D&D 5E Help balancing a Humanoid Dragon class

[DragonLordAcar]

So my DM is allowing me to play a dragon in human form under the condition that it is like a curse so that I can't just go full dragon on any poor dungeon boss. You know... because mother ****ing dragon. The idea is that this is a ritual performed to either punish members of the dragon race to a mortal's body heavily limiting their powers or as a way for one to more easily live among mortal races. This is what I currently have after looking around a bit at both homebrew and official classes.

I know it is powerful and for my group, I am not worried about ability scores being too high as we roll 4d6 reroll 1s as our starting stats. What I am worried about is that I will show up the rest of my party with my abilities and steal the spotlight. In principle, this is supposed to represent the combination of a dragon's powerful physique and their innate magic (based on Pathfinder Magus class that someone made a 5e conversion for but fewer spells because that class is too OP for 5e but still my favorite class).

Humanoid Cursed Dragon: this class is only available to dragons and sentient, non-huminoid half-dragons
-qualifies for dragon, half-dragon, dragonborn, or any other dragon race feats
-count as both dragon and humanoid (race chosen as the humanoid form) for item effects such as attunement and bane weapons
-HD: d8
-Saves: as dragon
-Skills: choose 2 from Acrobatics, Arcana, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival
-Armor Proficiencies: shields
-Weapon Proficiencies: simple and martial weapons
-Tool Proficiencies: none
-Starting Equipment: or 4d4*10gp
-(a) a dagger, arcane focus, and component pouch or (b) a dagger, longbow, and 20 arrows
-(a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
-(a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two handaxes
-(a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
Lv1:
-Draconic Resilience: When not wearing armor your AC is 13+Dex. At Lv10, this becomes 13+Dex+Cha. You can retain this benefit when wielding a shield. You also gain 1 additional Hp per level.
-Draconic Restriction: any immunity to damage you have becomes resistance and any resistance you had is removed. Blindsight is also reduced by half. These return to normal values at 15th level.
-Draconic Attacks I: Attacks with natural weapons and weapons attuned with deal an additional 1d2 of your dragon energy type and 1d2 force damage. Attuning to a weapon takes 1 hour of uninterrupted concentration. You can attune to up to half your Int modifier (minimum 1) of manufactured weapons at a time.
-Spells: Spell progression as a Warlock and spell slots are regained on a short rest. You use the Sorcerer spell list. You are unable to learn spells that conflict with your dragon energy type (for example, red dragons can not learn cold spells and shadow dragons can not learn radiant spells). You also learn the Drake Strike cantrip.
-School: evocation -Casting Time: 1 action
-Range: 10ft -Components: V, S -Duration: instantaneous
-You are capable of conjuring the power of your dragon heritage into your hands, lashing out to send a wave of energy to hit an opponent in range. Make
a melee spell attack. On a hit, they take 2d6 damage, the damage type corresponding to your elemental affinity. At 5th level, the damage increases to
3d6. At 11th level, it increases once more to 4d6, and at 17th level, it reaches 5d6.
Lv2:
-Font of Magic: You gain Sorcery Points as a Sorcerer. These can only be used on Metamagic and healing. If points are spent to heal on a short rest, you add your Cha and Con to a single HD rolled per point spent this way. You can spend as many points on healing up to half your level (minimum 1) each day.
-Limited Metamagic I: You learn 2 Metamagics. You can only use one Metamagic per Spell. If you have no Sorcery points after a short rest, you can choose to gain 1 point but take a level of exhaustion. If you already have 2 or more levels of exhaustion, you can not gain any Sorcery Points.
Lv3:
-Spellsword: You can take a -2 to all attack rolls and/or spell DC for the round to cast a spell with a casting time of a standard action using your bonus action. You can also quicken the spell for 1 Sorcery point if it has a casting time greater than a standard action but it suffers an additional -2 to attack roll or
-2 to spell DC. The spell must be cast with an open hand or with a focus costing at least (100gp*spell Lv)^2 with cantrips counting as 0.5 levels for this calculation (if this focus is a held item such as a weapon or shield, this cost is in addition to any cost of the item including magical enhancements). If the focus is added to the item after creation, double this cost. This counts as an arcane focus. Conversely, you can instead take a -2 to only the bonus action's attack roll to make an additional weapon attack.
