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I've been thinking about dragonborn lately thanks to re-reading the 4e splatbook. I like the idea of how diverse they potentially look, though I think breasts look kinda dumb on a reptile. At least one of these characters is female - I definitely figured the bearded-dragon based rogue (or bard) is a girl dragonborn. I imagine her as being sort of an Indiana Jones type, focused on finding and recovering Arkhosian artifacts.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 780 x 1280px
File Size 175 kB
Dragonborn are the only reason I tried 4th edition (which I don't despise, I just don't like it). Your drawings are cool enough that I want to play 4th edition again, which is bad because I don't want to play 4th edition and now I'm surfing amazon to buy the core rulebook.
With 5e on the way, a lot of people seem to be getting rid of 4e stuff, and hopefully there should be cheap books out there for you. Exactly three of my collection were things I got new (I bought the core books back 'when, they got stolen and a friend bought me new core books), everything else has been stuff I picked up from used bookstores/used games bins. I actually like 4e a lot, but realize most people hate it.
So far my search hasn't been very fruitful, but I live in Italy: many low price books are avaible in America and the shipping cost from there to here are... wow.
Don't get me wrong, though, I don't hate 4th edition, I just find it unappealing. I haven't read much of it, so I can't really discuss it in depth, but from what I've read I had the feeling that mechanics were elaborated in a way that felt too videogame-ish. That class has that power that does more or less what that other classes' power although with different SFX and flavour, and this is *very* good in terms of game balance but it bothered me. From what I could gather from my somewhat superficial approach to the 4th edition it was very good in terms of game balance and combat rules, but I felt it lacked flavour in the "utility" compartment of the mechanics.
I'm not the kind of gamer that despises rule-heavy systems (unless it's excessively so), nor am I the kind that shuns video-gamey combat (which is sorta the D&D feel to combat, I think) and favors above all else roleplay and character interaction. What I favor above everything else in any RPG is having fun, whichever way best suits all players collectively, may it be combat play, interpretative play, diceless, a bit of everything and so on and so forth.
I guess that much of my lack of interest in 4th edition is also due to the fact that I went over to Pathfinder, which I preferred because it was more familiar (I've played most of my teen life 3rd edition), but had those slight changes that appealed to me, and also because I disliked the layout in 4th edition books. I sort of, kind of have a fetish for RPG manuals (that does not mean that I do anything gross with them. Unless constantly oogling them and cherishing them counts as gross) and Pathfinder's are -to me- practically core book porn.
Whoa, what a wall of text! Beg your pardon, but I like to discuss this kinds of things and wanted to advance my viewpoint in the most precise fashon my knowledge of english could achieve.
TL;DR version: I don't hate 4th edition, it just happened at the same time as Pathfinder, which I happen to prefer.
P.S.: I kept writing "Ptahfinder" instead of Pathfinder. Damned egyptian gods.
Don't get me wrong, though, I don't hate 4th edition, I just find it unappealing. I haven't read much of it, so I can't really discuss it in depth, but from what I've read I had the feeling that mechanics were elaborated in a way that felt too videogame-ish. That class has that power that does more or less what that other classes' power although with different SFX and flavour, and this is *very* good in terms of game balance but it bothered me. From what I could gather from my somewhat superficial approach to the 4th edition it was very good in terms of game balance and combat rules, but I felt it lacked flavour in the "utility" compartment of the mechanics.
I'm not the kind of gamer that despises rule-heavy systems (unless it's excessively so), nor am I the kind that shuns video-gamey combat (which is sorta the D&D feel to combat, I think) and favors above all else roleplay and character interaction. What I favor above everything else in any RPG is having fun, whichever way best suits all players collectively, may it be combat play, interpretative play, diceless, a bit of everything and so on and so forth.
I guess that much of my lack of interest in 4th edition is also due to the fact that I went over to Pathfinder, which I preferred because it was more familiar (I've played most of my teen life 3rd edition), but had those slight changes that appealed to me, and also because I disliked the layout in 4th edition books. I sort of, kind of have a fetish for RPG manuals (that does not mean that I do anything gross with them. Unless constantly oogling them and cherishing them counts as gross) and Pathfinder's are -to me- practically core book porn.
Whoa, what a wall of text! Beg your pardon, but I like to discuss this kinds of things and wanted to advance my viewpoint in the most precise fashon my knowledge of english could achieve.
TL;DR version: I don't hate 4th edition, it just happened at the same time as Pathfinder, which I happen to prefer.
P.S.: I kept writing "Ptahfinder" instead of Pathfinder. Damned egyptian gods.
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