Dragonborn: Boobs or No Boobs?

[Dausuul]

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

I don't think the "female dwarf" issue really applies here. Nobody wanted to play bearded dwarven women because they looked like really ugly human women. Dragonborn don't look like human anything, and nobody who wants a human-looking character is going to play one whether they have breasts or not.

 

[Kunimatyu]

Not a fan of non-human-female breasts. Breasts aren't always good -- but I'm sure many ENWorlders can look down for a second and realize that.

I'd prefer male crests or bulkier females, if there has to be a sexual dimorphism at all.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

I can't believe I have witnessed a poll on ENWorld where "No boobs" is the leading reply!

I have two words for you people:

Dejah Thoris


Happy Holidays to those of you using Google (Images).

 

[Cadfan]

Do we have any pictures of dragonborn available online that we could use as a reference?

For me it really depends on how saurian we're talking. They're human/dragon hybrids in terms of design. If they're awfully human looking, they need to look human enough to register as scaly people. If they're just flat out saurian, its less of a concern.

If you're going to give them human-style gender dimorphic facial features, I think you need to do the rest of the body as well. It might not be realistic in a strict sense, but it fits the traditional way that animal/people get drawn. Nobody insisted that Shifters have their mammaries located somewhere around their beltline.

 

[IanB]

There is? In a tabletop game the words "my character is a female" are not enough?

I don't think there's much point to putting breasts on dragonborn unless you are trying to sexualize them for human viewing - making it basically a question of marketing, and the artwork you'll be using to help sell the game to real-world humans, rather than one of fantasy biology.

For me, putting breasts on something that is more reptilian than mammalian is likely to come across as jarring, and a deliberate attempt to use sex to sell me the book. Vaguely insulting, even.

I hesitate to make a post that is just "me too" but... me too.

 

[Lord Fyre]

I can't believe I have witnessed a poll on ENWorld where "No boobs" is the leading reply!

I have two words for you people:

Dejah Thoris

Not as clear as it sounds.

Burroughs wanted to make the "humans" of Barsoom strange and alien, so he made them "egg laying."

But for story reasons, he needed Dejah Thoris to be sexually attractive to human John Carter, so she had to look very much like human female (and a beautiful one at that). So the story needs trumped any boilogical logic.

A D&D world does not have this problem. There are lots of human (and near human) women arround (many of them also quite beautiful). So there is no pressing story reason why a Earthman hero has to fall in love with a Dragonborn heroine.

 

[Nightmare Toilet]

Then again, I just remembered that I once drew a very draconic female with quite nice (huge) proportions, even thought the neck and head were totally dragon and she had dragon wings and scales and tail and spikes. Yup, she had quite big breasts and rear, so it does work visually after all. : )

 

[Lord Fyre]

Then again, I just remembered that I once drew a very draconic female with quite nice (huge) proportions, even thought the neck and head were totally dragon and she had dragon wings and scales and tail and spikes. Yup, she had quite big breasts and rear, so it does work visually after all.

Okay, but bizzare cheesecake art aside, is it necessary (or even desirable) for a clearly inhuman race like Dragonborn?

I support Dragonborn having some for of sexual dimorphism. But they are not mammals.

 

[Nightmare Toilet]

Maybe the female breasts in the dragonborn have a different function, like where the babies get their dragon-magic from. Dragons are magical. The Female's breasts could be not for physical nutrition but for magical nutrition!

 

[Nightmare Toilet]

New item: Boob of World Rending : )

New item: Boob of Endless Milk (and apparently a new plane, the Plane of Milk)

New Monster: Were-boob! When there is a full moon, watch out!

New Monster: Milk Elemental (eats children and wears their faces, asks people if they have seen them. It can take on the appearance of any child it has devoured.)