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<blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 6927877" data-attributes="member: 6855057"><p>Folks, I could really use your advice on something... see, I'm contemplating putting together a series of "racial gazetteers" for this setting - outlining the nature of the various sapient races of the Malebolge, much like how, for example, Races of Faerun/Eberron/Stone/The Wild and Destiny did in 3e. I figure this would give a deeper feel to the world without, well, compromising too much on the post-apocalyptic feel.</p><p></p><p></p><p>There's just one problem. Kobolds. See, lately, I've been unable to shake this rather peculiar interpretation of them. It entails them being semi-hermaphroditic - long story short, under the right circumstances, females can "switch over" to an impregnatory role, and males can do likewise - and both sexes being potentially capable of growing pseudo-breasts, in the form of chest-based fat deposits. There's perfectly reasonable justifications for both of these traits - the "any two kobolds can make new kobolds, it doesn't need 1 of each gender" is how they avoid extinction despite being at the bottom of D&D's absurdly lethal foodchain, the pseudo-breasts are a natural sex display/status symbol for a bipedal species, and in fact they actually get even stronger with the lore of kobolds in Malebolge. The hermaphroditism could have been an actual trait of dragons before the Black Dawn, thus strengthening their "independent and aloof to the point of weakness" characterization, whilst the pseudo-breasts emphasize their "mockery of a human form" attribute.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thing is, as I'm well aware, this is very close to what 4chan would call a "magical realm", no matter how matter-of-factly and unfetishistically I present it. So, I find myself caught on what to do. Do you folks think I should:</p><p>* Fight the urge and dispel all such thoughts when I write the kobold gazetteer?</p><p>* Do two versions of the gazetteer, one without these aspects and one with them, so DMs can accept which one they're more comfortable with?</p><p>* Just go ahead and do it with the aspects, in order to cement how alien and different Malebolge's kobolds are to the bogstandard yipping lizard-runts of vanilla D&D?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Please, I really do need opinions on this before I can make my mind up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietBrowser, post: 6927877, member: 6855057"] Folks, I could really use your advice on something... see, I'm contemplating putting together a series of "racial gazetteers" for this setting - outlining the nature of the various sapient races of the Malebolge, much like how, for example, Races of Faerun/Eberron/Stone/The Wild and Destiny did in 3e. I figure this would give a deeper feel to the world without, well, compromising too much on the post-apocalyptic feel. There's just one problem. Kobolds. See, lately, I've been unable to shake this rather peculiar interpretation of them. It entails them being semi-hermaphroditic - long story short, under the right circumstances, females can "switch over" to an impregnatory role, and males can do likewise - and both sexes being potentially capable of growing pseudo-breasts, in the form of chest-based fat deposits. There's perfectly reasonable justifications for both of these traits - the "any two kobolds can make new kobolds, it doesn't need 1 of each gender" is how they avoid extinction despite being at the bottom of D&D's absurdly lethal foodchain, the pseudo-breasts are a natural sex display/status symbol for a bipedal species, and in fact they actually get even stronger with the lore of kobolds in Malebolge. The hermaphroditism could have been an actual trait of dragons before the Black Dawn, thus strengthening their "independent and aloof to the point of weakness" characterization, whilst the pseudo-breasts emphasize their "mockery of a human form" attribute. Thing is, as I'm well aware, this is very close to what 4chan would call a "magical realm", no matter how matter-of-factly and unfetishistically I present it. So, I find myself caught on what to do. Do you folks think I should: * Fight the urge and dispel all such thoughts when I write the kobold gazetteer? * Do two versions of the gazetteer, one without these aspects and one with them, so DMs can accept which one they're more comfortable with? * Just go ahead and do it with the aspects, in order to cement how alien and different Malebolge's kobolds are to the bogstandard yipping lizard-runts of vanilla D&D? Please, I really do need opinions on this before I can make my mind up. [/QUOTE]
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