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There are times when I wonder if the D&D
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design team made mistakes or if they're
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just intentionally doing things to mess
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with me. The cult of the dragon
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background in the new Heroes of Fyun
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book gives you cult of the dragon
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initiate and then later you can take the
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dragon scard feat which requires cult of
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the dragon initiates. So there's a very
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obvious background origin feat general
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feat progression that they're expecting
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you to take to fit within that narrative
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of a cult of the dragon character. But
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the ability scores get really messy. The
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Dragon Cultist background lets you
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increase strength, dexterity, or
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intelligence. Perfectly fine. Cult of
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the Dragon Initiate has a fear effect,
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which has a wisdom based DC. You can't
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increase wisdom with your background,
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but you depend on wisdom for the feat.
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Annoying, survivable. We can work with
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that. This is fine. But then you take
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dragon scard at level four and dragon
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scard lets you increase constitution or
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charisma. It has zero overlap with the
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dragon cultist background. And none of
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those three things have overlapping
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ability scores. They just don't work
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together mechanically. Thematically it
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all makes sense. That's all fine. But
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mechanically there's no through line.
