Dragonborn: Boobs or No Boobs?

[ruleslawyer]

Marilith.

Mariliths aren't nagas; they're demons. Big difference. Demons don't need to reproduce biologically or have any evolutionary reason for their design; they're representations of ideological elements given flesh. Mariliths have breasts for the same reason succubi do; because they look right for the demon in mortal consciousness, or because the Abyss says so, or whatever.

Not that I think that anatomy for fantasy creatures needs to make sense; I'm just suggesting that there's no reason *not* to make dragonborn more distinctly reptilian. It's cooler.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

So this is the first time I saw this poll, and I see "no boobs" beating out "boobs." How ... on ... EARTH could this be??? Boobs are wonderful!

 

[Sadrik]

Mariliths aren't nagas; they're demons. Big difference. Demons don't need to reproduce biologically or have any evolutionary reason for their design; they're representations of ideological elements given flesh. Mariliths have breasts for the same reason succubi do; because they look right for the demon in mortal consciousness, or because the Abyss says so, or whatever.

Not that I think that anatomy for fantasy creatures needs to make sense; I'm just suggesting that there's no reason *not* to make dragonborn more distinctly reptilian. It's cooler.

Didn't say they were its just another example.

 

[Lord Fyre]

So this is the first time I saw this poll, and I see "no boobs" beating out "boobs." How ... on ... EARTH could this be??? Boobs are wonderful!

Yes, on a HUMAN female "Boobs are wonderful!"

On a near human female (elf, tiefling, even dwarf, halfling or gnome, etc.) Boobs can be good.

As I said earlier in this thread, I am all for "cheesecake" and "beefcake" in D&D's (and in their published world setting's) art. Even for just marketing purposes.

But there is no need to sexualize a mamilian species.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Marilith.

A marilith is a human's torso (plus extra arms) stuck onto a snake. It has boobs because of the "human torso" part. I'm just going to say here that this objection applies to all monsters that are chimeras of human women plus something else. A mermaid is a human torso plus a fish. A sphinx is a human torso plus a lion. A centaur is a human torso plus a horse, etc. If you start with a human torso, you've got boobs because you imported them. The dragonborn aren't chimeras. They aren't a human torso on a dragon's legs, or anything like that, so there's no reason why they need boobs except, as Umbran pointed out, to titillate in a really disturbing fashion.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

Thank you for giving me this rare opportunity to vote yes to boobs.

I think this is the threadwinner so far. Followed closely by Wulf's "mithril chain shirt can wait." All IMO, natch.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

I started to laugh, and then realized this wasn't a humor thread.

I started to cry when I saw three pages devoted to this already.

Horrible mammories will haunt me for the rest of the day now.

If this isn't a sign that WotC needs to give more info for us to chew on, I don't know what is, cause right now, I'm almost ashamed to be a gamer geek.

I think I'm gonna go now and kick some puppies . . . and weep some more.

I hear ya man, I hear ya.

 

[GreatLemur]

Having male and female Dragonborn visually identical would make them too alien a race for me to consider including in my games. There's just no way you could work them into a shared society with the other races without distinct genders, and so until I see artwork that convinces me it can be done without boobs I'll have to vote boobs.

That really sounds pretty insane to me. I take it you can't play with warforged either, then?

 

[Scribble]

The never evolved; they were made by a god or gods. Therefore it really doesn't matter if reptiles that evolved on earth don't have breasts IMO.

Give 'em breasts since they're a core-race and breasts are among the easiest identifiers of gender; especially on something so alien as they are. Most people aren't herpetologists.

Yes! Exactly. And were I a god (and I'm not saying I'm not) the first thing I would do would be to MAKE MORE BOOBS!

 

[Wulfram]

I suspect that if female dragonborn are too unfeminine they'll get ignored by many players, as well as the artists, so it's probably a good idea to give them breasts even if it doesn't make a huge amount of sense. They'll be of more use that way