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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3917405" data-attributes="member: 1003">Yes, this is a very good point.  I considered the idea of 'creches' that raise the young of family groups.  There would be 6-12 young in a creche, with about double that in adults.  Some creches (such as in cities the size of Drak'Thul) might becomes significantly larger.  But I didn't want to go fully communal for cities as large as Drak'Thul.  Moreover, I didn't want to overly interfere with a DM's world-building.  The more we define how the race works as a whole (as opposed to just this city), the less use it might be to someone (because it interferes with the larger campaign world).  But ...My take on it might be though:CRECHES:A level or two below the streets are the creches.  Protected from the heat and the elements of the desert, groups of Dragonborn come together to lay their eggs and raise their young.  Within the group no thought is given to parentage or relation.  All children of the creche are "of the creche", and that is that.  Obsession with bloodlines and parentage is a mammalian concern.Small village and wandering tribes of dragonborn will only have one creches, but a city the size of Drak'Thul will have dozens.  Small creches will have as few as a half-dozen younglings at various stages of development, but most are larger.  The largest creches have dozens of younglings and twice that in adult care-takers, but the most prestigious creche is under the Temple of Bahamut itself, where the younglings (chosen as eggs) destined to be priests and paladins of the Temple are raised and trained in their vocation.Once Dragonborn have left the creche (at the age of 16) they make tend to wander away from each other, learning trades or even moving to new cities, but throughout life the creches serve as means of seeking help and giving charitably.  A creche leaves its mark, its particular makeup of pheremones and traditions, that anyone raised in the creche will recognize in another dragonborn, even if not raised there at the same time.  Typically they will shelter creche-mates for a time, help them find work, and see to it they don't starve.  Certain humans have likened it to a very strong "school ties" bond, since the dragonborn tend to only treat same-generation crechemates as "siblings."-----------------I have lowered the average temperature to 130 during the day.  It was my intention that non-dragonborn would be confined to the grottos during the heat of the day.  Maybe 150 was too high, but heat stroke should be a real concern.Heh.  Well, I'm not aware of any creatures that emit waste that is 100% water free, but emitting waste that is significantly drier than non-desert animals is a very common adaptation.  The kangaroo rat is so water-efficient that it never needs to drink at all; the water released from metabolizing dry grass is all it needs.</blockquote>

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