D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

[Maxperson]

Actually, all Dragonborn have two breath weapons. One does some kind of energy damage; the other is morning breath which can be cured with a wintergreen breath mint. The latter requires a CON save, but only when you are next to one.

I'm going to call shenanigans. Every race has morning breath. That's not Dragonborn specific.

 

[Corinnguard]

I'm going to call shenanigans. Every race has morning breath. That's not Dragonborn specific.

Time for a smell test. We're going to have a member of each of the PHB species for you to take a whiff of their morning breath.

Aasimar- "Hmm...not bad, do I detect some heavenly notes in your morning breath?"

 

[Remathilis]

So, to properly run a Dragonborn NPC I have to reference both the MM and the PHB? That may be the correct interpretation but man that pushes 5e further down the list of games I want to run. But then again in 3rd I never added class levels to monsters for the same reason.

Depends on if you want to customize your NPC stat blocks. Per the DMG, you can add any of the following without changing the CR of a creature.

• Darkvision (many) or Tremorsense (dwarf)
• Size (Goliath)
• Up to two Resistances (dragonborn, tiefling, dwarf)
• Cantrips (aasimar, elf, gnome, tiefling)
• Fey Ancestry (elf, goblin)
• Poison-Tolerant (dwarf)
• Steadfast (halfling)

I would also argue that Halfling Nimbleness and Powerful Build would also not affect CR. IMHO that would be sufficent to make most NPCs. I would also say adding an attack that doesn't do more than their best repeatable attack would also be fine, which is why you can get away with a breath weapon that does damage equal to a weapon attack.

 

[Yaarel]

In the world of Greyhawk, planet Oerth.

Here is Dragons Island, off of the supercontinent Oerik. A "dragon prince" governs it, easily understood to be a Dragonborn civilization. Judging by geography, perhaps it draws cultural inspiration from a fusion of Crete and Taiwan. To the north is East Asia-esque areas. To the south Mideast Egypt-Arabia-esque. The island east Levant Israel-Lebanon-Jordan-esque, but mainland Southeast-Asia-esque.

 

[Yaarel]

When comparing the official 1e Greyhawk map of the subcontinent of Flanaess, one can see part of Dragons Island. Most of the Island is of of the edge of the bottom left corner, around where the zero degree latitude number is. But a few nearby coastal islands are visible. This is where the Dragonborn civilization can be, relative to Flanaess.

The white area under the "ns" of "Dragons Island" is the part that can be seen on the official map by Gygax.

 

[Zardnaar]

When comparing the official 1e Greyhawk map of the subcontinent of Flanaess, one can see part of Dragons Island. Most of the Island is of of the edge of the bottom left corner, around where the zero degree latitude number is. But a few nearby coastal islands are visible. This is where the Dragonborn civilization can be, relative to Flanaess.

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Where's this map from?

 

[Yaarel]

Where's this map from?

The black and white latitude map is from Gygax, World of Greyhawk 1983. Old school official.

The one saying "Dragons Island" is a closeup of a world map of Oerth from Dragon Magazine, Annual 1996.