-Draconic Talent: You can learn new spells that do not conflict with your energy type like a wizard but this takes 4 times the amount of time and materials to commit to memory. If it can be cast as a ritual, you can cast it as one and takes half the time and materials.
Lv4:
-Ability Score Improvement I
Lv5:
-Spellstrike: You can prepare to cast a spell on a bonus action and release it with a weapon attack. If the attack scores a critical hit, the spell does as well. If the spell does not have an attack roll, it instead imposes disadvantage to the save on a critical. If the spell is AOE, you can still be targeted by it including critical hits. You always fail the save of any damaging AOE spells cast this way with this damage ignoring Evasion and like abilities. Lines can point away from you or sweep left or right of you and cones always point away from you.
-Extra Attack I
Lv6:
-Elemental Affinity: You add your Cha to spells that deal damage of your dragon energy type or force damage. You also gain resistance to force damage.
-Combat Style: You gain a Fighter combat style.
Lv7:
-Improved Spellsword: You no longer suffer the -2 to attack rolls and saves imposed by the Spellsword feature.
Lv8:
-Ability Score Improvement II:
Lv9:
-Spell Learning I: You learn one spell from each spell list other than Sorcerer but still suffer the limitations that your sorcerer spells do
Lv10:
-Extra Attack II
-Draconic Attacks II: Weapon attacks now deal an additional 1d4 of your dragon energy type and 1d4 force damage.
-Limited Metamagic II: You learn 1 additional Metamagic. You can use 2 Metamagics on a single spell by paying 2 additional Sorcery Points. If you have no Sorcery points after a short rest, you can choose to gain 2 points but take a level of exhaustion. If you already have 2 or more levels of exhaustion, you do not gain any Sorcery Points.
Lv11:
-Draconic Blast: You can sacrifice one of your attacks to launch a blast of energy in a 30ft line or 15ft cone (chosen at the time of use). This damage is 1d8 or your dragon energy type and 1d8 force damage. This increases by 1d8 of your dragon energy type at 15th level and 1d8 force damage at 19th level. The save DC is 8+half your level+Con and the save used is based on your dragon origins (for example, a white dragon's save could be a Con save while a brass dragon's is a Dex save).
Lv12:
-Ability Score Improvement III:
Lv13:
-Returning Form I: You can spend 2 sorcery points to grow draconic wings for 30 minutes. You also gain a draconic tail during this time but can not be used to attack. This can be canceled at any time with any time remaining being waisted. This fly speed is equal to twice their base speed.
-Elemental Mastery: You can spend 1 sorcery point to ignore resistance to your dragon energy type and force and treat immunity to these as resistance for 1 minute.
Lv14:
-Ability Score Improvement IV:
Lv15:
-Dragon Prestige: Those with half the HD you possess within 30ft of you must make a Wis save upon seeing you. On a failure, they are either frightened for 1 minute if hostile to you or you gain a +2 to Persuasion checks so long as they do not conflict with their moral beliefs for 10minutes. A success makes the creature immune for 24 hours.
Lv16:
-Ability Score Improvement V:
Lv17:
-Limited Metamagic III: You learn 1 additional Metamagic. You can use 3 Metamagics on a single spell by paying 4 additional Sorcery Points. If you have no
Sorcery points after a short rest, you can choose to gain 2 points but take a level of exhaustion. If you already have 2 or more levels of exhaustion, you do not gain any Sorcery Points.
-Returning Form II: Wings can now be manifested for 30 minutes per point spent. You also gain a tail attack dealing 1d4 bludgeoning damage during this time. You can also spend a Sorcery Point to grow claws on your hands each dealing 1d6 slashing or bludgeoning damage for 30 minutes. This can be canceled at any time ending with any time remaining being waisted.
Lv18:
-Spell Learning II: You learn one additional spell from each spell list other than Sorcerer but still suffer the limitations that your sorcerer spells do
Lv19:
-Ability Score Improvement VII:
Lv20:
-Draconic Attacks III: Weapon attacks now deal an additional 1d6 of your dragon energy type and 1d6 force damage.
-Dragon Form: 1/day you can take the form of an adult dragon of your type for 10 minutes as per Polymorph. If you are older than an adult dragon, you take the form of a dragon of your age. When the time expires, the form can be extended 1 minute by spending a Sorcery Point. This can be done until you run out of Sorcery Points. You can still cast your spells as per normal in this form. You also gain 4 Sorcery Points.

