Talk:Cambion (5e Race)

The Cambion appears subtly, but distinctly more powerful than similar races.

You may want to consider a level requirement for "Fiendish Charm". I would suggest granting the power at level 3, as that is the first level at which Tieflings gain a non-cantrip racial spell.

For the same reason, I would suggest the same for the sub-race innate spellcasting traits. perhaps even wait until level 5 for those. That would make the Elven Born subrace stronger than the other two, and I don't like that, but I'm not sure what other suggestions to make.

I put a level restriction for each innate spellcasting ability and for fiendish charm, thanks for the feedback. --Tubal-Cain (talk) 13:48, 25 August 2015 (MDT)

I am slightly confused at the overlap between base race and two of the subraces. Human Born grants the Infernal language which stock Cambion already grants, and Elven Born grants 60' darkvision which stock Cambion also already grants. I'm just wondering if the overlap was accidental or if you just couldn't find anything else for those slots? Other than this looks like a nice race option to me. Mortimmer (talk) 17:04, 22 May 2016 (MDT)

I don't knw if this is allowed or not, but it was one day from being deleted so I reworked it. I removed a lot of features from the race to being it down to the fairness of the aaracokcra, as flight is a large level one bonus. The subraces were not useful and I concept were cool but ultimately subraces are hard and ruin a lot and some races are better without them at least for now. So I removed them. I did add a racial feat because it was a neat idea, and with the cambion lore it basically had to have it some way but it was wayyy too op with the flight, and all humanoids, so I made it chosen two like the ranger preferred enemy thingy. The lore still needs a bit more but I'm trash at that filler and exciting narrative stuff unless I actually knew the topic. Hated to see this deleted sense my friend played this race once time and it was pretty cool. Best wishesApothose (talk) 18:14, 23 February 2019 (MST)

I mean I would generally avoid doing that unless you intend to work on the page and address all the issues. In order to work towards that the first thing I recommend doing is writing up some substantial lore based on what is given in the Monster Manual and other dnd sources like the 3.5e Fiendish Codex. Then from there, you can use that to inform your judgements for traits along with the 5e monster state block. —ConcealedLight (talk) 11:40, 25 February 2019 (MST)