The use of Wavefront objects, that can be easily created in Poser, and of some simple trick, allows to mix parts of different characters and create new ones in a simplified way that, without really blending the parts in a new character, but only linking them in the hierarchy, achieves a visually satisfactory result, particularly in Bryce, but also in Poser itself.
The new characters can be directly imported in Bryce.
In this tutorial we will create a Sphinx starting from DAZ's characters Victoria 3 and Millennium Cat, and some clothes from Rulers of Egypt; but the procedure can also be used for (or adapted to) the creation of different characters with different parts.