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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GX.Sigma" data-source="post: 6381127" data-attributes="member: 6690511"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two of the villains are, visually and mechanically, almost identical to dragonborn, but are called "half-dragons."<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Implying that this is the FR version of dragonborn.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The first half-dragon is introduced thusly: "Although it is shaped roughly like a human, it is at least seven feet tall, its skin is covered in blue scales, its fingers bear wicked claws, and its face has the muzzle and reptilian eyes of a dragon....A character who makes a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana or Nature) check recognizes the creature as a half-dragon from descriptions." p.12<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Implying that the PCs have never seen a dragonborn before.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Rezmir, being a half-dragon, can't travel openly in Baldur's Gate; she'd be attacked by a mob." p.31<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Implying that common folk have never seen a dragonborn before, and would instantly identify one as an evil monster.</li> </ul></li> </ul>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.</blockquote>