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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9411527" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Exactly. When I play a dragonborn, I'm fine with them being viewed as unusual, e.g. &quot;huh, we don't see many of your kind around here.&quot; I'm fine with them mostly keeping to themselves for any of various reasons (one of my favorites is that they had a diaspora after the loss of their homeland, so now small dragonborn enclaves exist all over the place, with no single &quot;center&quot;). I'm even fine with there being reasons people might be tense or uneasy with dragonborn, e.g. their association with Ber and, specifically, with dragons in Zeitgeist, which have been a real problem for Risur over the centuries.But when I play one, I really am not on board for KOS. I'm not really wanting to have two out of three guards persecute me for race (I'm not even POC and I see too much of that crap IRL), and every other merchant literally pretend I'm not there, something someone on this very forum said he would do to players playing dragonborn characters. (Verbatim: &quot;It's never been a 'problem', not for long anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> &quot;) The occasional nasty comment, or an enemy talking smack about &quot;lizards&quot; or the like, is perfectly fine--but some folks seem hardcore committed to the idea that humanity has always been a hair's breadth from pulling out torches and pitchforks about the slightest deviations and that's just...it's neither historically accurate (not even in the Medieval Period!) nor particularly enjoyable.I just wanna be a cool dragon man doing cool dragon man things. Y'know, having magic in his blood; or fighting for truth, justice, and the Bahamutan way; or being a suave and dashing magic swordsman. That sort of thing. I really don't need to have the DM doling out the harshness every single session just because I like to play scaly people and think dragons are just super cool.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9411527, member: 6790260"] Exactly. When I play a dragonborn, I'm fine with them being viewed as unusual, e.g. "huh, we don't see many of your kind around here." I'm fine with them mostly keeping to themselves for any of various reasons (one of my favorites is that they had a diaspora after the loss of their homeland, so now small dragonborn enclaves exist all over the place, with no single "center"). I'm even fine with there being reasons people might be tense or uneasy with dragonborn, e.g. their association with Ber and, specifically, with [I]dragons[/I] in Zeitgeist, which have been a real problem for Risur over the centuries. But when I play one, I really am not on board for KOS. I'm not really wanting to have two out of three guards persecute me for race (I'm not even POC and I see too much of that crap IRL), and every other merchant literally [I]pretend I'm not there[/I], something someone on this very forum said he would do to players playing dragonborn characters. (Verbatim: "It's never been a 'problem', not for long anyway. ;) ") The occasional nasty comment, or an enemy talking smack about "lizards" or the like, is perfectly fine--but some folks seem hardcore committed to the idea that humanity has always been a hair's breadth from pulling out torches and pitchforks about the slightest deviations and that's just...it's neither historically accurate (not even in the Medieval Period!) nor particularly enjoyable. I just wanna be a cool dragon man doing cool dragon man things. Y'know, having magic in his blood; or fighting for truth, justice, and the Bahamutan way; or being a suave and dashing magic swordsman. That sort of thing. I really don't need to have the DM doling out the harshness every single session just because I like to play scaly people and think dragons are just super cool. [/QUOTE]

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