Ecology of the Dragonborn up

[Klaus]

Summarizing Dragonborn:

Dragonborn are draconic humanoid samurai who marry long enough to have a child together, then split their ways as the other goes "Lone Wolf and Cub".

 

[Fifth Element]

As noted, monotremes don't come with teats, and creatures whose young can walk within hours and thus don't need to be carried about for years at a time by nursing mothers don't have their mammary glands 4+ feet off the ground.

And real-world monotremes aren't 7-foot-tall or bipedal, and they can't talk, and they don't have opossable thumbs, and they aren't as intelligent as humans, and they certainly can't shoot fire from their mouths, and...

All the same things are true of real-world reptiles too, so I guess dragonborn can't be reptiles either.

 

[Byronic]

Half of the fluff was nice, half was boring and unoriginal. Not too bad though.

Has anyone noticed though, that he contradicts the PHB? He says that Dragonborn aren't reserved, yet the PHB notes that as one of the dragonborn charateristics.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

And real-world monotremes aren't 7-foot-tall or bipedal, and they can't talk, and they don't have opossable thumbs, and they aren't as intelligent as humans, and they certainly can't shoot fire from their mouths, and...

All the same things are true of real-world reptiles too, so I guess dragonborn can't be reptiles either.

You missed the argument. It was stated "Hey, they're monotremes, there's your half-assed biological reason why they have breasts." So it was followed up with "Uh, no. Still doesn't work."

 

[Tonguez]

This is true for basically all reptiles and birds.
Go ahead and Google that.

So Dragonborn porn is all about cloacal kissing?

 

[mhacdebhandia]

No wings, no paragon paths, no racial magic items. In my opinion, when compared to the warforged article, this article is sub par.

I just don't think the articles are really comparable. The warforged article wasn't "Ecology of the Warforged", it was "Playing Warforged" - quite clearly a different kind of article, aimed at fleshing out the simple rules for PC "monsters" from the Monster Manual. I imagine there was more mechanical information in the warforged article simply because there won't be much support for that race until after Eberron is out.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Summarizing Dragonborn:

Dragonborn are draconic humanoid samurai who marry long enough to have a child together, then split their ways as the other goes "Lone Wolf and Cub".

For me, Dragonborn will not be humanoid samurai, but Klingons. Otherwise, everything looks fine.

 

[Fenes]

I'll be using Paizo's take on lizardfolk.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

You missed the argument. It was stated "Hey, they're monotremes, there's your half-assed biological reason why they have breasts." So it was followed up with "Uh, no. Still doesn't work."

And that's more half-assed pseudo-biological "reasoning" brought up by people who think too hard about fantasy, to quote Hong.

Honestly, I'm perfectly fine with DBs laying eggs and nursing their young, without having to cram them into some warped version of real-world taxonomy just because as a nerd I'm obliged to overthink everything. (Do you people get into screaming fits because of gryphons, too?)

 

[Fenes]

And that's more half-assed pseudo-biological "reasoning" brought up by people who think too hard about fantasy, to quote Hong.

Honestly, I'm perfectly fine with DBs laying eggs and nursing their young, without having to cram them into some warped version of real-world taxonomy just because as a nerd I'm obliged to overthink everything. (Do you people get into screaming fits because of gryphons, too?)

Gryphons are fun. Dragonborn are cheap. And any attempt to make them more "humans with scales, but sexy and kewl" makes them cheaper.