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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5139604" data-attributes="member: 15470">Mmm .. do you want this to be unknown to the Player, or unknown to the character?'Cause if you're the DM and you want this known to the Player but unknown to the character, then I'd say you: 1. Declare that Dragonborn don't exist in your world as described in the core books 2. Have your player roll up a Dragonborn 3. Flavor it as "looks human and thinks its human"and go from there. If you're the player, you talk to the DM and say "I want to play a Dragonborn, but I don't want my character to know he has draconic heritage. I want to look human and think I'm human. Is that cool?" I've had a lot of fun with campaigns where the player knew their class but the character did not: one was a paladin who didn't know she had divine favor, and another was a sorceress whose spell powers first manifested when she felt she was in danger of dying. If you want the DM to know but both Player and character do not, then I'd say you're looking for things that are a lot more subtle than changing the character's race, mechanically - either you overpower the character, or you have to explain to the player why they don't get that bonus feat for being human ... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ... It might be better to consider the player a McGuffin with indeterminate powers that may not manifest until level six or higher, and then use Tattoos, Boons, or other non-standard magic items to represent the racial powers, simply considering the boon you're giving to the player to be a part of the treasure parcel.</blockquote>

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