Dragonborn wearing Dragonscale , Appropriate or Abhorrent

[Green Knight]

If dragon scales are the dragon equivalent of fingernail clippings or hair, then I don't see the problem with anyone using it. I guess it all depends on the nature of dragon scales. Can they be popped off the dragon without hurting the dragon, like giving someone a haircut or cutting their nails? Or is the removal of dragon scales a bit more painful? Do scales have nerve endings? Do they grow back to replace lost scales? It all depends. Dragonhide, however, is a whole other matter.

 

[ZombieRoboNinja]

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.

This is actually one of my favorite bits of D&D in that it really underscores the essential brutality of the "adventurer" lifestyle.

I can walk into an evil dragon's lair, have a conversation with him, and kill him - nobody blinks at that. But when I then start to hack up his corpse, keeping scales for the armorsmith, teeth for collectors, various internal organs to sell to alchemists... kinda puts things into perspective. At that point, I can no longer evade the simple fact that I'm killing this sentient creature for wealth.

 

[Vayden]

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.

IF?

 

[The Grackle]

It might creep out humans, but I'd think dragons wouldn't even blink. They eat other sentient creatures (and maybe even each other) no problem. Dragon morality is beyond such things. If one saw a humanoid wearing drgonscales, it might think it was funny. "Aww. It thinks it's people."

 

[Wormwood]

"Aww. It thinks it's people."

Yep. I LOLed.