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

It sounds like this class is also going to be attached to a homebrew race? Or are you just using Dragonborn stats as a base?
If not, you should probably mention what the racial stats are.

I know it is powerful and for my group, I am not worried about ability scores being too high as we roll 4d6 reroll 1s as our starting stats. What I am worried about is that I will show up the rest of my party with my abilities and steal the spotlight. In principle, this is supposed to represent the combination of a dragon's powerful physique and their innate magic (based on Pathfinder Magus class that someone made a 5e conversion for but fewer spells because that class is too OP for 5e but still my favorite class).

How are you generating ability scores if you're not using the same method as the rest of your party?

-Saves: as dragon

This needs to be detailed for the class.

-Armor Proficiencies: shields
-Weapon Proficiencies: simple and martial weapons

Why so much focus and training on humanoid weaponry and combat styles?
I'd suggest sticking to no armour, simple weapons, and maybe granting a d6 natural weapon somewhere in the class progression?

-Draconic Restriction: any immunity to damage you have becomes resistance and any resistance you had is removed. Blindsight is also reduced by half. These return to normal values at 15th level.

Immunities and blindsight are not abilities that a base PC race should be granting. Where would these be coming from?

-Draconic Attacks I: Attacks with natural weapons and weapons attuned with deal an additional 1d2 of your dragon energy type and 1d2 force damage. Attuning to a weapon takes 1 hour of uninterrupted concentration. You can attune to up to half your Int modifier (minimum 1) of manufactured weapons at a time.

Why add extra force damage? It seems unnecessary and fiddly. I'd suggest getting a dragon-like natural attack here instead.

-Spells: Spell progression as a Warlock and spell slots are regained on a short rest. You use the Sorcerer spell list. [/QUOTE] I'm assuming level 6+ spells do not regain on a short rest, as per normal warlock spell progression?

Lv2:
-Font of Magic: You gain Sorcery Points as a Sorcerer. These can only be used on Metamagic and healing. If points are spent to heal on a short rest, you add your Cha and Con to a single HD rolled per point spent this way. You can spend as many points on healing up to half your level (minimum 1) each day.

I'm assuming that you do not get the Flexible Casting aspect of the sorceror's Font of Magic ability?

Lv3:
-Spellsword: You can take a -2 to all attack rolls and/or spell DC for the round to cast a spell with a casting time of a standard action using your bonus action. You can also quicken the spell for 1 Sorcery point if it has a casting time greater than a standard action but it suffers an additional -2 to attack roll or
-2 to spell DC. The spell must be cast with an open hand or with a focus costing at least (100gp*spell Lv)^2 with cantrips counting as 0.5 levels for this calculation (if this focus is a held item such as a weapon or shield, this cost is in addition to any cost of the item including magical enhancements). If the focus is added to the item after creation, double this cost. This counts as an arcane focus. Conversely, you can instead take a -2 to only the bonus action's attack roll to make an additional weapon attack.

