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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6673581" data-attributes="member: 42582">Plenty of D&amp;D campaigns have survived dwarves who attack orcs on sight.In my 4e campaign one of the PCs is a survivor of a city destroyed by humanoid raids. When fighting hobgoblins who had attacked a camp of human refugees, he killed the unconscious ones (to the shock of his fellow party members).The tiefling paladin of the Raven Queen in the same campaign certainly has a reflexive hostility towards dragonborn, although it hasn't come up very often in play. (In the default 4e backstory, the dragonborn and tiefling empires spent a long time at war before mutually self-destructing.)In my Burning Wheel campaign one of the PCs - an elven warrior in exile from his homeland - has as an Instinct to attack orcs and goblins on sight. (So far it's come up once - he saw a group of orcs and goblins, and he attacked them!)I don't think a reflexive hatred of dragonborn need break the game any more than a reflexive hatred of orcs and goblins.To the OP: why did the dragonborn attack the town and take you prisoner? This seems relevant to thinking about how you might want to develop your character. You also probably want to think about the tone of your campaign. If you play a PC with a reflexive hatred of dragonborn, is that going to evoke contemporary moral concerns about racism in an unpleasant or fun-spoiling way? If so, maybe avoid it. Does your group prefer their RPGing to confront deep moral/thematic questions, or to skip over them? In the end, there is no single correct way to do this, and only you know what will help make a good play experience for you and the rest of your group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6673581, member: 42582"] Plenty of D&D campaigns have survived dwarves who attack orcs on sight. In my 4e campaign one of the PCs is a survivor of a city destroyed by humanoid raids. When fighting hobgoblins who had attacked a camp of human refugees, he killed the unconscious ones (to the shock of his fellow party members). The tiefling paladin of the Raven Queen in the same campaign certainly has a reflexive hostility towards dragonborn, although it hasn't come up very often in play. (In the default 4e backstory, the dragonborn and tiefling empires spent a long time at war before mutually self-destructing.) In my Burning Wheel campaign one of the PCs - an elven warrior in exile from his homeland - has as an Instinct to attack orcs and goblins on sight. (So far it's come up once - he saw a group of orcs and goblins, and he attacked them!) I don't think a reflexive hatred of dragonborn need break the game any more than a reflexive hatred of orcs and goblins. To the OP: why did the dragonborn attack the town and take you prisoner? This seems relevant to thinking about how you might want to develop your character. You also probably want to think about the tone of your campaign. If you play a PC with a reflexive hatred of dragonborn, is that going to evoke contemporary moral concerns about racism in an unpleasant or fun-spoiling way? If so, maybe avoid it. Does your group prefer their RPGing to confront deep moral/thematic questions, or to skip over them? In the end, there is no single [I]correct[/I] way to do this, and only you know what will help make a good play experience for you and the rest of your group. [/QUOTE]

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