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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 6933026" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>So after reading the Gazette for Kobolds.... honestly I'm confused. Why emphasis the differences in gender and then make them able to switch genders? Why state there is no problem with same-sex unions, when they have no such thing because they switch sex at will?</p><p></p><p>Personally, I would just remove the concept of gender from them. We as a 2 gender species have a framework, if I say someone is biologically a woman, that indicates a set of characteristics that is completely different from someone who is biologically male. Your kobolds don't have this, to the same degree, but you seem to be unable to abandon the remnants of it. They would have little concept of gender (depending on their exposure to other species) because they can flow between male and female whenever they feel like it. So, why not go full bore and remove those traces, why not have the only difference between male and female be a pheromone or a coloration of their scales, something that would be glaringly obvious to other kobolds but completely missed by outsiders. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Honestly, I don't find any of it creepy or off-putting, except that they seem suck in the middle of human biology and kobold biology and I don't see a reason not to just make them fully kobolds. Honestly, the physical frailty and bipedal nature of kobolds is enough to drive home the disparity between them and dragons. Let them be weird and alien, not like us but slightly different. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Honstly, the Forgeborn, all I could think about were either the Genasi or the wizards from D20 Monkey's setting that I can never remember the name to. Cool of course, but I don't see much to analyze.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 6933026, member: 6801228"] So after reading the Gazette for Kobolds.... honestly I'm confused. Why emphasis the differences in gender and then make them able to switch genders? Why state there is no problem with same-sex unions, when they have no such thing because they switch sex at will? Personally, I would just remove the concept of gender from them. We as a 2 gender species have a framework, if I say someone is biologically a woman, that indicates a set of characteristics that is completely different from someone who is biologically male. Your kobolds don't have this, to the same degree, but you seem to be unable to abandon the remnants of it. They would have little concept of gender (depending on their exposure to other species) because they can flow between male and female whenever they feel like it. So, why not go full bore and remove those traces, why not have the only difference between male and female be a pheromone or a coloration of their scales, something that would be glaringly obvious to other kobolds but completely missed by outsiders. Honestly, I don't find any of it creepy or off-putting, except that they seem suck in the middle of human biology and kobold biology and I don't see a reason not to just make them fully kobolds. Honestly, the physical frailty and bipedal nature of kobolds is enough to drive home the disparity between them and dragons. Let them be weird and alien, not like us but slightly different. Honstly, the Forgeborn, all I could think about were either the Genasi or the wizards from D20 Monkey's setting that I can never remember the name to. Cool of course, but I don't see much to analyze. [/QUOTE]
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