Having a hard time with including Dragonborn in your Campaign setting?

[Remathilis]

Mine came across the sea after Ye Old Cataclysm displaced them...

It also allows me to throw a bit of Asian flavor on them (mmm... Kitanas)

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Mine came across the sea after Ye Old Cataclysm displaced them...

It also allows me to throw a bit of Asian flavor on them (mmm... Kitanas)

Races and Classes actually states that the katana and the katar were invented by the dragonborn Arkhosian empire.

 

[EditorBFG]

I know this: Kobolds are popular in the games I play in. And in our Ptolus game, I have a lizardman with "mysterious" ancestry.

So in my games, there is already precedent for reptilian folks. I think I might propose to my DM that kobolds have the option of using a new version one of those rituals in 3.5 that make them more powerful and dragon-like to become dragonborn, and use the same option in games I run myself (at the moment, oddly, I am only a player, and that never happens). If the Ptolus game switches to 4e, I'll probably just make my lizardguy a dragonborn.

As for the cultural fluff, it doesn't matter for our purposes. Whatever the stats, my Ptolus character will still behave like the other lizardmen in the setting: cheerfully homeless, sleeping in the streets and eating out of trash barrels while marveling at the good fortune of living in a place where free food is everywhere and large natural predators don't stalk you. Heck, I'm 7th level and I still have yet to quit my job bussing tables at the Ghostly Minstrel-- free herring and oatmeal is too good of a fringe benefit to give up, even for a guy who just bought a mithril shirt.

 

[Stogoe]

Which needs an explanation for Arkhosia. I might make Arkhosia+ Bael Turath alternate names for Raumathar and Narfell. devils fit better than demons these days as subtle corrupters. Maybe have Dragonborn as ruling class in Raumathar, fled after Kossuth scorched kingdom, now they wander, they are commonest in Unapproachable East.

How do these ideas sound?

You... do know that the R&C fluff is background info for the generic Points of Light setting, and does not at all influence anything about Eberron or FR (or any other published setting), right?

 

[Warbringer]

Well, the rangerlands are descended form the dragonlords in my world. Until know they've essentially been enhanced humans (men of the north, half-elves, dragon magic - take your pic). That empire fractionilized when true humans sorcerers, too short lived to bond with dragons, caused the first civil war. Their envy drove them to deal with the three in darkness and brought death magic and necromancy to the world.

Several wars followed throughput histrory, leading to the eventual destruction of the dragonlords and most dragons. I'm thinking that before the war that lead to their destruction, the dragons, aready depleted turned their remaining eggs into dragonborn. With the fall of the dragons the dragonborn scattered...

Now, in my world the halflings are river wanderers (already) coming from the lands to the east beyond the great mountain range that marks the edge of the world, fleeing froim something called the great corruption. I'm thinking that the dragonkin are recently returned, possibly form the same place, possibly as overlords of the land

That's lets them be a wondering race and recently returned so no established place in the world