The advice offered below is based on the current State of the Character Optimization Meta as of when the article was last updated. I also won’t cover Unearthed Arcana content because it’s not finalized, and I can’t guarantee that it will be available to you in your games. I will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, even if it is my own, because I can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance. This determines your character’sĭamage resistance (if they get one) and the effects of your breath weapon. While there are now many variations on the Dragonborn, every variety ofĭragonborn chooses a draconic ancestor. 3rd edition had rules for playing a True Dragon, and there are a number of 3rd-party rules for playing a dragon in 5th edition (including my own interpretation in Monstrous Races ( Affiliate Link)), but there is objectively no easier way to play to the draconic theme of the game than to play a dragonborn.

They were introduced to answer the simple criticism that the game is called “Dungeons and Dragons” but there was no easy way to play a dragon. Dragonborn were introduced late in 3rd edition as a weird template, and became a full-fledged race in the 4th edition Player’s Handbook.

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