Quote from: Natty Bodak;785738I was under the impression that dragonborn, as a race, were originally created from eggs but have since procreated via the ages old dragon-with-two-backs ritual, and in doing so pretty much all of them have mixed ancestry. So, to me, having your dragonborn racial stuff draw from a different dragon type than the type referenced in a sorcerous heritage is not dissonant at all.

Yep. The Dragonborn's racial description leaves the exact details vague, so what you say is possible.

Quote from: One Horse Town;785717It's only a cool story if 95% of other DB sorcerers are not 2 dragon combos.

That would be silly.


All the other dragonborn are half-dragon dragons blooded sorcerers.



And now I have the urge to play a Green Dragonborn, Gold Half Dragon, Red Dragon Blooded Sorcerer called Trafficlights...

Sorcerers are my least favorite 5e class. Whoever wrote the 5e sorcerer, like whoever wrote the 4e sorcerer, clearly had no idea of what to do with the class.

I'd rather they went the Pathfinder route with sorcerers being divided in "bloodlines" with draconic being one possibility among several. It would harken back to the original concept of the class (a natural-born "wild talent" magician to whom spellcasting comes naturally).

But I digress. My take on Dragonborn Draconic Sorcerers would be as follows: dragonborn are not dragons. Draconic blood was very likely involved in their original creation aeons ago, but they're no more dragons than human are apes. If you can picture an ape/human hybrid, you can picture a dragon/dragonborn hybrid. They are as likely to be directly descended from dragons as your average human, despite being, as a species, far closer to dragonkind; and they're just as likely to tap into this heritage through sorcery.

Quote from: The Butcher;785747I'd rather they went the Pathfinder route with sorcerers being divided in "bloodlines" with draconic being one possibility among several.

Isn't that what they are in 5e? Admittedly, only two such "bloodlines" are presented in the PHB.

There is that whole Tiamat thing.

Quote from: The Butcher;785747I'd rather they went the Pathfinder route with sorcerers being divided in "bloodlines" with draconic being one possibility among several. It would harken back to the original concept of the class (a natural-born "wild talent" magician to whom spellcasting comes naturally).

Except... they kind of actually did that.

Quote from: Natty Bodak;785738I was under the impression that dragonborn, as a race, were originally created from eggs but have since procreated via the ages old dragon-with-two-backs ritual, and in doing so pretty much all of them have mixed ancestry. So, to me, having your dragonborn racial stuff draw from a different dragon type than the type referenced in a sorcerous heritage is not dissonant at all.

So your teal dragon example works for me even without any special backstory.

Yeah, i guess that one makes sense.

Heck with that. Im going to take a red dragonborn and then multiclass Sorcerer four times and get the other colours. The first Chromatic Dragonborn!

Quote from: Omega;785803Heck with that. Im going to take a red dragonborn and then multiclass Sorcerer four times and get the other colours. The first Chromatic Dragonborn!

All hail Twinkamat!

Quote from: One Horse Town;785706In the makes no sense corner, these guys are already dragonborn, choosing double dragonborn (in the form of draconic heritage) doesn't make much sense, whilst taking the wild magic option would.

Quite another route to double dragonborn would be to play a dragonborn monk named Billy Lee.

Quote from: Omega;785803Heck with that. Im going to take a red dragonborn and then multiclass Sorcerer four times and get the other colours. The first Chromatic Dragonborn!

I don't think that's how multiclassing works.

I'ld allow any and all things suggested above that can be shoe horned into a loose interpretation of the rules (including the 5-class 'Twinkimat'). Why not? What's the harm?

The aforementioned 'Twinkamat' would actually suck, hard, and if someone was intent on doing it, hey, fine.

The thing is? A Sor1/Sor1/Sor1/Sor1/Sor1 character would have a bunch of first level spells ONLY (spell selection from each class), though have Caster 5 spell slots.

They'd have 5 elemental affinities due to different heritage. Awesome!
Aaaand absolutely fuck-all to do with them -- the elemental affinity only kicks in at level 6, and it needs to be level 6 in one of the specific classes. You'd only get resistance to 5 different elements when you reach level 6 in all 5 classes, or level 30...

So, uh. It's more 'Twaddlemat' than twink.

Quote from: Will;785841The aforementioned 'Twinkamat' would actually suck, hard, and if someone was intent on doing it, hey, fine.

The thing is? A Sor1/Sor1/Sor1/Sor1/Sor1 character would have a bunch of first level spells ONLY (spell selection from each class), though have Caster 5 spell slots.

They'd have 5 elemental affinities due to different heritage. Awesome!
Aaaand absolutely fuck-all to do with them -- the elemental affinity only kicks in at level 6, and it needs to be level 6 in one of the specific classes. You'd only get resistance to 5 different elements when you reach level 6 in all 5 classes, or level 30...

So, uh. It's more 'Twaddlemat' than twink.

Exactly. But it would be bemusing to play a walking rainbow. To hell with teh powerz! I want passers by to fail sanity checks just looking at the character. heh-heh.

The concept in Ent form!