Dragonborn in Dungeons & Dragons 5e
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Dragonborn: "my father is a Dragon"
Draconic Warlock: "my daddy is a Dragon"
A dragonborn with draconic bloodline.
I hate that I liked that
*God Damnit*
@@ferociousmaliciousghost "my father is my daddy"
[Sweet Home Alabama sounds in the background]
Lmao How would that even work??
If the mother was a mortal and the father was a dragon
**shudders** I don’t like to think about it...
In my games, I let Dragonborn use their Breath Weapon as a bonus action... so that they actually use it. It works well.
I would abuse that so much.
@@ShinGallon They can still only use it once per short rest, the only thing I changed is that they can use it as a bonus action instead of their action. No real way to abuse that, it's just one turn with a little bit better damage output.
Aah, I took it like you meant they could do it every bonus action.
@Alan Michel Thomaz 2d6 damage averages to 7 points of damage, that MIGHT be applied to more than one person if the Dragonborn gets lucky with positioning. And they can only so it once per short rest. AND those targeted still get to make a dex save to take half of that damage.
Compare that to humans who can take a feat at first level and humans still have the better feature.
Been playing this way for years, trust me, it is nowhere near too powerful
I really like that.
Our DM gave our dragonborn barbarian a homebrew feat that powers up the breath weapon and allows him to make it replace one of his attacks, plus makes it recharge on a 7-8 on a d8 at the end of his turn. It’s actually useable now.
My DM lets me add my constitution modifier to my breath weapon. I had an item at one time that allowed me to change the area of effect of my breath weapon too.
Why 7-8 on a d8? Why not just 4 on a d4?
Fantomp Idk, I’m not the DM
Seems a bit OP imo.
Michael Cross Our entire campaign is OP, so fuck it am I right?
My favorite character I ever created was a Dragonborn drunken master monk named Chakkie Jann. He was a copper Dragonborn so he had the 5 x 30ft acid line and I rp’ed it as him puking when he did his breath weapon. He was pretty skilled as a combatant and memorable as a character.
Holy fuck hahaha that's utterly hilarious. At that point they've transcended mastery of the drunkenness, they are now legend
I had an idea to make a copper Dragonborn monk who’s specialty move was to grapple, pin, then puke acid on the enemy’s face 😅
Yours is better
That is how i always play breath weapon.
D-Risky 49 I kept trying to do that but something always happened and I never got the chance. The best I could do was melt about 5 low level enemies at one time.
Lol awesome
Because of the way the abilities are worded, as a tempest domain cleric Dragonborn with a lightning breath weapon, you can use your Channel Divinity to maximize the damage of your breath weapon
That was my second ever character
At level 6, you can use the breath weapon to push creatures as well.
Lian Zhu and you push all creatures you damage with your lightning breath, not just one
Older video, but I wanted to talk about my Red Dragonborn!
My first ever D&D character, and I obviously fell in love with Dragonborn. When thinking about Ancestry and how red dragons are evil, I decided to make a red Dragonborn who was/is discriminated against for being a RED Dragonborn.
He was viewed as untrustworthy and had been unable to find steady work. So, I went against typing (as I love to do), and made him a rogue.
He turned to a life of crime, stealing from the wealthy who look down on him and sharing his wealth with those less fortunate than he is.
For his flaw, I played up the rage and anger aspect of red dragons and had him prone to violent outbursts, which he then feels extreme guilt about because he feels like when he can’t control himself, everyone one who looked down on him was right to do so.
Love this
Question, I’m new to DnD and I’m thinking of making a Dragonborn character as my first character as well, I’m just a bit confused as to what I would arm him with. I can’t really tell if their physical build allows them to be war hammer weilders or other bladed weapons, or even bows? I kinda had an idea for a rogue dragonborn, Bow and Battle axe or hammer.
@@virtualpancakes A Dragonborn's physical build doesn't effect what weapons they can use, typically the only factor is if the race you're playing is small or medium. If you're small, you can't wield weapons with the Heavy property.
So a Dragonborn can wield any weapon. What you're going to run into is the fact that a battle axe or hammer uses your Strength score to determine its attack bonus and damage, the bow would use your Dexterity. As a rogue, generally you'd want your Dexterity to be high as it's used for other Rogue skills (stealth, slight of hand, etc.), so you'd want to use weapons with the Finesse property as that let's you use your Dexterity instead of Strength.
Lastly, I don't believe Rogues are proficient with battle axes, so you'd have an even harder time hitting someone with it as you wouldn't get any bonus to your attack rolls.
Your class typically dictates what weapons you'd be using, so for a Rogue, it would be daggers, short swords, rapiers, bows. That's where you'd get your money's worth.
