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RATHSQUATCH
2017-03-29, 02:17 AM
Hello, I'm attempting to level my party with a wymling brown dragon they meet as an NPC. What I did from there was attempted to work out a 20 level progression with a Draconic type class to level along with them (unless they kill it for being evil). Do you think this progression looks balanced, or what changes might you make?

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/6/items/DragonNPC/Dragon%20NPC.PNG

For clarification, Exceptionally Powerful just makes the Dragon's Maximum Strength a 24 instead of a 20. All other abilities are taken from the Black Dragon in the Monster Manual.

The_Jette
2017-03-30, 08:02 AM
Question: is there going to be a limit to the amount of times the dragon can use its breath attack, or does it start off with at will? Because an at will 2d8 area attack at level 1 seems a bit much...

RATHSQUATCH
2017-04-15, 03:33 AM
I was going to go with a recharge 5-6.

The_Jette
2017-04-17, 10:27 AM
I was going to go with a recharge 5-6.

Even that will be extremely powerful. You might want to consider making it once a day, then increasing its uses every few levels, with a pause in between that goes down as the uses goes up, and end with at will with the shortest recharge between uses. Like, start with 1 use, then go to 2 uses at level three with a 2d8+2 recharge between uses, at 5 3 uses with 2d6+2 recharge, 7 4 uses with 2d4+2 recharge, 9th 5 uses with 1d8+1 recharge, 11th 6 uses with 1d6+1, 13th 7 uses with 1d4+1 recharge, then at will with 1d4+1 recharge at level 15. Or, something like that. It'll build up the feel of the breath weapon leveling up with you, and won't overbalance the class.