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<blockquote data-quote="steenan" data-source="post: 4723275" data-attributes="member: 23240"><p>I can easily see why people are disturbed by dragonborn breasts. It's something akin to the so called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley" target="_blank">uncanny valley</a>. We easily accept creatures that are very human-like and these that are definitely nonhuman. Elves and dwarves are very similar to us. It is even possible to perceive some of them as attractive. Dragons and beholders are far to the other side and thus also pose no problem. But when we get a race that is more alike us than being generally humanoid in shape and at the same time differs from human in important details, our minds raise an alarm.</p><p>"Logical" and "realistic" explanations change nothing here, they can't overcome a basic instinct. It is a human and it isn't - it is wrong, deformed, ill. One does not consciously perceive this, but he feels a discomfort. And - finding a discomfort, something "not fun", in a game that places "fun" in its center - he protests.</p><p>As different people have their uncanny valleys placed a little differently, something that an artist found fun is disturbing for some. IMO, WotC would do better if they either made dragonborn more alike humans (giving them human faces) or more monstrous and draconic (discarding the boobs). Both would help, at least from my perspective.</p><p></p><p>It's also the reason why the "dragonboobs" are much more intensely discussed than shaved half-orcs. Barbarian's shaved armpits are stupid and make no sense, but it is purely intellectual observation. They do not trigger a basic emotional response, thus activating much less "psychological energy" than the dragonborn. Shaving body hair is a very modern idea, the evolution didn't imprint us with any instinctual meaning for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steenan, post: 4723275, member: 23240"] I can easily see why people are disturbed by dragonborn breasts. It's something akin to the so called [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley"]uncanny valley[/URL]. We easily accept creatures that are very human-like and these that are definitely nonhuman. Elves and dwarves are very similar to us. It is even possible to perceive some of them as attractive. Dragons and beholders are far to the other side and thus also pose no problem. But when we get a race that is more alike us than being generally humanoid in shape and at the same time differs from human in important details, our minds raise an alarm. "Logical" and "realistic" explanations change nothing here, they can't overcome a basic instinct. It is a human and it isn't - it is wrong, deformed, ill. One does not consciously perceive this, but he feels a discomfort. And - finding a discomfort, something "not fun", in a game that places "fun" in its center - he protests. As different people have their uncanny valleys placed a little differently, something that an artist found fun is disturbing for some. IMO, WotC would do better if they either made dragonborn more alike humans (giving them human faces) or more monstrous and draconic (discarding the boobs). Both would help, at least from my perspective. It's also the reason why the "dragonboobs" are much more intensely discussed than shaved half-orcs. Barbarian's shaved armpits are stupid and make no sense, but it is purely intellectual observation. They do not trigger a basic emotional response, thus activating much less "psychological energy" than the dragonborn. Shaving body hair is a very modern idea, the evolution didn't imprint us with any instinctual meaning for it. [/QUOTE]
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