While it's not impossible to do, it wouldn't be easy to execute a Dragonborn Rogue with a battle axe. But talk to your DM! See what they can help you with! :)
@@Nohawkkid008 thank you so much for the reply 😁 so helpful and insightful! I decided to go for a dwarf sorcerer build! Rolled my stats and I’m happy with one of my numbers, got a 17 so gonna make that my charisma, pretty sure with the bonuses of the class it’ll be at 20 from the get go 🤤 or close enough to it for me
Why are there no dungeonborns?
Now I want to see a game where you play as the Dungeonborn, a being with the soul of a goblin.
This how you get hired by Wizards
There are. They are called Mimics.
You ever tried mating with a dungeon?
@@pajnolan4459 Sounds like a fucking module.
if people want a overview of dragon lore i suggest taking a look at MrRhexx's mini series on dragons from all the standard forms of dragons like chromatic and metallic to lesser dragons like fairy dragons and dragon turtles to the mysterious dragons of steel and there Player Character tendency
i myself am preparing to play a honest to god Steel Dragon disguised firstly as a human sorcerer, because they are a child of a dragon and have not got down the polymorph yet
the only problem is the written lore. the dragon-borne would not worship a dragon god. a half dragon might...
half dragons are related to a dragon, Dragon-borne were the slaves of the Dragons.
according to the D&D lore, the Dragon-borne normally hate dragons, and would exile anyone of their people whom openly worshiped a dragon god.
@@TheHellyen still though not every D&D world is the same, everything can be changed
i know a world where Dragonborn are artificially created
Literally just watched that before this lol
yea basically dungeon dudes ignored everything the dragonborn are actually about and instead gave us a video about how they use them in their world. which is fine I guess. but not super helpful for those looking how to Rp the race as written
Since then 5e Dargonborn are becoming more adapted to Forgotten Realms, I would like to see more dragon types like shadow, steel, etc etc for their heritage.
A Shadow Dragonborn Way of the Shadow Monk. I'd play the hell out of that.
@@cnkclark well, in FR shadow dragons aren't a race, they are a template. And only true (pure-blooded) dragons: metals, gems, chromatics; can become turned into shadow dragons. And some of the other dragons (steel, iron, obsidian, etc.) Are either knock off of the original 3 groups, or lazy edgelord poorly written dragons...
@@zionthedragon8866 That's where the DM does a little handwaving to make for a fun game.
@@cnkclark ???
@@zionthedragon8866 I mean that the DM is the ultimate arbiter of the rules and the lore and can modify things to suit the table in the name of a fun game. It's called Homebrew.
I’ve started giving dragonhide as a bonus level 1 feat to put them on par with the other animalistic races.
It's kinda weird that they don't get that unarmored AC, when you consider that a draconic bloodline sorcerer gets it when only "parts of their skin are covered by a thin sheen of dragon-like scales", meanwhile the dragonborn who is fully covered in scales, doesn't. Lizardfolk also get it, and they are just as scaled as dragonborns, aren't they?
@@TheHornedKing I think Wizards anticipated the breath weapon being more clutch than it actually was. The ability to recharge on a short rest would stand out more if most groups actually had to take them often.
@@Chameleonradio That problem is due to DMs making a lot of deadly encounters as the only 1-2 combats per day, which expends so many player resources that they have to long rest after anyway.
@@Chameleonradio Along with that it's a 2d6 based on Con meaning martial classes need to replace a attack and if you're doing a fighter dragonborn with a greatsword you're doing 2d6+str mod. Other spellcaster classes have a totally different DC than the breath weapon. Then there is dragon's breath a 2nd level spell doing 3d6 damage something dragonborn can't get till level 6 and if martial class they have two attacks at 5th level outclassing the breath weapon. Draconic sorcerer along with that at 6th level gets 3d6+cha making it stronger if it's the same affinity as their bloodline color.
@Remy B
I think making it have uses equal to your Con modifier and have it be used as a bonus action would make it waaaay better.
if a dragonborn is praising a dragon god he is likely shunned from all other dragonborn... the slave race does not like their oppressors
Thank you!!
Especially if he is a half-dragon dragonborn.
In my campaign my dragonborn brought up that dragon born are slaves in another dimension. I dont know about this history and I didnt like it but I came up with a way to work with it. In my campaign there are people who can be born with different abilities called other-born and I was thinking dragonborn could be mind controlled by their dragon and he was born not being mind controlled and when he came of age and felt like he could fend for himself he left the roost (har har). I've yet to pass this by him since he was gone this last play session. Hopefully this is a good compromise because I still dont think dragonborn and tieflings should be in the core books. People used to complain about Paladins and rogues not getting along then they introduce more characters that wouldn't get along and that dont even fit into traditional fantasy into a core book. Got a little off topic there.
Jim Wickens Personally I prefer them just being descended from dragons hacking my thing them and kobolds Eventually turn into true dragons once they’re old enough this helps explain why there is so damn many dragons and also gives me a reason to throw a level 20 paladin red dragon at someone later Because I’m chaotic evil
@@NegatveSpace how do they not fit together? Also paladins and rogues don't fit together only because one tend towards chaos while the other towards law but that's not always the case. My rogue gets along wonderfully with the paladin because they are both lawful. My rogue breaks and enters for his country and for the good of the team. Paladin fights for the law.
