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That's why you need advice, not a formula. Advice on how to set up and run high level play isn't a formula. It's more like a set of guiding principals that you use to create and run the adventure. I'm bad at articulating what it is that I do, but I do know that I have successfully(as in fun)...

That Dragon isn't unique. There is only one that has fully transformed, but every Sorcerer-King is somewhere along the process of transforming into another one. Dragonborn look a lot less like the dragon than a lizard. People wouldn't make that connection. The transformed dragon isn't in any...

No. Your mistake is in thinking high level play is all about the fight.

Sure they can. If they couldn't, there would be no DM's Guide. The best high level adventures don't limit any toys. They embrace them and/or avoid being destroyed by those toys. Meh. Those aren't good adventures. I've never needed to use those tools to limit things. A few now and then, but...

How? Dragonborn =/= Athasian Dragon. Not even close. Not with support by the Sorcerer-Kings. They'd be Templars, not victims.

Exactly! That's why they need the Dragonborn to be visible. It keeps the secret even if someone sees them partially transformed. You are not seeing that the Dragonborn being out there it makes the Sorcerer-kings safer, not less safe.

There are principals for how to run high level play. There are a few right ways and a lot of wrong ways. Folks need guidance, not to be shut out.

For me it was Bon Jovi in the late 80's. I can't remember how much I paid, but after a full concert they came out and sang 7 or 8 encore songs. It felt like a second concert. Then the brought out Sam Kinison and cleared the first two rows in front of the stage of a ton of rock stars. They...

Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Gnomes, Tieflings and Aasimar have never been common in any setting, even Planescape.

I think they were uncommon because of their origins, tending to result from experiments on dragon eggs like the Draconians of Krynn. You can agree or disagree with that, but I don't think it was because cooties. :P As for adding more to the setting, I don't have a problem with that. They...

Clearly. Setting can always change default assumptions. :P Looking at it, they are called out as uncommon, along with Gnomes, Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, and Tieflings. "The dragon born and the rest of the races in this chapter are uncommon. They don't exist in every world of D&D, and even where...

Because the 5.5e changes apply when they contradict the 5e rules and lore. In 5e Dragonborn are a rare race. Nothing in 5.5e contradicts that. 1) Not town, village. 2) plonking a village down where you need it isn't the same as saying there are villages everywhere. It's still a rare race...

Why not? Having Dragonborn around would make their appearance not so unusual and note worthy. They'd want them wandering around 1) because they are vain and they made dragonborn in their own image to be seen, and to reduce the threat to them if someone does notice their appearance.

It's not this simple. If you don't teach people how to run and play high level, they are not going to do it or probably do it badly and quit. If people are taught how to do it right, there might be a huge upsurge in high level demand. As it stands, the low interest in high level play is...

Or one or more sorcerer-kings warped some humans into beings in their own image out of vanity , and dragonborn were, er, dragon born. It's not whether it makes sense to add them. It can easily make sense. It's how true to the original setting image do people want Dark Sun to be.

You're asking a lot for a rare race. Every race isn't going to get multiple nations.

It's clear that there is more than one dragonborn population there. "Unther suddenly returned to Faerfun a few years ago and promptly went to war against Tymanther. The realm has since been reduced to small tracts mainly along the coast of the Alamber Sea and Ash Lake." That's multiple areas...

There is one.

I'm not sure that's true. Cultures vary wildly from state to state and even city to city within states. Small towns that are more isolated are even more varied. As for a national culture, there's a lot of disagreement about what that means across the U.S. We are a large and varied nation...

"Hi, my name is Strahd. HR sent me here because I drained one of the servants and left his corpse for the other servants to dispose of."