Questions tagged [breath-weapon]
For questions about breath weapons, which traditionally refer to a racial ability generally usable by dragons and related creatures such as dragonborn in Dungeons & Dragons. They usually deal damage based on some type of elemental energy associated with the dragon's type. Some spells or features may replicate these abilities.
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How to get a dragon special breath attack
By "Special breath attack" I mean breath weapons with effects you can find in some True Dragons like a sleep gas for brass dragon, a parlyzing effect for the silver dragon etc...
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Can you add poison to breath weapon?
My goal is to find a way to add poison to a breath weapon to make it eligible for Venomfire.
4 possibilites I have yet to find a way to achieve this:
Find a way to add a dose of poison to a spell-...
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Does Tiamat's Breath Weapon Circumvent Circle of Power?
Tiamat has the Limited Magic Immunity trait, I know that much.
Unless she wishes to be affected, Tiamat is immune to spells of 6th level or lower. [...]
However, the last portion of the 5th level ...
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Balance Considerations for Treating a Breath Weapon as 'Magic'
I just read this question here about increasing the range of a Dragonborn breath weapon, which says
Dragonborn's Breath Weapon isn't a magical effect, so does not benefit from any feats that affect ...
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How to get the most types of breath weapons?
I want to make a build with as many breath attacks as possible. What I have come up with so far is Dragonborn and draconic ancestry sorcerer. I would prefer if it would end out being the like avatar ...
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Can a Dragonborn from Fizban use a Breath Weapon and a net attack as one Attack action?
Because the Breath Weapon is not an "attack", maybe I can attack with a net on the same turn?
When you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to attack with a net, you can make only one ...
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Can Tiamat's breath weapons pass through a non-upcast Wall of Force?
The party will eventually be facing Tiamat, as an end-of-campaign event. At the present time, they are considering the effectiveness of wall of force as a defensive barrier against her.
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Can a Dragonborn monk with Way of the Ascendant Dragon and extra attack use more than one breath weapon per turn?
The Dragonborn breath weapons for the variant Dragonborns from Fizban's Treasury of Dragons vary a little between the subraces, but they all begin with the same section:
When you take the Attack ...
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How to handle breath weapon recharge when combat is interrupted?
I have a question about monster abilities that recharge, like a dragon’s breath weapon. Is the ability considered “charged” on the first round of combat, no roll required?
If the answer to that is “...
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What happens after a green dragonborn uses their breath weapon?
When a green dragonborn uses its breath weapon, which is a 15 ft. cone of poison gas, what are the lingering effects that would happen? Since the elemental damage of the breath weapon is based on ...
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How exactly do you calculate changing a Line into a Cone?
How exactly do you calculate changing a Line into a Cone?
I am asking for the purposes of the Shape Breath Metabreath feat. As the feat says:
If you have a line-shaped breath weapon, you can opt to ...
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Does the Gust of Wind spell nullify the "poisonous gas" from a green dragon's Poison Breath?
I think my question is similar to Can Warding Wind block the effect of a Green Dragon's Poison Breath?, but the wording of the warding wind spell seems more conservative than that of the gust of ...
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Does the Air Genasi's Unending Breath trait affect their ability to resist a dragon's poison breath?
I play a 3rd-level Air Genasi Monk. My party will be fighting a Green Dragon soon.
Can a Green Dragon's Poison Breath affect me if I'm not breathing due to the Air Genasi's Unending Breath trait?
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What are "harmful gases and vapors"?
The necklace of adaptation (DMG, p. 182) has the following effect:
While wearing this necklace, you can breathe normally in any environment, and you have advantage on saving throws made against ...
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How/when does an ability like a dragon's breath weapon recharge, if it's listed as "Recharge 5–6"?
Dragon breath weapons used to be simple: 3 uses per day. They magically recharged at either midnight or dawn, depending on your DM.
As I read through the dragon section, I see new (to me) info on ...
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