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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4221863" data-attributes="member: 50987">When/if I start up a 4E campaign, I won't be using dragonborn or tieflings.  In my games, dragons and demons are clearly the "bad guys" of the land, and I don't like to blur the line between them and the heroes.  It's the same reason that I don't use half-orcs.  I'm not saying they are badwrongfun and you should avoid them at all cost; I just don't care for the flavor.But if I were going to use them...Dragonborn would be the champions, noblemen, and ambassadors of countries ruled by dragons.  Perhaps there are two large territories ruled by Good and Evil tribes of dragons, and the humanoid races are sandwiched between the two factions?Tieflings are a dying race of cursed humans, born under a terrible curse that causes monstrous deformities and insanity with age.  I would give them an Ancient Egypt flavor: their demonic appearance would more closely resemble the demons and evil gods of the pharaonic pantheon.  Instead of hooves and horns, they would have scales, crocodile heads, owl wings, jackal-like features, etc.</blockquote>