D&D 5E Kobolds are also from the Feywild now?

[Vaalingrade]

WE should start a thread about dragon breath weapons. I especially have feelings about how the metallics have just lazy versions of the chromatic weapons plus a completely random gas. When the 'basically a giant mirror' silver dragons could breath lasers instead.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

WE should start a thread about dragon breath weapons. I especially have feelings about how the metallics have just lazy versions of the chromatic weapons plus a completely random gas. When the 'basically a giant mirror' silver dragons could breath lasers instead.

I never really got the point of metallic dragons, so I usually don't put them into my settings.

 

[billd91]

Sonic feels like it would be the obvious one to go to for the energy resistance (being the only one missing from the types iirc?). Acid doubles up with black in 3.0/3.5, right?

Acid does double up with black dragons, but sonic would be a far more radical recast of the green dragon than defining the chlorine gas as being acidic. I would assume they wanted to avoid doing so.

 

[Cadence]

@Vaalingrade @Crimson Longinus @billd91

D&D General - Dragons and Dragon Breath (Chlorine Breath and Freakin Lasers!)

Why did Green Dragons change to acid in 3e and then back to poison gas in 4e without the chlorine? Would the universe have exploded if 4e went sonic? What's the point of metallic dragons? Why aren't silver ones giant mirrors that shoot lasers (as per @Vaalingrade 's brilliant suggestion)? Is...

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[see]

Edit: When did Green Dragons stop breathing chlorine gas?

The explicit word "chlorine" was dropped in 3rd edition, but arguably, "never". After all, 3rd edition didn't include "poison" as a damage type, so, of the 3e damage types, what would you labelo corrosive chlorine gas other than acid?

The unambiguous breath weapon type changes in D&D for the Original Six (the Black, Blue, Golden, Green, Red, and White were the six dragon types in the original booklets) have been confined to the Gold(en) losing its chlorine gas breath weapon in favor of a weakening gas with 3rd edition. For the Next Four (the Brass, Bronze, Copper, and Silver appeared in Supplement I: Greyhawk), the big changes were the Brass switching from a fear cloud to a heat cloud in 2nd edition, and then from a heat cloud to a line of fire in 3rd.

 

[Faolyn]

I’m pretty sure giants were connected to the elemental chaos in 4e.

It was a jest.

4e already made Giants and Titans elementals.

I mostly ignored 4e, so I didn't know.

 

[jmartkdr2]

Damn. Just checked my birth certificate, I think I may be from the feywild?

How about you?

I'm from New Jersey, which is somewhere below Demogorgon's realm if I remember correctly.

 

[steeldragons]

I'm from New Jersey, which is somewhere below Demogorgon's realm if I remember correctly.

Only if you're south of Monmouth County or along Rte. 9.

 

[SkidAce]

Is anyone else having a problem with Dragon where the text only shows up if I highlight it?

I did.

 

[JEB]

If kobolds really are supposed to be from the Feywild now then they've done a poor job of communicating it. Either he misspoke, he spoke correctly but the Feywild connection has yet to be established in an official product, or this is some weird one-off comment possibly inspired by a personal campaign like that time Mike Mearls claimed all D&D gods used to be mortals.

Another option: they were, in fact, considering making kobolds originate from the Feywild at one point during development of MOTM, but backed off on the idea.