Dragon Adventurers

True dragons are winged reptiles of ancient lineage and fearsome power. They are known and feared for their predatory cunning and greed, with the oldest dragons accounted as some of the most powerful creatures in the world. Dragons are also magical creatures whose innate power fuels their dreaded breath weapons and other preternatural abilities.

Some dragons, especially young dragons crave adventure, some of these dragons brave humanoid society and even become adventurers using their magics to conceal their identity.

Dragon's Bite

Every Dragon has a fanged maw. It counts as a simple melee weapon for you, and you add your Strength modifier to the attack and damage rolls when you attack with it, as normal. Your bite deals damage as shown in the Natural Attack column of the Dragon Adventurer table plus 1d6 damge of the same type as your Breath Weapon.

Blindsight

if you are able to smell, you are aware of the location of any hidden or invisible creature within 10 feet of you.

At 7th level, the range of your blindsight increases to 20 ft. At 13th level, the range increases to 30 ft., and finally at 19th level, the range increases to 60 ft.

Breath Weapon

Possibly the most iconic ability of dragon kind is the dragon's breath weapon. You can use your action to exhale destructive energy. It deals damage in an area according to your ancestry as shown in the Breath Weapon Table. When you use your breath weapon, all creatures in the area must make a saving throw, the type of which is determined by your ancestry.

The DC of this saving throw is:

Breath Weapon DC = 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus

A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increase as shown in the Breath Weapon column of the Dragon Adventurer table.

After using your breath weapon, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest. In addition, at the start of each of the your turns, roll a d6. If the roll is a 5 or 6, you regain the use of Breath Weapon.

At 6th level, size of your breath weapon increases. If it is a Cone, it becomes a 30 ft cone, if it is a line, it becomes a 5 ft by 60 ft line.

At 18th level, the size of your breath weapon increases further. If it is a Cone, it becomes a 60 ft cone, if it is a line, it becomes a 5 ft by 120 ft line.

Draconic Heritage

Each form of True Dragon has a number of unique characteristics, when you create your Dragon Adventurer choose its ancestry from the following options: Black, Blue, Brass, Bronze, Copper, Gold, Green, Red, Silver, or White. Your choice determines a number of aspects of your character such as the type of Breath Weapon you have as well as a number of other features you gain at 1st, 3rd, 7th and 14th levels.

Natural Armor

Your body is covered by a thick hide of scales. When you aren't wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + your Dexterity modifier.

Alternate Form

Dragons often take the forms of other creatures in order conceal its true nature. You can use an action to polymorph yourself into a form which either resembles a Medium beast or Small or Medium Humanoid. When you first gain this ability choose the appearance of your Alternate Form including any clothing or mundane equipment it possesses. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn't transformed. You revert to your true form if you die. Your statistics are the same while transformed with the following exceptions:

• You cannot use your Breath Weapon
• You cannot use your Dragon's Bite
• You cannot Fly
• You lose the benefit of your natural armor.

You can use an action to return to your True Form. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can change the appearance of your Alternate Form.

Flight

At 2nd level, your wings are strong enough to bear you aloft. You gain a fly speed equal to your land speed. Your wings are only strong enough to work in short bursts; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

At 5th level, your fly speed increases to 60 feet and wings are more developed and you can fly without falling at the end of your turn.

At 10th level, your fly speed increases to 80 feet.

At 15th level, your fly speed increases to 100 feet.

Spell Slots

The Dragon Adventurer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Burning Hands and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Burning Hands using either slot.

Spells Known

You know two 1st-level Spells of your choice from the Sorcerer spell list.

You learn an additional spell of your choice at each odd numbered level thereafter. Each of these Spells must be of a level for which you have Spell Slots. For instance, when you reach 5th Level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd Level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Dragon Spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Sorcerer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have Spell Slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your Spellcasting Ability for your Dragon Spells. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your Spellcasting Ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Dragon spell you cast and when making an Attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Charisma modifier

Spell Attack modifier = your Proficiency Bonus + your Charisma modifier

Spellcasting Focus

As a True Dragon you can use your own body as a spellcasting focus for your spells.

Metabreath

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to modify your breath weapon to suit your needs. You gain two of the following Metabreath options of your choice. You gain another option at 10th level and again at 17th level.