This is effectively granting additional attacks. It should be at level 5 or 6 at least, or higher if it allows combining cantrips, or even spells with additional attacks.
I'd say stick with quickened spell metamagic instead.

-Draconic Talent: You can learn new spells that do not conflict with your energy type like a wizard but this takes 4 times the amount of time and materials to commit to memory. If it can be cast as a ritual, you can cast it as one and takes half the time and materials.

I'm not sure I'm reading this right? Is this basically removing the limited spells known restriction that you have from using the warlock spell progression?

-Extra Attack I

You should probably not get this at level 5 if you're also able to combine spells and scaling cantrips with attacks.

Lv6:
-Elemental Affinity: You add your Cha to spells that deal damage of your dragon energy type or force damage. You also gain resistance to force damage.

What is with the force damage? Its not generally thought of as something specifically draconic?

Lv9:
-Spell Learning I: You learn one spell from each spell list other than Sorcerer but still suffer the limitations that your sorcerer spells do

Hang on. There are 8 other spell lists. You're saying the class suddenly gets to learn 8 additional spells? And from lists that it is usually restricted from?

Lv10:
-Extra Attack II
-Draconic Attacks II: Weapon attacks now deal an additional 1d4 of your dragon energy type and 1d4 force damage.

This makes the class better than the Fighter at one of the Fighter's unique strengths. In addition to being a full-progression, short-rest caster with extra spells?

I think that you may be trying to do too much in a single class. You should probably decide on whether you want to be a more combat-focused, or spellcaster-focused character, and design the class around that rather than being best at both.
If you are combat-focused, compare with maybe Eldritch Knight. If caster-focused, compare with draconic sorceror. If your character is significantly more powerful than a normal PC of that class at any particular level, then that is an indication of a problem.

 

[DragonLordAcar]

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[DragonLordAcar]

It sounds like this class is also going to be attached to a homebrew race? Or are you just using Dragonborn stats as a base?
If not, you should probably mention what the racial stats are.
How are you generating ability scores if you're not using the same method as the rest of your party?

This needs to be detailed for the class.
Why so much focus and training on humanoid weaponry and combat styles?
I'd suggest sticking to no armour, simple weapons, and maybe granting a d6 natural weapon somewhere in the class progression?

Immunities and blindsight are not abilities that a base PC race should be granting. Where would these be coming from?

Why add extra force damage? It seems unnecessary and fiddly. I'd suggest getting a dragon-like natural attack here instead.

-Spells: Spell progression as a Warlock and spell slots are regained on a short rest. You use the Sorcerer spell list.

I'm assuming level 6+ spells do not regain on a short rest, as per normal warlock spell progression?
I'm assuming that you do not get the Flexible Casting aspect of the sorceror's Font of Magic ability?

This is effectively granting additional attacks. It should be at level 5 or 6 at least, or higher if it allows combining cantrips, or even spells with additional attacks.
I'd say stick with quickened spell metamagic instead.

I'm not sure I'm reading this right? Is this basically removing the limited spells known restriction that you have from using the warlock spell progression?

You should probably not get this at level 5 if you're also able to combine spells and scaling cantrips with attacks.
What is with the force damage? Its not generally thought of as something specifically draconic?

Hang on. There are 8 other spell lists. You're saying the class suddenly gets to learn 8 additional spells? And from lists that it is usually restricted from?
This makes the class better than the Fighter at one of the Fighter's unique strengths. In addition to being a full-progression, short-rest caster with extra spells?

I think that you may be trying to do too much in a single class. You should probably decide on whether you want to be a more combat-focused, or spellcaster-focused character, and design the class around that rather than being best at both.
If you are combat-focused, compare with maybe Eldritch Knight. If caster-focused, compare with draconic sorceror. If your character is significantly more powerful than a normal PC of that class at any particular level, then that is an indication of a problem.[/QUOTE]

It sounds like this class is also going to be attached to a homebrew race? Or are you just using Dragonborn stats as a base? If not, you should probably mention what the racial stats are.

