Dragonborn: Boobs or No Boobs?

[Lonely Tylenol]

Just to note:

There are mammals that lay eggs. So that shouldn't disqualify a species from nursing outright.

Species don't nurse because they don't nurse, not because they lay eggs.

Mammals that lay eggs don't have nipples. They ooze nutrient from patches on their skin.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Potential Options:

Females are demonstrably larger than males
Females are drab, males are brightly colored (at least while looking for a mate)
Males have elaborate frills, horns, throat-sacks, etc. (at least while looking for a mate)
Males have a nub on their tails they uncontrollably beat the ground with (at least while looking for a mate)

I think I'm most happy with the idea of a Dr. Zoidberg-like frill just popping up when the season strikes.

And I think I'd still like them to give live birth. Bipdedalism like humans have isn't the most comfortable position for nesting, I'd expect them to look more avian if they did that. Though I guess reptilian nesting doesn't involve much sitting on the eggs to begin with....

 

[Tewligan]

Im thinking even a monster or two. Something like a Boobholder"beholder".

Oh god. I so want to Photoshop up a giant levitating boob, with a gaping fanged mouth and covered with nipples shooting various magical effects. I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be a grandma-friendly picture, though.

 

[ruleslawyer]

Naga, and Medusa have boobs.

I'm willing to see medusae as more "mythological human-based creature" than reptile. The only thing that makes them snaky is their hair, which, along with their petrifying appearance, could as easily be the result of their divine curse. As for nagas: No, I don't think they do have breasts. None of the ones I've seen in D&D art do, anyway.

Anyway, point is that there are already *plenty* of human-like races with sufficiently plausible anatomies to get the cheesecake fans salivating. I'd rather see something like a dragonborn look demonstrably reptilian, maybe even more T-Rex like (minus the tiny arms).

 

[kennew142]

In real life, I am pro-boob. As for Dragonborn, I prefer no-boobs. I thought the female dragonborn in the book would have been distinguishably female without the boobs.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

No boobs.

No wangs for that matter.

 

[Skade]

oh, just dispense sex entirely and have them reproduce by cellular division at some point in their life. Forget adolescence too because cr's are more of a pain for kids than it's worth. Aging is silly also for a race based on dragons, they should just change categories at a point in the future, long outside the scope of the campaign.

So, ageless, genderless, divisioning non reptiles. everyone wins.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

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.

QFT

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

How about a trio? Like that girl from Total Recall.

The chick from Warrior and the Sorceress laughs at her lesser boobed cousin.

Given how real those things looked, and how shoddy everything else was in that movie, I'm not unconvinced thety managed to find some real four boobed mutie...

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Hey... how about a Warboob class?

Probably a defender or controller, with various distraction powers.

It would work even better if I could take the Golden Boob Adept feat as well.