You can use only one Metabreath option at a time, unless otherwise noted.

• Careful Breath. When you use your breath weapon, you can protect some of those creatures from the breath's full force. When you do so, you reduce the damage of your breath weapon by 1d6 and choose a number of those creatures up to your Constitution modifier (minimum of one creature). A chosen creature automatically succeeds on its saving throw against the Breath Weapon and they take no damage if they would normally take half damage on a successful save.

• Distant Breath. When you use your breath weapon, you can project the energy so that it covers more area. Double the size of the cone or line (but not the width in the case of a line). After using Distant Breath, your breath weapon only recharges on a roll of 6 rather than 5 or 6.

• Empowered Breath. When you roll damage for your breath weapon, you can roll d8s rather than d6s. When you do so, you become poisoned until the end of your next turn.

• Extended Breath. When you use your breath weapon you can shape it into a lingering cloud of energy the same shape as the breath. The breath weapon deals no immediate damage, instead a creature takes damage when it enters the cloud’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there. The cloud deals 2d6 less damage than your breath weapon and lasts for 1 minute.

• Heightened Breath. When you use your breath weapon you can direct some of your lifeforce into the attack in order to make it harder to avoid. Sacrifice any number of hit dice, for each hit die you lose one target of your breath weapon has disadvantage on its saving throw.

• Quickened Breath. When you use your breath weapon as a bonus action, when you do so the breath weapon doesn't recharge until you finish a short or long rest, you don't roll to recharge it until you've rested.

• Transmuted Breath. When you use your breath weapon, you can expend a spell slot to magically transmute the breath weapon's damage type to one of the following listed types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder. You can use Transmuted Breath even if you have already used a different metabreath on the same attack.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1.

Size Increase

At 9th level, your size increases to Large. This gives you the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength Score by 4. Your maximum Strength score is now 24.
• Double your carrying capacity.

Frightful Presence

At 8th level, you drive fear into those around you. As an action, you can cause each creature of your choice within 60 feet to make a Wisdom Saving Throw against your spell save DC. On a fail the creature becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune your Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Overland Flight

By the time you reach 11th level, you are so at home in the air that flight takes almost no effort. You can rest or even sleep while flying and can cover enormous distances while airborn.

Empowered Blows

In addition, at 11th level, while you are assuming your alternate form, you can lend some of your draconic power to your attacks. Whenever you strike an opponent with a weapon attack, you can choose to deal an extra 1d8 damage. The extra damage is the same type as your Breath Weapon.

Legendary Resistance

Dragons are legendarily resilient to assault. Upon reaching 13th level, when you fail a saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

At 19th level, you can use this feature twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Draconic Heritage

Aerial Acrobat

Blue Dragons excelled at maneuvering while airborne when compared to other chromatic dragons. At 7th level, while flying you can use a bonus action to take Dash or Disengage actions.

Mirage Maker

Upon reaching 14th level, you can manipulate the senses of others in order to confuse and disorient travellers. You can cast the Hallucinatory Terrain spell using this feature, when you do so, the spell has a casting time of 1 action and has no components.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Brass Dragon

The most gregarious of all true dragons, Brass dragons crave conversation and are famous (some would say infamous) raconteurs. Brass Dragon dwell in hot dry places which often put them at odds with Blue Dragons. Brass Dragon Adventurers frequently flock to anywhere they think they can find a story or someone to talk to.

Bronze Dragon

Bronze Dragons have a strong sense of justice and often seek the company of smaller creatures especially humans. Bronze Dragon adventurers often strive to help those in danger, such as rescuing humans from a shipwreck or a dangerous foe. In many instances, bronze dragons, remain in disguise so that those who they help never knew who really did the rescuing.

Always seeking justice, Bronze Dragons can not abide to see any creature being treated with cruelty of any sort.

Warrior Form

Bronze dragons frequently spend large amounts of time in their alternate form and learn to excel at fighting while transformed. At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with Martial Weapons and Shields. In addition, choose a fighting style from those available to a Fighter, you can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Repelling Breath

Bronze dragons have a secondary breath weapon which they use to repel hostile foes or knock them away, such as off the deck of a ship. At 7th level, when you use your breath weapon, you can choose to replace the lightning with a 30 ft cone of repulsive force. Creatures within the cone must make strength saving throws versus your breath weapon DC or be pushed 30 feet directly away from you.

