I was playing a Drakewarden Ranger in my groups Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign and I found this book, then proceeded to BEG my DM to let me retrain into the Outrider Dragon Rider. Finally made it fit narratively and now I’m just starting out with 8 Dragon Rider/ 1 Druid (to retain some of my “Ranger” spellcasting).

I like it, and would have fun playing this. Just imagine a party that are all Dragon Riders!

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Though I prefer this to rather be a fighter subclass, this works pretty well. I just ran a combat heavy playtest of this class and the Draken race and was pretty satisfied on what it can and can’t do. I was getting a bit of Battlemaster vibes and correlated the dragon being temporary flying (i.e. until it dies). With a +1 lance, the dueling fighting style, and the +1 mounted damage from the class, i had some massive damage for level 7 at times. Though,once the dragon is down, you’re heavily weakened, but still adequate at fending for yourself. There are a couple maneuvers I don’t particularly like, especially the one that just does damage. No attack roll ir save, it just does damage. It wasn’t too imbalance, I just didnt like the design. Above all tho, it felt fun, and the movement is fun.

This has made my year thank you for showing me this, and now its time to beg my DM to let me use this.

Very cool, I have several of the other books in the GM's series and hadn't heard of this one yet!

So, my rider is on a well known type of dragon, that I would more refer to as a "draconic character" (lol) ; combat is secondary, the dragon is proficient at sorcery and is very useful for that, although flying is helpful also. The dragon actually went to a school for sorcery, it likes chess (!?) It would be nice if you could give more info on things like: specialized portals that you could take a dragon through, or advanced fay wild sorcerously inclined dragons (ie: green), or pacts: jewelry, bridle, etc. Not sure about the whole "saddle" thing, havnt EVER seen that item in D&D.

I always found it odd that in a game called dungeons and dragon's, where anything is possible, they never published official dragon rider options

@mattlazer902

8 ай бұрын

They did publish the drakewarden ranger

@ilovepandas1246

4 ай бұрын

They did in 3rd

I've enjoyed the class thus far. Up to level 4 as a Goblin Dragon rider. So far the most "OP" thing I think I've done is tank 3 things for multiple turns by using the Evasive Maneuvers ability multiple turns in a row.

All the books in that series are great.

no idea if it's balanced since I have no idea of dnd, but I'll try to translate it into dsa

I noticed the dragon doesn’t gain additional hp probably need to fix that

@MegaMadman50

Жыл бұрын

They do! There is a table in the class chapter that covers what abilities, proficiency mod, and max hp dice for each level for the dragon itself. I missed it first time around and realized about halfway through a play test run.

Getting a dragon at 1st level is waaaay overpowered and at higher levels this class totally breaks action economy. None of the other base classes can even begin to compete with it.

@rorymcardle921

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Not quite. At first level you don’t have that many abilities nor does the dragon. You’re basically a fighter with a big scaly dog until level three when you can ride it but you can’t fly on it till level 6. It’s breath weapon is 1d6 per level in this class starting at second level and all the good abilities are at appropriate times in the game. If this was a regular dragon you are absolutely correct but this companion is not quite as beefy as an elder or even just an adult red dragon.

@madtheos

Жыл бұрын

Ya, I definitely don't agree with this take. The dragon and rider don't get their own action pools. Either you attack or it does and it's damage isn't that much different than a riders (it does add a splash of elemental damage with it's bite).

Just what 5e needs. Yet another class