a trunk in his bedroom, but no clue other than that was given as to how he was killed.
** In fact, orcs likely have the most unstable genetic structure of all humanoid beings. One source claims that can crossbreed with almost any humanoid race except for elves, and have done so with goblins, dwarves, and gnomes, as well as humans. Two well-known half-orc species that don't involve a human parent are orogs (which is the result of male orc and a female ogre, and somehow smarter than its parents and much more disciplined than either) and an ogrillion (a rarer creature that occurs with the same two species, but the genders of the parents reversed; more stupid than both parents and, somehow, armored).
* Derro and all Gith subraces are results of slave breeding by illithids.
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** [[The Archmage|Elminster]] has quite a few children; his daughter Narnra Shalace (from the apt-titled novel ''Elminster's Daughter'') was the result of his affair with a female song dragon, who like most intelligent dragons, can take human form.
** Drizzt Do'Urden (drow) and his human wife Cattie-brie, a relationship ''far'' too long and detailed to put down here, [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Catti-brie so read about it here.]
* The tendency for humans to mate with other things was so common that eventually a race was created in D&D called the "mongrelfolk," supposedly a lowest-common-denominator mish-mash of basically *''all*'' humanoid races.
* Then there is the tauric template. Not happy with centaurs? Pick a humanoid and a creature with four or more legs and [[Biological Mashup|mash 'em up]]. Just try not to think about how they came to be. (Thankfully, the answer is usually "magic".)
* Mechanatrixes, from humans and extraplanar clockwork outsiders like Inevitables. Born as cyborgs. From a living being and a magical robot.
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