Dragonborn - will you ban them?

[Simia Saturnalia]

Welcome to the fold, my scaly friends.

I actually suspect 4e will be a game I rarely spend the time to house rule.

 

[Bagpuss]

I'm probably going to start a new campaign with 4th Ed, it's much less work than adapting an old campaign. So I'll keep them and probably add a host of other races from the MM as PC races as well.

Death to Medieval Fantasy!

 

[Mercule]

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.

Well, if I had to include one or the other, based on current data, I'd include tieflings before dragonborn.

Really, based on current data, I don't expect to allow either. I'm very much "wait and see" at the moment, though.

 

[Lord Fyre]

The OP's wording is a little odd, but I don't have a problem with either Dragonborn or Tieflings per say . . .

I am just not so sure about the way WoTC sounds like they are implimenting races. With the way that each race has a specific homeland, I have to ask a different question. :\

Do I have to have enough of the appropriate terrain cards in play in order to to use one?

 

[der_kluge]

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.

Oh no - I intend to ban Tieflings as well.

 

[TwinBahamut]

Dragonborn are not my first pick as a PHB1 race, but I rather like the concept of them. I want to know more about them. They certainly are not something so terrible I would go so far as to ban them outright without a very good setting reason.

After all, I like Dragonborn a lot more than I ever liked Gnomes, but I never bothered to ban Gnomes...

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Like many of the changes in 4E this actually fits rather well into one section of my current 3.5 campaign world. I'll have to see how they pull it off, but I'd be leaning towards yes.

 

[Masquerade]

Can't say for sure until I see the book, but, at this time, I see no reason not to give the scalies a shot.

 

[Dragonbait]

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.

It actually sounds like buisness as usual for many people.

 

[Cadfan]

Allow.

Why not? "It doesn't fit my vision?" Frankly, I'm not such an artiste that I have a vision detailed enough to not fit dragonborn. And I've never liked playing in games where the DM clearly has an entire world written out in his head, conveniently located where we can't actually see it, and filled with arbitrary rules like "dragonborn don't fit my... vision."

I'll DM as I always do. By starting with a grand plot concept, mixing in whatever is necessary to justify the PCs my players want to play, and then filling out the details of the world as they're encountered. If my campaign doesn't feature dragonborn, the most likely reason will be that none of my players wanted to play one, and I didn't need them for anything, so they went to the same place that dwarves went during the last campaign I ran.