Homebrew Fang Dragonborn Species Details
Creating Your Character
When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a member of the human race or one of the game’s fantastical races. If you select one of the dragonborn races in this chapter, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.
The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.
Creature Type
Every creature in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race option presented here tells you what your character’s creature type is.
Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Fang Dragonborn Traits
Bite, Merciless Rive, Draconic Resistance, Thrill of the Hunt.Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.
The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.
Age
Young dragonborn grow quickly. They walk hours after hatching, attain the size and development of a 10-year-old human child by the age of 3, and reach adulthood by 15. They live to be around 80.
Alignment
Fang dragonborn tend to revere freedom above all. Most fang dragonborn are chaotic neutral. However, there are rare outliers who throw in their lot with Bahamut in the war against Tiamat, adopting lawful or good tendencies.
Size
Fang Dragonborn are taller and heavier than humans, standing well over 6 feet tall and averaging almost 250 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character.
Bite
Your fanged maw is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Merciless Rive
Immediately after you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, or land a critical hit, as part of an attack action on your turn, you can lunge forward and use your bite to deliver a devastating attack. You move up to half of your movement speed, and make one bite attack. This attack is made with advantage, and if successful, deals and additional 1d6 piercing damage. The additional damage increases to 3d6 at 5th level, 5d6 at 11th level, and 7d6 at 17th level.
You can use your Merciless Rive a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Draconic Resistance
You share some of your ancestor's ability to shrug off magical attacks. You have advantage on all Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws against magic.
Thrill of the Hunt
You have proficiency in the survival skill.
Creature Type
You are a Humanoid.
Speed
Your walking speed is 30 feet.
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