Dragon born and tiefling fit perfectly in a world of magic and many race world. Dragon born jaunted from another universe where dragons and primordials ruled... Seems pretty magical to me
I got into DnD about a year ago now, and I’m still playing my first character Norixius Rhogar, a Red Dragon Born Barbarian. He is the classic head strong dull heavy hitter, and he is so much fun to roleplay despite being very simple. He worships Tiamat and one time he destroyed a shrine dedicated to Bahamut as a distraction so the party could infiltrate a religious site.
I just started crafting my first character for my first ever campaign, my Dragonborn is also of Norixius. 😛. I am moving forward with my idea but I am going with a Shrimpy Dragonborn who became a Rogue. I feel a little alarmed since the Dudes didn't even mention Rogue. I've read a lot about dragonborn so I feel comfortable with the lore, I know I am going a little unconventional but that's what I do. My guy actually does HATE his heritage all the way back to dragons, etc.
Omg dude I got into DnD a few months ago and my first character was a gold dragonborn ALSO originally called Norixius Rhogar!! but the Norixius was dropped when he was exiled from his clan after being framed. Still got him now!
Dungeon Dudes: make video about Dragonborn
Their thumbnail creator: uses Half Dragon images instead
It always annoys me when people say Dragonborn, yet describe half dragons
@@garrettlaturski6703 its ridiculous your annoyed at someone because they envision a fictional creature differently than yourself, You could put a ton of detail in your description but still paint different images in each persons head.
@@tomtom7955 For me, it's more so the fact that the books say clearly that dragonborn A) Aren't half dragons, and B) don't have tails, and people say both. Although, I've always seen things as black and white, with little to no grey area.
I mean, not saying you can't make them however you want in your campaign setting. I'm just a huge nerd who likes learning about d&d lore
@@tomtom7955 Today we will be talking about the Space Marines from WH40k! Proceeds to show pictures and depictions of Space Marines from Starcraft. "Today we'll talk about the NFL team the Bengals!" only shows pictures and describes the Detroit lions. Shouldn't get annoyed? It's literally incorrect, there is so many pictures and source material for Dragonborn yet they use half dragons instead. Shove it up your ass
My wife loves her dragonborn. She took her lunch break just to watch this video. Can you tell we are addicted to the Dungeon Dudes!
Your wife has exquisite taste.
I've got a dragonborn Sorcerer/Druid at my table who is an absolute delight. I let dragonborn get +1 damage on the attack cantrip with the damage type associated with their element (she's a Copper, so I let her do +1 damage on Acid Splash) because I think it's a nice little touch and slight boost to the race. I love the idea of her being able to use her breath weapon while Wild Shaped!
Also, she has a tail. Because it's absolutely ridiculous that dragonborn don't have tails.
Cool.
Our DM ruled that the breath weapon carried over into wild shape so we did in fact have a fire-breathing bear show up to fights every so often.
My primary character is a Dragonborn Fighter named Pyrovas. His backstory is a little odd, but bear with me as most of the primary things about him were actually shaped by actual adventures I've played him in.
He started out as just one of many other brass dragonborns in his birthplace, a nameless village in the mountains that focused on training in the art of war for the sake of mercenary work. He eventually had a falling out with his instructors and left the village of his own accord, hoping to make it on his own. On one of his first adventures, he had a chance encounter with the literal goddess of adventure, Avandra. After a Natural 20 Charisma check (for what I can't really remember), Avandra took a shine to him, and bestowed what she felt was a gift on him: a neverending adventure. In reality, Pyrovas eventually became an isekai protagonist, being thrown from one world to the next every time he died. Now his only goal is to find the goddess again and have her remove what he considers a curse from his immortal soul.
In my game, I give Dragonborn a flat +1 to AC, even if they're wearing armor. I also allow them to take a feat to have functional wings
I think that would fix the balance. A simple +1 for all the scales and such.
Unarmored they should have better AC yes, but it shouldnt stack with armor. Wings is your call I guess but that's a bit too strong an option to always have access to
@@michaelcross7665 I've run that for a couple campaigns, with Dragonborn Sorcerers to Paladins, and not had balancing issues
i'm playing a black dragonborn underdark druid as my first dnd character and it's been a lot of fun so far! not the most optimal character but it's exactly what i wanted!
I have a bronze dragon, with red dragon sorcerer ancestry. A red dragon cursed his family line and when the gift a magic presents itself in a child so does a darker side that comes out and forms a second personality.
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Me a Dragonborn druid wildshapes into a mouse
Sneaks into kobold sleeping chambers
Unleashes cone of fire which kills every kobold instantly
Purple dragon knight from sword coast adventure guide seems like it would work well with the Dragonborns stat distribution. Expertise in persuasion and possibly another charisma skill proficiency utilizes the Charisma point pretty good.
