Glad to hear what I was reading wasn't adding in homebrew so much as removing crunch. For flavor, I generally prefer letting the type of dragonborn influence how NPCs treat the dragonborn (extra in places where they are mistaken for dragons). I stumbled on them on one of the lore wikis while looking over psionic monsters. I'll leave them until I hear/read a bit more on the subject. Hm.įor now, acid and lightning breaths for the dragonborn in the player handbook are all line shaped, so the current crystal and topaz options still grant some mechanical difference. Necrotic Resistance in adventures with a lot of undead feels particularly awkward. I did figure radiant damage fits best for Crystal and necrotic for Topaz, but I'm a little worried about the balance of the two. It's also why the Amethyst dragonborn's breath is line shaped. The lore I read listed Amethyst dragons as having an explosive shot, which I figured would be easiest to treat as sonic/thunder damage. Where exactly are you getting your dragons?I stumbled on them on one of the lore wikis while looking over psionic monsters. Topaz - Necrotic (Listed as a 'cone of dehydration resembling a watery blast' in MM3, now more or less a damage type) Afaik, the damage types should be:Ĭrystal - Radiant (Listed as a 'cone of brilliant light' in MM2, now an actual damage type in 5e)Įmerald/Sapphire - Sonic (same as Thunder, I just prefer calling it that) I really like the addition of gem dragonborn (I think I brought it up the other day in a a thread somewhere), but I'm not sure why the opposition to adding more damage types? It scrooges you for flavor. These three powers are to limit the strength of character that can both manifest powers and cast spells. The power must target only that creature. When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to manifest a power at the creature, instead of making an opportunity attack.

You have advantage on Constitution saves that you make to maintain concentration on a power when you take damage. You may take this feat multiple times each time, you must select a different damage type.

Powers you manifest ignore resistance to the chosen type, and whenever you roll damage for a power that deals damage of the chosen type, treat any rolled 1's as being a 2. When you gain this feat, choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. If you have powers that are manifested using different stats, you can choose which of those stats to use when manifesting this power. Your manifesting modifier for this talent is the same as that of your previously known powers. You learn a single talent that requires an attack roll of your choice.

Your ranged power attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.

When you cast a power that requires a ranged attack roll, the power's range is doubled.

Prerequisite: Able to manifest at least one talent or power

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