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?
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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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.
Did you bother to read the race description in any iteration of the rules?
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!
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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?
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
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.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
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!