Fighters get a lot of ASIs so picking up inspiring leader cements a paladin like support feel with no magic based abilities.
Strength for heavy armor and weapons, picking a great weapon or maybe two weapon fighting with handaxes/scimitars/short swords pops up in my mind.
I’m playing a Bronze Dragonborn EK, planning to multiclass into Draconic Sorcerer. My character’s Int is super low, and he’s only learnt wizardry through the power of staying up late every night studying in secret for years because he wasn’t able to unleash the powers he assumed his draconic heritage would grant to him easily. Weapon Bond, War Magic, extra attack, action surge and great weapon fighting allow me to supplement my spells with fighty fight stab stab
YES I wanted a dragonborn guide! Thank you so much guys. Im learning so much from you two its insane!
My first character is a dragonborn wild sorcerer, who was kicked out of his family and clan because his magic was wild. Now he adventures to finally tame his magic and find his place.
I am new to D & D. I have seen many videos to learn but your videos are the best. I love how passionate you guys are plus your videos look very well done. Keep doing this!
Loved running a dragonborn sorcerer in 4th. If I remember they hand a small booklet that had feats where you could have multiple damage types on your breath weapon i.e. Alchemical breath.
Fun little tidbit, the black and blue "dragonborn" in the thumbnail are actually half dragons from Tyranny of Dragons.
this gave a cool gift for my dragonborn monk with dragon hide feat, he can now climb most walls/terrain with advantage if he chooses to use his claws
I made a silver Dragonborn gold draconic sorcerer and he was half silver scales half golden scales. Yes, he was awesome.
I've been getting into DnD lately. I've been watching your videos I love so much about your videos but I think you can add more editing such as images or animations to get your points across. This will push your videos from a 9/10 to a 10/10. :)
I love dnd 5e but they really did a botched job on the abilities of the dragonborn race. they should have a natural AC (like loxodons'12+ con mod) as well as a bonus to con..i mean if your breath weapon scales off of con they should get a bonus to it. I'm also really bothered by how shortlived they are..I get that dragons didn't want them to live as long as elves but is 200-250 years too much to ask for?
Ehh, charisma makes sense. Dragons are apex predators, or just creatures in general. They inspire fear (or awe), so a slight charisma boost to reflect that makes sense
I agree with the first part, but for the life expectancy... I dunno, I'm strangely ok with around 80 years. I mean, aren't the shorter living flammes burning the brightest?
@Ethertask Sebastian There's so little of them because on Toril there's 1 city of them that got ripped from Abeir about 100 years ago, so population didn't yet build up, but on Abeir there's a shitton of them and they are slaves, so short lives makes a lot of sense to me.
@Ethertask Sebastian We're talking about a fantasy race created by magical means, you're sure our world's biology truly have a say in here? Besides Lizardfolks are in the 80 range too. I was just saying the number argument doesn't stand, the stats are fucked.
I recently made a Lvl 4 Blue DB Sorc. for a one shot, and grew to love it during play. Focusing mostly on Lightning and Thunder spells. On game night, all the PC's were casters, so my DB stepped up as the quasi-tank. He felt like a badass with the use of shield and Thunderwave.
Here's a homebrew option for your Dragonborn Race lore:
In aeons past, Dragons held sway over all the lands and seas and skies, ruling over all they surveyed. Their hubris and avarice brought such calamitous malcontent to the lesser races that the gods themselves rallied to be rid of their tyrannical malevolence; before they could enact their genocide, one god offered an alternative to save the dragons' souls from oblivion: to walk the lands on two feet as the humanoids did, bereft of much of their power. The Edict agreed upon, the gods gathered their power and cast a great spell upon the vast majority of the Dragon race, leaving naught but handfuls of True Wyrms left to roam. The newly christened Dragonborn were faced with a new dilemma; walk forward with humility or fall down in shame.
Generations passed, and few Dragonborn today recall their true origins. Their actions in life are reflected in the Next World, when their True Dragon Souls are redeemed or condemned thusly.
There are a number of RUclips channels I like to watch for D&D information and perspectives. There’s a few I really like but you guys are undoubtedly my favorite.
Additionally, I’ve watched a handful D&D live play campaigns online, and Dungeons of Drakkenheim is THE absolute best! And that’s based purely on Monte being a extremely creative, a top-notch storyteller, and his and the players ability to bring the characters to life.
Can you guys do an episode on Halflings? I love those little buggers! I also think they’re quite versatile.
7:55 when you gotta say something important but your friend interupts you and your too polite to tell the to shut up
It’s really cool to see how far hero forge has come since back then
So happy to see my favorite race of Dnd have this video done on my birthday! Also had this idea to do a Red albino Dragonborn Oath of Conquest paladin and taking the Dragonborn fear feat.
