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Kobold Press's Dragonborn equivalent, the Dragonkin, don't have breath weapons. Instead, each Dragonkin subspecies has a resistance to a particular damage type (Flame-Fire, Stone-Acid, Wind-Lightning, Wave-Cold, Soldier- Poison) and knows a cantrip. That said, a Dragonborn's breath weapon is a...

Not only that, but they could also set it up where either group of bandits snipes the party from a distance while taking three-quarters to total cover. The party would then find themselves wondering who was attacking. Are the energy attacks being thrown at them spells or some natural ability...

The Aasimar and the Orcs could certainly use a history update.

This can be easily done in Level Up. :)

Which is kind of where we are at right now in the Forgotten Realms and Eberron.

This is something that players do whenever they role-play as their characters. Whenever we are role-playing as a member of a particular species, we're either confirming the biases and stereotypes that have been associated with our character's species, or we're bucking them by surprising others...

He must have rolled some dice that was given to him by Fate.

It could be relevant and useful if it offers mechanical traits that benefit the player somehow. In Level Up, a particular culture can offer the player additional skill proficiencies, weapon proficiencies, and a language that the player can read, speak or even sign in. And you can have it where a...

Since WoTC decided to 'kick' the Dragonborn out of their own nation, it might be a while before they are a part of anyone else's local cultural lore. Then we'll get to see how different a Dragonborn from the Dalelands differs from one living in Waterdeep.

Level Up: A5e takes a similar approach here with Heritage (who your parents are), Culture (the society you grew up in), Background and Destiny (what are your goals as an adventurer). Carrot would have the Human heritage, one of the three Dwarven cultures in A5e (Mountain, Hill or Deep), and the...

Maybe it would help if you told me what options humans, elves and dwarves get to enjoy that aren't available to Dragonborn.

What would the players gain if all of them were equally prevalent in a setting? The fact that they are already a part of that setting's standard line-up of PC species should be all that matters when choosing one of them for your character. You choose a species and pick a place within the setting...

Walk softly and carry a big stick with sharp, pointy ends.

Something my DM told me several years ago: "If you are eating an elephant, eat it in small bites." As everyone knows, an elephant is the world's largest land-dwelling mammal. You cannot eat it in one sitting. You have to eat it in small bites over a period of time. The same thing goes for...

The players can also go to websites like DM's Guild, Drive Thru RPG and those belonging to well-known homebrewers to find stuff for their own personal settings. When you have all of these online resources available to you, WoTC doesn't really need to a lift a finger and create a new setting...

It's cool. For a while I collected but did not play 4e. Then I came across a path that led me to Pathfinder for a while. ;)

Sort of like 3e's Urban Arcana setting. Shadowrun, but as a magicpunk/Urban Fantasy setting that stars the species from D&D.

While I know you are referring to 5e/5.5e, weren't the Dragonborn native and important to 4e's Points of Light setting?

I've ran into at least one other poster on another thread who didn't like how the Dragonborn were brought into the Forgotten Realms due to the Spellplague. Otoh, I liked how they were brought into the Forgotten Realms this way and set up their own nation of Tymanther. I agree. When I first...

Introducing the Abeiran Dragonborn to the Forgotten Realms IMO was easy because they were relative newcomers to the setting. They had no major impact on the lore and history that had existed in every edition version of the FR prior to their appearance in 4e. However, the introduction of the...