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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7091408" data-attributes="member: 22779">My point was that if you were going to change what draconians are - and make changes so that they can be raised if they die, for example, you might as well not use draconians at all.  I completely agree that dragonborn don't make good draconians.  My beef is the idea that draconians make a good PC race.  The racial abilities of draconians are not really in line with PC races and the draconian background flavor really doesn't fit anything other than an all evil party.If it's something someone wants for their home game, more power to them.  I'd just rather that the "official" take on draconians didn't turn them into drow where you run into all these good drow that are completely divorced from what drow originally were.  And, IMO, it's even harder for draconians.  It's not like draconians are "born" and learn to be evil.  They are created evil, flat out.  The idea that I can mutate evil dragon eggs somehow and they come out good just has too much of a squick factor for me.  Draconians, AFAIC, are essentially evil constructs.It would be like if you took the Peter Jackson Uruk Hai, and then stuffed them into some sort of "Make them Good" incubator and they'll come out good.  No.  Uruk Hai are mutated elves that have been twisted into evil.  Taking some evil creature and somehow twisting it to be good is just completely off the ranch as far as how I view alignment.</blockquote>

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