Yoga is a unique exercise that offers both physical and mental health benefits. While there are beginner practices anyone can try, advanced techniques like breath of fire yoga take more commitment to master.
Breath of fire is often compared to how you breathe when hyperventilating, but the two are very different. Breath of fire is quick-paced, rhythmic, and sustained for a long period of time. Your inhale and exhale time is equal, with no pause in between breath. You should have two to three cycles of breathing in and out per second once you master breath of fire.
When you inhale, your abdominal muscles relax and allow oxygen into your lungs, as if automatically. At first, the rapid nature of the movement is difficult. But once you get the hang of it, the technique can feel effortless.
When you do it right, your chest is lifted but relaxed. Your hands, feet, face, and belly should also be relaxed. Doing it correctly is more important than speed when you first start. Focus on practicing for one to three minutes and build up over time.
Unfamiliar sensations. At first, you may feel dizzy, giddy, tingly, or light-headed by the rapid breathing. As you get used to it, these feelings lessen. They may be startling at first, but these sensations may signal that your body is releasing toxins. It may help to drink extra water and eat lightly after a session.
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The researchers attributed this benefit to the stress-relieving effect of pranayama. Stress, after all, can make it hard to concentrate. They also noted that focusing on a specific breathing pattern reduces the focus on outside stressors.
And a 2013 study found that Breath of Fire, when done with eye exercises, can decrease visual reaction time. This may help with concentration, as it improves how quickly you respond to visual stimuli.
I am starting a campaign in which my character is an accomplished and award-winning chef, and in an egg-themed competition won a dragon egg with a pseudodragon. I've talked with my DM, and he's letting me replace the "Sting" ability with the ability to shoot small fire breaths! The entire point of this is to allow my chef character to be able to cook and use the dragon breath as a creme brulee torch. Back on topic now.
Fire Breath (Recharge 5-6): The Dragon exhales fire in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 21 Dexterity saving throw, taking 63 (18d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
I don't want to necessarily do 18d6 damage to my tasty creations, but I would like for it to be a living being that assists me in my culinary creations. The goal is to depower the dragon's breath for a much smaller (tiny) sized creature, enough so that it does not end up with a miniature fireball cannon but with enough that it can suitably replace that of it's lost ability of "sting".
Flame Puff. The Dragon exhales fire in a 1-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 4 (1d4+2) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the target is set aflame, and takes 1d4/2 (Minimum 1) fire damage for 3 turns, or until it makes a DC 11 Constitution saving throw. The dragon can choose to cut off the flame early or extend its duration until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell) if being used in a non-combat situation.
Normally, if you have a pseudodragon familiar (via the warlock's Pact of the Chain feature), the way it works is that you can skip your action to allow the pseudodragon to attack with its action. This is lower damage, but if it works, then you've given a target disadvantage on attacks for 1 hour.
Also, if you use your pseudodragon familiar in combat, there's a good chance it will get killed (for example if it provokes an opportunity attack when flying away after using its sting), and then you'll pay 10 gp to resummon it.
What you have here is different: you have a creature that is not your familiar (since it sounds like you "won" it rather than "summoned" it), so it can use its fire breath every turn in combat, in addition to your action. But, on the other hand, if it tries doing that, something is just going to hit it and kill it. Also, the damage is so small that it's almost not worth rolling dice for.
If this were your familiar, it would be very annoying to your DM, because the ability you've added is phrased as "not an attack" and so it would work in addition to your action. In every combat, your pseudodragon would do 4 damage and then a monster would spend an action killing it, and then you'd resummon it for the next combat.
Part of the problem is that this gives you a damage boost that you wouldn't otherwise get from a familiar, but more of the problem is that you have to roll a lot of dice (including, potentially, tracking damage-over-time effects) and it slows the combat down.
About the Sting ability: it is usually not useful, except in very specific combats: using Sting to poison an enemy, if the enemy is important enough to be worth spending a turn to try to give it a debuff, but not important enough to have legendary resistance or a high Con save.
About your proposed ability: it is never useful in combat, but might be useful outside of combat. You won't ever want to get your pseudodragon close enough to an enemy to do its thing, because it'll get killed and the damage is negligible. But you might get some utility from having the pseudodragon light things on fire at a distance.
With this writing, the attack mechanics are exactly the same as Sting, but it's clear that you're just trading the "might poison the target" ability for a "light unattended objects on fire" ability. Making it an attack also makes it clear that the familiar can't use this in parallel with your own attack, if it ever gets made into a familiar.
Sting requires a to-hit roll with a +4 bonus. Such an attack will land 75% of the time for a target with an AC of 10 and 5% of the time for a target with an AC of 24, with even five percentage point increments for each point of AC in between.
Sting's average main damage (rounded per 5e rules) is 4. It also imposes a saving throw on the target at DC 11, but ordinary failure imposes disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. A severe failure (a saving throw result of six or lower) imposes the Unconscious condition, which can effectively remove the target from a fight and/or allow massive extra damage from follow-up attacks. Such a failure will be uncommon.
This ability has the same average main damage as Sting (4), but the damage is typed (fire) and will always hit. It also allows for 3-6 extra damage if the target is ignited. In practice Flame Puff will have the same range as Sting. The fire-typed damage will be helpful in some cases but very situational, and fire is the most commonly resisted damage type in the game anyhow.
The save for this ability is the same as for Sting, but is much less valuable because the target gets multiple chances to avoid it (they can repeat the saving throw several times) and the greatest total damage it allows is almost certainly less than the free hits an unconscious enemy faces. And for a non-catastrophic saving throw failure a couple points' worth of HP damage will probably be less of an obstacle for a target than Disadvantage on attacks would be.
So overall you get more reliable main damage from Flame Puff due to it always hitting, but the extra effects based on saving throws are much less significant than the penalties for failing Sting's saving throw while also being easier to avoid.
That said, the extra effects of either attack aren't going to come up too often at DC 11 unless you are dealing with low-CR enemies. The main damage is the major element, and it is slightly better for Flame Puff, but the "extra" damage dealt is going to be pretty low in terms of HP reduction and so will probably not cause any balance issues.
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+i feel like this is also an influence of aangs +because like +dont the airbenders know how to keep themselves warm with air?? +or something like that idk +maybe aang helped him out a bit +i mean we've already seen zuko absord knowledge from the gaang in his bending
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