Dragonborn: Boobs or No Boobs?

[ThirdWizard]

I vote no boobs. I think it would be interesting if other races couldn't tell what sex a dragonborn is. And, those dragon-ey names are all so crazy, you can't tell from that either.

I've never seen boobs on a dragon

You're going to the wrong parts of the internet then.

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[Firevalkyrie]

What is the purpose of reading visually a monster's gender?

None, but there's a point in visually being able to read a player character's gender...

 

[Nifft]

What is the purpose of reading visually a monster's gender?

You know immediately if you should bribe it with tickets to the opera or the coliseum.

Also: helps when the DM starts using pronouns to describe NPC actions in a fight. Saves one of these 50% of the time: "She breathes fire at you!" -- "Who?" -- "The dragon." -- "It's a girl?!"

Cheers, -- N

 

[Lurks-no-More]

There's no real reason why male dragonborn would be larger and bulkier than female dragonborn. I'd like to see a fantasy race where the reverse was true, as it is for many insects and arthropods.

Gnolls, in every campaign I've ever played in. Also, weren't drow women generally bigger than men?

Anyway, as a mammalian, I'll go with boobs for dragonborn. Let them lay eggs and nurse their young.

 

[Vayden]

Dragonborn went on my "house-rule this the hell out of my game" list the moment I saw them, so my opinion is perhaps not that relevant, but...

For dragonborn as they are, if I were in a game which had them, I'd say females should not have breasts. Give them lighter, more graceful frames perhaps, but breasts are a mammalian thing and dragonborn are clearly not mammals. They lay eggs, for God's sake.

In my first 4E game, since I'd like everyone to be able to try out all the new races stat-wise if not fluff-wise, I plan to lift the dragonborn stats, scrape off the fluff, and re-flavor them as demonspawn. Since demonspawn will be mostly humanoid with a few demonic traits, the females will have breasts. But I don't think that's quite what you're asking for.

Hey Dausuul, say it ain't so - as one of your long-time players, the one thing I want to play in 4E is a Dragonborn Paladin (or Warlord, depending on the crunch), with that whole "honor-bound race of wandering mercenaries" flavor. Specifically, I want to look like that one Dragonborn in red full plate on the page where Rich Baker is talking about Race selection. Pleeease?

 

[Plane Sailing]

You're going to the wrong parts of the internet then.

If that is true, I rather think I'm going to the RIGHT parts of the internet!

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

the "egg-laying mammals" are properly called monotremes (platypus and echidna). Significantly they don't have boobs - milk leaks out onto their abdomen which the babies lap up.

I am aware, but thought I was being pedantic enough.

But to be fair to your second point:

Not much has boobs. Nipples, mammary glands, and teats or udders sure, but not 'boobs' proper. They're mostly a very weird human trait.

And Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Tiefling, and, apparently, Dragonborn trait.


But we should know more about Dragon and Dragonborn family life pretty soon. I believe that's the topic of an upcoming D&D insider article.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

All I know is, if my dragonborn chick doesn't have boobs, she's saving her first adventure payday for big honkin' double-D implants.

The mithril chain shirt can wait.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Where is the option for MORE boobs? Everything is better with more boobs...

Thread winner.

 

[heirodule]

You could give the males um, large, packages.