Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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As the title states am I asking what connection/relation Dragonborn have with dragons. Are they connectet through genes? Did the Dragons create the Dragonborn? Or something completely different? Is there even information like this?
Did you bother to read the race description in any iteration of the rules?
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A dragon born is a race that is half dragon,half humanoid.
That's not really true either, at least in terms of the rules presentation which answer this question readily. But since we're now moving beyond question easily addressed in the rules into misinformation, I'll take this up.
When you say "half" that's implying in most common understanding of relations that the "born" is somehow the offspring of a dragon and a humanoid. While that's sometimes discussed in myth and fantasy and I think might even pop up in a few instances of D&D lore, those instances aren't talking about the Dragonborn PC race. Dragonborn are a humanoid race created by either Dragon gods or powerful dragons themselves through dragon eggs initially. That's their creation myth/lore. They aren't "half" anything, they are 100% dragonborn, a humanoid race with draconic features who claim origins among dragons. That's it.
Now there are half dragons and dragonflesh grafters that lean more toward the hybrid thing, but those aren't dragonborn. Dragonborn can also propagate as a species themselves, unlike say Draconians that resemble Dragonborn with key differences, including that they reproduce via altered eggs from actual dragons.
I mean, the race description is right there in the basic rules.
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Fair enough
Dragonborn are aliens from Albeir (parallel world) that showed up ~100years ago due to the second Sundering. In their world, they were slaves to dragons.
Fizban's has draconic gifts which can be bestowed when a dragon dies, either to the dragon's killer or a designated heir. One of the lowest level gifts straight up turns you into a dragonborn, and can be given by a wyrmling. It wouldn't be hard to imagine an older dragon being able to bestow lower tier gifts while still alive, and using this to create a clan of dragonborn.
Well my bad I'm fairly new and didn't know you could read something like this here as I haven't found anything. But it looks like I haven't searched hard enough as I found the book now and I'm thankful to you for telling me something like this existed.
considering the fact in 3.5 half dragons were the closest thing, in Dragonlance the Draconians are the same thing and entirely different, and the fact the primary book refers to them as "born of dragons", "shaped by draconic gods" , "Combining the best attributes of dragon and humanoid" refers to dragons as their kin and chromatic and elemental dragons as their ancestors and Literally Nothing about them being aliens from another dimension where they were slaves to that realms dragons (the official lore for the forgotten realms, at least)
its understandable that one might think the "dragon born" were "born from dragons" since that is what all the information says
There's this amazing book, called the Players' Handbook, and it answers this exact question along with many more. I recommend you read it.
Wow, that is a bit harsh. OP is new to the game, and there is a ton of information to read. Not everyone is going to know what books to research first. Let's help noobs to the game and show them why the D&D community is great!
So, player's handbook is like $40, and it's easier/cheaper to get decent answers from people. So, my question is, would a Dragon Slayer weapon deal the extra damage to a Dragonborn? I'm not sure if it would work that way.
Dragonslayers only do extra damage to creatures of the Dragon type, and Dragonborn are Humanoids, so no. A Dragonslayer will, however, deal the extra damage to Kobolds, which have the Dragon creature type. It's a bit odd.
Okay. That makes sense logically, but I think Dragonborn, being made from dragons, should be the exception.
They are now different and distant enough from Dragons that the Dragon Slayer Weapon would not cause them additional harm.
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While the phrasing could have been better, "read the Player's Handbook" is absolutely good advice to newcomers, as that's the very audience it's designed for.
"The ancestors of dragonborn hatched from the eggs of chromatic and metallic dragons. One story holds that these eggs were blessed by the dragon gods Bahamut and Tiamat, who wanted to populate the multiverse with people created in their image. Another story claims that dragons created the first dragonborn without the gods’ blessings."
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Dragonborn are pretty cool. I once got into a game with this guy who played one just so they could get rid of the bodies. Nom nom! No one else really got it but I chortled to myself every time we got done with combat and he'd shout, "I eat the corpses."
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They're not, because they're humanoids not dragons
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If the GM at the table wants it to be that way, it is that way.
But it's not that way by default.
The main reason for that is that player species having weaknesses is not a thing D&D 5 wants to do. (There were some in the beginning, but they've moved away from that, and there are none in 5.5.) It's also such a weird weakness that it'd be hard to balance for.
But also, it's a weakness that may not make any sense in any particular table's world building. (And since it would have to be considered in balancing species, removing it because Dragonborn aren't like that in your world gives them a minor edge.)