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Message: <blockquote data-quote="meomwt" data-source="post: 6407989" data-attributes="member: 47885">With the caveat that I don't have the 5E PHB yet, and so I don't know how Dragonborn are defined in the RAW, I can't comment on their level of exoticism compared to elves and dwarves. Were I to be DM and a player in my Greyhawk game wanted to be a Dragonborn, then I would explain that they were the offspring of a human and a dragon (and they would have to determine which type of dragon) and that they have yet to meet another of their kind, etc. Human/ Dragon offspring - whilst not common - do occur on Oerth and if an easy, well-defined race is available to represent this, so be it. And, as with anything a player wants to bring to the table, DM has final say over exactly what abilities the Dragonborn would have, to avoid over-powering other players. Dragonborn would certainly not be common in the Greyhawk lands (no more than, say, 1 in 100,000 would be so born) - but player-characters are supposed to be a cut above the general populace, and making a Dragonborn an adventurer would be a bold and innovative RP choice (especially in a campaign where dragons played a large part in proceedings - Tyranny of Dragons, for example - where the PC has to act against his own heritage).</blockquote>