Righteous Champion

You are a beacon of heroics. Starting at 14th level, you and all allies within 30 feet who can see or hear you are immune to fear. This effect functions as long as you are conscious.

In addition, you can use an action, you can motivate your allies with renewed vigor. You and each ally within 30 feet gains temporary hit points equal to your Dragon Adventurer level.

Once you use this feature in this way, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Copper Dragon

Black Dragons are among the most evil-tempered true dragons. Typically heralding from dismal swamps or bogs, Black Dragons usually become adventurers to prove themselves or when they see an opportunity to seize power. Regardless, they are cunning, clever and brutally self centered.

Gold Dragon

Gold Dragons are dedicated foes of evil and foul play. Young Gold Dragon often embark on self-appointed quests to promote good. Woe to the evildoer who earns a gold dragon's wrath. The dragon will not rest until the malefactor has been defeated and either slain or brought to justice. Gold Dragons do not settle for anything less than complete victory over evil.

Hunter of Evil

The presence of strong evil registers on your senses like a noxious odor. As an action, you can open your awareness to detect such forces. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any fiend, or undead within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover. You know the type of any being whose presence you sense, but not its identity. Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of any place or object that has been desecrated, as with the Hallow spell.

Weakening Breath

Gold Dragons have a secondary breath weapon which you can use once you reach 7th level. When you use your breath weapon, you can choose to instead release a 30 ft cone of gas.

Each creature in the cone must succeed on a strength saving throw versus your breath weapon DC or have disadvantage on Strength-based attack rolls, Strength checks, and Strength saving throws for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Luckstone

Gold Dragons often reward those who aid them in their crusades. Upon reaching 14th level, you can use an action to touch a stone and transform it into a Stone of Good Luck. Once attuned, the bearer of the stone receives a +1 bonus to Ability Checks and Saving Throws.

Once you create a Stone of Good Luck in this way, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Green Dragon

Lovers of intrigue and scheming, Green Dragons are always plotting their next scheme. Hailing from ancient forests with towering trees, Green Dragon Adventurers usually emergy with some ploy to gain treasure with the minimum of effort. Putting up a front of diplomacy and deceit when dealing with stronger foes, they revealed their cruel and petty nature when intimidating lesser beings or when gaining the upper hand. They delight in stalking their enemies and listening in for any information they can gather before moving to attack.

Red Dragon

Supremely confident of their own abilities, Red Dragons view themselves as the pinnacle of dragon kind. Red Dragon adventurers don't feel the need to prove themselves, rather they already believe they are a supreme being. They travel the world accumulating wealth and power for themselves.

Treasure Sense

At 3rd level, you have honed your love treasure to the point that you can pinpoint, by scent, the location of precious metals and stones, such as coins and gems, within 60 feet of you.

Overpowering Heat

The fire of Red Dragons is legendary. At 7th level, whenever you use your breath weapon or cast a spell which deals fire damage, increase the damage by 2 per die rolled.

Melt Rock

Upon reaching 14th level, your breath weapon is so hot it can effortlessly destroy objects and melt stone. Whenever your breath weapon deals damage to an object it deals the maximum possible damage. In addition, any stone on the ground in the area of the breath weapon is melted into lava a foot deep which takes 10 minutes to cool. A creature takes 3d10 fire damage when it enters the lava for the first time on a turn or when it ends its turn there.

Silver Dragon

Silver dragons enjoy the company of humans and elves so much that they often take the form of a human or elf and live among them for the majority of their lives. However, it should be noted that silvers, like all dragons, believe themselves the most superior creatures in the world. Silver Dragons usually become adventurers to search out a community to join, or to leave in order to pass themselves off as a newcomer to the same group.

White Dragon

Smallest and most animalistic of true dragons. White Dragons find their homes in frigid remote areas filled with ice and snow. Often looked down upon by other dragons, White Dragons are still cunning and dangerous hunters. White Dragons often become adventurers when they feel that they are no longer welcome in their previous territory.