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

[ppaladin123]

That is different than violating a real-world aesthetic. I find dragonboons offensive not because they are impossible but because they are senseless. Why would they exist? Magic makes them possible, but not likely.

Looks like it is time to break out my favorite article:

Stupid Monsters someone was paid to make = the best job ever.

I'll get around to being offended by the existence of dragonborn right after I am finished being enraged by the existence of:

owlbears
gas spores
sea "lions"
duck bunnies
giffs
bowlers
flail snails
...

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

You know, some Knights are guys. Are male Shiere Knights usually in that outfit?

1) More female Knights in the first place
2) Why not give the girls some eye candy, too.

Discernible breasts are rare enough on animals with nipples. In a monotreme, there is no equivalent structure. The young basically lick milk off their mothers.

The closest genetic relatives to humans are chimpanzees and gorillas. Have you ever seen ape cleavage? I'm going to assume the answer is, "No." If apes don't have them, if cats don't have them, why would something as marginally mammalian as a monotreme have them? That would be like arguing deer people should have venomous antlers because male platypi have poison spurs on their feet.

Breasts have replaced buttocks as sexual characteristic during the human evolution. As we learned to walk upright, the buttocks kinda disappeared from sight, but the breasts became a lot more visible.

 

[Umbran]

Why would they exist? Magic makes them possible, but not likely.

Other than a god creating them, you mean?

A problem I see with your position is simple - every particular species is unlikely to exist. Humans are not inevitable, or something. Every single race you can look at and go, "well, that's silly".

 

[Hellzon]

Looks like it is time to break out my favorite article:

Stupid Monsters someone was paid to make = the best job ever.

I'll get around to being offended by the existence of dragonborn right after I am finished being enraged by the existence of:

owlbears
gas spores
sea "lions"
duck bunnies
giffs
bowlers
flail snails
...

You will have to pull my flailsnails out of my cold dead hands.

 

[CelticMutt]

P.S.: There is actually a Japanese drink called Pocari Sweat. I drink called "orcsweat" isn't that hard to imagine...not that I would want to try it myself...

The Quest for Glory series of games had an alcoholic drink called Trollsweat.

Goblins isn't done by WotC. If we're including fan-made material...well, then everything has breasts. Even balloons. Yes, melons that have a smaller pair of bosoms. This is the internet. It's out there somewhere.

However, MM1 is done by WotC, and the leaping spear wielding Goblin is clearly a female with teh bewbs.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Dear Dragonboob-disliking group,

please stay away from Earthdawn, where T´skrang always developed breast-like appendages when the time was there to feed the young. There, this little detail is allowed to be a part of the world without constant ridicule.

And those are TEMPORARY LIZARD-BOOBS!

 

[Lord Mhoram]

I find this artwok interesting because it looks like someone in my game group.

Link to a picture on his myspace

And yes, he is of the temperment to play a Half-orc (he plays a character inspired by the Hulk in the Champions game I run).

 

[pawsplay]

Other than a god creating them, you mean?

A problem I see with your position is simple - every particular species is unlikely to exist. Humans are not inevitable, or something. Every single race you can look at and go, "well, that's silly".

If there were no humans or elves in the setting, this would be a fairly persuasive argument. They could look like anything. But here we have:

1. Dragon people.
2. Who are monotremes.
3. Whose females are breasted.

Comparing them to dragons, to other mammals in the game world, and to humans, I am left wondering, "So why breasts, again?"

Also, whether there are no nipples present or not, and I am not going to speculate, the fact that they lactate implies there are surprising vulnerabilities on the female dragonborn chest. Glabrous, milk-secreting tissue can't very well be covered in scales.

 

[RefinedBean]

That is different than violating a real-world aesthetic. I find dragonboons offensive not because they are impossible but because they are senseless. Why would they exist? Magic makes them possible, but not likely.

You find them OFFENSIVE?

You find such things as Beholders, Slaads, and Zombie Dragons normal? They don't offend your sensibilities?

Welcome to Dungeon & Dragons. Anything can happen anytime, anywhere, and impossible creatures exist as a matter of course.

You don't have to play with Dragonborn, but they have as plausible a backstory as Humans.

C'mon, people.

 

[Nightson]

Given that pretty much everything in D&D that can has breasts, it's obvious that there's some sort of universal sexual selection, breasts developed on some sort of crazy common ancestor, or the gods really like the breasts.

Clearly with everything and it's mother having breasts, it would be crazy for dragonborn not to have them.