Draconic Heritage - New Feat and Dragonborn Breath Weapon Tweaks

Draconic Heritage

Draconic Heritage adds a new (homebrewed) feat to the game and does some feature creep edits for the Dragonborn Breath Weapon racial ability.

Draconic Heritage Feat

The blood of ancient dragons flow through your veins. You gain the following benefits:

• []Increase your Strength, Constitution, or Charisma score by 1[/]

  []Learn a Breath Weapon associated with your Draconic Heritage.[/]

- ASI uses a Passive Selector instead of an Ability Selector, so it will increase the associated skill past 20 (it caps at 24 because realistically that seemed fair).

- (Future Plans) maybe I will try to figure out how to add the Draconic Sorcery face overlay if you take this feat (that seems complicated though)

Breath Weapon Tweaks

Non-optional additions made by the mod because I love feature creep.

Changes made to make the Dragonborn's Breath Weapon more similar to 2024 PHB rules.

• []Breath Weapons are now spell containers and can be cast as either Cones or Lines.[/]

  []"Fixed" the descriptions on the vanilla Breath Weapons where it said "cone" but was actually a "column".[/]

  []Changed damage die from 2d6 (+1d6 at level 6 and level 11) to 1d10 (+1d10 at level 5, 11, and 17).[/]

  []Breath Weapons use a Dexterity Saving Throw. (In vanilla, some used Dexterity and some used Constitution)[/]

  []Breath Weapons now create an appropriate surface (except Lightning unless you have a water surface to electrify) and apply status effects associated with their damage type.[/]

  []Breath Weapons are now usable Once Per Combat instead of Once Per Short Rest.[/]

  []Breath Weapons now cost a Bonus Action instead of an Action.[/]

  []Makes small edits Circle of Stars Druid's Dazzling Breath since it inherits Acid Breath by default. (thanks Larian)[/]

  Installation and Compatibility

  Install with a mod manager. This mod can (probably) be installed or uninstalled at any point during your playthrough (idk, I don't mod this game)

  Will conflict with other mods that edit the Dragonborn Race's Breath Weapon Spell List or the Dragonborn Breath Weapons, but you should be able to just load those mods after this one if you prefer their changes.

  I will not patch this for mods I don't use, please don't ask.