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How big of a dragon are we talking about? Because even an adult dragon is as big as an elephant, and if you got a rapier all the way in that would cause a noticeable boo-boo. Of course, the only efficient muscle-powered melee weapon is a lance (mounted use); ranged weapons could be as small as...

I think this is true of most players; which is basically my point.

Are you suggesting spells should work like skills? Like, fireball shouldn't be a thing just a general "fire magic" skill?

I haven't seen it either, though even Daggerheart doesn't do that. Daggerheart cards are for the spell equivalents (mostly class features though also ancestry abilities). Daggerheart uses a freeform skill system so cards wouldn't really work.

re metagaming dragon colors: 1. These color-associations are spelled out on the Player's Handbook in the description for dragonborn 2. The PHB also tends to consider dragonborn a fairly common race Ergo, I think we can assume most players and characters are at least broadly familiar with...

And yet dragonborn consistently held the number 4 spot on the “most popular race” surveys.

re: gnomes: A small (natch) but persistent minority of players love to play Little Guys, and while halflings are the obvious choice, gnomes hit more of the Little Guy(tm) tropes. Goblins and kolbolds do too, but only if people think of them as ugly-cute and not just ugly. (which type you see...

Exalted 5e: Oops! We're in the Underworld! Pathfinder: Champion tanks three vampires, lives

Met Fair Folk, kept souls

Dog people are the original furries - the ancient Greeks called them cynocephaloi (lit. Dog-head) and had a whole mythology about them. This was common-ish folklore through the middle ages. Maybe it’s like druids and bows: it’s so obviously appropriate that it cannot be allowed!

You could also offer cinnamon and nutmeg directly.

My headcanon is that kolbolds and dragonborn are the same species anyways (with a middle-size variant as well) but represent different castes. I like your idea as a soft way to add dragonborn to existing settings as essentially giant kolbolds. It's about as good as my personal go-to of...

For a slightly more nuanced answer: I do think it’s important that the pcs are the protagonists, though exactly what that means depends a lot on the genre of play. Horror protagonists aren’t very different from everymen, but superhero story protagonists are some of the most distinct and powerful...

I prefer the pcs to be very special indeed; Exalted is pretty much my personal sweet spot. I can enjoy a wide range of course, but I can be a regular guy in real life.

There was a supplement that had "racial paragon classes" so you could 3 levels of elf (gaining proficiency with traditional elven weapons, a little bit of magic, some bonuses to elven senses, etc.) They were available for all the PHB races and maybe some others, and I think the biggest one had 5...

By default: tails but no wings. Tail-less could be a genetic variant or the result of losing one's tail, but most dragonborn have one. Tails are not prehensile and don't give any specific benefits, but a dragonborn can make tail-strike unarmed attacks (with full Martial Arts features for monks)...

Started a cult, lost protection (exalted playing as solars)

The only canine-people in a dnd-alike I know of offhand are Starfinder's Vlaka - they're kinda wolf-folk, but not particularly wolf-like in theme. Other than that, my main suggestion would be to call them cynocephaloi, which is the ancient Greek name for dog-headed people.

The argument against Tucker's Kolbolds is "if your players don't like traps, they're not going to like manned traps." The original idea is very old-school in its attitude. It's about punishing the pcs for being too heroic and not cautious enough. Is that your goal? Then go for it. Is that...

I think the differences in timescale are a factor here; ttrpg design is only 50 years old. I would think we’ve learned things in that time. Painting, as an art, is hundreds of thousands of years old. We probably haven’t had the same pace of discovery in that field in the past few decades...