Q. Flestrin
2017-03-25, 08:20 AM
So, dwarves are stout folk of the rock and stone, with a love for the beauty of the underworld and of works wrought by hands. Elves are graceful people of the trees and earth, who laugh and sing and dance under the branches throughout their long lives. Halflings are simply short guys who love their large families and small lives, and who will walk through hell to get back to them. Gnomes pursue art in their hollow hills, half-elves and -orcs live between two worlds, tieflings bear a curse on their brow. We're (I assume) humans. It's easy to get a handle on these guys.
But what are dragonborn? The 5e Player's Handbook doesn't give much, just that they're clannish and look like dragons, and, as much as I think crawling inside a giant egg because you love Bahamut so much as per Races of the Dragon is a fun idea, I know that that isn't everyone's cup of tea. Now, there's nothing wrong with just wanting to play a big strong dragon boy, but dragonborn don't seem to have a defined place in the lore that lets me get a handle on 'em, either as a player or as a DM.
So, my question is, first off, do they have more defined lore that I haven't encountered, and second, if not, what can I as a player do to get into the mindset of a dragonborn, and what can I as a DM do to give them a good place in my setting?
(I do have one thought setting-wise, which is that, much as the yuan-ti dragged innocent snakes into their transhumanist social Darwinism b.s., the dragonborn are actually transhumanists who have nothing to do with dragons besides worshiping them. I still welcome other ideas.)
But what are dragonborn? The 5e Player's Handbook doesn't give much, just that they're clannish and look like dragons, and, as much as I think crawling inside a giant egg because you love Bahamut so much as per Races of the Dragon is a fun idea, I know that that isn't everyone's cup of tea. Now, there's nothing wrong with just wanting to play a big strong dragon boy, but dragonborn don't seem to have a defined place in the lore that lets me get a handle on 'em, either as a player or as a DM.
So, my question is, first off, do they have more defined lore that I haven't encountered, and second, if not, what can I as a player do to get into the mindset of a dragonborn, and what can I as a DM do to give them a good place in my setting?
(I do have one thought setting-wise, which is that, much as the yuan-ti dragged innocent snakes into their transhumanist social Darwinism b.s., the dragonborn are actually transhumanists who have nothing to do with dragons besides worshiping them. I still welcome other ideas.)