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** In ''[[Planescape]]'', Factol Lhar of the Bleak Cabal is a half-orc whose parents were a married but impoverished couple, who abandoned him at the Gatehouse when he was 12; his mother had become pregnant a second time and they could not support two children. Clearly, this was at least one reason why Lhar embraced the nihilistic philosophy of the Bleak Cabal enough to eventually become its leader.

** 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).

** Though in ''Pathfinder'' the Derro are actually descended from [[Hollow Earth|Darklands]] fae who've [[The Fair Folk|become insanely evil]], with no odd breeding practices involved.

* D&D3+ also features, as templates, half-celestials, half-dragons, half-elementals, half-fey, half-fiends, half-janni, half-minotaurs, half-ogres, half-trolls (which can be anything from half-human to half-griffin to half-stegosaurus), half-vampires, and even half-''golems'' and half-''illithids'' (though at least those last ones thankfully don't involve sex).