Dragon: the Inheritance

Dragon players are highly encouraged to create pages in the Character section. This will be the most useful way for the storyteller to keep track of your character's Anchors, Aspirations, dissonance points, and other useful information.

Dragon is played using the full 2e ruleset, including the new Experience system. The full rules of the game (which is not yet completely finished) can be found in this Google Doc.

Dragon: the Inheritance is a fan-made Storytelling game, created by our very own Christian Heinemann and Casey Brienza. In it, you play one of the Heirs, an ancient race of dragons that claim to have ruled the world before humanity rose to power. They are the dragons of myth and legend, huge serpentine creatures with features like wings, fire breath, and multiple heads. The problem, then, is that Fate works against them. Whenever their true nature is revealed to a human, even partially, an effect called the Enkindling takes place. Most of the time, this causes the affected human to run and cower before the dragon's might. On occasion, though, it has the opposite effect, turning that human into what dragons call a Slayer, a being empowered by Fate itself with an uncanny ability to kill dragons.

To protect themselves from this threat, dragons long ago used a Great Spell to hide their true nature under a mask of humanity, even from themselves. An Heir grows up as a human, indistinuishable from the masses around them, until their identity is challenged. At this point, under the guidance of another dragon, they can recieve their Inheritance and transform into their true form for the first time.

Dragons do not all have the same abilities. There are 5 different Heritages that a dragon can belong to, each one granting the dragon a different set of abilities through their Birthright. Dragons also gain many of their iconic abilities through Legacies, which modify their draconic form and can be bought with Experiences.

Dragons have many strategies for surviving Slayers and other threats. Some of the most common strategies are championed by the Dynasties, social groups that provide access to resources and unique Legacies to help keep the dragon alive.