Dragonborn wearing Dragonscale , Appropriate or Abhorrent

[Phasics]

Are there any cultural implications here ? for a Dragonborn to wear a Dragons skin as armor.


dont mind me while I derail my own post

Is there such a thing as DragonbornScale Armor, best part is that its already the right size for a human I figure there might be some implications to wear such armor along the lines of wearing Human Hide Armor

I can already envision half a campagin around the secret farming of dragonborn for thier skins

Thoughts ?

 

[Mercule]

I'm going to go with "that's creepy."

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Well... When the Dragonborn had their empire, dragons were the rulers so I imagine for those Dragonborn who consider themselves faithful and true to their past it would be very taboo. However could be interesting to see Dragonborn who viewed that past as one of slavery by the dragons and so they actually seek out and wear dragon-skin armour and trophies from dragons on them.

As for simply dragon-styled armour, like scaled-armour, etc. I imagine the Dragonborn would give out such armour to those who have proven themselves or are rulers.

 

[Incenjucar]

It really depends on what -dragons- thing of the practice.

Considering its their skin and they're intelligent beings.

 

[Almacov]

Excellent questions to develop on, Phasics.

As for the second bit, I think this sort of thing is the real reason kobolds developed a racial hatred for gnomes.

 

[Phasics]

Actually I just thought of a interesting cultural idea for dragonborn

When you die its tradition (for a certain group) to hand down thier skin to thier decendants. The Armor is a collection of ancestor skins handed down and repaired with the most recent dead relatives skin. If there is enough the may be multiple scale armors in any given family forever being reapired and added to. Thus a Dragonborn's Ancestral armor is a true map of his herritage.

dpending on how tough a dragonborn skin gets (assuming racial AC bonus feats) the skin armor could be augmented with traditonal armor, so the skin may in places be covering metal chainlink, scales or plates.

 

[Kurotowa]

It's also important to make the distinction between dragonhide and dragonscale. The former requires you to skin a dead dragon, the latter is possible from shed scales. I can see an arrangement where it's a mark of highest honor for a dragon to gift a dragonborn with enough cast off scales to make armor from.

 

[Cadfan]

Wearing dragonscale is ALWAYS creepy, since its a sentient being. It would be like wearing human flesh. Just because its useful doesn't make it less creepy. Cannibalism wouldn't become suddenly understandable and culturally acceptable if it were discovered that people were really tasty.

That being said, assuming that wearing dragonscale is for some inexplicable reason an ok thing to do for humans or elves or dwarves, I don't know why it would be unacceptable for dragonborn. Human beings have been eating monkeys for a long, long time. Eating them.

 

[captaincursor]

It would be about as creepy as the human ranger wearing the "Gorilla Hide" that grants him a bonus to climb, or an halfling warlock who wears "demonskin" leather.

I would imagine that lots of characters will be wearing the skin of something intelligent and/or kinda related.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Actually I just thought of a interesting cultural idea for dragonborn

When you die its tradition (for a certain group) to hand down thier skin to thier decendants. The Armor is a collection of ancestor skins handed down and repaired with the most recent dead relatives skin. If there is enough the may be multiple scale armors in any given family forever being reapired and added to. Thus a Dragonborn's Ancestral armor is a true map of his herritage.

dpending on how tough a dragonborn skin gets (assuming racial AC bonus feats) the skin armor could be augmented with traditonal armor, so the skin may in places be covering metal chainlink, scales or plates.

I imagine it would also be a great offense to sell/lose the armour. Like someone losing the sword they were given. Just think how much "trouble" (to use the term likely) a non-Dragonborn would get into if they saw him wearing that armour.