I think one of the starkest illustrations of how incoherent Hasbro’s goals for Dungeons & Dragons are is that they made the writers take out all the direct references to dragon-fucking in 5E in a bid to render the IP more advertiser-friendly, but still insisted upon keeping a bunch of stuff whose narrative context strongly implies dragon-fucking front and centre in the brand identity, so now the Player’s Handbook has gotta play coy about where dragon-blooded sorcerers come from.
“Perhaps one of your ancestors [MADE A BARGAIN] with a dragon, or perhaps you’re the first of a new sorcerous bloodline as a result of a [BARGAIN] with a dragon”. Yeah, I bet it was quite the “bargain”.
Unbelievably huge dragon d[ISCOUNT]
sometimes the bargain is ‘i wish to purchase a liter of your blood for unspecified purposes’ and sometimes the bargain is ‘i bet that’ll fit’