"I add my strength to my breath." "Your breath is strong?"

[rhm001]

Your god hears your prayers... and grants you curiously strong breath.

For some reason, this caused me to unintentionally use my "drinking water" breath weapon. (Fortunately, I rolled low and missed the computer screen!)

 

[Exen Trik]

Strength base breath weapon? Sure!
Lighting breath? Of course!

But what I really want is for my dragonborn pallies to breathe charisma based radiant damage on their enemies. That's where the awesome is.

 

[Stormtalon]

Scene: An inn.

Dragonborn paladin accidentally coughs and fries several nearby bar patrons. Sensing the awkwardness of the moment, the halfling rogue pops up and offers the paladin....
MENTOS! Everyone in the bar starts to laugh (except for the poor fellows smoldering on the floor, but nobody liked them anyway).

 

[Stormtalon]

For some reason, this caused me to unintentionally use my "drinking water" breath weapon. (Fortunately, I rolled low and missed the computer screen!)

So, what you're saying is that your monitor is a Minion?

 

[Rechan]

I should say I posed this question because I will be playing the DB pally, and I am trying to milk every bit of powa out of the situation!

Scene: An inn.

Dragonborn paladin accidentally coughs and fries several nearby bar patrons. Sensing the awkwardness of the moment, the halfling rogue pops up and offers the paladin....
MENTOS! Everyone in the bar starts to laugh (except for the poor fellows smoldering on the floor, but nobody liked them anyway).

Hahaha!

 

[Klaus]

Sure. The powerful muscles that support the glands that store the chemicals that create the breath weaopon contract, forcing out a more intense blast of said breath weaopon.

C'mon, how the hell does a dragonborn "breathe" lighting, anyway?

Fitz

Two chemicals produced in separate glands that cause an electrical discharge when mixed in open air. Might be describe as liquid lightning, or even lightning gas!

 

[Pbartender]

That's actually pretty hard. You'd need an ionized path, as well as something to generate a solid, high wattage blast of static electricity.

Its really the ionization that would be difficult, as most things that would ionize a path in the air are going to be deadly to the creature generating it, or allow it to be radiation proof... which has other issues.

Not as difficult as you think, especially since you wouldn't need the ionized path.

Remember, the lightning breath weapon is a blast now, not a line or a single target. The dragonborn is spraying a 15 foot by 15 foot area with lightning... Since you aren't aiming at a single target or in a particular direction, you don't need the ion channel to direct the lightning bolt.

Magic aside, you could pseudo-scientifically explain it as a biological tesla coil. Rather than a single directed lightning bolt, its dozens of fast, small lightning bolts flying all over the place. Like so...

Imagine that flying out of the electrode-tipped teeth and tongue of a dragonborn's mouth.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Your god hears your prayers... and grants you curiously strong breath.

That tears it. The god of Dragonborn in my campaign is going to be named Altoid.

 

[Just Another User]

The DB Pal's "Channel Divinity: Divine Strength" adds his strength bonus (+4) to damage on his next attack.

It doesn't specify what kind of attack, be it melee, ranged, area, etc.

So, can the pally put that bonus to his breath attack?

That is nothing. if he is a multiclass paladin-wizard he can use it with a spell.

It is 4e, it don't have to make sense. It is the player that have to make sense out of it.

Personally it hurts my brain, but evidently someone find it funny.

 

[Just Another User]

double post, sorry.