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== Tabletop Games ==

* In the paper-and-pencil RPG ''[[Castle Falkenstein]]'', Dwarves ''are'', in fact, exclusively male. They mate with the females of other Faerie-kind; male offspring are Dwarves, while female offspring are the same kind of Fae as their mother.

* In ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]'':

* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':

** All-male satyrs mate with all-female dryads, and all-male fauns mate with all-female nymphs. The two races are close enough to immortal that it doesn't much matter anyway; both can also mate with humans to create [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]].

** The all-female race of hags. Hags mate with male humans (and subsequently kill and eat them) to either produce a female hag or a male hagspawn which have almost none of the magical abilities of their mothers, and Hags in ''[[Pathfinder]]'' give birth to all-female [[Changeling Tale|changelings]].

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** The third-party setting ''Oathbound'' has aurads, who appear male and reproduce via circle-jerking. (No, really.)

** In ''[[Pathfinder]]'', xills (a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Chest Burster|A.E. van Vogt's Ixtl]]) and thriae ([[Women's Mysteries|inscrutable seers]] based off of [[Bee People|bees]]) are all female. The [[Fish People|Deep One-inspired skum]] are all male.

* The Orks in ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]'' (and possibly the Orcs in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'') seem to be all male, early [[Retcon|non-canonical]] references to female Orks notwithstanding; however, since Wh40k Orks are actually a type of animate ''fungus'' that reproduce via spores, attempting to assign a gender to them is basically an exercise in futility.

* The Orks in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' (and possibly the Orcs in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'') seem to be all male, early [[Retcon|non-canonical]] references to female Orks notwithstanding; however, since Wh40k Orks are actually a type of animate ''fungus'' that reproduce via spores, attempting to assign a gender to them is basically an exercise in futility.

** [[Blood Bowl]] has [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1290340&prodId=prod1560097 orc cheerleaders], which are female. Then again, [[Blood Bowl]] is essentially an alternate universe.

** According to one supplement, the the Gene-Seed—the stuff that makes [[Space Marines]] grow to nine-foot tall poison-drinking, car-lifting supermen—is [[Artistic License: Biology|only compatible with male genetics]].

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* You rescue eighty dragons in ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'', but every single one is male and female dragons are never mentioned. Averted in the third game, which features female baby dragons, which means that the female dragons were off laying their eggs in solitude -- [[Fridge Brilliance|Gnasty missed them completely]].

* The Valkyries in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' are a female only race due to a long emigration from their home planet. It took them hundreds or thousands of years, and all the men were killed for failing to stop and ask for directions.

* The Kaka clan of ''[[~~Blaz Blue~~]]'' are at least close to being a {{spoiler|genetically engineered}} One-Gender Race that reproduce via parthenogenesis. Kaka males are mentioned as being incredibly rare, and none are seen in game.

* The Kaka clan of ''[[BlazBlue]]'' are at least close to being a {{spoiler|genetically engineered}} One-Gender Race that reproduce via parthenogenesis. Kaka males are mentioned as being incredibly rare, and none are seen in game.

* In ''[[Daily Life with Monster Girl|Monster Girl Quest]]'', all the monsters are female, and survive by raping human males. Early on, we find out that this isn't their fault: The human's goddess has forbidden sexual intercourse with monsters. Again, they're all female, so it's just a slow form of genocide.

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* [[Not So Distant]]'s Albategna (of which the main character Sadachbia is one) are hermaphroditic. In english the pronoun "he" is used to refer to Sadachbia simply as a default, because "it" would be rude and English hasn't used the pronoun "ou" since the 13th century.

* [[Schlock Mercenary|Carbo-silicate amorphs]] are, for all intents and purposes, a One-Gender Race, and their reproduction process is explained in some detail in the comic, but is basically an interesting example of how parthenogenesis could produce offspring which differ from the parent. Technically they don't have a gender at all; Sergeant Schlock is referred to as "he", but Schlock is kind of an odd duck, in that he is A) actually kind of violent, and B) not the result of normal amorph reproduction, but the result of a critical failure in the process of amorph-to-amorph combat.

* The Elves of [[~~Fetch Quest Saga of the Twelve Artifacts|~~Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts]] are in danger of becoming this, especially with factors both genetic and historical.

* The Elves of [[Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts]] are in danger of becoming this, especially with factors both genetic and historical.

* [[Bardsworth]]: The faeries are all female and the demons all male. New faeries are born by combining magic and a [http://www.bardsworth.com/archive.php?p=186 tree]

* [[Erfworld]]: Not surprisingly, [[Charlie's Angels|Charlie's Archons]] are an all female species. As this world lacks childbirth (or children), and sex appears completely disconnected from procreation, a number of races we've encountered might be all male (or possibly female for some elf variants); we're ''sure'' about the archons.