# True Drakes ### True Drake Origins True Drakes are a race of intelligent lesser dragons, easily mistaken as young dragons, they have the ability to take the form of humanoids. They are descended from dragons who experimented heavily with their shapechanging abilities. ### Reproductive Parasitism Due to their solitary nature, true drakes rarely meet each other, but they are readily able to create offspring with humanoids, and prefer to do so. The offspring between a true drake and humanoid is always a true drake, but the humanoid appearance is the natural result of the true drake parent's humanoid form and the humanoid parent. The offspring of two true drakes has the humanoid appearance that is the natural result of the parents' humanoid forms. ### True Drake Traits Your True Drake character shares the same characteristics in common with all other True Drakes. **Ability Score Increase.** Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1. **Dragon.** You are a dragon rather than a humanoid. **Age.** True Drakes age roughly twice as fast as dragons, and live for half as long, around 500 years. **Alignment.** True Drakes tend to match the alignment of their ancestry, though more on the neutral side. **Size.** At the top of their head in their true form, trues drakes are a little shorter than humans. Though, tail to head they can measure from anyway between 6 to 9 feet in length and weigh a little over 200 pounds. Your size is medium. **Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet. **Darkvision.** You can see in dim light within 30 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. **Draconic Ancestry.** You are distantly related to a particular kind of dragon, and due to that you gain resistance to a particular type of damage. Choose one from among acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, or thunder. **Keen Senses.** You have proficiency in the Perception skill. **Drake Form.** Starting at 3rd level, at the start of your turn you can transform into a medium dragon or back into your humanoid form. You are incapacitated until the start of your next turn during the transformation. While in your drake-form, you are unable to hold or finely control objects or cast spells requiring somatic components. Additionally you gain the following features: * Your walking speed is increased by 5 feet and you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed. * Your darkvision is increased by 30 feet. * You gain a natural armor class of 13 + your Dexterity modifier. * You gain claws and a fanged maw that are natural weapons that deal 1d6 damage. Slashing for your claws or piercing for your bite. You also have a long, thin tail that deals 1d4 bludgeoning damage and has the reach property. You may add your Dexterity modifier, instead of your Strength modifier, to the attack and damage rolls when you attack with your natural weapons. At 5th level, when you make a claw or bite attack, you can make an attack with your tail as a bonus action. * You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. Worn equipment functions as normal, but the GM decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of equipment. **Languages.** You can speak, read, and write Common and Draconic. ## Feat ### Half-Form. You gain the ability to take on a form that is half way between your humanoid form and your drake form. As a bonus action you can transform into your half-form or into your other forms. When you do this, you gain two of Drake Form features of your choice. While in this form, your hands remain humanoid, allowing you to hold or finely control objects and cast spells that require somatic components. On further turns, as a bonus action you can return to your humanoid form or fully take on your drake form.