Dragonborn - will you ban them?

[Pbartender]

I just realiaed what I'm going to do with them...

Tieflings are going to be the ruling families of a Ottoman-like near-east empire... All descendants of the ancient pharoahs of the desert, who in turn, legends say, were descended from the "gods".

Likewise, dragonborn will be the ruling families of the far east oriental-flavored empires. They'll have a style more like the Chinese lung dragons, or the Japanese ryu or tatsu dragons.

Oh, yeah... Dragonborn samurai and ninjas.

 

[tuffnoogies]

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?

I've never subscribed to the "core race = common race" philosophy. Assuming they're balanced I'll let them be as is.

 

[Gorrstagg]

Unless they are *horribly* mechanically broken, I have no reason to ban them.

That goes for everything in the books, really.

I've only ever banned Gnomes. They've never been present in my homebrew worlds. Ever. And I won't use them as monsters either. That said...

I've already got half-dragons in my world so a dragonborn fits just fine.

And Tieflings fit in my world just as well also.

Heck I've even go room for Eladrin..

Just no Gnomes.

Friends, don't let friends play Gnomes.

The only good Gnome is the one dead and buried, and you never had to know of its existence.

 

[Ydars]

I think I will have to make a new homebrew for 4E anyway, seeing has how there are so many changes in the default setting. Dragonblooded and Teiflings are the least of the problems IMHO.

 

[Hejdun]

Can I replace Tieflings with Gnomes?
. . . And Dragonborn with Half-Orcs?

This.

Mechanically I'm sure I'd have no problem with them. They just fill needed roles.

I just think that Dragonborn are ridiculous. Even in DnD where the threshold for ridiculousness is really low, I think Dragonborn somehow cross the line. The pictures of them in Races and Classes just completely turned me off.

Therefore, I'd just say that you can cross off Dragonborn and write in Half-Orc and play it mechanically identically and be done with it. Tieflings I don't have as much of a problem with, but it really irks me that they axed the gnome, so I wouldn't have too much of a problem doing the same thing with them.

 

[jeffh]

Banning anything sight unseen seems like a pretty foolish policy to me.

 

[hong]

Dragonborn are fine, it's halflings and tiefling tails that I'm banning.

 

[Jhaelen]

I'll ban the boobs.














Just kidding

 

[FunkBGR]

Assuming I had Lizardmen in my setting, I would definitely allow Dragonborn, just renamed "Lizardmen".

Done, no big deal.

This renaming thing works well - see, instead of Eladrin, I plan on renaming them to "Rockseers" from the old 2e Night Below module, and just fiddling with some of their story. Perhaps slightly modifying their teleport.

Not a problem, whatsoever.

 

[Kzach]

All dragonborn must die.