Half-dragons, should they be allowed?

[JoeGKushner]

As long as it fit the ECL of the party.

Nothing like watching a 5th level character with 15 hit points while everyone else has 30-60.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Heck, yeah. Half-dragons rock.

Brad

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Definitely. I played a half-dragon paladin in one of our campaigns right after the template information was released and didn't find the character to be unbalancing in any way. Truth be told, I rather found that this PC lagged behind his partymates in a number of critical aspects but I liked his background and unique features.

I'm fine with players running characters of any plausible (balanced) type in my games.

I notice that those who play half-dragons, seem to play paladins.... I know mine lagged a bit as well, but was still very much a playable character.

Mine's a half-silver, what's yours?

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

If the world I'm DMing has dragons in it, almost always yes. I'll allow them to use monster classes or to take the Dragon Disciple PrC to get it.

I'm a little peery of odd Half-Dragon combinations, but LA usually takes care of that for me. The most common in my games are either humanoids that speak Draconic (Kobold and Lizardfolk, primarily) or Humans themselves.

I'm thinking of putting together a homebrew, and one thing I'm strongly considering is taking away the Kobold's default alignment and making different clans of Kobolds whose alignment, Favored Gestalt, and culture are based on the dragon type they're descended from.

 

[Turanil]

Would you allow a half-dragon in your game?

No I would not. I see players chosing the half dragon race only for powergaming reasons, nothing else. Then, there have to be a reason for allowing half-dragons in a game. That is, they must fit the setting, which must present heavy interaction with dragons and mortals. If not, if a normal setting where dragons are only the occasional big monster, I don't see any rationale to allow them.

 

[Darkness]

they must fit the setting, which must present heavy interaction with dragons and mortals.

At a minimum, one dragon and one mortal. Which suffices nicely for one PC.

 

[Staffan]

Not as a PC, no. There might be a couple around in the setting, but that would be pretty rare since most dragons are over on their own continent minding their own business (I'm running an Eberron campaign).