Dragonborn write up

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sat May 09, 2009 11:49 pm

I know, I know, but for those who are interested, this is my conversion of the 4E version:

Racial basics:

Height range: 6' 3" to 6" 9"

Weight Range: 230 to 320 pounds

Ability Score Modifiers: STR +1, CHA +1

Size: Medium

Move: 30, cannot run at x4, x3 max.

Vision: as Humans

Languages: Common, Dragon tongue

Bonus': +1 to any history checks, +1 to any intimidation checks.

Dragons Fury: Whenever a Dragon born is taken to half HP, or more, they gain a +1 to hit attacks from going into a "fury". Fury ends once opponents are dead or run away, or HP restored to above 50%.

Dragon Inheritance: You gain an additional +1 HP per HD, on top of any CON bonus/penalty.

Dragon Breathe: Breathe one type of breathe as a Dragon (choose color/breathe type) for 1d6 damage for each 3 levels of the character. So 1d6 at 1st, 2d6 at 4th, 3d6 at 7th, and so on...

Range/AoE: 15 foot long, 5 foot wide straight line starting at PC's mouth.

CL=Level of the PC, +2, so at 4th level the CL=6.

Breathe at least 1/day, +1x/day per 2 points of CON above 10. It takes at least 2 rounds for a dragon born to be ready to breathe again. So a dragon born can breathe as fast as on rounds 1, 4, 7, and so on.

Class Preferences: They prefer to be physical, so tend to fighter, knight, and Paladins, but any class is possible.

Alignment: Any, but tend to have at least one component in common with their draconic ancestry, but is not a fixed rule.

Physical Description: Dragon born are human shaped dragons, they can even have vistigial (?) but non functioning wings. They have very fine but obvious scales, and their color range depends on ancestry. So the character could be red, blue, white, silver, gold, copper, titanium, mithril, Purple, etc...

They definitely look more draconic than human, with heavy brow, sharp teeth, ear holes, exceptionally tall and heavy (6' 6" and 280 pounds on average), and their voices typically have a hissing and growling quality. Their eyes are most commonly black, gold, or red, other colors are also possible, and usually coincide with ancestry on their draconic side, but not always. Very human eyes are known to occur.

Dragon born mature much faster than humans. Once given birth to, or hatched, dependent upon mother, they walk within hours, are equivalent to a 10 year old human by age 3, and reach adulthood by 12. Their lifespan is equivalent to humans, but often live 20 to 30 years longer.
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Sun May 10, 2009 12:43 am

Despite the subject matter, it's a well done write-up sir Nice work!
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Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Sun May 10, 2009 12:19 pm

Hm, so ah, yeah.
Seriously though, nice write up. So this indicates that I could possibly play my version of a half-dragon sometime, right.

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Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Sun May 10, 2009 3:33 pm

Looks good, never in my campaigns, but looks good.
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Wulfgarn · Post by **Wulfgarn** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:48 pm

What are the balancing factors in the Race.

I can see how I might do it -and use it in my games.

I would tone down the initial Dragon abilities and break them over 3 class levels (perhaps adding a bit more to to make it worth taking all 3 levels.

Unlike other dual or multi classing I allow racial levels to be taken with no penalty- HD is handled like normally, and the basic rules for multi and dual classing are followed - but the Racial Levels do not count as a seperate Class

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sun May 10, 2009 6:36 pm

Wulfgarn wrote:
What are the balancing factors in the Race.

I can see how I might do it -and use it in my games.

I would tone down the initial Dragon abilities and break them over 3 class levels (perhaps adding a bit more to to make it worth taking all 3 levels.

Unlike other dual or multi classing I allow racial levels to be taken with no penalty- HD is handled like normally, and the basic rules for multi and dual classing are followed - but the Racial Levels do not count as a seperate Class

Well this is a "straight" conversion of the 4E Dragonborn, and this one is already considerably toned down by removing CON bonus from the breath weapon damage, etc... I did allow the breath weapon to build faster though, but I did that because of how much higher XP/level requirements are in C&C. The breathe weapon is also "per encounter" in 4E, and that is simply too mechanical, so I came up with the time frame I did because it feels more organic to me, time it takes for their breathe sacks to refill, or something along those lines.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sun May 10, 2009 6:37 pm

Rigon wrote:
Hm, so ah, yeah.
Seriously though, nice write up. So this indicates that I could possibly play my version of a half-dragon sometime, right.

R-

Don't get your hopes up, I initially did this in a thread in the "Other Games" forum because someone wondered how hard it would be to do this conversion. I did it in 8 minutes.
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Sun May 10, 2009 8:48 pm

Treebore wrote:
Don't get your hopes up, I initially did this in a thread in the "Other Games" forum because someone wondered how hard it would be to do this conversion. I did it in 8 minutes.

Sounds good, Tree. I haven't done any converting from 4e yet, but I was wondering. 8 minutes is nice! I did a conversion of the Aasimar and Tieflings from 3e and it didn't take long, either. Good to know it's standard.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sun May 10, 2009 8:51 pm

Lord Dynel wrote:
Sounds good, Tree. I haven't done any converting from 4e yet, but I was wondering. 8 minutes is nice! I did a conversion of the Aasimar and Tieflings from 3e and it didn't take long, either. Good to know it's standard.

yeah, the descriptive paragraphs actually took the most time.
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Sun May 10, 2009 8:55 pm

Yeppers...that's what usually what takes the longest for me as well.

Again, good work, hoss!
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Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:16 pm

Treebore wrote:
Don't get your hopes up, I initially did this in a thread in the "Other Games" forum because someone wondered how hard it would be to do this conversion. I did it in 8 minutes.

Joy-kill!

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Lucifer_Drake · Post by **Lucifer_Drake** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:37 pm

Thanx for the write up Tree. I've the itch to run Dragonborn & 3.5 ed. FR Tieflings & Gensai in my campaign. I finally got my nephew Jaxson interested in playing. Right now he's playing a 'Hob-Goblin' a Fey Halfling subrace. But I figure he'd love to play a Dragonborn.

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