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If they are reptiles and give egg birth, they don't, if you want them to have live birth (as there are some snakes that do that) they MAY, but I think that the snakes in question still don't have belly buttons...
EDIT TO ADD:
Even better:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-reptile-equivalent-of-a-belly-button
The bellybutton on reptiles fuses, so I would say NO BELLY BUTTON on a Vesk. :)
If they are reptiles and give egg birth, they don't, if you want them to have live birth (as there are some snakes that do that) they MAY, but I think that the snakes in question still don't have belly buttons...
EDIT TO ADD:
Even better:https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-reptile-equivalent-of-a-belly-button
The bellybutton on reptiles fuses, so I would say NO BELLY BUTTON on a Vesk. :)
This is what scientists do everyday. Comparing is the key to understanding. It's why most scientists believe birds and dinosaurs are related.
I was under the impression that birds ARE dinosaurs...or as Crystal Frasier eloquently put it "birds never forgot they used to be dinosaurs, and they're bitter about it!"
I asked about this very question, "are birds dinosaurs?" and I got a no. A flat out no.
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Do vesk have bellybuttons?
My only regret is that this wasn't posted on the rules questions forum so we could get the entire design team to weigh in. :D
Races without belly buttons:
Bantrids.
Androids (unless built in for fun)
Vesk (potentially)
SROs
Shirren (bugs don't have belly buttons)
Formians
Barathu
the plant things from Pact Worlds
I believe this sort of thing was covered somehwere, but don't remember the thread. Vesk do not have mammary glands so they would not have that piece of mammalian anatomy, and also aren't mammalian and are not placental.
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We're not likely to make an official ruling on the question of vesk bellybuttons until or unless it becomes important for an adventure plot or rules element. That doesn't seem likely to me, but in strange eons...
And who knows, we might do a Veskarium book where we felt the need for more complete biological info.
Unofficially, I'd say vesk certainly don't have bellybuttons. Even if they aren't egg-layers, it seems likely they'd have that anatomy fuse over, given their armored exteriors.
Unofficially, I'd say desk certainly don't have bellybuttons.
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We're not likely to make an official ruling on the question of vesk bellybuttons until or unless it becomes important for an adventure plot or rules element. That doesn't seem likely to me, but in strange eons...
And who knows, we might do a Veskarium book where we felt the need for more complete biological info.
Unofficially, I'd say vesk certainly don't have bellybuttons. Even if they aren't egg-layers, it seems likely they'd have that anatomy fuse over, given their armored exteriors.
On the other hand, human culture is pretty infectious. If vesk are able to go in to the corner bodyshop for scale re-coloring or texture alteration/resurfacing, it's also possible that they might start deciding to get belly buttons strictly for fashion.
"But Mooooooooooom, I needed a belly button so I could wearing navel piercings."
or
"Katara's favorite trid starlet Nomezi® always wears belly-baring outfits, so for her birthday, I got her a giftcred at Body by Mu so she can get an innie."
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We're not likely to make an official ruling on the question of vesk bellybuttons until or unless it becomes important for an adventure plot or rules element. That doesn't seem likely to me, but in strange eons...
And who knows, we might do a Veskarium book where we felt the need for more complete biological info.
Unofficially, I'd say vesk certainly don't have bellybuttons. Even if they aren't egg-layers, it seems likely they'd have that anatomy fuse over, given their armored exteriors.
Seems to me that the official ruling would/should come around the time there's a need for an artist to depict a vesk without a shirt on and/or an exposed stomach.
I'm wondering whether that's something an artist would check with you guys first on or if they'd make an assumption and, when you got the art, would have to make a decision as to whether or not to send it back if they got it 'wrong'.
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I'm wondering whether that's something an artist would check with you guys first on or if they'd make an assumption and, when you got the art, would have to make a decision as to whether or not to send it back if they got it 'wrong'.
That can be an issue. We try to have references we send out, and check things at a sketch stage to make sure there aren't issues, but we still end up with disconnects sometimes between text and art.
well at least we have an un-official designer idea that they would not. so those intense questions are answered! :)