Dude. It's a fantasy race. If you really need "realism" then accept that they're not reptiles, they're HUMANOIDS.
I get that perfectly. She didn't ask if I "got" it. She didn't ask if I understood it. (I do; it makes sense.) She didn't ask if I agree with it. (not being female, I can't say from personal experience and I haven't had a chance to ask my female players.)I don't think any of you are getting @HardcoreDandDGirl 's point.
She's not saying it makes sense that females of nonhuman species have breasts, nor that all female humans have breasts. All she's saying is that giving female members of non-human species breasts helps them appeal to the majority of female gamers who do have breasts and can therefore relate to them more easily.
I'm not sure if you're intentionally rigging up a straw man or not, but the question wasn't whether or not characters should have any sexual characteristics; it was about appropriate sexual characteristics. Nobody has said that elven women shouldn't have breasts. The block and tackle of an elven gentleman is as appropriate as the bubblie-jubblies of an elven lady. Following your logic all the way out, illustrating thri-kreen with penile sheathes and beards will make them more appealing to your invisible male majority.I'm glad the three of you are open-minded about playing 'the other,' but I've met enough male gamers who only play male characters to say that if the PHB explicitly stated that male elves don't have penises, it would give them more than a few seconds' pause.
I keep reading this as "having fun hardly precludes breasts" and thinking truer words were never written.Having fur hardly precludes breasts.
If 4th edition Minotaurs had been portrayed as having human chests (I.e no fur), then it might have looked more plausabile. But 4th ed Minotaurs are basically Bulls standing upright, albeit with furry arms and legs. In other words, they look like animals both top and bottom, unlike (say) Merfolk which have clearly Human-looking upper halves. And Dragonborn are the spawn of Dragons, which definitely don't have breasts. Anyway, what male anatomy...? Aside from bulging muscles, I have yet to see a D&D monster with a penis (or even a noticeable bulge drawn in the pants).
If 4th edition Minotaurs had been portrayed as having human chests (I.e no fur), then it might have looked more plausabile. But 4th ed Minotaurs are basically Bulls standing upright, albeit with furry arms and legs.