Editing Dragonborn (section)

==The Dragonboobs Controversy==
[[File:Female Dragonborn Rogue.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The pic that started the whole controversy.]]
[[Image:Dragonborn2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nowhere in the PHB fluff did it say Dragonborn have tits, just this one picture in a sidebar. [[Derp|Goddamnit]].]]
When 4e was releasing its first teasers, the dragonborn drew some attention, positive and negative, just for being new. But one pic in particular caught peoples' eyes. A female dragonborn rogue, wearing a "bikini-style" leather armor cuirass, which you can see on the left here. It didn't matter that her chest was barely as round as the pectorals on some depictions of [[Conan the Barbarian]], the internet promptly '''exploded''' with fury and protests, mocking WoTC for resorting to such basic sexual dimorphism, blasting the dragonborn for being a [[furry]] race, and just endlessly bitching about the fact that dragonborn should ''not'' have breasts.

How did WoTC respond? Did they decide to do something original and remove the boobs? Nope. In the PHB, they released artwork for the dragonborn where the female had ''visible'' cleavage, and followed it up by stating in their Ecology article that dragonborn are not reptiles, but actually scaly monotremes; females lay eggs and then nurse their young for the first few months of their lives. They also pointed out that [[dragon]]s themselves are not reptiles by any taxonomist's standing, given their skeletal structure, musculature and warm blood makes them closer to mammals than anything else.

Exactly why this controversy didn't erupt until 4e is unclear. A dragonborn in [[Fantasy Armor|boobplate]] could be seen in RotD way back in 3.5e, but everyone just sort of ignored it.

The meme is still around today, but people got used to it and so it's a fairly tired meme at this point. Most people legitimately don't give a shit anymore, and are more likely to complain about the dragonborn's lack of a tail.

As of 5e, dragonborn seem to have been de-retconned back into ''boobless'' reptiles.
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