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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 4384978" data-attributes="member: 5100">Actually, the judgment is still valid.They are reptilian in appearance.&nbsp; They are also entirely imaginary.&nbsp; In &quot;Races and Classes&quot;, WotC stated that one of the reasons for the brand new dragonborn race was because there were lots of lizardfolk and similar races and they wanted to ditch the baggage while making a lizard-like race core.&nbsp; Even barring that statement, dragonborn fill a niche that is alien and inhuman.&nbsp; I'll grant that lizards with mammaries are definitely alien, it's not really the sort of alien I was looking for -- it's more bukkake alien, which isn't a good thing.The entire &quot;but they aren't reptiles&quot; argument really comes off as a kind of whiny &quot;because I said so&quot; thing.&nbsp; The fact that there was a section in the ecology article justifying it is just... creepy.WotC and anyone else who cares can write tomes about the biology of the dragonborn and how it's okay for them to wear chainmail bikinis because they aren't really reptiles.&nbsp; It kind of a moot point, though.&nbsp; They look like reptiles.&nbsp; That means that giving them breasts calls way more attention to the sex organs of imaginary pseudo-lizards than I am even remotely comfortable giving.I have a feeling that, somewhere down the road, we'll hear something like the Redgar story where the concept was done one way, but someone in marketing/management forcibly over-ruled it.&nbsp; I really think that someone at WotC sat down and decided that drawings of cosmetically reptilian females would&nbsp; attract a more significant market segment if they could be hung with cheesecake.&nbsp; That is just plain sick.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 4384978, member: 5100"] Actually, the judgment is still valid. They are reptilian in appearance. They are also entirely imaginary. In "Races and Classes", WotC stated that one of the reasons for the brand new dragonborn race was because there were lots of lizardfolk and similar races and they wanted to ditch the baggage while making a lizard-like race core. Even barring that statement, dragonborn fill a niche that is alien and inhuman. I'll grant that lizards with mammaries are definitely alien, it's not really the sort of alien I was looking for -- it's more bukkake alien, which isn't a good thing. The entire "but they [u]aren't[/u] reptiles" argument really comes off as a kind of whiny "because I said so" thing. The fact that there was a section in the ecology article justifying it is just... creepy. WotC and anyone else who cares can write tomes about the biology of the dragonborn and how it's okay for them to wear chainmail bikinis because they aren't really reptiles. It kind of a moot point, though. They [u]look[/u] like reptiles. That means that giving them breasts calls way more attention to the sex organs of imaginary pseudo-lizards than I am even remotely comfortable giving. I have a feeling that, somewhere down the road, we'll hear something like the Redgar story where the concept was done one way, but someone in marketing/management forcibly over-ruled it. I really think that someone at WotC sat down and decided that drawings of cosmetically reptilian females would attract a more significant market segment if they could be hung with cheesecake. That is just plain sick. [/QUOTE]

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