Dragonborn and Dragons are fundamentally different, so no.
As for x and half-x...I've not Heard anything official. I suppose it depends on your DM, but I'd rule that it does.
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Favored Enemy specifically has a clause for humanoids where if you do choose that, you have to choose two specific types. As High Elves and Half-Elves are separated in the PHB, this is how I've always ruled, that they are separate. This was confirmed with the racial feats only apply to the races they are given, like Elven Accuracy only being Elves or Half Elves. The specification there is key.
Perhaps the most common criticism of Favored Enemy is that it is designed to have a very narrow focus. If you want to use this often, your best bet is to work with the DM to ensure that you actually encounter your choice of FE throughout the campaign.
Yeah, I'd say no to dragonborn, but I could see saying yes to Wyverns, drakes, dragonelles etc. maybe Hydra (for my own idiosychratic game reasons). Even then, unless I was doing a very draconic oriented campaign (which I happened to be doing now) I'd say in many campaigns it might be better to pick something more likely to be a consistent adversary in the campaign. Favored enemy is one of those "talk to the DM to see what makes sense" more than "pick what you think is cool." If the DM is open ended they may let you choose and then they'll devise the campaign to "honor" that choice in some regard, or the DM can say "yeah, I don't see you using that much, how about this species?" instead.
Dragonborn are classified as Humanoids, not Dragons. So they aren't affected by a Ranger's Favored Enemy if dragons were the selected type, nor do they take the extra damage from a Dragonslayer sword.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I think an allowance can be made for half elves, if you pick Elves and Humans as your two humanoids. In fact the Ranger may be instrumental in aiding its quarry in resolving its identity trope.
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Dragonborn are classified as Humanoids, not Dragons. So they aren't affected by a Ranger's Favored Enemy if dragons were the selected type, nor do they take the extra damage from a Dragonslayer sword.
Exactly.
As to half elves counting as elves or half orcs as orcs, that's a slightly different issue as both elves and orcs are subtypes of humanoid to begin with. In previous editions (at least in 3.5) both half elves and half orcs had a racial feature that explicitly said they do count as elves or orcs respectively for rules purposes when anything specifically applies to the parent race (which would include Favored Enemy), but 5e has no such traits. For a strictly RAW interpretation the answer would be no, they don't count for FE, because FE specifies two humanoid races and half elves/orcs have their own separate entries as races. That being said, I would say this is definitely a situation for the ever popular advice of "ask your DM" because I imagine many DMs would be fine with house ruling the inclusion in.
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If I chose Dragons as my Favored Enemy, would that include Dragonborn?
And would the same apply for Orcs and Half-Orcs or Elves and Half-Elves?
I figured no on the Dragon/Dragonborn part since Dragons are Dragons and Dragonborn are Humaniod. Thoughts?
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Dragonborn and Dragons are fundamentally different, so no.
As for x and half-x...I've not Heard anything official. I suppose it depends on your DM, but I'd rule that it does.
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Favored Enemy specifically has a clause for humanoids where if you do choose that, you have to choose two specific types. As High Elves and Half-Elves are separated in the PHB, this is how I've always ruled, that they are separate. This was confirmed with the racial feats only apply to the races they are given, like Elven Accuracy only being Elves or Half Elves. The specification there is key.
Perhaps the most common criticism of Favored Enemy is that it is designed to have a very narrow focus. If you want to use this often, your best bet is to work with the DM to ensure that you actually encounter your choice of FE throughout the campaign.
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Yeah, I'd say no to dragonborn, but I could see saying yes to Wyverns, drakes, dragonelles etc. maybe Hydra (for my own idiosychratic game reasons). Even then, unless I was doing a very draconic oriented campaign (which I happened to be doing now) I'd say in many campaigns it might be better to pick something more likely to be a consistent adversary in the campaign. Favored enemy is one of those "talk to the DM to see what makes sense" more than "pick what you think is cool." If the DM is open ended they may let you choose and then they'll devise the campaign to "honor" that choice in some regard, or the DM can say "yeah, I don't see you using that much, how about this species?" instead.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Dragonborn are classified as Humanoids, not Dragons. So they aren't affected by a Ranger's Favored Enemy if dragons were the selected type, nor do they take the extra damage from a Dragonslayer sword.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I think an allowance can be made for half elves, if you pick Elves and Humans as your two humanoids. In fact the Ranger may be instrumental in aiding its quarry in resolving its identity trope.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
It is and always has been a very poorly worked out ability.
Honestly, your best bet is Humanoids, and just pick "humans" as one of those.
It's well worth asking your DM what to pick, too.
I just house-rule it and let them chance their target after X kills / some in-story reasoning.
Exactly.
As to half elves counting as elves or half orcs as orcs, that's a slightly different issue as both elves and orcs are subtypes of humanoid to begin with. In previous editions (at least in 3.5) both half elves and half orcs had a racial feature that explicitly said they do count as elves or orcs respectively for rules purposes when anything specifically applies to the parent race (which would include Favored Enemy), but 5e has no such traits. For a strictly RAW interpretation the answer would be no, they don't count for FE, because FE specifies two humanoid races and half elves/orcs have their own separate entries as races. That being said, I would say this is definitely a situation for the ever popular advice of "ask your DM" because I imagine many DMs would be fine with house ruling the inclusion in.