Challenge of the Day

[buffleheaded]

Icon related. Anyway, I found something of a masochistic challenge: Reading fifteen pages of srs discussion about whether or not 4th edition D&D Dragonborn should have boobs.

I wasn't even halfway through the first page before I had to resort to skimming. W-what the hell is this madness. XD Does this count as canon/fandom gone wild?

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[sleepfighter]

...why. Just. No.

[buffleheaded]

That's pretty much the best response to this in general.

[sleepfighter]

Oh 4e meta debates, why you gotta be so special?

[buffleheaded]

When I first read that, I mistook "4e" for "4chan." ...And it somehow fit in my mind.

[fingeroflife]

All 4E debates are very, very special.

[buffleheaded]

Mm, and I came to this just after getting back to my apartment from a long lecture about Freudian symbols in a terrible, terrible fantasy story about some kind of vampire/medusa. XD

It's like the genre picked today for all of it to conspire against me.

[batsuxmachina]

…Oh jesus. I weep for humanity.

[buffleheaded]

My humanity hurts and stings.

[spring_spring]

.....this amuses me terribly because while I do not follow anything D&D related in the least, by sheer coincidence I'd been playing with a vague world/setting idea in the last couple months that featured human/dragon hybrids. For which I did, in fact, work out all the terrible little details like how it even worked and what the offspring would look like down to little features like that and everything. So this just made me lol.

[buffleheaded]

The thing is that, while I don't even remember what the backstory for Dragonborn is (and, in fact, there isn't even any guarantee it'll stay the same between 3.x edition and 4th)...if the human/dragon hybrid is the result of some human/dragon sexing you get a Half-Dragon, which is apparently an entirely different thing altogether (which in itself does not exactly cut what most people would call a titillating figure). XD

[spring_spring]

Huh. Though you know, that image really just looks like an .....damn I just forgot how to spell the word and am too lazy to look it up but basically a humanized dragon, less than a hybrid. XD

And this is starting to remind me of the time when I was in like 6th grade and one of my brother's friends brought over his D&D monster manual and I spent the afternoon critiquing things in it. >_>;;;

[buffleheaded]

Yeah, a humanized dragon is basically what a half-dragon is. XD

I think the monster manual just kind of invites it. I was having a laugh over the stuff in it with my roommates just a few days ago.

[artistshipper]

Why people care is beyond me. If you like imaging them with, ermm attributes, run them that way in your campaign. If not, don't.

Though i would point out that while not as bad as white wolf, WOTC does have it's fan service, so you know what my guess is.

[buffleheaded]

Mm, I hate to say it, but there is a certain demographic that is still widely accepted as the base of tabletop roleplayers.

Honestly, I think one of the things I love the most about tabletop is that everyone can kind of mix and match stuff however works best for their campaign; most of the people I play with would go with the "attributes" just for the hell of making a boob joke, but there's a few I know who would go the other way just for the fun of seeing the less intelligent party members make gender mistakes.

All in all, people just need to relax. XD