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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6591392" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I find it somewhat ironic that the Dragonborn Paladin who still lives in my head (because I have yet to really play him--one session before a campaign folded doesn't count!) is...not identical, but very similar to Mehen. He has two children (both girls, so they live with their mother/s), is totally a Team Dad type (it's an archetype I enjoy, and generally play well), and is also gay. And as Ryan North put it: "only he doesn't talk about it all the time, on account of having interests outside of being gay?"It's interesting to me how authors feel they must go OUT OF THEIR WAY to make dragonborn seem alien, while doing almost nothing for Elves or Eladrin despite those characters being explicitly described, numerous times, as having a different outlook and behavior patterns, while dragonborn are never given such explicit descriptions (at least, none that couldn't easily be replicated by a real Earth culture, e.g. "driven to succeed, but also to participate in community"). I find you can easily achieve such things--at least at the table--simply through inflection, "ritual phrases," and having specific moral and personal values...that you just don't spell out explicitly. But perhaps I am not seeing the whole picture.Many a dapper swain there beIf such comely bodies swayeth thee!</blockquote>