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<blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 8349786" data-attributes="member: 6750908">Antennae, like Insectare, and cow tails. They are insanely overconfident and reckless, by human standards, for their first couple of centuries... but as they age, they get much, much worse. The actual purpose of chromatic dragons, in the grand scheme of things, is to make sure that elves do not ever, ever, ever become gods.I've never put much thought into what color their skin is, except that it isn't neon ROYGBIV like goblins are in that setting, or like elves are in most settings I have them.EDIT: ON-TOPIC TAX: You make a solid point that the less humanlike a race is, the less we can superimpose human racial issues over them, the less concerned we are with the &quot;diversity&quot; of that race in fiction/mechanics. That's actually one of the reasons I so aggressively promote more inhuman lineages over the classic Tolkien Trio.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DammitVictor, post: 8349786, member: 6750908"] Antennae, like Insectare, and cow tails. They are [I]insanely[/I] overconfident and reckless, by human standards, for their first couple of centuries... but as they age, they get much, much [I]worse[/I]. The actual [I]purpose[/I] of chromatic dragons, in the grand scheme of things, is to make sure that elves do not ever, ever, [B][I]ever[/I][/B] become gods. I've never put much thought into what color their skin is, except that it isn't neon ROYGBIV like goblins are in that setting, or like elves are in most settings I have them. [B]EDIT: ON-TOPIC TAX: [/B]You make a solid point that the less humanlike a race is, the less we [I]can[/I] superimpose human racial issues over them, the less concerned we are with the "diversity" of that race in fiction/mechanics. That's actually one of the reasons I so aggressively promote more inhuman lineages over the classic Tolkien Trio. [/QUOTE]

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