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    Default Initial thoughts - Dragonborn

    Thanks to bolo-grubb I was able to log in and create my first dragonborn character.

    No Tails, really. How disappointing. The character animation makes it look like the tails were lopped off because they didn't work.

    Love the 2 dances.

    On a couple of styles of hair for the female dragonborn you can see the human head under the skin. 6-8

    The animation for a two weapon fighting on the female Dragonborn has one hand drop from the weapon.

    Cosmetics hide the dragonborns hair.

    At first glance I like the Enhancements for Dragonborn, we could argue a few points here and there but nothing stood out as extremely underpowered or extremely overpowered.
    That's not to say I would have done them differently, rather I am some what satisfied with them

    One Suggestion - Change Hard Scales. Have it work with character level - +1 Natural Armor per character level (Max 5) / +1 Natural Armor per Character level (Max 10) / +1 Natural Armor per Character level (Max 20) and I am totally cool with it costing 1/2/4 Enhancement Points.
    Reasoning - 6 AC is fairly robust boost in level 1-6 quests but as your character levels up it becomes significantly less of a boost. As a Defender build I am not sure I will end up justifying the 3 enhancement points.

    I tried out the breath weapon, nothing to exciting at first glance.

    I could not take Harper tree with Dragonborn

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoldyGopher View Post
    No Tails, really. How disappointing. The character animation makes it look like the tails were lopped off because they didn't work.
    Dragonborn do not have tails - "Dragonborn look very much like dragons standing erect in humanoid form, though they lack wings or tails." Players handbook 5e pg 32
    Thinking of Draconians?

    However after reading your point about the animation I went back and watched it again and yes you have some disjointed motion. It is really hitchy on my older computer with only a 1 GB video card.

    In creating my first couple of Dragonborn I was pleased with the options except the beards. Many looked like preliminary models rather than the finished project and I hope that is the case.

    I am not totally sold on the skin coloring options, was hoping to get a solid red, blue, green, black and white at a minimum. The colors were too muted for me.

    Not sure if I like Dragon Breath in the Enhancements rather than an autogrant option. I understand the design decisions but not sure I like it that way.

    I haven't done a lot of theory crafting yet but the Enhancements don't seem to mesh well with your typical builds. The amount of points spent on the breath attack seem a little high to me, but to be honest it could be because I don't like Breath Attack not being a autogrant. Of course the discussion on Racial reincarnation is another topic that effects this.
    IMHO the racial trees are all weak, this one has potential to be more useful than say Dwarf or Elf. To me the issue becomes where do you pull points from you Harper/Defender/Vanguard/Savant/other to us in your racial tree.

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    Some of the animation work is not yet polished for this first Lamannia preview.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordovan View Post
    Some of the animation work is not yet polished for this first Lamannia preview.
    Good to know. I noticed the clipping with the male's idle animation, and the monk unarmed style looks very wonky with index fingers sticking out. It's like he's Elvis doing kung-fu but poking people instead of punching. There's a short delay with the breath animation, as well.

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    Dragonborns: a copy-paste of Draconic Incarnation and couple other Enhancements.

    That's what their tree looks like.
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    I don't think you get a choice.. you are Rys's minion..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordovan View Post
    Some of the animation work is not yet polished for this first Lamannia preview.
    Good To Know.

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    Lightbulb I agree..

    The dragonborn need more solid colors like blue, black, bright red, and white..

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    Quote Originally Posted by snowhitefox View Post
    The dragonborn need more solid colors like blue, black, bright red, and white..
    Absolutely.

    They don't have to be "BLUE!", "WHITE!", "RED!" or "BLACK!"

    Blue-ish is fine. The current Red hue needs to be slightly more pronounced and same with the Black hue. The White-hue appears to be fine.

    Make it clear what each character's draconic heritage is but don't make the colors so vivid that they blind us.
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