D&D 5E Question: To take away or not to take away for that is the question

[jasper]

End the campaign abruptly.
Scold out the player publicly for his poor reading skills.
Give him a warning for cheating.
Reprimand yourself for your oversight and negligence as the DM.
Restart the campaign with new characters.
And never ever let Lowkey13 see you allow the Paladin class at your table.

You forgot.
Fine your player half his dice. Send those to me.
Fine yourself the cost of case of PBR. Send the $3.99 check to Sadras.

 

[Blue]

A new player made a mistake, and you're sure it's not intentional? And taking it away now would impact an already existing character the new player has been having fun with for a while?

Let them keep it instead of messing around with an already established character. Point it out to them so they know for the future. If they offer to remove it, kudos on them, but don't take it away.

 

[DND_Reborn]

This happened in our group, too. The DM just house-ruled Dragonborn have darkvision. Considering their heritage, it makes more sense for them to have than some of the other races that get it.

I mean, you already have Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, and Tieflings with it, only Dragonborn, Halflings, and Humans don't have it. IMO too many races have it anyway, and I would like to see it removed from some of them...

 

[DEFCON 1]

What's Darkvision?

You mean some games actually have situations where some of the players intentionally screw over their teammates by not letting them be able to see? Hmm. That's interesting. I wonder why they would do that? Doesn't sound very sportsmanlike to me.

 

[Eltab]

Ask the player in a private conversation if he knew that dragonborn 'by the book' do not have Darkvision. If he takes it in good heart, work out an in-game resolution. (Having the dragon breath-weapon him in the face and burning his eyes would work for me - to justify either gaining or losing the ability.) If he has problems, drop the subject ... but in future review the characters - again one-on-one - before the campaign starts.

 

[Morrus]

It’s a trivial enough thing that it’s not worth worrying about unless it’s really bothering you. Sometimes being right is the least important thing at hand.

 

[Hriston]

Ask him if he'd like to be small instead of medium, give up his damage resistance, give up speaking Draconic, or give up the darkvision. They're all equivalent.