I'm a Mammal and So Are You!

[roguerouge]

Mammals have hair. Reptiles do not. Should dragonborn have hair?

(Of course, most reptiles don't walk on their hind legs and start empires.)

 

[Wormwood]

Should dragonborn have hair?

Mohawks. Only.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Mammals have hair. Reptiles do not. Should dragonborn have hair?

(Of course, most reptiles don't walk on their hind legs and start empires.)

(most mammals start empires, either... )

 

[Nikosandros]

In the new D&D implied setting a badger named Francis is the long lost heir to the mighty Empire of the Mustelids.

 

[Jack99]

Mammals have hair. Reptiles do not. Should dragonborn have hair?

(Of course, most reptiles don't walk on their hind legs and start empires.)

Since Dragonborn lay eggs, wouldn't that kinda exclude them from the mammal family?

 

[Zoatebix]

Since Dragonborn lay eggs, wouldn't that kinda exclude them from the mammal family?

They're monotremes!

 

[HeinorNY]

Since Dragonborn lay eggs, wouldn't that kinda exclude them from the mammal family?

 

[Wyrmshadows]

Mammals have hair. Reptiles do not. Should dragonborn have hair?

(Of course, most reptiles don't walk on their hind legs and start empires.)

Sure, why not...who cares about internal consistancy. Hey if the reptilian decendants of a reptilian race that lays eggs and doesn't nurse its young can have a nice full set of mammaries...why not cover the darn things in hair?

Hey, this is D&D so we have to pander to cliches and equate fantasy with absurdity. :\


To add: Dragons are not platapuses and dragonborn are not decended from these creatures. They are decended from dragons, who do not possess hair and do not nurse young and in fact do not possess the secondary sexual characteristics of mammals.



Wyrmshadows

 

[Nikosandros]

Products of mad wizards' experiments don't count...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Yeah, what family do owlbears and duckbeavers belong in?

Dragonborn should be consistent with other evolved reptiles that walk on their hind legs ... and have feathers!