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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raph" data-source="post: 3110166" data-attributes="member: 23289">I have read through races of the dragon and find something confusing.  The mechanics of rebirth sidebar says:"Upon transformation from her initial race to a dragonborn,a supplicant loses many racial traits and gains those of thedragonborn. The following information describes how to mechanicallyachieve this transformation.Type, Subtype, and Race: You retain your original type andsubtypes, gaining the dragonblood subtype. You still count asa member of your original race for the purpose of any effect orprerequisite that depends on race.Racial Hit Dice: You retain your original racial Hit Dice, as wellas all benefits gained therefrom (base attack and save bonuses,skill points, hit points, and so on).Ability Modifiers: You retain your original racial ability modifiersand gain the ability modifiers of the dragonborn race.Size: You retain your original size. If the original race hadpowerful build as a racial trait, it is also retained.Speed: You retain your original base land speed, as well as anyother modes of movement possessed by your original race. Otherracial traits related to speed or movement, such as the dwarf’sability to move at full speed in medium or heavy armor, are lost.Languages: You retain any languages you already know. Yougain Draconic as an automatic language.Favored Class: You retain your original favored classes andgain fighter as a favored class. You can multiclass into the paladinclass freely.Level Adjustment: You retain your original level adjustment.Other Racial Traits: You lose all other racial traits of your originalrace, including bonus feats, skill bonuses, attack bonuses,save bonuses, spell-like abilities, and so forth. Two specificinstances warrant clarification:• If your original race granted you a nonspecific bonus feat (suchas the one gained by a human at 1st level), any feat can be lost,so long as it is not a prerequisite for another feat you have.• If your original race granted bonus skill points, you shoulddeduct an appropriate amount of skill points from your currentskill ranks. The specific skills affected are up to you,but the DM’s input might be required to adjudicate trickysituations (such as multiclass characters who might havepurchased ranks of various skills as both class skills andcross-class skills).The loss of racial traits might mean you no longer meet theprerequisites for a prestige class, feat, or some other feature.In general, you lose any special ability for which you no longerqualify, and nothing is gained in its place. A couple of exceptionsexist.• If you no longer qualify for a feat due to the transformation,you lose the feat and immediately select a new feat for whichyou qualify in its place. You must also replace any feat forwhich the lost feat was a prerequisite.• If you no longer qualify for a prestige class, you lose the benefitof any class features or other special abilities granted bythe class. You retain Hit Dice gained from advancing in theclass, as well as any improvements to base attack bonus andbase save bonuses that the class provided. If you later meetall the prerequisites for the class, you regain the benefits.Special: Ordinarily, only a 1st-level character can selectcertain feats requiring the dragonblood subtype (see Chapter6). However, upon becoming a dragonborn, you can elect toreplace one (and only one) of your existing feats with one ofthese feats. A character cannot have more than one of thesefeats. The feat to be replaced cannot be a prerequisite for anyprestige class, ability, or other feat."You will see the part I have made bold, yet later in the book there is description of a dwarf dragonborn and it has kept its racial bonus against poison and bullrushing within its statistics.  I dont know which racial abilites an elf would lose and which to keep even more now?[edit for spelling errors]</blockquote>

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