For my house rules, I added 2 additional features to all Dragonborn (which you also mentioned you felt was needed). First, they are automatically immune to a dragon's Frightful Presence power, and they gain Advantage on all other Fear saving throws. Second, as the description mentions Dragonborn try to excel at a specific skill during their life, so they are able to boost 1 skill they are trained in at first level to expertise, adding twice their proficiency bonus to it.
Just watched Renfield this weekend, and Kelly's suggestion about a dragonborn rebelling against its Dragon master rang that bell.
I agree that the breath weapon should be a bonus action. That would allow it to be a nice boost in an attack round, rather than a minimized thematic niche action. It might also be worth a 1d6 recovery chance rather than short rest. A breath weapon should be a bigger part of a dragon born’s life.
That's exactly what I do
I was looking at Dragonborn who were Draconic Sorcerers and I noticed that the resistance from Sorcerer cost Sorcerer points so being a Dragonborn arguably frees up Sorcerer points you no longer need to use
While the dragonborn druid doesn't gel all that great mechanically, there's some great thematic meshing there. One of my fellow players in my regular game is a dragonborn druid, whose life goal is to eventually be able to polymorph/shapechange into a dragon, so many of his decisions are guided by whether or not things will help or hinder that goal.
Emerald Dragonborn (Psy breath/resist) Totem barb, (bear level three) I resist all damage when raging, I learn to fly or knock prone or charge. I learn dragon fear for when my breath weapon falls off. With the right feats you can stop a target dead in there tracks and become the tank of the party
I've played dragonborn several times and if you manage to kill anything with your breath weapon its because it was already near death or was made of jello... mmmmmm....jello...
My gold dragon born was born into a thieves camp as his egg was stolen. He was raised as a slave gaining barbarian levels. One day a gold dragon slew the camp on its territory but took a fancy to me and raised my character up from that point. Through the adventuring career we were able to keep our bond through warloeck levels. Through this bond my character is also able to learn bardic abilities and refine fighting skills through the fighter class. By the end the character emulated the dragon as best he could with fighting style and arcane arts.
I'm running a campaign that's set in a future version of the Forgotten Realms, which among other things lets me set up the Dragonborn as a somewhat more common race than it would usually be. I only thought of this after deciding to add the clan of a couple of Dragonborn players into my world as a callback to a previous game.
A friend once played a Dragonborn Paladin whose backstory was that she had committed some sin and her punishment was to live as a mere medium sized humanoid until she had re-earned her way back to Dragonhood.
I had one character who was a black dragonborn (half dragon) barbarian who had once been an ancient black dragon who offended tiamat and was cursed to be reborn again and again as a half dragon until he ascended back to dragonhood. The surprise was gonna be that he was really a bronze who was cursed by tiamat and his arc was learning to love his friends again ❤️
I was in a campaign with a player who made a Dragonborn Oath of Conquest Paladin who had the Pirate background. He used his breath weapon to intimidate his foes with a commanding voice. One of his first conquests was defeating a pirate captain in single combat to gain control of his ship and crew.
one of my favorite race. Thanks!
I actually find the idea of a Draconic Ancestry Dragonborn Sorceror with mixed Dragon heritage interesting, as it could even allow you to develop a unique form of Breath Weapon, for instance combining a Black & Red Dragon's Breath Weapon might allow for a sort of "Acidic Flame" Breath Weapon where it deals both fire damage and acid damage (is that a Troll I hear screaming in terror out there?), but like acid it an actually "cling" to the target's body and actually begin inflicting both fire and acid damage to them over time, triggering every time either the Dragonborn or the unfortunate enemy's turn rolls around. Or they might have the standard Fire damage with their Breath Weapon from their Red Dragon ancestry, and their Black Dragon ancestry might manifest in another way (such as a defensive way, like "Acidic Sweat" or something like that where the Dragonborn can use a reaction to secrete a highly corrosive acidic sweat from their skin that inflicts acid damage to anything/anyone grappling/touching them).
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I am excited about the UA Aberrant Mind Sorcerer because there is another option to increase AC to 13 without playing a Dragonborn, and without using a precious spell slot every day on Mage Armor. 👍🏻
I built a Dragonborn Sorcerer who was of Green racial ancestry, and Copper Sorcerer ancestry. I had it be he was noble mind but corrupt blood. He was fun to play, sadly that campaign was put on hold. I might remake him and multiclass if allowed.
Dragonic Bloodline Sorcerer's like so perfect for the race
There are a lot of dragonborn miniatures and I have most of them and one from hero forge. Because dragonborn is my favorite race to play.
Potential ideas to fix the Dragonborn:
-Change the +2 Str to +2 Con. Dragonborns are the only race whose racial bonuses don't feed into their racial abilities.
-Subraces. Every other PHB race has subraces that affect their stats. Give Dragonborns some subraces (maybe tied to their color) that can give them some different +1 bonuses. Maybe Cha, Str, and Wis to give them some class variety.
