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

[knasser]

People are arguing at cross-purposes. One faction is arguing that dragonboobs can be justified in the setting with arguments ranging from "Dragonborn are egg-laying mammals so they should have breasts" to "there are more unlikely things in the world that are accepted so dragonboobs are okay."

The other faction is arguing that the dragonboobs were added purely because the designers thought a female race must have pronounced breasts to be (a) female and (b) attractive to play as a race for female players and (c) the role-playing challenges of a gender-indistinguishable female character were too much for the players.

Both arguments are right, and neither argument pertains to the other. In particular, using the first argument as a counter to the second does not make sense.

And for the record, I think regardless of whether dragonboobs can be rationalised they are initially strongly counter-intuitive and thus damage suspension of disbelief. Also, you lose out on role-playing opportunities when you eliminate interesting distinctions between races. A species that outsiders can't generally tell whether a member is male or female (they have +2 Strength as well, remember), is a small but interesting detail to a campaign.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I thought this thread was about Shaved Half-Orc Barbarian underarms! Not Dragonborn breasts!

Anyways, I have found that there is not much in the way of body hair in the art in any DnD book. It is just the current aesthetic. If the hairy look ever comes back then maybe the Half-Orcs will stop shaving.

 

[Richards]

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
...

Embrace the duckbunny! Embrace it!

Johnathan

 

[pawsplay]

You find them OFFENSIVE?

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

Correct. I actively seek out beholders, slaads, and zombie dragons in D&D. I find dragonboobs to be an unwelcome imposition.

 

[Oni]

Correct. I actively seek out beholders, slaads, and zombie dragons in D&D. I find dragonboobs to be an unwelcome imposition.

What if dragonboobs were given their own monster manual entry?

 

[pawsplay]

What if dragonboobs were given their own monster manual entry?

Then eventually, you would have to create a dragonboobkin entry for variants such as the dragonboob-of-the-deep, archdemidragonboob, abyssal helldrakeboob, and pseudodragonboob.

 

[Fifth Element]

Dragonboobs are awesome!

Also, I can't believe we're still talking about dragonboobs. This thread was supposed to be about half-orc armpits. Can we get back to that, please?

 

[pawsplay]

Strong enough for a half-orc, but made for an elven princess.

 

[Parlan]

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.

I don`t understand why you find the mere presence of dragonboobs offensive.

I`ve always thought the whole reason for them is to make it obvious whether artwork depicts a male or female dragonborn.

 

[D.Shaffer]

...Is this really turning into another dragonboob argument? Seriously? Didnt people get it out of their system a year ago? In a world where we can have half dragon COWS, singing swords, and a goddess with a spider for a butt, a pair of fatty deposits on a scaley humanoid gets you upset?