How Dragonborn race should look.

asterfarwell · February 2017

maatmons · February 2017

No, that's how the tiefling race should look. Or maybe like this:

If you want an anime-bishonen version of dragonborn, you should ditch the horns and add some more scales. Horns on an otherwise mostly-normal person have too strong an association with demons. And plenty of depictions of dragons lack horns. So, really, the horns undermine the concept more than they help it.

As an aside, dragonborn have been hideous from their very inception. Tieflings have a long history of looking cool in various editions. The look they gave tieflings in 4th edition is a grave injustice. The look they gave dragonborn is exactly as ugly as they were before.

waywardwizard · February 2017

Ooo no. Ichigo wannabes have no place in D&D

nameexpired · February 2017

I always think they look like stout humans with a chicken head and plucked plumes.

dread4moor · February 2017

Hell no.
Dragonborn are physiological reptilian humanoids not horned glam anime tropes.

niadan · February 2017

@nameexpired

Lol I know right!

Reptiles and chickens are related afterall.

kallephi · February 2017

Go play an anime based game

kallephi · February 2017

maatmons said:
No, that's how the tiefling race should look. Or maybe like this:

If you want an anime-bishonen version of dragonborn, you should ditch the horns and add some more scales. Horns on an otherwise mostly-normal person have too strong an association with demons. And plenty of depictions of dragons lack horns. So, really, the horns undermine the concept more than they help it.

As an aside, dragonborn have been hideous from their very inception. Tieflings have a long history of looking cool in various editions. The look they gave tieflings in 4th edition is a grave injustice. The look they gave dragonborn is exactly as ugly as they were before.

But you have to take into consideration that Tiefling pics from D&D pen and paper display all physical features at the same time. If you read the description of the race on 3.5 you can see that you can either have horns, or hoofs, or claws, not necessarily all features at once, but you could opt for having all of them.

Tiefling is the most awesome race from D&D in my opinion as I'm bound as f... to the lower planes campaigns, monsters and features.

When I started the 5E game I'm DMing (Out of the Abyss), I read about Dragonborns to see if they could fit the campaign, but from what I read they are not in Toril anymore, they are in that other plane which name I forgot.

Anyway, like you said, Dragonborns are ugly as hell. I don't like playing an ugly toon just because of the stats. I didn't play Warforgeds in DDO either xD

beckylunatic · February 2017

I made my dragonborn look as much like this

as possible. Darned right I called him Elliot.

dread4moor · February 2017

@beckylunatic
"I made my dragonborn look as much like this
as possible. Darned right I called him Elliot."

The 70s awesomeness of that picture makes me want to Puff the Magic Dragon.
Edit:
60s I guess. Still, Puff.

xgrandz02 · February 2017

if you live in a Manga world yes,
for D&D probably not xd

jumpingmorks · February 2017

lightweapon said:

Somebody pls shoot him. With an arrow to the knee preferably. And pls kindly inform him he's playing the wrong game!

EDIT:
This sounds like something right out of the Moonstone Mask, there's a reason most folk avoid that place like the plague.

mysteriasdrassa · February 2017

Ummmmmm... yeah... NO!

rafaelda · February 2017

i think you need to read the D&D book's, or at least do a Google research on D&D dragonborn...

they may be ugly for some people but is like they are in D&D ... (my brother really like them btw)

greywynd · February 2017

jumpingmorks said:

Somebody pls shoot him. With an arrow to the knee preferably. And pls kindly inform him he's playing the wrong game!

EDIT:
This sounds like something right out of the Moonstone Mask, there's a reason most folk avoid that place like the plague.

In Nordic/Scandinavian countries, "taking an arrow to the knee" meant that you are getting married/already got married.

nameexpired · February 2017

xgrandz02 said:
if you live in a Manga world yes,
for D&D probably not xd

Well, living in DnD did not keep Cryptic from outfitting my human TR with a Manga face.

pitshade · February 2017

And your elf GWF!?

nameexpired · February 2017

Her unmatched beauty is not a matter of discussion.
And her fangs more so.

I don't really know, but when Cryptic introduced "Manga 2.0" style the "old" faces did stay for a time at least. Only if you entered the Tower of Alteration did the many features we had in Beta vanish, to be manga-nized.
As I usually only my GWF's backside, but rarely her face, I don't know if she still has her "old face" or if the face was downgraded to Manga while I was AFK for a few months.

Oh, yes, forgot to mention, I was with my TR once in the tower of alteration after manga-gate. What a mistake.

qwregt · February 2017

i kind of dig the picture alot and how he looks alot better with the horns cause when i had seen how they made the dragonborn and the female one thought they where ugly

pitshade · February 2017

@ nameexpired

Your character's face ia unchanged unless you do the alteration route - the old faces still exist but can no longer be selected. I had to change my TR's hair because it was bugged and her face got altered then. Otherwise all is unchanged, right down to my CW's ridiculously long nails.

How Dragonborn race should look.

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