Art: Bloodfury Savage: Since when do half-orcs shave their pits.

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In any case, female body parts have as much justification as a tiger head or inverted heads for being on a rakshasa.

All I'm saying is that if something is a natural species, I expect a reasonable explanation for its appearance and habits, and if it's weird or supernatural or whatever, I expect things to make thematic sense. Dragonborn are A) draconic and B) not related to humans or similar races, so I don't get where the you-know-whats entered into things. I would expect, maybe, to see some human-like proportions on a 3.5 type dragonborn, and I could see similar traits in something like a yuan-ti, but when it comes to dragonborn, lizark folk, troglodytes, and the like, I don't expect them to be so, you know, mammalian.

I mean, has anyone ever seriously concerned themselves with whether a picture of a given troglodyte was male or female?

This. The rakshasa part too.

What purpose is served by identifying the gender of anything?

For humans and humans with pointy ears, it doesn't take much effort and gender is more relevant because these characters might get involved in romantic relationships.
Furry or scaly romance otoh, is not something i want to think about. But that may just be me.

If you absolutely need to identify a dragonborn's gender:

As to how you tell the difference in genders without boobs...slender waist, larger hips, more delicate features in the face, and shorter head crests. Maybe even duller scale colors.

And sometimes a little confusion as to the actual gender could lead to some interesting roleplaying!

So this character is Very Wrong for you?

Oh yeah, she's wrong for many reasons, beginning with the Liefeld-esque waist and the "something about Mary" hair.

So how much is a plastic surgeon paid in your D&D world?

Surgery would mean they're actually attached to her body. It looks more like she just stuck flesh-coloured balloons in her err...top?



As for half-orc barbarians, if they bother to shave their beards and get tattoos, why couldn't they shave their body hair?
I can definitely see painful rituals like waxing or hair burning being part of orc culture.
It might also be a way to get rid of parasites.

Or like Drkfathr1 said, they may lose their hair as they age. The darkfury savage does look old (and ugly compared to the half-orc in the races section.)