For race confusion, this is assuming that your base race is whatever dragon (true or not but still must be sentient) or non-humanoid half-dragon (still needs to be sentient). Dragonborn are not an applicable race.

How are you generating ability scores if you're not using the same method as the rest of your party?

You keep mental stats (thank you for pointing this out). I personally used the base mental scores for a dragon -2 or -3 (ending in an even number) and threw a single d6 for some variation. For physical stats, I rolled as a normal PC. Racial modifiers are +1 Str and Con (just chose the two highest stats for the dragon which should be Str and Con for most if not all dragons).

Saves: This needs to be detailed for the class.

After looking it up, true dragons have Dex, Con, Wis, and Cha save proficiency. If the base creature has different ones, use those instead.

Why so much focus and training on humanoid weaponry and combat styles?

If a dragon is stuck in human form, they aren't stupid and will learn how to properly fight with their new forms.

I'd suggest sticking to no armour, simple weapons, and maybe granting a d6 natural weapon somewhere in the class progression?

Good suggestion. Perhaps I should make it simple weapons and two martial weapons of choice. This class was based on a 5e conversion for Pathfinder's Magus which did have both proficiencies. It may be my own personal bias, but a shield should not require much if any training to use properly and it can limit spell casting as it requires one hand to use. To work around this requires a feat or spending gold on one specific shield. As for the natural weapons, they come later but the idea is the dragon is now almost completely a humanoid in appearance and function. Most humanoids don't have claws but if they take a feat that gives them that because it is a draconic feat, it is like awakening part of their bloodline like Sorcerers do.

Immunities and blindsight are not abilities that a base PC race should be granting. Where would these be coming from?

This again goes back to the base dragon race. If you were previously an adult gold dragon, your fire immunity becomes fire resistance and your blindsight 60ft becomes 30ft.

Why add extra force damage? It seems unnecessary and fiddly. I'd suggest getting a dragon-like natural attack here instead.

Fair. I wanted something that kept the dragon's elemental flair but made part of the damage reliable vs. resistance and immunity. Should I just remove the force damage and give the damage dice to the base element or just say that half the damage can't be resisted?

I'm assuming level 6+ spells do not regain on a short rest, as per normal warlock spell progression?

For the spell progression, I am only taking the spell slots and spells known (including cantrips) into account. This keeps the dragon from using lots of high-level spells in a single combat but allows them to use them more often if they take the time to recharge. They still have their firepower but their magazine was shrunk.

I'm assuming that you do not get the Flexible Casting aspect of the sorceror's Font of Magic ability?

Yes. I use Sorcery Points as they are already part of 5e and I do add metamagic so it would be confusing to use a new pool system. I removed the spell conversion as I wanted to keep the feeling of limited high-level spellcasting.

This is effectively granting additional attacks. It should be at level 5 or 6 at least, or higher if it allows combining cantrips, or even spells with additional attacks. I'd say stick with quickened spell metamagic instead.

This is a Pathfinder carryover with how they use the Magus as a spellsword. Should I increase the penalty?

I'm not sure I'm reading this right? Is this basically removing the limited spells known restriction that you have from using the warlock spell progression?

The idea is you pay a lot of gold and time to learn new spells and a dragon is so intelligent and meticulous that they can be their won spellbook. They still can't learn conflicting spells like how a gold dragon can't cast Cone of Cold. While they can learn many spells, if the DM does not hand out spellbook or limits downtime, they will not learn many if any spells this way. This still does not allow the casting of these spells like a wizard or other caster class. They still have limited spell slots. Jut a larger variety to choose from.

You should probably not get this at level 5 if you're also able to combine spells and scaling cantrips with attacks.

Perhaps, but once the dragon runs out of its one spell at this level (with a max of 3 at higher levels), casting a cantrip will be their only other damage aside from their 1/turn attack. The class also promotes a spellsword. I could swap abilities around and give it at Lv7-10.

