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Originally Posted by JLV
Speaking in merely generic terms (and not intending to critique anyone's game in any way), I would think that making armor from the skin of a sentient being might be considered somewhat of a faux pas in any society as mixed in species make up as the typical "high fantasy" society is.
Plus, Dragons, being the kind of creatures they are, might collectively take a pretty dim view of the whole idea. If their senses permit them to detect the presence of someone wearing a skin of one of their kind (by scent, say), I suspect something in the nature of a total war might be declared on, at a minimum, the wearer of said skin and any companions with them or village/city that harbors them. (How would most of US feel if someone showed up wearing the skin of a human being as "armor"? Worse, what if we knew or were related to said skin's former owner?)
I bring this up, not to say this is a bad idea or wrongthink, but rather to point out some of the complications that I think a GM could legitimately apply if this kind of situation crops up...
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I think when you are facing a creature that often eats intelligent races, they don't have a moral ground to stand on. This assumes of course you treat dragons in the standard fantasy trope version (which I do). Now, it might make things bad if you meet a dragon that would otherwise have been benign, but I disagree that anyone would care about it when you are dealing with a monster that eats people on the regular.
Also, dragon armor is cool!