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trikiran
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As a long time staple of story and play with-in the D&D world, Unique racial lineage has been there, I believe these character traits would be a great cash shop extra.
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There were kinda-sorta things like that covered in 4th edition in some Themes, but as far as this MMO goes, I'm not sure how all this lineage stuff would work. Sure, I can think of ideas, but I don't have any idea if they're usable with the game we're actually getting. I just think a feat tax that gives you an appearance option is somewhat steep.
Or have I misunderstood someplace?
Now -that's- a race they should have included.. Dragonborn.
1. Does the lineages of having an elf and a human parent for half elves and having some demonic parents somewhere down the lineage of Tieflings not count?
2. Oh GOD we need Dragonborn, hopefully not in the form of a cash shop race (although they probably will anyway), and even more hopefully without a slew of names based on "Fus Roh Da!".
Tieflings don't have demonic parents anymore. tieflings are decesndants of a human empire(Bael something) which made an infernal pact with devils (not demons) and as a result their bloodline got twisted. They did not get any DNA from any of devils(unlike 3e). The pact has become useless now and hell holds no power over tieflings That is why creating tiefling paladin of lawful good deity is possible now.
Demons are different than devil. They were the elemental lords who fought gods in a war long time ago.
Thats somewhat good for their social life.But that twisting of the lore is really dumb.I like tieflings the way they were.It's like grabing a good book,twisting all of it's story and writing something totally different.It's not bad at all really an interesting change,but still...
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Draconic_Heritage_(4e_Feat)
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Dragon_Wings_(4e_Feat)
Hmm I guess the wiki and the ruleset is wrong. Blast those darn creators of 4e!! saying things that don't exsist in the ruleset they created.....
There are dragon wings in 4e. I forgot which one, but there is a racial paragon path which awakens your true heritage and dragon wings form on your back to confirm heritage of true dragon.
And you can fly too equal to your movement but start and end must be on land. So you fly like a chicken, sort of...
Lol, Yes I know about that, it's one of the many things this thread is requesting, I find it funny when some people come in and say that those things don't exsist. lols.
The is an old thread named "Racial Variants" where the same question was asked and commented on. You might want to look into it.
But there is no official answer to it as of yet.
Since this game is based directly off of the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting, we may be looking at what is presently dictated in the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting itself. In that case, the choice of elves would be: Moon (Eladrin), Sun (Eladrin), Wild (Faerun), and Wood (Faerun). Of course, I am sure Half-Elf would be in there too, even if not at release. Time will tell though.
Looking at the Race page, it may just be "Elf", "Drow", and "Half-Elf" at release however, where the elves are concerned.
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Older post regarding racial variants
Stromshade's answer to the question:
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For future reference, Check this thread to know what has already been answered by stromshade or if you want to ask any questions from devs which have not been answered.
After I find time from work, back at home tonight - I will create an organized archive of all the answers answered by devs and make an archive of it for convenience of community. That will avoid many "Would this feature be present..." posts again and again; thus saving some time of devs allowing them to answer more questions which have not been answered before.
That's the homebrew section, man. Those aren't real 4E feats.
as I said before, the dragon wrings do exist in 4e. I haven't checked those - links, but u can chk probably phb2 or FR player guide. one of then should have it parasols inbbbracial section. I would have checked for you but I an far away from home using small touchsCream to write it.
wHich reminds me, please pwe, make this forum touch screen friendly. its a nightmare to login using that jumping screen.
corrections: parasol is paragon, bbb Is space, scream is screen. arrow to tiresome to go back...
"Awakening the dormant powers of your bloodline" such as bringing a dragonborn character's wings are done in Paragon paths and/or Epic Destinies. For instance the Paragon Path:
but currently are not mentioned if they could be in this MMO game or not.
Whether "racial paragon paths/epic destinies" will be added or not remains to be seen.
Yes, that is the one I am talking about. But being a D&D player, when I start writing I have to impart some wise-<font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> comment too. Hence,...
btw, if you are roleplaying as dragonborn, its ok to kill dragons. Dragonborns hate dragons. They do not hate tieflings even when they are gaga about honor and justice(because of Bahamut). They still hatch from eggs (lol).
You missed the point. The question was if we had any variants that allowed the races to change or adapt their appearance or abilities for example the dragonborn having wings. This had no specific race needed and could work with any racial paragon path that has been made (and in 4e there are a lot.)
That should be clear now, but if confused still, the thread may need to be read from its first post to here again and not just the last postings.
The dragonborn do have a better lore in Eberron, but they are integrated in FR too as Abier merged to Toril(remember?). Bahamut being their diety, they now make excellent paladins for honor and justice.
Quoting a bit:-
Also as truth reminded, we are deviating from topic, but I hope this helps you understand that much of lore in 4e has changed after merging of two worlds.
You're wrong on just about everything.
Dragonborn are a CORE standard race in the Player's handbook. As standard as Humans, Dwarves, and Elves. And they are in Forgotten Realms just like tieflings. The whole back story is that Tieflings and Dragonborn are from empires that were enemies and ended up destroying eachother, so it's strange that they would include tieflings but not dragonborn. Warforged can also be played in Forgotten Realms, btw.
Neverwinter is not in Planescape, there will never be Aasimar because there are no longer Aasimar in dnd, the race was replaced by Deva in Player's Handbook 2.
This thread is over four months old and was brought back just to say how somebody then "was wrong." I'm closing this as per Necroing threads in the Neverwinter Rules of Conduct. If there still is interest in the subject, you have permission to create a new thread.