Rules Question - Dragonborn Feats

[Amorisigne]

I'm preparing to begin a campaign in which I am playing a Dragonborn character. I noticed that there are several draconic feats, (Draconic Aspect, Draconic Glide, Draconic Paragon, Draconic Magic) that are only available to Kobolds but apparently not to Dragonborn. This doesn't make sense to me since my character has the dragon subtype. Does anyone know why this is?

[GM Rednal]

Dragonborn for Pathfinder... that's one of Elghinn's custom races, right? The simplest answer is probably "because they didn't decide to let them have the Kobold's racial feats", and indeed, already gave them some of those abilities. Their Energy Resistance already accomplishes what Draconic Aspect does, for example.

Racial feats are generally balanced specifically to one race. Of course, your GM may decide to allow you to take them on thematic grounds if you ask. Honestly, it's not like the Kobold's racial feats are particularly powerful or anything, so they might be willing to allow it.

[Milo v3]

GM Rednal wrote:

Dragonborn for Pathfinder... that's one of Elghinn's custom races, right?

It sounds like he's using RotD from 3.5e which introduced Dragonborn and has a decent amount of Kobold material.

[GM Rednal]

Citing a source would probably help, yeah. XD

[Amorisigne]

Thanks for the reply! And yes, I believe it is one of Elghinn's custom races. My apologies for the lack of sources in the original post.

[Cyrad]

Technically, no. If you're not a kobold and the feat says you need to be a kobold, then you cannot take the feat. Having the "dragon subtype" doesn't mean anything because that subtype doesn't really exist.

Since you're using a custom race, this clearly falls under "ask the GM."