What I don't get is how you can be a draconic sorcerer dragon born and have your ancestry be different than your dragon born type and if it's the same shouldn't there be added bonuses. I think wotc overlooked a huge problem. In my campaign mine is given immunity to poison because of double up.
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Immunity is a VERY powerful thing to give a PC. I don't think it was an oversight to not double up on bonuses if your dragonborn dragon and your sorcerer dragon are the same type (or even just have the same damage type). As for how you could be, for example, a silver dragonborn with a brass draconic sorcerer type... what's stopping that from happening? Having dragon ancestry is only one of the possible ways you could become a draconic sorcerer. Blessings/Curses, or even spending a bunch of time at a place where an ancient dragon died might all do the trick (in a story I'm forming, a draconic sorc's ancestor's conception was blessed by a Bronze dragon... or so she thinks).
Edit: there's also the fact that you don't get your damage resistance from draconic sorcery until level 6 (and only when you cast a spell of that damage type), while you get it from the get go as a dragonborn.
Immunity is a VERY powerful thing to give a PC. I don't think it was an oversight to not double up on bonuses if your dragonborn dragon and your sorcerer dragon are the same type (or even just have the same damage type). As for how you could be, for example, a silver dragonborn with a brass draconic sorcerer type... what's stopping that from happening? Having dragon ancestry is only one of the possible ways you could become a draconic sorcerer. Blessings/Curses, or even spending a bunch of time at a place where an ancient dragon died might all do the trick (in a story I'm forming, a draconic sorc's ancestor's conception was blessed by a Bronze dragon... or so she thinks).
Edit: there's also the fact that you don't get your damage resistance from draconic sorcery until level 6 (and only when you cast a spell of that damage type), while you get it from the get go as a dragonborn.
Wait what, I must be mixed up the dragon born is one so I must have thought that's at 1 as well oops
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The main reason is that special-casing things like that increases complexity, and it creates overly-flavored class/species combos.
If you want to be a Dragonborn with draconic sorcery of your type, nothing's stopping you, but if it were mandated, you wouldn't be able to do narratively unusual things like a red Dragonborn with metallic draconic sorcery. (Of course, since Dragonborn are not dragons, this really isn't any stranger than a human with the same bloodline.)
Your Dragonborn had two parents right? They got their ancestry traits from one and their sorcerous connection from the other so they don’t have to be the same. Same idea having both the same - the Dragonborn ancestry resistance “gene” deactivates the matching gene from the other parent’s sorcerous traits “gene”. Remember 2 of the same condition/trait/etc don’t stack only the first is active is the basic rule.
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What I don't get is how you can be a draconic sorcerer dragon born and have your ancestry be different than your dragon born type and if it's the same shouldn't there be added bonuses. I think wotc overlooked a huge problem. In my campaign mine is given immunity to poison because of double up.
If your eyes tell you what your seeing how do you know there not lying?
It's been on my mind for a while so I finally decided to make a thread
If your eyes tell you what your seeing how do you know there not lying?
Immunity is a VERY powerful thing to give a PC. I don't think it was an oversight to not double up on bonuses if your dragonborn dragon and your sorcerer dragon are the same type (or even just have the same damage type). As for how you could be, for example, a silver dragonborn with a brass draconic sorcerer type... what's stopping that from happening? Having dragon ancestry is only one of the possible ways you could become a draconic sorcerer. Blessings/Curses, or even spending a bunch of time at a place where an ancient dragon died might all do the trick (in a story I'm forming, a draconic sorc's ancestor's conception was blessed by a Bronze dragon... or so she thinks).
Edit: there's also the fact that you don't get your damage resistance from draconic sorcery until level 6 (and only when you cast a spell of that damage type), while you get it from the get go as a dragonborn.
Wait what, I must be mixed up the dragon born is one so I must have thought that's at 1 as well oops
If your eyes tell you what your seeing how do you know there not lying?
The main reason is that special-casing things like that increases complexity, and it creates overly-flavored class/species combos.
If you want to be a Dragonborn with draconic sorcery of your type, nothing's stopping you, but if it were mandated, you wouldn't be able to do narratively unusual things like a red Dragonborn with metallic draconic sorcery. (Of course, since Dragonborn are not dragons, this really isn't any stranger than a human with the same bloodline.)
Your Dragonborn had two parents right? They got their ancestry traits from one and their sorcerous connection from the other so they don’t have to be the same. Same idea having both the same - the Dragonborn ancestry resistance “gene” deactivates the matching gene from the other parent’s sorcerous traits “gene”. Remember 2 of the same condition/trait/etc don’t stack only the first is active is the basic rule.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.