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I'd do Sheeva in a heartbeat

As would I, although I get the feeling that it would actually be her doing me.

Was trying to decide if dragon halfs would be a thing in my fantasy verse or not. So was curious if people even liked them in general.

Just don't make them a Mary Sue-race. I hate those.

Gimme an example of what you consider a Mary sue race

The elves from Eragon. :I

The problem is that dragons are almost always incredibly powerful, but make up for it by being huge monsters. It's ok for them to be like that. If you gave their attributes - innate and immense magical powers, physical superiority, high intelligence, longevity and the ability to breath fire/miscellaneous abilities - to something humanoid then any character is going to seem like a Mary Sue off the bat. Races like that, that are so far above human, are composed entirely on Mary Sue's, hence the name.

There have been a bunch of Half-Dragon characters that are completely insufferable because of how innately overpowered they are.

But then again, the Elves were one upped by the awesome that is Roran on multiple occasions.

Roran is pretty cool yes, up until he killed 100 guys in one fight, one at a time standing on a mountain of corpses.

Which was retarded and sounds like some more Eragon-wank.

200.

I loved it because it was so hilariously over the top that I just couldn't help but love it. haermm

The writing is at its best when concerning Eragon's brothers than him.

And Eragon's pants?

Still down.

Originally posted by Nephthys
The elves from Eragon. :I

The problem is that dragons are almost always incredibly powerful, but make up for it by being huge monsters. It's ok for them to be like that. If you gave their attributes - innate and immense magical powers, physical superiority, high intelligence, longevity and the ability to breath fire/miscellaneous abilities - to something humanoid then any character is going to seem like a Mary Sue off the bat. Races like that, that are so far above human, are composed entirely on Mary Sue's, hence the name.

There have been a bunch of Half-Dragon characters that are completely insufferable because of how innately overpowered they are.

Characters being powerful is fine. Its just when you get an entire race being incredibly powerful that it gets bad imo.

Originally posted by Nephthys
The elves from Eragon. :I

The problem is that dragons are almost always incredibly powerful, but make up for it by being huge monsters. It's ok for them to be like that. If you gave their attributes - innate and immense magical powers, physical superiority, high intelligence, longevity and the ability to breath fire/miscellaneous abilities - to something humanoid then any character is going to seem like a Mary Sue off the bat. Races like that, that are so far above human, are composed entirely on Mary Sue's, hence the name.

There have been a bunch of Half-Dragon characters that are completely insufferable because of how innately overpowered they are.

You can avoid the Mary Suedom if you write them properly.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Characters being powerful is fine. Its just when you get an entire race being incredibly powerful that it gets bad imo.

Unless you have a ton of races but you want to hold two or three up as being objectively better for whatever reason. Within reason.

Don't Uchiha it up basically.

Basically.

Originally posted by Lek Kuen
Half-dragons yay or nay? The concept in general

They're fine as a concept, assuming everything makes sense and they're not ridiculously common. It also depends a lot on the setting's dragons.

Just my opinion, but if dragons are huge greedy/wise/magical and immortal beings, they're not typically going to care about humans. If they're long lived enough they might even overlook humans with a shorter lifespan. Hard to romance something that dies in a subjective blink of an eye. A lot of dragons tend to consider themselves superior as well, and may not even consider mating with a "lesser" being.

On the physical side, dragons with shapeshifting powers will naturally lead to more half-dragons, and those without with fewer because there's always that one person.

Ahh. Wouldn't make it a whole race anyway, just an occasional occurrence. Especially since my dragons don't really have their own culture

Don't give your dragons shapeshifting abilities.

Just...leave it to the readers imagination.

Originally posted by The Scenario
They're fine as a concept, assuming everything makes sense and they're not ridiculously common. It also depends a lot on the setting's dragons.

Just my opinion, but if dragons are huge greedy/wise/magical and immortal beings, they're not typically going to care about humans. If they're long lived enough they might even overlook humans with a shorter lifespan. Hard to romance something that dies in a subjective blink of an eye. A lot of dragons tend to consider themselves superior as well, and may not even consider mating with a "lesser" being.

On the physical side, dragons with shapeshifting powers will naturally lead to more half-dragons, and those without with fewer because there's always that one person.

Originally posted by Lek Kuen
My dragons while huge and magical and intelligent, live with the stories central races because they found it beneficial to them. So though they are possibly smarter then them they live semi sub serviant roles out of sense of ancient duty/laziness. Basically they do have a connection to them. Ur mostly do it sense they don't have to worry about guarding their eggs and stuff since people take care of it for them.

Hm, cool. So the dragons stay close to humans for food and such, in exchange for protecting cities or doing some other work?

Though if they're living that close half-dragons are guaranteed.