What is with the force damage? Its not generally thought of as something specifically draconic?

The idea was that they can have some resistance to pure magical force and force damage is so rare this it really is not much of a buff. If I need to remove it I can as it is not absolutely necessary. I just taught it was cool.

Hang on. There are 8 other spell lists. You're saying the class suddenly gets to learn 8 additional spells? And from lists that it is usually restricted from?

You raise a very good point. Probably should limit it to 2 spells from other lists. Learning 8 spells at any level is too powerful. I don't know what I was thinking.

This makes the class better than the Fighter at one of the Fighter's unique strengths. In addition to being a full-progression, short-rest caster with extra spells?

Probably should do what I should do to the other extra attack and place it at a later level. Lv15-17 probably but drop it if necessary. 2 elementally enhanced attacks with a spell as a bonus action every turn is probably enough damage each round.

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

For race confusion, this is assuming that your base race is whatever dragon (true or not but still must be sentient) or non-humanoid half-dragon (still needs to be sentient). Dragonborn are not an applicable race.

You keep mental stats (thank you for pointing this out). I personally used the base mental scores for a dragon -2 or -3 (ending in an even number) and threw a single d6 for some variation. For physical stats, I rolled as a normal PC. Racial modifiers are +1 Str and Con (just chose the two highest stats for the dragon which should be Str and Con for most if not all dragons).

After looking it up, true dragons have Dex, Con, Wis, and Cha save proficiency. If the base creature has different ones, use those instead.

OK. I was under the impression that you were using a normal PC base race and reskinning.
It is impossible to give you an evaluation of how gonzo this is as a class is if you're just pulling a dragon's stats out of the MM and using those - There is just too much variation.
Since this is a one-shot homebrew for a specific character we can however compare your actual character with an equivalent normal PC of the same level.

So: what are the actual stats of your character that will be used with this class? What dragon are you using the abilities of?
What level range will the game be running though?

If a dragon is stuck in human form, they aren't stupid and will learn how to properly fight with their new forms.

Good suggestion. Perhaps I should make it simple weapons and two martial weapons of choice. This class was based on a 5e conversion for Pathfinder's Magus which did have both proficiencies. It may be my own personal bias, but a shield should not require much if any training to use properly and it can limit spell casting as it requires one hand to use.

Lots of humans are stuck in human form, have an adventurous career, but don't get training in martial weapons and shields. Shields take considerably more training to use properly - Its not just a case of holding it in front of you. There is little difference in power between having training with all martial weapons and training with a few that you pick.

The Magus is a "gish" (combined spellcaster/fighter.) It does not have full spell progression or full fighter attack progression if I remember correctly.

This again goes back to the base dragon race. If you were previously an adult gold dragon, your fire immunity becomes fire resistance and your blindsight 60ft becomes 30ft.

Fire resistance is a major ability for a class or race. Blindsight 30ft is the sort of thing a class would grant as a significant power increase, not as a ribbon.

Fair. I wanted something that kept the dragon's elemental flair but made part of the damage reliable vs. resistance and immunity. Should I just remove the force damage and give the damage dice to the base element or just say that half the damage can't be resisted?

I'd say give 1 point or 4 rather than messing with multiple d2s. If a creature is resistant to to your damage, then it is resistant to your damage.

For the spell progression, I am only taking the spell slots and spells known (including cantrips) into account. This keeps the dragon from using lots of high-level spells in a single combat but allows them to use them more often if they take the time to recharge. They still have their firepower but their magazine was shrunk.

Yes. I use Sorcery Points as they are already part of 5e and I do add metamagic so it would be confusing to use a new pool system. I removed the spell conversion as I wanted to keep the feeling of limited high-level spellcasting.

5e dragons are innate spellcasters like sorcerors and cast spells on a daily basis like sorcerors.
If you want a dragon-based full-caster class that uses sorcery points, why are you not using the Draconic Sorceror?

