Female Dragonborn - No longer have breasts?

[pawsplay]

And didn't one of the various flying dinosaurs have fur, suggesting that it was, in fact, warm blooded?

Some scientists believe many or most dinosaurs were warmblooded or semiwarmblooded, actually, based on their bones. And there is an argument that the dinosaurs never became extinct, they just got smaller, grew feathers, and took up flying.

EDIT: Anyway, to get back to the point. I can't imagine Dragonborn nursing their young, so therefore I find breasts to be a stupid anthropomorphism.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

Isn't it so much fun to learn you've been mis-informed by common cultural interpretations

Back on topic, how can there be eyecandy without well-endowed humanoids? OBEY THE BOOBS, THEY ARE ALL POWERFUL

If its good enough for the Greeks its good enough for the Geeks

 

[Jhaelen]

I can't imagine Dragonborn nursing their young, so therefore I find breasts to be a stupid anthropomorphism.

Remember the Raptorans from 'Races of the Wild'?
They were basically owl-people but the females still had breasts... anthropomorphisms clearly are popular among us anthropoi

 

[pawsplay]

Remember the Raptorans from 'Races of the Wild'?
They were basically owl-people but the females still had breasts... anthropomorphisms clearly are popular among us anthropoi

But hey... I hate absolutely everything about the raptorans, from their undefined relationship with air elements to their weird lifecycles to their level-based flight bonuses. You know what bugs me? To return as an adult, you are supposed to fly, yet to fly requires you to hit level 5, I believe. Therefore, either the entire adult population of a raptoran village are level 5+ or somebody didn't think things through.

Looking at the sample village, it's worse than that... someone apparently didn't notice that adults, particularly leaders, should be fliers.

Okay, there is one thing I don't hate... the footbow is pretty cool. Everything else about them, I hate.

 

[Saeviomagy]

EDIT: Anyway, to get back to the point. I can't imagine Dragonborn nursing their young, so therefore I find breasts to be a stupid anthropomorphism.

Well, my point was that mammals with scales are not unheard of, even before you have stuff like magic and gods throwing their oar in.

 

[WalterKovacs]

The primary artistic goal for Dragonborn Breasts was to convey the difference between male and female Dragonborn. I just came up with an alternative idea that would work just as well - Female Dragonborn grow prominent, beautiful rose scales, and Male Dragonborn prominent, beatiful blueish scales. That fits the avian theory great, since birds often use the color of their feathers to indicate their... "fitness for mating" (attractivenes)!

The difference of course is that, while "dragonboobs" and other concepts that basically make a character look feminine for the same reasons a human looks feminine it doesn't require a fluff piece to tell people that "what you are looking at now is a female dragonborn".

They do the picture at the start of the race section showing each of the races ... however, in general, if you need to stop and explain what is defining a character as female, it is not as useful as a method that does so without words. Thus, the artistic goal is better met through a universal 'sign' people already accept. Other signs could be included of course.

Ultimately, there is a reason that every player race is humanoid, that all the main Star Trek races are humanoids, etc ... they are all basically humans just with emphasis on certain traits of a human and given some makeup to look a bit different. They had to make the dragon player race humanoid because all main PC races have to be humanoid. There is probably much more wrong with dragonborn having legs and arms and other features of a human than there is with the creature having breasts on top of everything else.

 

[pawsplay]

Dragonborn are humanoid so they can wear clothes, use weapons, perform kung fu, etc. Breasts, however, serve no purpose. You could make the same drawing with or without drabonboobs, and it would be about the same. Unless, of course, dragonborn really do nurse their young. Which seems implausible. I'm okay with any level of anthropomorphism that allows them to work as characters, up to and including speaking English for our benefit in the tie-in novels. But boobs seem so gratuitous.

"Um, it's female," sounds exactly like the conversation PCs should be having about a dragonborn, IMO.

 

[Evilhalfling]

Of course they do - this is the internet. Yesterday i found a hate page for milk.

Sigged!

 

[Mad Mac]

They do the picture at the start of the race section showing each of the races ... however, in general, if you need to stop and explain what is defining a character as female, it is not as useful as a method that does so without words. Thus, the artistic goal is better met through a universal 'sign' people already accept. Other signs could be included of course.

This is what I've been saying. Although, other signs are tough to come up with. Dragon Dresses? Dragon long girly hair? Dragon eyelashes? Most of the usual techniques don't work, honestly.

I guess you could give them Dragon junk in the trunk...

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I guess you could give them Dragon junk in the trunk...

Dragon with ghetto booty, now there's a mental image not to get.