Can my Black dragonborn sorcerer have a red color draconic origin color? Ive looked on other sites and seen yes but a friend in group is saying because 5th is based off 3.5 and something about how you cant based off something he read in 3.5 because 5th is based off that and I said i looked it up and it said yes on several websited and quoted a dev even and gave my sources and he just kept disagreeing without even looking anything up so I basically just want proof from the horses mouth so to speak so we can get this behind us and get to playing. I apologize if the question has been aaked but I searched and it didnt come up even after changing key words several times and tbh im not looking through 75 pages to check every post. Thank you for any official ruling that you can give me.
5th edition is not "based" on 3.5 or anything else. It is its own edition and you do not use 3.5 edition content or rules for 5th edition unless 5th edition specifically states otherwise. So it doesn't matter what was read in 3.5 - it's irrelevant. Each edition is a unique thing. This is why they're called "editions" not "expansions".
There is nothing stopping a Dragonborn taking the Draconic Bloodline of a different colour. Neither the Dragonborn race nor the Sorcerer class has any information on restrictions. If you could not take it then it would say so. The only thing you have to remember is that the Draconic Bloodline features of the Sorcerer, like Elemental Affinity, only work with the element/colour chosen for Draconic Bloodline and not your racial choice. Let's say you are a red dragonborn (fire) and chose white dragon ancestry (cold) for draconic bloodline. This means the Elemental Affinity Draconic Bloodline feature will only add extra damage to your cold damage, not your fire damage. Likewise your Dragonborn breath attack will be based on your racial choice, so you would have only a fire breath, not a frost breath.
Jeremy Crawford, rules designer for 5th Edition D&D, indirectly confirms it is possible to have a different dagon ancestry from Dragonborn race and from Draconic Bloodline Sorcerous Origin. Somebody asked him about whether Sorcerer's Elemental Affinity could apply to both and he clarified it could not and confirmed you treat the Sorcerer dragon ancestry stuff and the Dragonborn dragon ancestry stuff separate, which indirectly confirms you can have both as different. Link: https://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/03/12/dragonborn-sorcerer-with-draconic-bloodline-has-two-draconic-ancestry-traits-can-both-be-used-for-elemental-affinity/
Can my Black dragonborn sorcerer have a red color draconic origin color?
Ive looked on other sites and seen yes but a friend in group is saying because 5th is based off 3.5 and something about how you cant based off something he read in 3.5 because 5th is based off that and I said i looked it up and it said yes on several websited and quoted a dev even and gave my sources and he just kept disagreeing without even looking anything up so I basically just want proof from the horses mouth so to speak so we can get this behind us and get to playing.
I apologize if the question has been aaked but I searched and it didnt come up even after changing key words several times and tbh im not looking through 75 pages to check every post.
Thank you for any official ruling that you can give me.
5th edition is not "based" on 3.5 or anything else. It is its own edition and you do not use 3.5 edition content or rules for 5th edition unless 5th edition specifically states otherwise. So it doesn't matter what was read in 3.5 - it's irrelevant. Each edition is a unique thing. This is why they're called "editions" not "expansions".
There is nothing stopping a Dragonborn taking the Draconic Bloodline of a different colour. Neither the Dragonborn race nor the Sorcerer class has any information on restrictions. If you could not take it then it would say so. The only thing you have to remember is that the Draconic Bloodline features of the Sorcerer, like Elemental Affinity, only work with the element/colour chosen for Draconic Bloodline and not your racial choice. Let's say you are a red dragonborn (fire) and chose white dragon ancestry (cold) for draconic bloodline. This means the Elemental Affinity Draconic Bloodline feature will only add extra damage to your cold damage, not your fire damage. Likewise your Dragonborn breath attack will be based on your racial choice, so you would have only a fire breath, not a frost breath.
Jeremy Crawford, rules designer for 5th Edition D&D, indirectly confirms it is possible to have a different dagon ancestry from Dragonborn race and from Draconic Bloodline Sorcerous Origin. Somebody asked him about whether Sorcerer's Elemental Affinity could apply to both and he clarified it could not and confirmed you treat the Sorcerer dragon ancestry stuff and the Dragonborn dragon ancestry stuff separate, which indirectly confirms you can have both as different. Link: https://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/03/12/dragonborn-sorcerer-with-draconic-bloodline-has-two-draconic-ancestry-traits-can-both-be-used-for-elemental-affinity/
I hope this helps.
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