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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8407664" data-attributes="member: 5948">I'm still not convinced that the primary, damaging breath weapon will get much use.  I'm playing a 9th level silver dragonborn paladin right now and 2d10 cold damage in a small area with Dex save for half isn't going to tempt me very often, when I could be making a weapon attack for more damage, maybe with smite, and possibly triggering an extra attack through great weapon master if I kill the sort of weak enemy that the breath weapon is intended to target.  The special metallic options might be a useful get-out-of-jail option for PCs who don't want to be in melee though - however, they're Con-dependent, so you'd need to be playing a non-melee PC with a high Con to get the best out of them, which probably doesn't happen terribly often.  There would be situations it'd be handy - critters with energy vulnerability, or those with resistance to physical weapons, etc - but they're still very much edge cases.  And you can't choose a line breath weapon any more, so that cuts down on your ability to use it as a quasi-ranged weapon too.</blockquote>