Hi JM, it looks like that link isn't published, so we won't be able to look at the race and help you out. If your race has been published, double-check that you're giving us the public link. If it hasn't been published (or hasn't been accepted yet) you can Ctrl/Cmd+P on the page to export a PDF, which you could share via a Google Drive link.
I have a sneaking suspicion it's not fully published then although it is reporting views just now, where would i get the public link for it in case i'm being a bit thick?
Thanks :)
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+3 to a stat is VERY powerful and something that none of the official races allow. Typically a race will be +2/+1 or +2/+2 depending on how good the other abilities it has are.
Being able to turn into a dragon is even more powerful. You don't give any information/guidance on how the character's class levels work while they are in "dragon form"
Overall - it's mechanically fairly sound, but any character with this race will be more powerful than the rest of the adventuring party added together unless they also have races of similar power levels.
Currently I expect the race to be rejected when it reaches moderation, because you have modifiers in there (the disadvantage to wisdom) that aren't described in the text.
I recommend revising, testing and only submitting once you are sure you are finished and happy with it.
I would suggest modified versions of the dragons in the monster manual. As you can imagine, adult dragons can be a solo boss for a party of 3+, which in turn means that this one character can be the equivalent of 3 player characters. Debuffing or creating modified versions of these transformations would be a MUCH better way to go about this. Storywise, you could explain that the transformation is halted due to something the player has done/hasn't done in connection to Tiamat which would explain the reduced/modified stats. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the feedback, I didn't realise the submission was more designed for complete works than WIP.
On the pluss side tweaks shall be undertaken.
In your opinion is forfeiture of a feat, at those levels a bit cheap vs other possible combinations (Stat advances etc) ?
Class level functionality is something I hadn't actually thought of, although my thought process is that they effectively cease. In purely mechanical terms it's like replacing your character with said dragon for duration whole cloth. I think I'll probably tweak the 3 to 2 as well.
Much appreciated on the support, so used to actual pen n paper it's quite daunting comparatively.
Thanks again
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Good thought squigs, that's a very good idea I'm totally poaching. I'm considering possibly disadvantage to saves across the board due to tiamats anger of cheating her curse while in dragon form?
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You know that you're a DM when you plan for the inevitable betrayal by your dice by threatening to loan them to players.
Good thought squigs, that's a very good idea I'm totally poaching. I'm considering possibly disadvantage to saves across the board due to tiamats anger of cheating her curse while in dragon form?
If the race is unable to be lowered down to be on par with the other official 5e races, disadvantage to saving throws would be a good way to do that. I personally don't really like the "super powers for races, but heavy drawbacks" approach, but if that's what you and your group is cool with then it's 100% groovy! Another one you could use could be that evil chromatic dragons, dragonborns, etc. could deal double damage, or will always attempt to target that player first. In a campaign with small amounts of dragons, this won't mean much, but in a dragon-heavy campaign, then I could totally see this being a good set back, but would also mean that most of your other players wouldn't get hit as often and may feel "left out" to some degree, so it works both ways. And of course, if everyone in the party is a Tiamatar then it's completely nullified lol
Thanks for the feedback, I didn't realise the submission was more designed for complete works than WIP.
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Before submitting we highly recommend testing the submission yourself in the character builder and/or via playtesting (remember private homebrew can be shared via a campaign, you do not need to publish it). Right now we have some homebrew that is close to 2 weeks waiting to be approved due to the backlog - the more we can get everyone to not submit WIP, the better.
HI All,
Hoping this works when i past in the below as a link to the homebrew race I've created as a first go.
Only thing i missed off was disadvantage on wisdom saving throws.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/races/18242-tiamatars
Let me know what you think and any suggestions to tweaking them you have.
Note: The transformations are managed as spell like abilities.
Thanks in advance.
You know that you're a DM when you plan for the inevitable betrayal by your dice by threatening to loan them to players.
Hi JM, it looks like that link isn't published, so we won't be able to look at the race and help you out. If your race has been published, double-check that you're giving us the public link. If it hasn't been published (or hasn't been accepted yet) you can Ctrl/Cmd+P on the page to export a PDF, which you could share via a Google Drive link.
Thanks M for letting me know :)
I've dumped it out into Google drive word doc view only: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R0K6Glu4sxYTy32NBBRyTyvVPVrYGwNUw8ixdPIC4Ng/edit?usp=sharing
I have a sneaking suspicion it's not fully published then although it is reporting views just now, where would i get the public link for it in case i'm being a bit thick?
Thanks :)
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D&D Beyond FoundersHaving taken a quick look, you submitted your race to public homebrew about 6 hours ago.
As with all homebrew submissions, it will be manually checked by a moderator, before being approved or rejected with feedback on why.
Only once it has been approved will it be visible to others via the url you provided (your url is correct).
So I urge patience and wait for your race submission to be moderated, as there are other submissions in the queue to be moderated. :)
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D&D Beyond FoundersInitial feedback though:
Overall - it's mechanically fairly sound, but any character with this race will be more powerful than the rest of the adventuring party added together unless they also have races of similar power levels.
Currently I expect the race to be rejected when it reaches moderation, because you have modifiers in there (the disadvantage to wisdom) that aren't described in the text.
I recommend revising, testing and only submitting once you are sure you are finished and happy with it.
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I would suggest modified versions of the dragons in the monster manual. As you can imagine, adult dragons can be a solo boss for a party of 3+, which in turn means that this one character can be the equivalent of 3 player characters. Debuffing or creating modified versions of these transformations would be a MUCH better way to go about this. Storywise, you could explain that the transformation is halted due to something the player has done/hasn't done in connection to Tiamat which would explain the reduced/modified stats. Hope this helps!
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Thanks for the feedback, I didn't realise the submission was more designed for complete works than WIP.
On the pluss side tweaks shall be undertaken.
In your opinion is forfeiture of a feat, at those levels a bit cheap vs other possible combinations (Stat advances etc) ?
Class level functionality is something I hadn't actually thought of, although my thought process is that they effectively cease. In purely mechanical terms it's like replacing your character with said dragon for duration whole cloth. I think I'll probably tweak the 3 to 2 as well.
Much appreciated on the support, so used to actual pen n paper it's quite daunting comparatively.
Thanks again
You know that you're a DM when you plan for the inevitable betrayal by your dice by threatening to loan them to players.
Good thought squigs, that's a very good idea I'm totally poaching. I'm considering possibly disadvantage to saves across the board due to tiamats anger of cheating her curse while in dragon form?
You know that you're a DM when you plan for the inevitable betrayal by your dice by threatening to loan them to players.
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It's going to be a dragon home sphere game so I love the P1 target plan. That's potentially hilarious. I'll probably work with the debuf angle more.
You know that you're a DM when you plan for the inevitable betrayal by your dice by threatening to loan them to players.
Glad I could help!
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