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Line or Cone, why aren't there any breath weapons with a Burst Area of Effect?
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<blockquote data-quote="Corinnguard" data-source="post: 8733464" data-attributes="member: 7033886"><p>The closest thing to a burst breath weapon in 5e that I could find is the Amethyst Dragon's <em>Explosive Crystal </em>legendary action from Fizban's Treasury of Dragons (page 160)</p><p></p><p><em>Explosive Crystal (Costs 3 actions): The dragon spits an amethyst that explodes at a point it can see within 60 feet of it. Each creature within a 20-foot radius sphere centered on that point must succeed on a DC 23 Dexterity saving throw or take 18 (4d8) force damage and be knocked prone. </em></p><p></p><p>Outside of 5e, the only dragons who have a burst breath weapon are the drakes from 1st edition Pathfinder. Here's the Sea Drake's: </p><p></p><h4>Ball Lightning Breath (Su)</h4><p>A sea drake can, as a <a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/combat#TOC-Standard-Actions" target="_blank">standard action</a>, breathe a ball of electricity that strikes one target first, then arcs to other targets like <a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/c/chain-lightning" target="_blank"><em>chain lightning</em></a>. This attack has a range of 100 feet, and deals 6d6 points of electricity damage (DC 17 <a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/combat#TOC-Reflex" target="_blank">Reflex</a> half) to the primary target. After it strikes, the ball lightning can arc to a number of secondary targets equal to the sea drake’s <a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/glossary#TOC-Hit-Dice-HD-" target="_blank">Hit Dice</a> (usually 7) within 20 feet of the primary target. The secondary bolts each strike one target and deal as much damage as the primary bolt. Once a sea drake has used its ball lightning breath, it cannot do so again for 1d6 rounds. The <a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/combat#TOC-Reflex" target="_blank">Reflex</a> save is <a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/ability-scores#TOC-Constitution-Con-" target="_blank">Constitution</a>-based.</p><p></p><p>Follow the bouncing ball made of electricity.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corinnguard, post: 8733464, member: 7033886"] The closest thing to a burst breath weapon in 5e that I could find is the Amethyst Dragon's [I]Explosive Crystal [/I]legendary action from Fizban's Treasury of Dragons (page 160) [I]Explosive Crystal (Costs 3 actions): The dragon spits an amethyst that explodes at a point it can see within 60 feet of it. Each creature within a 20-foot radius sphere centered on that point must succeed on a DC 23 Dexterity saving throw or take 18 (4d8) force damage and be knocked prone. [/I] Outside of 5e, the only dragons who have a burst breath weapon are the drakes from 1st edition Pathfinder. Here's the Sea Drake's: [HEADING=3]Ball Lightning Breath (Su)[/HEADING] A sea drake can, as a [URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/combat#TOC-Standard-Actions']standard action[/URL], breathe a ball of electricity that strikes one target first, then arcs to other targets like [URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/c/chain-lightning'][I]chain lightning[/I][/URL]. This attack has a range of 100 feet, and deals 6d6 points of electricity damage (DC 17 [URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/combat#TOC-Reflex']Reflex[/URL] half) to the primary target. After it strikes, the ball lightning can arc to a number of secondary targets equal to the sea drake’s [URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/glossary#TOC-Hit-Dice-HD-']Hit Dice[/URL] (usually 7) within 20 feet of the primary target. The secondary bolts each strike one target and deal as much damage as the primary bolt. Once a sea drake has used its ball lightning breath, it cannot do so again for 1d6 rounds. The [URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/combat#TOC-Reflex']Reflex[/URL] save is [URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/ability-scores#TOC-Constitution-Con-']Constitution[/URL]-based. Follow the bouncing ball made of electricity.... :p [/QUOTE]
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