Personally, I don't see the connection between Dragonborn and MMORPG, but that might just be me. Judging the race before you've even seen its qualities or design is also rather... prejudiced, IMO. That's not to say I like the sound of 'Dragonborn', but if they end up being the half-orc of the standard races (ie: very specialized, and a player can expect trouble for his char if he takes it) for 4th, and not too over-the-top (no wings, firebreathing or anything like that) I say: why not?
Hm... you are right. The assumption is not based on true facts, more on half clues. The fact of the Tieflings (they are creating races with 'cool ancestor' leads), the direction it went with the Dragon Shaman, the call of some people for such a race due to general feel people have for dragons, their name, the drawings that do not look like lizardmen (see further in the link provided by aVenger, you can see the discussion on it and I don't know if you seen these, but they look rather like the half-dragons (though less scaly) of MM, than lizardmen);
Still after all said and done it is circumstances I say this on, and as I tend to be (here and Gleemax) a person that says to many to ease up with the discussion and that you can decide for your own what you want... Guess my tiredness is even showing here
I apoligize.
I still stand by my point if it indeed becomes flying/breath weapon/true dragon blood stuff it is in my humble opinion a bit too far, and I stand by the people that call for the 'normal' stuff to be in PHB and the more exotic ones later.
Edit:My biggest problem with it is one of convenience. This is the first time in the history of D&D that I don't feel comfortable with turning absolutely everything in the PHB loose with the players, and that I couldn't find everything in the PHB usable in almost any D&D campaign I'd choose to run. The PHB will be sufficiently "non-vanilla" that I feel like I'll have to have a list saying, "you can't use this, this, and this in my new campaign" instead of saying, "you can use the PHB, and these parts of the following supplement books."
Reading again I found this said by a person. I actually think that very well defines why I dislike the changes. As said I have even DM a person with a Blackscale Lizard as race... Guess I am slightly a hypocrite for that, but pls just not in PHB... it just gives me, personally, a feel they are indeed going into a more forced high fantasy world (instead of the difference between them when you look at the huge difference between Dark Sun (though this setting has some odd races of its own, I have to agree) and Planar Setting for instance), along with a (and that is straight from a
WoTC member) pull in the settings to a more "points of light" style of play. It just seems they are pushing a bit into much a generalisation in rules and a general feel of getting all the settings more alike... I personally enjoyed the diversity of it all.
Edited by Deathsangel, 26 November 2007 - 07:22 AM.