Where do babies come from?

[Tharkon]

Additionally, why would sailors be tempted by mermaids? The fiddly bits are all wrong. I mean, hand holding and canoodling are fine, but you can't walk her to the door after an evening of dancing. On the other hand, she probably won't blow your entire paycheck on shoes...

The first merfolk in classic Greek myths had normal fiddly bits. They were male though.

Never underestimate the lure of boobs.

Plus, consider the following:

I'd say the face is the most important part in those pictures. Not sure if there is a picture to demonstrate the difference in importance between boobs and face though.

Satyrs and Nymphs are actually the same species. Very strong case of sexual dimorphism.

I thought of this as well. Although they don't seem to mate for life then. And has anyone ever seen a pregnant nymph?

Medusae, Sirens, Harpies et al may reproduce by getting impregnated by human males, possibly prior to eating them.

MM5 has the Frostwind Virago, an all female race of fey that is described as mating by luring a male frostfolk champion to her lair. It says the relationships are short and stormy resulting in a Frostwind Virago child. I deduce the short and stormy means the Frostfolk sire doesn't survive very long.
Perhaps water based fey would do the same with merfolk.


Finally, outsiders and elementals are the embodiment of the energy of those plane, so they probably spontaneously come into existence. Elementals start out as swarms, then grow up from small to elder, not sure about outsiders.
Yuan-ti and Illithid transform humans into members of their own race.
Most undead creatures have accuract descriptions of how new members are acquired.
With all the magic available, any DM is free to create many more ways.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Maybe that's because, like seahorses, its the satyrs who carry the young- ever see the bellies on those guys?

Or do Nymphs lay eggs?

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Is the one on the right saying "fwap fwap"?

Does that mean something special in fishish?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Someone needs to cast Neutralize Poisson...

 

[Talonblaze]

Heh well mermaids have mermen.
Dryad's are plants so they are either asexual or they get their er... seedlings from other plants. (Treants perhaps?)

The nymph and Satyr thing makes sense so far.

The one that always gets me is the odd ones with dragons (which according to RAW, anything can be half dragon).

Half Dragon Oozes anyone?

 

[Jackinthegreen]

Heh well mermaids have mermen.
Dryad's are plants so they are either asexual or they get their er... seedlings from other plants. (Treants perhaps?)

The nymph and Satyr thing makes sense so far.

The one that always gets me is the odd ones with dragons (which according to RAW, anything can be half dragon).

Half Dragon Oozes anyone?

Large Half-Dragon flying Oozes!

Of course, if one wanted to see rules for mating, the Book of Erotic Fantasy has them. They're not official of course, but most make sense from what I remember.

 

[Tharkon]

Maybe that's because, like seahorses, its the satyrs who carry the young- ever see the bellies on those guys?

Or do Nymphs lay eggs?

They have breasts so they don't lay eggs. Although in world of magic this logic might not work. Actually there are a few animals in the real world where it does not apply, I think the platypodes are an example.
Seahorse are complicated, the females lay eggs, then the males absorb those eggs and later give birth.

Heh well mermaids have mermen.
Dryad's are plants so they are either asexual or they get their er... seedlings from other plants. (Treants perhaps?)

They are fey not plants, but since they are bound to an oak it makes sense they die when the oak dies. And they are probably bound form birth (using the term birth lightly here) so I'd go with the previously proposed method that they produce in the same way that the oak they are bound to does.
The number of offspring may be less than that of the oak though, but a few acorns may have dryad babies in them.
*prepares fire seeds*

The one that always gets me is the odd ones with dragons (which according to RAW, anything can be half dragon).

Half Dragon Oozes anyone?

Not anything, only living corporeal creatures.
And dragons can shapechange.

Large Half-Dragon flying Oozes!

Of course, if one wanted to see rules for mating, the Book of Erotic Fantasy has them. They're not official of course, but most make sense from what I remember.

Draconomicon has rules for dragons.
They are described as notoriously virile, and half-dragons are usually the cause of a young adult metallic dragon falling in love with a non-dragon or a young adult chromatic dragon being adventurous.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

They have breasts so they don't lay eggs. Although in world of magic this logic might not work. Actually there are a few animals in the real world where it does not apply, I think the platypodes are an example.

Yep. The monotremes- platypus and the various echidnas- all lay eggs AND lactate.

Besides- this IS D&D we're talking about. Even female Dragonborn, Wilden and Shardminds are curvier than they ought to be.

Seahorse are complicated, the females lay eggs, then the males absorb those eggs and later give birth.

Yes, that's why I pointed out the size of satyr bellies.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I hate double posts,
They're the glitch I hate the most.

 

[Lordofd511]

When in doubt, "A Wizard Did It" justifies everything.

Except how a bookworm who traded the development of social skills for knowledge ever learned anything about sex.

So, A Sorcerer Did It then?