- Better scaling on the breath weapon. Taking your action to do 5d6 at 16th level is laughably weak. Bump up the damage (I would say 8d6 at 16th level is fair) to make using an action for it worth it or maybe make the cast time a bonus action instead.
-Change the recharge. Either once per short rest or uses per long rest equal to its Con mod.
First Dragonborn character was a blue Dragonborn bard named Neil Youngling, the Electric Mayhem.
. What do you folks think of making Dragon Born and Draconic Heritage stack even if same type? You could be say a gold type DB and a gold type DH Sorcerer and just house rule to keep from losing too much from overlap. Like when you spend a sorcerer point to gain resistance against that fire you already have Res for, you gain immunity. Your breath can also count as a spell so you add your charisma modifier to it with Elemental Affinity.
Further improvements with dragonic interactions with dragons above what DA provides to deal with some overlap cancel in that regard too. Especially for Dragons of your type if you double up on type.
I decided my dracon blood would be built entirely around gaslighting everyone i meet, and it ended up working surprisingly well.
I had a barbarian berserker 3/ rest levels in fiend bladelock silver dragonborn named Karsonthrax. Flavored the fiend pact as an old gold dragon granting him magical power for his quest.
Would cast Armor of Agathys, and fireshield before raging. Able to make three attacks, and able to eldritch smite if needed made him quite affective.
Also armor of agathys givs temp hp, and resistance doubles its value, as it can be proc'd twice as often in a combat. Dealing up to 25dmg per hit he takes, then 2d8 fire/cold dmg from fireshield.
Its a rough first few levels cause of low ac, but i recomend it for mid to high level play.
Had a gold and black dragon born sorcerer in my HotHQ campaign. People distrusted him until proven otherwise but simultaneously, because he was majority black dragon he could sneak into the cult a bit
We have a Dragonborn sorcerer in my current champaign, late addition to party. The party has been task by the Gold Dragon Tamarand to hunt down and slay pair of young dragons (white and green from starter kit and essential kit), while his army hunts down an adult blue dragon. He sent a Cooper Dragonborn Sorcerer with the party. Her power comes from the gold dragon and accounts for and grants the fire resistance bonus. The thought for this, was that he commands an army and it would make since to want soldiers with duel resistances.
Dragonborn paladin with the Noble background: get hired to rescue yourself from yourself... I'm honestly tempted
My Old character was a Red Dragonborn Forge Domain Cleric named Lost. He was a reincarnated version of my previous character who had died and was using an artifact of the dragon god he now worshipped he had no memory of his past life and spent a few months wandering till he found the party. He was a unique character but we only had a few more sessions till the finale
13:27 I'm pretty sure faerie dragons in general are pretty small and not that powerful, but some kind of Archfey Faerie Dragon would make an awesome patron.
Edit: I was trying to plan a campaign that would be heavily Fae themed and eventually lead the party into the Feywild, so I spent a lot of time staring at the stats for fey creatures.
It's honestly a crime how little attention D&D pays to the fey creatures and forces, while lavishing so much on demons and devils all the time. Fey stuff should be just as present and just as scary - it's called fey for a reason.
Cat Trucker I know, right? The Fey are so underrepresented (and even misrepresented) in D&D. But, to be fair, D&D has always been written by Americans, and I think most of us Americans really don't understand the true terror The Fair Folk should instill in us haha.
Like, I went in with a specific idea of what I wanted for my campaign, but then when I started reading the actual 5e lore it mentioned "the good fey" and I was like "THE *W H A T* ?"
So maybe homebrew is the way to go if you want a lot of fey.
@@sunnivaixchel2 Alas. Still, hoping that there will be some sort of supplements, or at least a next edition, that will give good material for fey forces at last.
Fey really are underexplored and underused. Maybe it's indeed because of what you mention - too much willingly forgotten from original folklore. Meanwhile, the Fey are basically like magical aliens, without being sci-fi or "space" ones - and very scary aliens at that. Not necessarily evil... but anything but nice and kind and goodly, at least to humans (and other similar races - I wonder how they'd treat elves, as traitors or as siblings?). They're almost Lovecraftian, before there was a Lovecraft - eldritch terrors, personifications of the horrors awaiting beyond the circle of light of civilized settlement, the ancient true masters of the land we encroach upon, who do not want us here. They have staggering potential as villains and antagonist forces, and even as fickle, bargaining, unreliable allies of convenience or whim - and not even the hags, perhaps the closest D&D's come to proper fey horror, come anywhere near close to the Fey's true potential.
There was a more powerful fey dragon in 4e called the Mirage dragon, which were rumored to be Green dragons that were altered by the feywild. I would take features from that, the 5e green dragon, and some archfey features to homebrew an Archfey Mirage Dragon.
@@TheChocoXCheese Basically like a Shadow Dragon then, just a literal opposite (shadow ones being normal dragons altered by the Shadowfell, and Shadowfell being "opposite to" the Feywild). Considering those ARE fairly powerful, having an elder green wyrm turned Mirage would be a great patron idea - and just a great "major power NPC" idea in general.
