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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark080matter" data-source="post: 4136351" data-attributes="member: 61269">Wow.  That is a truly excellent idea!  I would be curious how one might justify the "equality" of different PC races to Dragonborn: your story idea makes it sound like the Dragonborn are really already leagues above Humans for example.haha uh-oh hope you don't get into trouble for that Keith, sorry.Yeah, we already knew they were going to get breath weapons.  The speculations up to now had mostly been that it might start at Paragon-tier though, which accounts for my pleasant surprise at your post. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And yeah I wouldn't expect a Dragonborn breath weapon at level 1 to be obviously overpowered compared to the tricks everyone else gets.  Hopefully we can take Feats or something that will allow us to keep the Breath weapon relevant all the way up to Epic level though.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I know, I know.  But I love the roleplay/setting connections that can be made by linking them closely to their Draconic origins.  It isn't, I should think necessary that a Dragonborn must be directly linked to the reproduction of a Dragon and another totally different creature, while still having Dragonborn who exemplify traits of major True Dragon types... their inheritance is a more spiritual or mental link in my proposed setting.  On the other hand in some other setting, perhaps in the distant past Dragonborn and True Dragons really did have blood ties, I can see Dragons doing this to ensure the loyalty of Dragonborn tribes and to better influence them and spread the Dragon's own power... nation-building in essence.Moreover, I can easily imagine Dragonborn historians who would vehemently argue that they most definitely are descended from True Dragons, actual facts be damned.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Obviously Eberron will take it's own path on this regardless of what I may say in my own homebrew setting though.</blockquote>

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