Humanoid Dragon race!

[Corsair]

What are the most common racial features/abilities would a humanoid dragon race have?

Darkvision, natural armor, bite/claws? Balancing ability scores would be tough though, as dragons tend to be good at everything except dexterity.

 

[tecnowraith]

Darkvision, natural armor, bite/claws? Balancing ability scores would be tough though, as dragons tend to be good at everything except dexterity.

Im not worried about ability scores. This for a race I am creating that you get for being a direct descendant of dragons and needing the common features/abilities of a dragon.

 

[Seeten]

Personally I'd go for Dracha. They also have the option of 6 levels in "Dracha" which gives them flight, breath weapons, very very cool race, with no LA, and the ability to go 20 levels as a regular class, or to go all native and Dragon it up.

 

[tecnowraith]

Personally I'd go for Dracha. They also have the option of 6 levels in "Dracha" which gives them flight, breath weapons, very very cool race, with no LA, and the ability to go 20 levels as a regular class, or to go all native and Dragon it up.

Ahh, that is what I thought. This is still a racial class which I do not like. I would rather have a way to use them as race and still level in class at the same time, not choose either one.

 

[Kafkonia]

Use the dragonborn. File off the serial numbers and "transformed by Bahamut" flavour and you've got a pretty good "humanoid dragon" race with three different options depending on the type of draconic feel you're going for (dark vision that improves as they gain HD; breath weapon that improves as they gain HD; or wings that let them glide and, eventually, fly as they gain HD.) All for LA +0.

 

[tecnowraith]

Use the dragonborn. File off the serial numbers and "transformed by Bahamut" flavour and you've got a pretty good "humanoid dragon" race with three different options depending on the type of draconic feel you're going for (dark vision that improves as they gain HD; breath weapon that improves as they gain HD; or wings that let them glide and, eventually, fly as they gain HD.) All for LA +0.

I may have to do that but I want to allow the players to choose a more than one "dragon trait" at a time.

 

[Kafkonia]

I may have to do that but I want to allow the players to choose a more than one "dragon trait" at a time.

Going by what you've said, it doesn't sound like you can get what you're looking for without at least some level adjustment...

 

[tecnowraith]

the idea I am having is certain traits will be gain by rituals to gain the traits permanently and each trait will be accessible at a certain HD and I want some of traits to be automatically at 1HD.

 

[Klaus]

IE, feats.

A Dragonborn that doesn't choose the Wings trait can pick up Dragon Wings as its 1st-level feat, and pick up feats that improve the wings to actual flight later on. Further feats eventually allow the character to fly in full plate armor.