Dragonborn - will you ban them?

[Imp]

The thing of it is, I've wanted to play with/include saurian races in D&D ever since I picked it up, but none of the saurian humanoids I've seen have ever really felt right:

lizardmen: caveman baggage
troglodytes: caveman baggage, plus they smell
yuan-ti: pretty cool, but shapeshifter/ fluid-form weirdness
dragonborn: fire-breathing baggage?

If I can strip the dragon-specific stuff from dragonborn I'll use 'em.

 

[Jack99]

I sense great necromancy at work!

 

[Fobok]

I'm definitely allowing them. I'm working on a new campaign setting for my games, and I was actually thinking (before I heard of Dragonborn) of having a dragonkin race as part of it, so it fits perfectly. I'll be tweaking their culture a little for my setting, but still.

 

[zoroaster100]

I don't mind tieflings, but I don't like the idea of dragonborn as a common PC race. I will wait until I see the full write up. Then, I may either decide to allow them as is or ban them outright. But I think my preference would be to allow the mechanical rules for them but with different fluff for the race. But to know how to change them into a totally different race with the same stats, I will need to see the mechanics to see if I think of fluff I like which fits with the stats.

 

[Wulfram]

They're not likely to play a major role in any setting I create, but this is a fantasy game - if someone wants to play a dragonborn, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to have a remote tribe, or an experimenting wizard appear in the world so that it's possible.

 

[GoLu]

I am going to kill two birds with one stone by renaming them to "druid" without actually changing their in-game stats. Problem solved: no more dragonborn, and druids are now core.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I'll at least give them a try.

 

[Hathorym]

Well, I guess I'm a special snowflake, because I will probably allow them, but adapt them to my world, rather than try to force them in. And what the heck is a special snowflake anyway?

 

[nutluck]

Assuming I end up playing and running 4e. It would matter on what kind of game i am running and what the game world is like. If they fit it, then i would allow it like I do any race. If they don't fit then they would be banned like any other race.

 

[variant]

If I buy 4e, though due to this crap I may not, both Tiefling and Dragonborn would be banned.