Ooh! What about Umber Hulks? Have they been convered in this thread before?

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One more question hehe. How old is maturity for a Dryad? Is it similar to an elf? How long would a child be cared for by the mother? Is the child's tree always with the mother's or can they carry it away as a sapling and choose a place to take root?

Ok that was more than one question lol.

Ohhh some good questions.  Welcome to the forum, Charity

@Galuf--Well I dont think theyve been covered here and Ill let her highness cover it, but my guess would be that theyre rather similar to other insect life....only a hell of a lot tougher to stomp

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@Charity, in my oppinion, a dryad would mature at the same rate as her tree. They share a mystical bound; the tree anchors the fey spirit to the physical world and therefore would govern the growth of the dryad's physical body. So, as an oak is mature at around twenty years of age, that's about when a dryad would be physically adult.

If a dryad's child is a dryad herself if the father was fey and so would mature at the same rate as Mom. If Dad was not fey, the child would mature more or less at the same rate as he does but would likely live in good health for longer. The fey blood loses is intensity quickly (half-fey are mortal) but takes a long time to fade out completely.

Dryads are very easy going mothers. They have few concerns beyond the forest so in all likelihood, Dad would do most of the parent if the child isn't a dryad herself. Folklore tells of rangers and travellers charmed by dryads who spend their days protecting her oak. It would not be unreasonable to assume, such an enchanted person would also take care of the dryad's children.

Given Mom can go a reasonable distance from her tree and is in tune with the 'cycles of nature' she could easily take one of her tree's acorns away from her tree. She would likely find a place of natural beauty to make her daughter's home or perhaps a druid's grove.

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Okay I have a question to our lovely Shexpert.

Two werewolves have a child. (Mating and birthgiving happen on the normal form, if that makes a difference.)
How likely is that the child is afflicted by lycantrophy? Does it pass onto the child?
And another question. Does lycantrophy spread by mothers milk? (They found an orphan baby and she stared to breastfeed her aswell with her own child.)

Just some things that I havent been able to figure out. ^^;

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I believe it would be HIGHLY likely that the baby would be infected via the umbilical cord (sharing blood and whatnot).  I'm pretty sure that the milk also contains the virus/curse since sexual stuff, bites (saliva) and blood transfers it.  So in short, yes, lycanthropy can be transfered those ways.

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Oh mighty, EPSC! I beseach you to answer my question:

If Arudin were to get really drunk and sleep with the Archdryad, could she get pregnant with his child?

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The Book of Erotic Fanatasy declares that if a Dryad does mate with a non-fey (Usually they mate with a male fey like a Satyr since there are no male Dryads to produce a new dryad.  The chances of this are 50-50), the resulting child is a half-Dryad.  Dryads are helpess when pregnant (for only 3 months!) and retreat to their trees.  The trees and plants of their glen become fruit-bearing and as a live as if it were spring regardless of the actual season.

Somewhere, might be Nymphs or another kind of Fey, I read that they choose to get pregnant or not.  So in short; it's possible it could happen.

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What would the resulting Half-Dryad-Half-Elf look like?

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Why don't you ask Kayless that? I'd assume an elfish looking dryad or a dryad-like elf. *mutters something about silly British people and their penguins*

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Now *I* may have to draw that. I can color now.

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Dear Dr Ruth...er I mean Chlyallia,

I have a couple of questions for you.

Drow

Is it true that drow females can choose when to give birth? or is that just something they like to tell themselves.  Also with the drow having shorter livespans and reaching maturity much quicker then their surface cousins, is there gestation period also a shorter one?

Werewolves and vampires

Is it possible for the two of them to produce offspring together, and what would that offspring be like?

Tieflings

I have a char who can be best decribed as a catgirl (pointy ears and a tail)  I was going for a look similar to Annah from Planscape Torment

heres a pic of who I'm talking about Kinda like that except mines got the pointy cat ears and tends to wear more clothes unless shes drunk, bathing, or lost all her clothes in some weird teleportation trap that stripped her of her belongings(long story involving the tomb of horrors). My DM asked me what fiendish ancestor possibly spawned my charecter I said a Rashka, and was told they don't have tails. Kind got me thinking, which in my case can be dangerous...

Is it possible for a Rashka to mate with another fiend, and then the offspring of that fiend mated with a human, and the end result being my catgirl somewhere down the line, or is there a type of fiend that might give me the disired results.

I've never heard Drow could decide when to give birth, I wonder if that's just confined to a short period of time, there must surely come to a point when the mother has to give birth and a point when it's completely unsafe to give birth.

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Drow: I would assume they do, but probably only by a few months at best.  

Werewolves and vampires: It is possible, but the child'd just be a half-vampire (Katane) werewolf.  As for what they'd be like... Very messed up mentally and emotionally I'd imagine.

Tieflings: It's wierd and possible... If a Rashka were to sha-bang a Succubus and from there, their children spawned a linage in the material plane... I guess a Cat-girl could happen.

As for 'Choosing when to have children', anyone can do that, its called contraceptives.

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What kinds of contraceptives are there in Dungeons & Dragons?

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