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#1 Nethos May 20, 2015 12:07:25	I have a question about the intricacies of dragonborn birthing biology: do they give birth to live young like mammals/the other races, or do they lay eggs like other lizards and dragons? I need to know, to help with character creation.
#2 Tempest_Stormwind May 20, 2015 12:19:15	In 3.5, they reproduced by transforming volunteers from other races into their number, done via an egg and a ritual.   I'm not sure how it worked in 4e, but my guess is "egg". All dragons seem to lay eggs, and the dragonborn are closer to them than they are to mammals. And even then, some mammals lay eggs.   5e is mum on the matter, but they do say "hatched from eggs of dragons" (though this is origin story, not modern reproduction), "inbreeding" (meaning, not assimilation as in 3.5), and "clutchmate" (a "clutch" specifically refers to a group of eggs; this same concept was very significant in the hatched-from-eggs thri-kreen race in Dark Sun). And there's no artwork of female dragonborn with mammalian secondary sex characteristics in this edition so far to confuse the issue.   All signs point to "they lay eggs".
#3 HermanTheWize May 20, 2015 12:13:55	Dragonborns orginate from eggs, so my guess is eggs. But I have no evidence past their initial conception.
#4 AaronOfBarbaria May 20, 2015 12:21:13	The phrasing of the Dragonborn description is clear that they originally hatched from dragon eggs, but doesn't clearly state whether they do or do not hatch from dragonborn eggs after that point.   ...my question is, how does whether they are born like mammals or hatched like reptiles have any bearing on character creation?
#5 Tempest_Stormwind May 20, 2015 12:24:36	AaronOfBarbaria wrote:
(Reply to #5) AaronOfBarbaria	Tempest_Stormwind wrote:
#7 Nethos May 20, 2015 15:22:17	My main thing is that my dragonborn has been adopted by halflings, but I didn't know if they would stumble across a baby, or if they could find an egg, and not know what it was.
(Reply to #7) AaronOfBarbaria	Nethos wrote:
#9 Kentor_Slowhand_02 May 20, 2015 20:54:20	If anything, an egg found by a halfling is going to end up as an omlette...lol
(Reply to #9) AaronOfBarbaria	Kentor_Slowhand_02 wrote:
#11 Tempest_Stormwind May 21, 2015 6:03:52	Halflings are every bit about community as they are about food - arguably more so in any edition where they aren't hobbits, especially in their Romani-inspired forms. (See Greyhawk especially, and the lightfoot stereotype in Faerun. The Talenta or Ghallanda halflings in Eberron also count to a point; Eberron's Jorasco halflings and Dark Sun's cannibals, less so.) Arguably, community is the halfling's Hat, much like ambition is the Human's Hat.
#12 Mechatarrasque May 21, 2015 7:25:55	I like the idea of the dragonborn bonding on halfling parents.  The question of would halflings recognize a dragonborn egg and what they would do if they recognized the egg is setting specific.  If dragonborn are rare, then the halflings might not know what the mysterious big (I assume) egg is.  The story works best if dragonborn aren't  common in the area where the halflings are or if they won't take an egg that's left the nest back.
#13 BRJN May 22, 2015 16:33:29	A group of Halfling "adventurers" - more like the Town Constabulatory - followed an Owlbear into a cave, believing they would trap the beast in its lair, or at least in a dead end.  Unbeknownst to any of them, a Dragonborn was incubating a clutch of eggs in the cave.  Those eggs had just hatched that morning.  The Dragonborn and the Owlbear took each other on, and when the Halflings arrived they found the duel, plus some younglings creeping away from their nest / whatever.  Both the Owlbear and the adult Dragonborn fell to their foe(s).  One of the halflings decided to 'adopt' the clutch-mates.   According to lore:  During the 4e playtests, somebody playing a proto-Dragonborn insured the adoption of the egg origin by asking, "Can I have hatched?!  Can I keep a piece of my shell?"