My DM gave me a breath weapon focus stone, that increases the damage by 2d6 every time we slay a dragon. So, now at lvl11 after killing 4 dragons I do 16D6 damage once a day, which is absolutely awesome
I've played two opposite d-born. One was a bronze and a paladin who aspired to the nobility of his metallic herotage... and did some massive damage to Strahd thanks to a nat 20 smite with the sun blade. The other was Scorch, a red who was trying to overcome his innate greed and evil like his full dragon color, which I let show through a few times.
The legend of Marook the half-orc rogue - The group was fighting a dracolich going into it's lair... the rogue had decided that he would stay on the ceiling for safety and surprise. As the dracolich surprised the group and used it's breath weapon upon the group. The fellow players cried out to Marook that he needed to draw the dracolichs attention. With no taunt ability on the character sheet... Marook picked his only option.... Giving the battle cry "You're about to wish you had eyelids!" as Marook jumped while lowering his pants... In that moment the whole table went silent as a natural 20 was rolled as he made his grapple check. I was proud to write dead onto Marooks character sheet as his legend lives on.
I got 2 characters that are dragonborns, but in terms of roleplaying are half-dragons.
The first is a half-red dragon who is a paladin of Bahamut. The idea is that he did grow up to have a personality that you would expect of a decendant of a red dragon, but after som tragic event, he decided he wanted to better himself, and eventually came into contact with Bahamut, who suggested that a paladin's oath could be what he needs. He accepted, and now he is this paladin who is trying to do the right thing, but is allways fighting againts evil nature.
The other character is inspired by a skin for Anubis in the MOBA Smite. A few months ago he got a skin called "Death Dragon", which I immediately thought kinda looked like a dragonborn shadow sorcerer or something. So I made a character that was just that. Decided to have him be an actual half-shadow dragon, with a breath weapon that deals necrotic damage, and resistance to necrotic damage.
In one campaign, I'm currently a Level 3 Bronze Dragonborn Hexblade Warlock who is about to cross-class into a Divine Soul Sorcerer.
So did a Dragonborn Barbarian, Primal Path. A little latitude from the DM at 6th level my character evolved and earned wings I can use to fly
Did a campaign where a player wanted to be a dragon, not a dragon born, but an actual dragon... so I made it so they were basically cursed into a humanoid form in a nut shell, as his powers were unlocked over time and eventually unlocked in full, we basically switched roles from DM to PC, so he and I both got to be PCs and DMs in the same campaign. It worked out really well because the group as a whole had amazing cohesion. One of my favorite campaigns I've ever been a part of. I love the grind from lol 1 or 3 to 15. And this was a full lvl 1 to 20 campaign and we even had homebrewed epic leveling until lvl 32. I did lvls 1 to 17, and my friend did the remainder. Much like The Dudes, he and I did collaborate on the campaign as a whole, but we both DM'd independently and with creative freedom. Again... among my favorite campaigns I've ever been a part of... they're all my favorite campaigns... but this one turned into a chefs kiss of a campaign.we played every or every other day for 2 and a half years.
I've played a White Dragonborn Barbarian, and based his feral "eat it raw or frozen" nature on White Dragons.
Dragonborn perks at my table: Darkvision. (Seriously) a TAIL. This tail allows for a swim speed (like any lizard with a powerful tail) .
I also see Dragonborn from tropical settings with feathers instead of scales to take on more Mezosmerican themes.
Another possible perk is changing their breath weapon from 1/short rest to a number of times per long rest equal to their Constitution modifier.
Just my two cents worth.
My first PC is a silver dragonborn paladin oath of devotion. His backstory is; his clan was attacked and nearly wiped out by chromatic dragonborn in service to tiamat. He wanted to get revenge and thought he could find power as a paladin. He found a teacher in a red chromatic dragonborn that explained to him how tiamat has twisted their chromatic brethren and ancestors to her will. He then changed his goal to giving those who do evil a chance to redeem themselves and now has an end goal of trying to break the evil tendencies of the chromatics
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"You're like a weird dragon mutt..."
How about you have a physical ancestry and a spiritual ancestry and the two sides are fighting for dominance?
...I like it.
Imagine one being chromatic and the other being metallic. The struggle of good and evil.
Except sorcerers aren’t spiritual by default. Your origin is your bloodline - purely physical.
I love your connection of dragon born to half dragon. Here’s my thought. Two half dragons mate and produce a new type of warrior child. I love the idea of two discordant colored dragons laying an egg that hatched into runt creatures as their origin too.
My Dragonborn Monk has a blue ancestry, and was abandoned at the monastery due to the "birth defect" of having a tail (because let's face it: they should have tails. They just should). However he doesn't consider it a negative: Quite the contrary, he enjoys the extra balance and attack options it gives him. He tries to solve problems non-violently if possible, which led to the party capturing (and eventually adopting) a kobold who's turned out to be a great asset to us.
