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I should have added "Whiskers" to the poll. I always imagine my gold and silver Dragonborn with long, catfish-like whiskers.
a second set of arms could work?A lot of newer dragonborn art in official material does include tails. I think WotC recognized that most folks who like dragonborn want them to have tails.
Yes, my thinking exactly!
I’m actually ok with Aarakocra, though I give them a talon attack and rule that they need both hands free to fly. That both fits better aesthetically to me (birds should have four limbs, not six) and it prevents flying out of melee reach and peppering enemies with ranged attacks or dropping rocks on them, prevents grappling enemies, flying up real high, and dropping them to deal fall damage, and prevents carrying non-flying allies to places they shouldn’t be able to reach.
Dragons, on the other hand, are famous for having six limbs, so that fix doesn’t work for dragonborn. Vestigial wings would be ok, but I just don’t like them aesthetically on dragonborn. I guess I think of them more as draconic humanoids than humanoid dragons, if that makes sense. And especially with the spectral wings in the 2024 rules, vestigial wings just don’t feel right to me.
lung seems to be rather different in base conceptual origin than the western dragon who shares more blood with king ghidorah that the water beasts of the heavensI should have added "Whiskers" to the poll. I always imagine my gold and silver Dragonborn with long, catfish-like whiskers.
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No, that’s specifically what I want to avoid. Only having four limbs both looks better and fixes a lot of the most broken things that you can accomplish with built-in flight.a second set of arms could work?
and in all that time how much have we built onwards from it? dwarves seem to have contacted as an idea for decades, halflings are both used wrong and have few interesting interpretations.(they were designed as a low-importance background option so that the plot could make sense)This is closer to how I'm going to do it.
I mean its immensely useful as the starting line, because anyone who knows western Fantasy in any way, knows what they are.
Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Hobbits/Halflings, sourced from the Trope Maker itself. I have a few custom player options, if I gave you the names, it would be meaningless. Thats the value of the baseline.
then how do you make them more dragon-y? making them a centaur opens another can of worms so that seems of the tableNo, that’s specifically what I want to avoid. Only having four limbs both looks better and fixes a lot of the most broken things that you can accomplish with built-in flight.
and in all that time how much have we built onwards from it? dwarves seem to have contacted as an idea for decades, halflings are both used wrong and have few interesting interpretations.(they were designed as a low-importance background option so that the plot could make sense)
Huh? I already said I think of them as more like draconic humanoids than humanoid dragons.then how do you make them more dragon-y? making them a centaur opens another can of worms so that seems of the table
But what draconic is there when they don't get anything that makes a dragon not a lizard?Huh? I already said I think of them as more like draconic humanoids than humanoid dragons.