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Just mindstorming today with alot of coffee and had to get it out or no sleep tonight, hah!
(And yes, enjoying the game alot. As a human ranger and dragonborn sorcerer, just had to take a break from hours long adventure)

Grab some lovely beverage like coffee, snacks, chill and read on!
Points of interest and wishes
- Dragonborns and added improvements
- Their potentiale for future additions of established sub races/ types
- Draconic Sorcerer additions
- Artificer class and other missing sub - classes for other present classes

Be it ( you ) Larian that can realize the below hopes, modders or a mix of both, it would be awesome and appreciated!

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Dragonborns


First off. The looks!
Larian, as I've said before have done fantastic visual work on the Dragonborns. Its like a homebrew mix of the Player Handbooks Dragonborn, the general, standard variant with options enough to make the head shapes and features be on par with Fizbans Treasury of Dragons three distinct, neuanced variants of not only the Chromatic and Metallic kind but also the Gem ones.

Larian have alredy homebrewed bits and piecies with stuff from the core sourcebooks Players Handbook, Monster manual and Dungeon Master guides plus some from Tasha and Xanathar(?). So I hope other sourcebooks like Fizbans and best bits of Tales from the Sword Coast ( if not improving ) is on the table in the future.
And this right there crowbar in some desired wishful additions of mine at least.
Be they realized by the great folks at ( you ) Larian or talented modders. Would love to see either take on the following:

Regarding Dragonborns and their untapped potentiale

1: Add the missing 5 Gem dragonborn sub-races and their native elements:
Amethyst-force, Topaz-necrotic, Emerald-psychic, Crystal-radiant and Sapphire-thunder
1a: Add the respective true Gem dragon ancestries and unique dragonborn patterns of the aboves to the Draconic Bloodline Sorcerers list. Which was missing in the very same book htat introduced the Gem types/ sub races.

2: Improve Dragonborns breath weapon usage. Its doing adequate damage but dosent scale that well. Letting us use the breath weapon equal to the profiency bonus ( + 2 at level 1 etc ) per long rest at least.
2a: Add racial traits like Darvision and even bonus AC due to dragonborns scales that stacks with the bonus from Draconic Sorcerer

NOTE!: 1a and 2a seems like obvious overlooked additions ( rumored time/ book space constraints ) that preferrably should have been in say Fizbans Treasury of Dragons.

Also Larians blend of Player Handbook dragonborn variant and Fizbans three distinct ones is the BEST of both worlds, since we can color them as we want too smile
Crossing fingers for these additions in future updates/ big expansion(s)/ Game of the Year edition.

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Regarding THE missing class and other sub-classes



3: So the Artificer were introduced in the Eberron source book but fully realized and deepend with the sourcebook, Tashas Cauldron of Everything. I wish for Larian to get permission to realize that class and its 4 sub- classes in the future. The sub-classes being Alchemist, Armourer, Artillerist and Battle Smith.

4: Missing sub-classes would be neat too.
At the top of my head from the official source books:
Fighter: Psi Warrior
Warlock: Pact of the Undead ( Sword Coast Undying is just a worse version )
Sorcerer: Divine Souls, Aberrant Mind
Ranger: Drake Warden, Swarm Keeper, Fey Wanderer, Horizon Walker
Regarding Drake Warden, that might need mount mechanics on land/ air and access to all three main families of Dragons and their elemental aspects. A bit too much to ask for, possibly.




Thanks for reading all of that ( or partly )! Thanks to Larian for a GREAT game with great potential!
And good luck on further adventures in/ around Baldurs Gate, on the Sword Coast on the continent Faerun, on the planet of Toril laugh

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I expect more classes / subclass options will mostly be handled by modders so I think they should focus on adding more modding support.


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