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Indeed. The unspoken hidden aspect of 2024th edition is that monsters can swap weapons and spell as long as the attack is calculated at the same CR. For as long as the dragonborn's breath weapon, elf or tiefling's cantrip, or the goliaths ancestry attack is around the same DPR, it's balanced...

Old school settings where human-centric because in old school RPG thought humans didn't have any superpowers or fantastic powers. They were not balanced to other species. So there was some artificial cap or restraint on the other more powerful species and races to keep them from taking over...

Dragonborn Breath weapon damage would be about 1d6 + 2d6*CR If you like the d10s for consistency then about 1d10 + 1d10*CR CR 1/8: 1d6 damage CR 1/4: 1d10 amage CR 1/2: 1d10+2 damage Buts that's assume 1 failed target or 2 successes Half dice if you are assume more targets.

Maintaining Gygaxian humanocentrism or a futile attempt of a low magic frequency base. 5.5e is higher magic frequency than most editions.

See. This is my point A 1HD dragonborn commoner's breath weapon would be 1d6 adjusted to its CR. Maybe even 1d4. See if WOTC did the 5.5e setting, we'd all know mass Dragonborn would not be that much more scary that any other species. Except Gnomes. Gnome suck for nonPCs

Why would they rule? All the PHB species are balanced on a macro level.

I agree. Stripping dragonborn of their breath weapon so they would be identical to humans is not 5.5e

No. You all are going on tangents from my original statements that a Dragonborn can be roleplayed as the PC version with dragonic breath weapon and resistance and one of the NPC version where it is a scaly human. One being easy the other being harder. But my discussion is about the mechanics...

We aren't talking sorry about mind. What we are saying is that a species that when is a player has an elemental resistance and an elemental breath attack has neither its Elemental resistance nor its Elemental birth attack when it's not a PC. That's a choice. It makes it easy. But that is...

There are drawbacks to going too far on the east side of the spectrum. Laziness isn't an insult when it comes to DMing. DMs are allowed to take shortcuts and be lazy. The only insult is when DMs claim shortcuts are the only way to do things

We literally created Dragonborn. We can choose how their mind, body, and soul work.

If you are treating a 6-ft elementally charged dragon person like a human, you are doing so out of ease or ignorance. It's not out of logic. Which is fine.

Well that's the rules. A halfling can take a dragon claw with enough HP. We could force all misses from large creatures to force movement as a dodge but we don't for ease.

Untrue. That's just an excuse to only deal with one species majority for ease.

5e needs a fey book. Random Encounter: 1d4 Santas