When 5th edition came out I decided to restart an old Greyhawk campaign that I had run in 2005. Several new races were included in 5th edition that weren't in older products. Dragonborn aren't included in the overwhelming number of Greyhawk products. So I Googled Dragonborn and came up with a few ideas for including them in the campaign. These are some of my notes. I used Player's Handbook Races – Dragonborn as a inspiration as well as Dragon Magazine. Skip Williams published a Greyhawk map of a continent on the other side of Oerth and the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer notes that Oerth has four continents. I decided that dragonborn originated from the other
continent. Its basically a blank slat for DMs to work with. One of the countries on the map was Lynn. Lynn was founded on the ruins of ancient Arkhoisa three hundred hundred years ago. It has lived in relative piece since then. When the empire of Arkhoisa flew in the turmoil several hundred dragonborn sailed across the vast Solnor Ocean in search of new lands. Here they found the human and demihuman races of the
Flanness. Once settled they multiplied and moved across the Flanness. Over time other dragonborn migrated to the Flanness as well. The dragonborn have prospered in the Flanness working their powerful magic or hiring themselves out as mercenaries. They are as diverse as the dragons that spawned them ages ago. The descendants of blue dragons have found work with Rary in the Bright desert while white blooded dragons
fight alongside Suel mercenaries in the Northern reaches of the Flanness. These are just a few of my ideas for fitting dragonborn into Greyhawk. Any thoughts?
Mike, I'm glad that you're a fan of D&D in all its incarnations, but at the same time I have to say that there are things in the later editions that work fine for Forgotten Realms, but don't really "fit" into Greyhawk. You can come up with a rationale to allow one-eyed phlumphs but I won't go all "happy feet" and want to play them. However, it's YOUR campaign so you can decide what works for YOU. That's always been the magic of D&D. Heck, in my original home campaign I didn't even allow half-orcs....
ReplyDeleteHappy moments between a dragon (polymorphed) and another race is my best correlation.. A playable version of a half-dragon. I had on in first edition, but that was home brewed.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to incorporate Dragonborn in 2E AD&D. any ideas on how to proceed?
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