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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 3:41PM
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So Dragonborn are in.
Their scaly, have reptilian qualities and are a player race. How should they be drawn?
Reptiles don't provide milk to their young and Reptiles don't have hair and as such don't come equiped with some of the visual ques humans commonly use do differentiate between genders.
This reminds my of the extreme Difficulty I had in drawing in drawing a female Lizardfolk, she was in what can be called the better moments in my DMing carreer and I felt the desire to draw the scene.
This was strange because I can't draw.
After a lot of tries she just came out as "Boyish" and androgenous her only defining female features being her lack of a crest (which no one who hasn't seen a male Lizardfolk would notice) and wider hips.
I think it would be easier to just draw in mamalian mammaries on the Dragonborn rather then invent and teach a new way of identifying gender.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 3:45PM
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So Dragonborn are in.
Their scaly, have reptilian qualities and are a player race. How should they be drawn?
Reptiles don't provide milk to their young and Reptiles don't have hair and as such don't come equiped with some of the visual ques humans commonly use do differentiate between genders.
This reminds my of the extreme Difficulty I had in drawing in drawing a female Lizardfolk, she was in what can be called the better moments in my DMing carreer and I felt the desire to draw the scene.
This was strange because I can't draw.
After a lot of tries she just came out as "Boyish" and androgenous her only defining female features being her lack of a crest (which no one who hasn't seen a male Lizardfolk would notice) and wider hips.
I think it would be easier to just draw in mamalian mamaries on the Dragonborn rather then invent and teach a new way of identifying gender.
I disagree, it'd be rediculous, because it makes no sense and the second you give them mammaries they become no more than draconic furries
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 3:54PM
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A dragon's reptilian appearance is only skin deep.
Excluding appearance they are closer to felines than to reptiles.
I would rather see dragonborn looking less like 3.x dragonborn and more like half-dragons. That is, as dragoneque humans. Furry-stigma be damned.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 4:08PM
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Mammal-based races should have to pass a DC 15 Knowledge (Nature) check to tell the difference between male and female dragonborn. 
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 4:25PM
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They almost certainly don't have mammaries, but they probably have fatty bumps in the appropriate areas.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 4:33PM
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If you do start with a human base and then apply draconic features to every part of the body save the face, chest and stomach, it might look neat and you'd have a dragon looking person with identifiable features...
And as a bonus they could then wear halter tops...
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 4:56PM
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I'd be very pleased if they don't have mammaries. I know D&D isn't based on realism, but mammaries on reptilian-looking critters hurts my suspension of disbelief. :P
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 5:22PM
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I'd be very pleased if they don't have mammaries. I know D&D isn't based on realism, but mammaries on reptilian-looking critters hurts my suspension of disbelief. :P
But humanoids who look like reptiles, but are not, following the gender designators of reptiles doesn't?
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 5:24PM
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Call me a goddarn furry, but i prefer a classic 'human-like dragonbeing' shape. With TWO breasts.
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2 years ago ::
Dec 09, 2007 - 5:41PM
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I am pretty sure this sorta guestion will come up so I will go ahead and say it,"Well...do Dragonborn have live young...or lay eggs?" I just see that as not really that important unless you want to know EVERY aspect of yoru race. So maybe Dragonborn females will have a set, that doesn't sound too weird to me when compared to a werid animal like the platapus (a mammal that lays eggs...and males have poisonous spurs).
If they don't I am guess maybe it would be that male dragonborn have larger horns than a female dragonborn, or the males scales would be more ordinate like male birds that use flashy colors to attract a mate while a female dragonborn may have dull colored scales.
Again all speculation.
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