Roleplaying Half-Breeds [Guide & Opinion Post]

[Techno-Druid]

Now, we all know in the various roleplaying server communities, there is a certain "stigma" against people who choose to roleplay half-elves among other half-breeds. I'm creating this post to ask you guys what you think about half-breeds and how you (and your character/s) treat them IC, but I also want to piece together a little opinionated post of my own as well as give a minor guide to people who do decide to roleplay half-breeds.

Remember that half-elves are disliked by a large portion of their human and elven counterparts, now this doesn't mean that people will come running at you with pitchforks and torches, but if you are in Stormwind or Quel'thalas, you will face some discrimination. Now, just because A LOT of humans and blood/high elves will shun you, doesn't mean the other races will. In truth, there's little justification other races could have for disliking you.

Certain half-breeds will be respected than others just by heritage alone. A half-elf almost certainly always be treated better than a half-orc for example. It ultimately depends on how close the two races are with one another.

I've never roleplayed a half-elf, but I roleplayed a gnome who had dwarven heritage. Now this hasn't been explored at all in lore, but since gnomes and dwarves live together and have a close relationship to one another, it's not too illogical or lore-breaking for a hybrid of a dwarf and a gnome to be born and for that half-gnome to breed with a gnome and create a gnome who is a quarter dwarf.

Now, this doesn't mean you should be any hybrid, it has to make sense and it has to be justifiable. Instead of asking if too races can breed, a better question would be if they would want to breed. Why would a human be attracted to a jungle troll and vice versa?

[AwkwardSquirtle]

Now, this doesn't mean you should be any hybrid, it has to make sense and it has to be justifiable. Instead of asking if too races can breed, a better question would be if they would want to breed. Why would a human be attracted to a jungle troll and vice versa?

People are into all sorts of odd stuff. If tentacle porn is a thing people are into, I could believe a human being attracted to a troll. Furries are a thing too. Just because it's unusual doesn't make it impossible. Obviously if it's weird expect to have it treated as such by others.

[Alefnir]

Here's the way I see things like san'layn, dragons, half-breeds: RP concepts are sort of like Heroes of the Storm heroes. Some are Easy, some are Medium, some are Hard and some are Very Hard to roleplay. So long as RP abides by lore, go for it. But if you're a beginner, you should probably go for an easier character concept while a vet would be better at handling the more difficult concepts like halfbreed races. The taboo concepts should be acceptable, so long as they're done -well-, which they can be. Of course, one should also consider how fun a certain concept would be to RP while abiding by lore. RPing an open demon severely relegates your character to certain circumstances and, imo, is probably better left to an NPCed character than an actual toon.

tl;dr: If you're gonna do it, do it right.

[Techno-Druid]

People are into all sorts of odd stuff. If tentacle porn is a thing people are into, I could believe a human being attracted to a troll. Furries are a thing too. Just because it's unusual doesn't make it impossible. Obviously if it's weird expect to have it treated as such by others.

Well, I forgot to add this, but it also depends on how long the races have had ties to each other.

A half-kaldorei/half-human wouldn't be impossible, but any half-kaldorei would be children, like really young children.

Also, since tauren and pandaren are bestial races and both (likely) come from wild gods (which also create the beast counterparts) I assume you have the same chance with producing offspring with a tauren as you do with a cow and etcetera.

[Spl4sh3r]

The whole dislike by both sides is just weird. I mean if Elf can get a long with Human and Human can get a long with Elf there is no reason why either side can't get along with a halfbreed of both.

[Techno-Druid]

The whole dislike by both sides is just weird. I mean if Elf can get a long with Human and Human can get a long with Elf there is no reason why either side can't get along with a halfbreed of both.

Well, I guess I can understand the dislike of half-elves by humans or elves, but what I really don't understand is when people act like EVERY human and elf has to dislike them or that they are some hated group.

A half-elf aligned with Quel'thalas will always be more accepted by Sin'dorei than any orc or undead walking the streets. Same goes for half-elves and the Alliance.