D&D General Dragonborn Physical Features

[Mind of tempest]

I'm firmly a Human, elf, dwarf, halfling, and half orc allowed kind if DM.

why, hell why not allow full orcs to let the parent bond with the child?
why no gnomes?
why stay with the smallest possible options?

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I consider them as ''High'' Lizardfolk, so mostly lizard-like. Being a martial culture, most of them either remove their own tail or got it chopped or had to ''drop it'' in a fight. I does grow back after a time, though.

 

[Scribe]

I consider them as ''High'' Lizardfolk, so mostly lizard-like. Being a martial culture, most of them either remove their own tail or got it chopped or had to ''drop it'' in a fight. I does grow back after a time, though.

I have some weird mental block on Dragonborn. Lizardmen? No problem at all. Dragonborn just dont click for me.

When I include them they have.

Scales, Claws, Fangs, Tail, Horns/Quills

why, hell why not allow full orcs to let the parent bond with the child?
why no gnomes?
why stay with the smallest possible options?

The assumption would be that Orcs are not a positive ancestral option.

Why Gnomes? They were the last to include in one of my settings, and really only because of the SRD/PHB. What do they add?

Its the most stable, traditional core, that covers a lot of tropes.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Scales, tailed, and winged flight non-negotiable. They're dragons not lizardmen.

Everything else is an option.

 

[Aldarc]

Scales, tailed, and winged flight non-negotiable. They're dragons not lizardmen.

Everything else is an option.

I don't mind them being without tails or wings. In 4e settings like Iomandra, Io modelled the dragonborn partially in the image of the other gods' humanoid creations. If humans can be tailless monkeys not compeltely covered in fur, then dragonborn can be wingless dragons without tails.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

There are no Dragonborn in my setting but lizardfolk take their place.

For my setting I combined lizardfolk and dragonborn into one species. They have scales, claws, fangs and tail. They also have spines along their vertebra like some dinosaurs.

 

[CleverNickName]

I mentioned feathers on a whim, thinking back to dinosaurs. But now I want a feathered Dragonborn option. Maybe for couatls?

 

[Vaalingrade]

I don't mind them being without tails or wings. In 4e settings like Iomandra, Io modelled the dragonborn partially in the image of the other gods' humanoid creations. If humans can be tailless monkeys not compeltely covered in fur, then dragonborn can be wingless dragons without tails.

It's more for the fact that even in 4e, thy were billed as 'hey, we're finally relenting and letting you play a half dragon without the arbitrary punishment of level adjustment or weird unbirthing ritual', but then took away everything that appealed to me about playing a half dragon aesthetically, leaving behind thicc lizardmen.

 

[Aldarc]

It's more for the fact that even in 4e, thy were billed as 'hey, we're finally relenting and letting you play a half dragon without the arbitrary punishment of level adjustment or weird unbirthing ritual', but then took away everything that appealed to me about playing a half dragon aesthetically, leaving behind thicc lizardmen.

I preferred the "thicc lizardmen" over the half-dragons, thank you very much.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I preferred the "thicc lizardmen" over the half-dragons, thank you very much.

Yeah, but you had like ten lizardmen and I still have no half dragons.