D&D 5E Dragonborn and Tieflings, post-Sundering.

[Thaumaturge]

Does it matter? The half-dragon will be dead in 3 rounds...

Funny. I actually had to reread that. I originally read that as "Does it matter? The dragonborn will be dead in 3 rounds..." Because of...plot...stuff. I even launched into a defense of why it would matter even though the PC would go down quickly.

At least once in the adventure, the PC is unlikely to smack the half-dragon quite so handedly.

PC Dragonborn: "These are the ears of the last half-dragon that called me runt. Guess I get to add yours to my necklace."

Yeah. That's an unlikely outcome for the event I have in mind. Possible, I suppose, but unlikely. And if it happens on the second (or third) such encounter, then it'll show pretty cool growth in power.

I'm thinking that Wyrmling would be a good one though. Or Gecko.

My only hesitation on "wyrmling" is that it's actually a step up for both the half-dragon and the dragonborn. I mean, a wyrmling is at least a dragon.

Writing that makes me think "pseudodragon" might work better.

Thaumaturge.

 

[GameDoc]

On a related note, I'm going to have any half-dragons that interact with the party call the party's dragonborn names.

What are good racial slurs for a half-dragon to call a dragonborn? (Should this be its own thread?)

I've already got: lizardborn, diluted, little lizard man.

Any other ideas?

Thaumaturge.

Pretender
Alien (their race having come from another world)
Slavestock
Heresy

 

[Thaumaturge]

Slavestock
Heresy

Ooooh, I really like these two.

Thaumaturge.

 

[GameDoc]

I was searching for a different term when heresy popped into my head. Now it remember what it was:

Infidel!

And I'm totally adopting this concept when I run FR. Great idea!

 

[Thaumaturge]

I was searching for a different term when heresy popped into my head. Now it remember what it was:

Infidel!

And I'm totally adopting this concept when I run FR. Great idea!

Heresy is just so much more personal than infidel, too. One is an infidel because of what one believes. One is a heresy because of what one is. Fantastic.

We shall steal from each other and both be the better for it.

Thaumaturge.

 

[Mirtek]

The Herald was the only Sundering novel I bothered with, and I loved it -- loved it to the point of irrational fanboying all over Ed at Gen Con -- and I'm now going back and reading all of the Elminster novels for the first time. But I spent the whole book (the last book in the series!) waiting for the Sundering.

Actually The Herald was one of the Sundering books with the most sundering in it (together with The Godborn and The Reaver). It explained a sh#tload of things (what happened in Candle Keep, Myth Draenor and Shade).

Look at The Companions, The Adversary and The Sentinel for sundering novels that truly have no sundering stuff happening whatsoever (a case could be made for The Sentinel maybe, but only minor and in a non-explaining way)

 

[jgsugden]

Personally, I'd love them to reboot. Go back to the FR as it was in the late 80s. Start all over, with the original NPCs out there, prior to the Time of Troubles, the Spellplague, the Sundering and all the other stuff. It is easy enough to do on our own, but they've done so much to the FR over the years, I think they'd be better off hitting the reset for 'official' campaigns as well.

 

[Sunseeker]

It's like the authors didn't know that dragonborn are in the PHB. I don't know if that's a thing in the new Realms, or just another example of poor communication/writing/editing in the adventure itself.

I think the issue is that the "basic" races were included in the PHB initially under the guise that they really do exist in the FR over-setting. Then they realized that they needed to draw in some folks ho enjoy the more obscure stuff, and plopped the "uncommon" races in there. Honestly the way they're written it's reads like someone wrote the standard D&D world with the "common" races and then was told at the last minute there needed to be these "uncommon" races as well and they were rather shoehorned in.

It feels like the book is telling me "here's what exists in the world" and then "here's some other cool stuff you can include if you wanna."

I think the authors "knew" they were in the PHB, but I suspect they were instructed to treat them like they weren't.

 

[DMZ2112]

Actually The Herald was one of the Sundering books with the most sundering in it (together with The Godborn and The Reaver). It explained a sh#tload of things (what happened in Candle Keep, Myth Draenor and Shade).

If the events at Candlekeep, Myth Drannor, and Thultanthar are supposed to be effects of the Sundering, the book really doesn't draw those lines. The story comes across as just a parallel narrative.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think the issue is that the "basic" races were included in the PHB initially under the guise that they really do exist in the FR over-setting. Then they realized that they needed to draw in some folks ho enjoy the more obscure stuff, and plopped the "uncommon" races in there. Honestly the way they're written it's reads like someone wrote the standard D&D world with the "common" races and then was told at the last minute there needed to be these "uncommon" races as well and they were rather shoehorned in.

It feels like the book is telling me "here's what exists in the world" and then "here's some other cool stuff you can include if you wanna."

I think the authors "knew" they were in the PHB, but I suspect they were instructed to treat them like they weren't.

Or they could be leaving it up to the DM to decide if XYZ race exists in their home games.