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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 5036802" data-attributes="member: 82504">I like boobs and dinosaurs weren't reptiles but had plenty of features of warm blooded creatures not to mention the platypus... so dragonborn have mammal features and reptile features.... shrug.  Classification of creatures based on features may be a bit of a joke in real life. I like skinning the dragonborn as shifters (Dragons shapeshifted in to humans and intermingled there blood lines and shape shifting powers in mostly human seeming descendents)Ooooh but magical explanations don't have to be simplistic and or non-structured or totally hand waved they can be primal. Magic can/does have rules associated with it and imagining those rules in the context of the game can be part of the fun. "As within so without"  being one example... the price of power (thrice-fold returns an expression of it) is another.... and so on.  Vancian magic can make it seem like magic is nonsensical handwaving and was originally selected from what I heard intensionally because  it was disconnected from real world beliefs about magic...It was also one of the first things that chafed about D&D. So it compounds the error. But magic was a part of myth not distinct and separate.(I am making complete assumptions on what your criticism  of "magic explains" so I may be getting it just as completely wrong).</blockquote>