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<blockquote data-quote="Kordeth" data-source="post: 4085173" data-attributes="member: 5036">My problem with the dragonborn is that they're too far off from the norm of PC races. All the other PC races are &quot;X-adjective humans:&quot; You've got your tall, pretty humans, your short, stocky humans, your extra-short sneaky humans, and so on. Tacking &quot;dragon-man&quot; onto that is just too jarring, and makes me think of the old &quot;one of these things is not like the others&quot; song.None of that is to say that a vcampaign with a variety of less-traditional races can't be fun or cool or consistent, but given the rest of the races presented, Dragonborn feel too far off the baseline to &quot;fit&quot; into the grouping.Also, I think &quot;dragon-men&quot; are kind of dumb, but that's a purely subjective gut opinion and not at all based on game design theory. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I do agree that a race based on the lizard-brain is a neat idea, and provided they don't have too many dragonish abilities like breath weapons and claw/claw/bite attacks, I might salvage the crunch and graft it onto new fluff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kordeth, post: 4085173, member: 5036"] My problem with the dragonborn is that they're too far off from the norm of PC races. All the other PC races are "X-adjective humans:" You've got your tall, pretty humans, your short, stocky humans, your extra-short sneaky humans, and so on. Tacking "dragon-man" onto that is just too jarring, and makes me think of the old "one of these things is not like the others" song. None of that is to say that a vcampaign with a variety of less-traditional races can't be fun or cool or consistent, but given the rest of the races presented, Dragonborn feel too far off the baseline to "fit" into the grouping. Also, I think "dragon-men" are kind of dumb, but that's a purely subjective gut opinion and not at all based on game design theory. :) I do agree that a race based on the lizard-brain is a neat idea, and provided they don't have too many dragonish abilities like breath weapons and claw/claw/bite attacks, I might salvage the crunch and graft it onto new fluff. [/QUOTE]

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