Homebrew Orange Dragonborn Species Details
Orange Dragonborn are perhaps the most unpredictable of all the draconic descendants. Owing to their distant lineage of calm and cunning Yellow Dragons, and temperamental and cruel Red Dragons, these creatures can have moments of great thoughtfulness that descend into pure rage at the drop of a hat. Orange Dragonborn posses a similar breath weapon to their full-blooded Orange ancestors, being a highly-explosive compound coated in oil. They have webbed feet and flat, broad tails adapted for an amphibious lifestyle. Their scales can range in color, from a bright yellow-orange to nearly brown, depending on their exact lineage.
Orange Dragonborn Traits
Your draconic heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other dragonborn.Ability Score Increase
You may choose an option from the list below:
Your Charisma score increases by 1, and your Dexterity score increases by 2.
Your Dexterity score increases by 1, and your Strength score increases by 2.
Your Charisma score increases by 1, and your Wisdom score increases by 2.
Age
Orange Dragonborn reach adulthood in their late teens and can live for up to 400 years.
Alignment
Orange Dragonborn tend toward the Evil alignments of their Draconic ancestors.
Size
Orange Dragonborn are usually 6ft-8ft tall. Regardless, your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages
You can speak both Common and Draconic fluently. Due to your ancestry, you can vaguely understand the Yellow Draconic dialect, but you are not conversational in it and tend to trip on your words.
Semi-Aquatic
Due to their Draconic ancestry, Orange Dragonborn have webbed hands and feet, similar to a crocodile. They have pseudo-gills that allow them to stay underwater for long periods of time, and they also have a flat, broad tail useful for propelling the body through the water faster. You have an innate swimming speed of 35 feet. You can last twice as long underwater as you would normally be able to.
Damage Resistance
Due to their ancestry's beath weapon being explosive, Orange Dragonborn gain a passive resistance to both Fire and Force damage.
Breath Weapon
Your breath weapon is a bizarre mixture of oily saliva and a highly-volatile explosive compound. The oily saliva shields this mixture, but it quickly evaporates. Once it is gone, the compound explodes.
This breath weapon is expelled in a 5ft by 30ft line. It deals 1d4 Fire damage upon contact with the target(s), and they will take another 1d4 Fire damage at the end of their turn(s). At the end of your next turn, the saliva will evaporate, sand the compound will explode. Any creature hit by the compound will have an explosion detonate on their body measuring 25ft in diameter. They take 1d8+2 Force damage and 1d6 Fire damage, and this damage cannot be avoided. Any other creature caught in the explosion will take the same damage and be knocked backwards 30ft, or half as much of all values on a successful DEX saving throw. All creatures effected by the explosion will be unable to act until the end of the current combat round.* A creature cannot be harmed by more than one explosion in a single turn.
The only way to remove the compound is to douse the target with at least 1L of Universal Solvent before the saliva evaporates, or before your next turn following this attack. If the target comes into contact with at least 1 cubic-centimeter of water, the compound will detonate instantly. The same will occur if this compound is expelled underwater.
*Clarification example: If the explosion hits an opponent, and the dragonborn had a higher initiative, the affected creature would lose their turn. If the Dragonborn had the lower initiative, then the affected creature would take their turn, and then not be able to act after the Dragonborn's turn had ended.
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Posted May 10, 2024Oil floats on water
Step 1: Cover yourself in oil
Step 2: Wait for it to rain
Step 3: The oil was from an Orange Dragonborn
Step 4: Explode