What's the difference between Draconic Bloodlines with the same element but different colour?

[Agent Chieftain]

Like how Red, Brass and Gold all say fire. Or Silver and White both being cold.

[Ghost]

Just a matter of lore really. The metallic dragons are 'good' while the chromatic are 'evil'.
Mechanically functions the same.

[Rainnd]

Role play, metalic comes from good aligned dragons, colour from evil ones.

[ExcaliburV]

Some of them have different breath weapons. I could swear there's at least one lightning cone and one lightning line, for instance, but I guess I could be remembering wrong.

Anyways, other than that, not much. It's mostly a flavor choice. Since different dragon colors tend to have their own particular personalities, the color you choose for your MC could inform some of their behavior. Say, a red draconic bloodline sorcerer having a fiery temper, or a gold one being more valorous and honorable.

[Agent Chieftain]

Originally posted by Ghost:

Just a matter of lore really. The metallic dragons are 'good' while the chromatic are 'evil'.
Mechanically functions the same.

Oh, okay. So by choosing Red ancestry, your dragon ancestor would have been "evil, but gold and brass are "good".

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Rainnd:

Role play, metalic comes from good aligned dragons, colour from evil ones.

Not just that, there should also be a difference in how their breath weapon materializes for want of a better word; some of them are cone-shaped, some of them are in a line.

But yeah, other than that definitely mostly flavour and lore, for example as was said all Metallics are boring do-gooder treehuggers, while all Chromatics are ultracool evil Dragons, to varying degrees, with the Red Dragon being the undisputed King of the Chromatics, and the by far most evil and vindictive of the lot.

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Originally posted by Ghost:

Just a matter of lore really. The metallic dragons are 'good' while the chromatic are 'evil'.
Mechanically functions the same.

Oh, okay. So by choosing Red ancestry, your dragon ancestor would have been "evil, but gold and brass are "good".

Yeah, pretty much... even if BG3 had alignment, your Dragon Ancestry wouldn't force you into any alignment, it would just inform your history, and the likelyhood that your family might still be tending towards those alignments.

But even then you could be the "black sheep" and break with those traditions, etc.

[Agent Chieftain]

Hmm. Reading up on the lore, Brass ancestry seems like it would be kinda fun for a Charisma build. Says right there that brass dragons just love to talk. Maybe choose Guild Artisan to go along with it.

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Hmm. Reading up on the lore, Brass ancestry seems like it would be kinda fun for a Charisma build. Says right there that brass dragons just love to talk. Maybe choose Guild Artisan to go along with it.

Welp if you want to have your character built around your Dragon Ancestry, why not go all in and roll a Brass Dragonborn then?

That way you'd be a proper descendant of a Dragon, and that to my mind would also be a very nice explanation for why you want to emulate a Brass Dragon so closely.^^

[Agent Chieftain]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Hmm. Reading up on the lore, Brass ancestry seems like it would be kinda fun for a Charisma build. Says right there that brass dragons just love to talk. Maybe choose Guild Artisan to go along with it.

Welp if you want to have your character built around your Dragon Ancestry, why not go all in and roll a Brass Dragonborn then?

That way you'd be a proper descendant of a Dragon, and that to my mind would also be a very nice explanation for why you want to emulate a Brass Dragon so closely.^^

Well, I had my heart set on playing human. Rumor is that Humans start out with polearm proficiency and light armor. So I was thinking, go Draconic Sorc, then multiclass Fiend Warlock to take Pact of the Blade, and use it with a glaive.

[Gaius]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Like how Red, Brass and Gold all say fire. Or Silver and White both being cold.

Each few give bonusts to one magic type, but each gives you a specific spell, some usually unable for sorcerers. Examples:

Bronze (gives Tasha's Hideous Laughter)

White (gives Armour of Agathys)

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Welp if you want to have your character built around your Dragon Ancestry, why not go all in and roll a Brass Dragonborn then?

That way you'd be a proper descendant of a Dragon, and that to my mind would also be a very nice explanation for why you want to emulate a Brass Dragon so closely.^^

Well, I had my heart set on playing human. :lunar2019grinningpig: Rumor is that Humans start out with polearm proficiency and light armor. So I was thinking, go Draconic Sorc, then multiclass Fiend Warlock to take Pact of the Blade, and use it with a glaive.

Light Armor and Draconic BL doesn't mix well though, as one of *the* main perks of Draconic BL is that you get AC 13 while not wearing _any_ armor.

[Agent Chieftain]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Well, I had my heart set on playing human. Rumor is that Humans start out with polearm proficiency and light armor. So I was thinking, go Draconic Sorc, then multiclass Fiend Warlock to take Pact of the Blade, and use it with a glaive.

Light Armor and Draconic BL doesn't mix well though, as one of *the* main perks of Draconic BL is that you get AC 13 while not wearing _any_ armor.

Oh. Well that's lame. :| Which is better between the two? Light armor, or unarmored?

[Dragon Master]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Like how Red, Brass and Gold all say fire. Or Silver and White both being cold.

You naturally learn different spells as you level up and the type of scales you have.

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Light Armor and Draconic BL doesn't mix well though, as one of *the* main perks of Draconic BL is that you get AC 13 while not wearing _any_ armor.

Oh. Well that's lame. :| Which is better between the two? Light armor, or unarmored?

That depends... Light Armor would only be better if it could get you beyond AC 13, and then there's the issue with Spell Miscast... I don't know if Proficiency alone fully negates the Miscast chance, or just mitigates it.

Personally for a Draconic BL Sorc, I'd only wear Robes or other magical equipment that doesn't count as Armor for the purpose of determining AC.

[ck_masamune]

Originally posted by Agent Chieftain:

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Light Armor and Draconic BL doesn't mix well though, as one of *the* main perks of Draconic BL is that you get AC 13 while not wearing _any_ armor.

Oh. Well that's lame. :| Which is better between the two? Light armor, or unarmored?

unless they cause sorc armor to scale, light armor should be better once you get some magic armors.