This is a Pathfinder carryover with how they use the Magus as a spellsword. Should I increase the penalty?

No. Remove the penalty, get extra attack at 6th or 7th level and the ability to combine cantrips and attacks at 11th I think.

The idea is you pay a lot of gold and time to learn new spells and a dragon is so intelligent and meticulous that they can be their won spellbook. They still can't learn conflicting spells like how a gold dragon can't cast Cone of Cold. While they can learn many spells, if the DM does not hand out spellbook or limits downtime, they will not learn many if any spells this way. This still does not allow the casting of these spells like a wizard or other caster class. They still have limited spell slots. Jut a larger variety to choose from.

Dragons are innate spellcasters. If they want to learn spells like a wizard, they can take levels in Wizard. So can you.

Perhaps, but once the dragon runs out of its one spell at this level (with a max of 3 at higher levels), casting a cantrip will be their only other damage aside from their 1/turn attack. The class also promotes a spellsword. I could swap abilities around and give it at Lv7-10.

When a caster of any other class runs out od spells, they are down to cantrips or weapon attacks. If you want to be able to do both in the same round, then your at-will damage is going to be much higher than just a cantrip - Which means that your spellcasting will have to be reduced to compensate.
If your at-will damage is as good as a basic fighter, then your spellcasting should only be as good as a basic fighter etc.

You raise a very good point. Probably should limit it to 2 spells from other lists. Learning 8 spells at any level is too powerful. I don't know what I was thinking.

A set list of a couple of non-optimised spells depending on dragon type is probably a better idea. Cherrypicking spells from any list is a significant part of the Bard's power and schtick.

Probably should do what I should do to the other extra attack and place it at a later level. Lv15-17 probably but drop it if necessary. 2 elementally enhanced attacks with a spell as a bonus action every turn is probably enough damage each round.

Once we know what your character's actual stats are, we can compare your performance with this class to that of a normal PC race and class and give you an idea of how to balance it.
As a base class concept however, is this a primary caster class, or a primary combat class, or a half-and half?

 

[Flamestrike]

I disagree with everything in this post. It's unbalanced and this game will fall apart.

Just play a Dragonborn, or a Dragon Sorcerer (or both) or have being a dragon now in human form fluff (like the background option in HoT).

 

[DragonLordAcar]

I disagree with everything in this post. It's unbalanced and this game will fall apart.

Just play a Dragonborn, or a Dragon Sorcerer (or both) or have being a dragon now in human form fluff (like the background option in HoT).

That is not what this post is about. I am looking to balance this (a draconic take on a spellsword), not just have a copout of saying "too OP" with no inpuit.

 

[Flamestrike]

That is not what this post is about. I am looking to balance this (a draconic take on a spellsword), not just have a copout of saying "too OP" with no inpuit.

Play a dragon born Sorcadin.

Done.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That is not what this post is about. I am looking to balance this (a draconic take on a spellsword), not just have a copout of saying "too OP" with no inpuit.

The original classes took a team of professional game designers and extensive playtesting to make. No one here is really qualified to tell you if it is or is not balanced, but statistics lean heavily towards the "not".

What @Flamestrike is saying is it is much better if you can make what you want out of what already exists, perhaps with some tweaking.

 

[DragonLordAcar]

The original classes took a team of professional game designers and extensive playtesting to make. No one here is really qualified to tell you if it is or is not balanced, but statistics lean heavily towards the "not".

What @Flamestrike is saying is it is much better if you can make what you want out of what already exists, perhaps with some tweaking.

Again. This gives me nothing. This is already taking what exists and tweaking it but what I am asking is "where is it broken" and "what do you suggest to fix it." It does not take a game designer to say that. The theme is a draconic spellsword. If I need to remove/replace abilities, I will do that but I want something that just is not in standard 5e. And no "your just not being creative" arguments. I would not be here if I was not trying to create something new.