Dragonborn - will you ban them?

[der_kluge]

To a lot of people, it seems Dragonborn just don't seem to fit in with their concept of a "Core" race.

What will you do with Dragonborn?

 

[neceros]

Gonna wait to see how they are implemented. I don't mind them much, since I like Dragons in my Dungeons and Dragons.

 

[Desdichado]

No idea. Plan now is to keep playing 3.5 (or better yet, some other game than D&D entirely) but we'll probably still pick up the SRD, and if we can use them as is, maybe we will.

 

[Goken100]

Tieflings are Worse

I am alone in banning Tieflings way before I'd ban Dragonborn? I'm not opposed to the idea, it just doesn't fit and doesn't bring anything to the table.

 

[neceros]

I liked my tiefling friend in NWN2.

 

[TerraDave]

I am such a special snowflake.

My long standing ban on halflings will remain. Dragonborn may get renamed and merged with some other reptile races, but I will probably keep them. In some form.

 

[resistor]

Depends on the setting. Planescape can absorb them pretty easily, but I'm not sure I would use them in Eberron. My current homebrew would actually absorb them pretty well:

The dwarves, exiled from their traditional home, have been taking over the homeland of the lizardmen over the last several centuries. The whole interaction has a lot in common with the European Settler/Native American conflicts in America. Since the dwarves hate dragons (it was dragon who drove them from their home in the first place), I think they might apply the term Dragonborn to the lizardmen as a pejorative.

 

[Irda Ranger]

I am alone in banning Tieflings way before I'd ban Dragonborn? I'm not opposed to the idea, it just doesn't fit and doesn't bring anything to the table.

No, you're not.

I don't plan on banning Tieflings, but if I had to ban one race (and seeing as how WotC has gone to the trouble of banning Gnomes for me ...) I'd ban Tieflings before Dragonborn. I like lizardy characters, and Tieflings don't seem to have a 'fit' in any of the worlds I like to play in (other than as the occasional NPC cultist).

I might retheme Dragonborn as Draconians or Mohj or Saurials, but I'd keep 'em.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I don't know enough about the 4e Dragonborn or the Tiefling to make a judgement yet. Seems silly to ban something when you don't know what you are banning other than a name and a very general idea.

Of course I would not be converting an existing game to 4e, so I have no "compatibility" issues.

 

[KingCrab]

If I'm running a module, I wouldn't mind letting people play them. If I'm designing a campaign setting, then I would not use them as a race with influence in my world.