Dragon breath

Dragon breath, or breath weapon, was a term used to refer to the special ability that was inherent to dragons and all of dragonkind. Depending on the type of dragonkind, the breath has different properties. It is one of few cases where a type of weapon is exclusive to a race.

Description
There were nearly as many varieties of dragon breath as there types of dragons. Many types of chromatic dragons shared a type of dragon breath with one of the species of metallic dragons.

Most dragonborn were capable of exuding dragon breath, the type of which was dependent on their color metallic hue. It was typically as powerful as a wyrmling of the same type.