I’m an old gamer so when I cracked the 4e PHB and found that Dragonborn top the list of races (alphabetic order or course) I did a double take.  Understand that I’m not a big fan of playing walking lizards. 

Back in the day we had lizardmen and they were just nasty to deal with.  Anyone else ever run the old Quagmire module?  (Sorry I can’t even find a link to it).  Anyway to point is that the art in the player’s handbook reminded me of lizardmen (not the new fangled lizard folk).  So I didn’t like dragonborn from the get go.

The only other point of reference is to the Dragonlance setting, where the bad guys were generally the draconic creatures.  If you ever played the old Dragonlance AD&D computer games (me and my commodore 64 spent many hours together), then you know the frustration of fighting these bad boys.  Everytime you killed one you either lost your weapon or got exploded.

But the 4th edition dragonborn have a different spin.  They are honorable, loyal, courageous - all of the good things you would want in a paladin leading the fray.  They sound pretty cool.  Also they get a nifty breath weapon, and that can be plenty of help in a pinch, I don’t care who you are.

My problem is still that I don’t like playing a lizard.  I guess I’ll just have to buckle down and get over it.  I have actually played one - but I can’t say I like the idea of being a talking lizard.  Like so many other aspects of the game it will grow on me.

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