Draconic Heritage [Draconic]

You have greater connection with your distant draconic bloodline.

Prerequisite: Sorcerer level 1st.

Benefit: You gain the dragonblood subtype. Choose one dragon from the Draconic Feat Options table and gain the indicated skill as a class skill. This is your draconic heritage, which cannot be changed once the feat has been taken. Half-dragons must choose the same dragon kind as their dragon parent.

In addition, you gain a bonus on saving throws against sleep and paralysis, as well as spells and abilities with the energy type of your Draconic Heritage. This bonus is equal to the number of draconic feats you have.

Draconic Heritage for All True Dragons

The Draconic Feat Options table provides the benefits of the Draconic Heritage feat for all the kinds of true dragons published in D&D version 3.5 volumes to date.

Many of the draconic bloodlines listed on the table don’t grant a bonus on saves against effects of a particular energy type. Instead, you gain a bonus on saves against spells and abilities associated with the effect (such as force for the Tarterian dragon) or subschool (such as compulsion for the chaos dragon) that matches the entry on the table, as well as the normal bonus provided by the feat against magic sleep and paralysis effects.

Special: A character who chooses yu lung as his draconic heritage can, when he selects another draconic feat, choose to change his draconic heritage to any other lung dragon (chiang lung, li lung, lung wang, pan lung, shen lung, t’ien lung, or tun mi lung). Once this choice is made, it can only be changed by undergoing the Rite of Draconic Affinity.

Consult with your DM as to which dragons are actually present in a particular game before selecting one for this feat.

Draconic Feat Options (Draconic Heritage, Draconic Legacy, and Dragonwrought)
Dragon Kind	Descriptor or Subschool	Class Skill	Spells Known
Amethyst {MM2}	Force	Diplomacy	Delay poison, invisibility, suggestion
Battle {Dr}	Sonic	Perform	Aid, heroism, protection from evil
Black {MM}	Acid	Hide	Charm animal¹, deeper darkness, insect plague
Blue {MM}	Electricity	Hide	Major image, mirage arcana, ventriloquism
Brass {MM}	Fire	Gather Information	Control winds, endure elements, tongues
Bronze {MM}	Electricity	Survival	Control water (5th level), speak with animals, water breathing
Brown {Mon}³	Acid	Listen	Create water, endure elements, disintegrate
Chaos {Dr}	Compulsion	Bluff	Entropic shield, mislead (6th level), protection from law
Chiang lung {OA}	None	Swim	Augury, bane, control water (4th level)
Copper {MM}	Acid	Hide	Silent image, stone shape, wall of stone
Crystal {MM2}	Cold	Diplomacy	Color spray, control winds, dominate person
Deep {Mon}³	Charm	Spot	Alter self, freedom of movement, true seeing
Emerald {MM2}	Sonic	Knowledge (local)	Fog cloud, greater invisibility, legend lore
Ethereal {Dr}	None	Escape Artist	Blink, dimensional anchor, see invisibility
Fang {Dr}	None	Listen	Dispel magic, shield, telekinesis
Force {ELH}	Force	Spot	Blur, shield, resilient sphere
Gold {MM}	Fire	Heal	Bless, daylight, dispel evil
Green {MM}	Acid	Move Silently	Charm person, dominate person, plant growth
Howling {Dr}	Sonic	Survival	Confusion, gust of wind, hideous laughter
Li lung {OA}	Earth	Hide	Stone shape (3rd level), sound burst, wall of stone
Lung wang {OA}	Fire	Swim	Obscuring mist, solid fog, suggestion
Oceanus {Dr}	Electricity	Swim	Control water (4th level), daze monster, detect evil
Pan lung {OA}	None	Diplomacy	Bane, major image, phantasmal killer
Platinum²	Any one energy type	Concentration	n/a
Prismatic {ELH}	Light	Diplomacy	Color spray, hypnotic pattern, rainbow pattern
Pyroclastic {Dr}	Fire or sonic	Listen	Produce flame (1st level), pyrotechnics, shout
Radiant {Dr}	Light	Spot	Daylight, remove paralysis, restoration
Red {MM}	Fire	Appraise	Detect secret doors, suggestion, true seeing
Rust {Dr}	None	Search	Lesser orb of acid, rusting grasp, Wall_of_Iron
Sand {Sa}	Fire	Survival	Endure elements, haboob, wall of sand
Sapphire {MM2}	Electricity	Knowledge (dungeoneering)	Spider climb, stone shape, teleport
Shadow {Dr}	Energy drain	Escape Artist	Dimension door, mirror image, nondetection
Shen lung {OA}	Electricity	Spot	Bless, cone of cold, ice storm
Silver {MM}	Cold	Disguise	Air walk (5th level), feather fall, wind wall
Song {Mon}³	Electricity	Perform (sing)	Light, tongues, true seeing
Styx {Dr}	Poison or disease	Swim	Feeblemind, fog cloud, stinking cloud
Tarterian {Dr}	Force	Escape Artist	Crushing despair (3rd level), freedom of movement, shield
T’ien lung {OA}	None	Diplomacy	Pyrotechnics, suggestion, control weather (6th level)
Tun mi lung {OA}	Electricity	Swim	Feather fall, fog cloud, control weather (6th level)
Topaz {MM2}	Cold	Swim	Darkness, lightning bolt, repulsion (6th level)
White {MM}	Cold	Hide	Obscuring mist, sleet storm, wall of ice (5th level)
Yu lung {OA}	None	Swim	None
Snakes and lizards only. Only a dragonborn character can select this draconic heritage. Monsters of Faerûn, a version 3.0 publication (2001).

Sources: Races of the Dragon, page 102. This feat also appears in Complete Arcane, page 77, and Dragon Magic, page 17. While the latter source is the latest, its text is essentially the same as that in Races of the Dragon, which has a far more inclusive table of dragon types to use with this feat, the Dragonic Legacy feat, and the Dragonwrought feat. For that reason, the Races of the Dragon version deprecates the others.