Dragonborn wearing Dragonscale , Appropriate or Abhorrent

[Xethreau]

That's a really cool idea. I wonder at what point the armor would be passed on though. If dragonborn travel alone, the likely die alone too.

 

[Remathilis]

Is it any creepier than a necromancer wearing vampire hide armor?

on second thought, don't answer that...

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Hmm... Could make for some interesting quests for Dragonborn parties. Having to track down and uncover what happened to the Dragonborn with the armour. You find out he/she is dead, you win back the armour travel back to a communal-home for the Dragonborn to pass the armour on.

Perhaps too, Dragonborn could be slightly mongoloid in that when called they ALL return to a central, known place to pass the armour on from a dying/dead Dragonborn to a new person.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Is it any creepier than a necromancer wearing vampire hide armor?

on second thought, don't answer that...

Tzimisce flesh-crafting clothing I think is more creepy, like your taking a human or vampire and flesh-crafting him into a piece of clothing and he is still alive while BEING a piece of clothing.

 

[Phasics]

I guess it also begs the question do Dragonborn shed scales of a useable size ?

 

[Agamon]

So that's why Minotaurs tend to go bare chested instead of wear leather....

 

[Voss]

Wearing dragonscale is ALWAYS creepy, since its a sentient being. It would be like wearing human flesh. Just because its useful doesn't make it less creepy. Cannibalism wouldn't become suddenly understandable and culturally acceptable if it were discovered that people were really tasty.

That being said, assuming that wearing dragonscale is for some inexplicable reason an ok thing to do for humans or elves or dwarves, I don't know why it would be unacceptable for dragonborn. Human beings have been eating monkeys for a long, long time. Eating them.

Because they're tasty. Really, cannibalism isn't common because self-righteous people with better weapons tended to kill people who practiced it.

Dragonscale is useful. Human flesh really isn't. Makes poor leather, and doesn't have enough hair to be useful for furs. If there was a practical reason to do it, you'd see people who did it.

 

[Piratecat]

Wearing dragonscale is ALWAYS creepy, since its a sentient being.

Hands down, the funniest thing for your bad guys to do is to cast resurrection on a PC's dragonscale armor.

Guaranteed hilarity!

 

[Kaodi]

Intelligence is such a relative term, though. We do not view it as creepy to wear the skin of other animals who are less intelligent than us, so by the same standard it should be perfectly fine for a mindflayer to sport a mantle or robe made out of human or drow skin, since they are, on average, much more intelligent.

 

[BarkingDeathSquirrel]

Hands down, the funniest thing for your bad guys to do is to cast resurrection on a PC's dragonscale armor.

Guaranteed hilarity!

Oh man, I gotta try that sometime. Consider the idea yoinked, even if I do have to find a viable reason why he can cast a resurrection spell in the middle of combat... (hmm... epic level spell, world shattering ritual to bring back a certain dead dragon that the PCs are trying to stop, but in fact are aiding in by bringing the armor to the BBEG? Yeah, that's the ticket...)