I’ve said I
dislike dragons. But I dislike dragonborn even more. I hate them.
Excuse me
for ranting a bit.
To me, they
personify lack of imagination and making everything boring that was cool. They make
the fantastical outright mundane, and that’s never a good thing. The existence
of dragonborn severely undermines the mythology of dragons. Apparently, WotC wants to make dragons truly legendary. Well, if people see dragon creatures in
the streets every day, that just isn’t
going to work.
Dragonmen
were around in the game before 4E. In order of most interesting to least: Dragonlance had draconians, born out of
corrupted eggs stolen from metallic dragons. There were different kinds of
draconians, and they were pretty cool. For example, the Aurak draconian would
explode when it reached 0 hp, and another one turned to stone, trapping his
attacker’s sword. Dark Sun had the
Dray, a race created by an undead dragon king, and the Forgotten Realms had Dragonkin, barbarian dragonmen under the
control of the Cult of the Dragon.
So it might
have been a good idea for 4E to combine them into one dragonkin race. But did
the designers make them barbarians created by an undead dragon king, born from
corrupted dragon eggs who explode upon death? No, they made them boring
paladins.
I hate
dragonborn.
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