He also hates vampires. A lot. They're the one thing that sets off his dragon-y temper because he views them as loathesome parasites.
And I did have to get a mini from Heroforge of him, because no official ones have tails : P
Breath weapon idea: make it a bonus action that recharges on short rest, or after its first use a player may use a bonus action to attempt its use by rolling a d20, success occurring when they beat 20 minus character level minus Con modifier. A level 3 character with 16 Con would need to roll 14 (20-3-3=14) or higher for success, 13 or lower would be a fail. Rolling a 1 is always a fail.
Usually my player uses a recharge of (5-6)
@@Castheknotted That works too. I was trying to tie in scaling to get better with level. Could do the same with a d6 where or gets easier every 3 or 4 levels. Need a 6 at levels 1 to 4, 5-6 at levels 5 to 8, 3-6 at 9 to 12, etc.
12:12 So... The ultimate servant of Tiamat: The descent of red and white dragons, the pink Dragonborn sorcerer!
Ah, yes. I still remember my Dragonborn Paladin/Sorcerer. He was a Silver Dragonborn with the Bronze dragon bit for his Sorcerer part, but was a Chaotic Evil Vengeance Paladin of Tiamat. Super greedy, very cunning and Wrathful, and never left any survivors in a fight.
Just started playing with some friends. Im a big fantasy fan but it never struck me to play tabletops and I simply didnt grow up with friends that were down with it and I never thought Id pick it up at 30 but here goes. My first character is a Black Dragonborn Ranger with a background as a hunter named Onyxfang. Wish me luck on this new adventure.
Btw love the channel been very inspiring
So I'm playing my first Dragonborn. I went with a Paladin that took The Oath of the Watchers. It's proving to be fun to explore and how to play this character.
Your next in-depth character roleplay video should be on a character using the optional rules for lycanthropy on page 207 of the Monster Manual
my first char was a homebrew dragonborn that instead of half human was half dwarf named Kindlin'. loved him so. Wish the campaign had gone on longer.
Natural armor, darkvision and breath attack as a bonus action. As a fighter it makes dragonborn a little strong, but pretty fair for other classes.
Something I like to do is give a Dragonborn is spells and abilities that parallel their specific ancestry. For example, Gold Dragons have Fire Breath, but also a Weakening Breath which affects Strength checks. So debuff effects like Vicious Mockery, Bane, or Synaptic Static feel like a nice fit.
Dragonborn druid. Watcher of nature hunting down poachers. Shift into a drake and breath weapon while latched onto a big enemies throat.
More of a homebrew thing, but our DM is a nice guy.
My character in Descent into Avernus is a Bronze Dragonborn Celestial Warlock whose patron is a Couatl loyal to Bahamut. I plan to take 3 levels of Fighter for Battlemaster(4 if I need the ASI). She's a total dragon nerd who is actually reincarnated by the Couatl from a Human, hoping her enthusiasm can help form the Platinum Cadre into a force that can rival Tiamat's Dragon Cult, but my character is not aware of this.
Roll for fus ro dah.
First character i ever made was placed in a world where there were many dragonborn, even an entire village of them. Mine was from that city but was seen as too weak to stay with them so he was cast out of his hometown to die on the streets, making him hate all dragonborn. He almost died on the streets until a blue dragonborn found him on the streets and saved him. My character was hesitant to trust him since he thought all dragonborn were evil and untrustworthy. He eventually let him help and began to trust this blue dragon. The blue dragon trained him and he became a great warrior, which made the city of dragonborns angry. They tried to kidnap and kill all of those on the street who helped him, and they succeeded but they didn't catch my character, and his whole mission is to save the blue dragonborn who saved him.
Every 4 levels I improve breath weapon by d6 dmg then level 20 becomes D10 dmg each dice. So stays pretty useful.
Foos Ro Dah! That's how you play a Dragonborn!
This needs an update after fizbans, as breathweapon is boosted to d10, with lines for Chromatic breath, and cones for gem and metallic. Also would love to see Aasimar.
My dragonborn had such a problem with rage that he turned to a warrior’s monastery to help him focus and control his violence.
I'm using the Fizban's treasury and making my character very dragon themed. Draconic sorcerer with 3 ranks in Warlock with a dragon as my celestial patron, and pact of the chain to mostly use pseudodragon as my familiar. I also have the dragon breath spell that I can use on the pseudodragon. When I get high enough for 5th level spells, I'll also get Summon Draconic Spirit. I'm really loving how much I can dig into this dragon theme. 🐉
would multiclassing a draconic sorcerer with a necromancer as a black dragonborn be a good idea?
I would have liked to see Dragon-born get natural armor. Draconic sorcerer gets it.
Glad to See Heroforge (my favorite mini design site) is teaming with my favorite D&D RUclips channel. I am actually going to play a Dragonborn fighter in my next game coming up and already started painting him. (Even though we play on roll20, lol)