I suppose this is again about the fae dragon monster used as race? Anyway, it would be excellent if you could clarify which class and which species (race?) you are playing. Otherwise it will be difficult to assess the problem.

The fae dragon from the Tales of Arcana Race Guide homebrew? If you could just copy the text of the spell casting abilities, that would make this a lot clearer.

I edited you question to make it more clear. Please edit again if that clarification missed the central point of your question.

Thank you that is what I wanted just wasn't sure how to put it

:) OK, glad the clarification was helpful.

We can’t tell you how homebrew rules work if we don’t have them. There is no official playable race for fairy dragon, so we can’t answer your question until we know what the rules for your race are.

This is clear to someone who has seen this problem before. I had a player have this exact confusion as a doppelganger warlock.

@fectin I’ve rolled back your edit, we have to know what race they are playing. The rules for the racial trait are required to answer this question.

you know this also happens when someone dual-classes, so what do I do

This question seems perfectly clear to me--though it is viewed through the lens of a particular character option that includes Homebrew. A similar non-homebrew example could be a Tiefling Cleric--they gain a cantrip and two spells with a "Charisma" spellcasting modifier, and then their entire class worth of spells with a "Wisdom" spellcasting mod.

@guildsbounty yes exactly

but people are trigger happy with closing a question even if it is only your second question, instead of helping make it better

@faedragon There is no fae dragon player race in the Monster Manual, so this is homebrew.

not race I used the fae dragon monster page

Ah, I see. So, this is actually a little quirk in how The Stack works. If a question is not up to "will produce a good answer" standards, typical policy is to close the question and then help the asker refine the question to a good level--then re-open it. The idea is to not allow people to answer a question if the community-at-large thinks the question isn't ready to be answered. If you need a more thorough discussion on "who does this keep getting closed and how can I make it better" then you can hit up the Meta channel: rpg.meta.stackexchange.com

In short: "Closed question" means "needs improvement before it's ready for answers" not "this is a bad question and it shouldn't exist."

@faedragon Which is not a player race. So if you are using the stats of an NPC monster and combining it with player class features, you’re using homebrew rules (unless your strictly using the NPC with class level rules in the DMG).

@ThomasMarkov I'm using it the same way you use a normal race

Though what everyone else is saying is spot-on. Using a monster from the DMG is NOT in the character creation rules. That's why everyone is saying it's homebrew. You're not using a homebrew creature, but you are not using the official rules to create your character.

yes

That's why everyone keeps saying homebrew. Homebrew is a very broad, very generic term for "You're using rules that aren't in the book" whether that's a new creature, or a way of using a monster manual creature as a player character, or even something as simple as allowing players to roll 5d6 (keep best three) for their stats so they get better numbers. All homebrew

But I don't think that this particular question was the place to get hung up on the exact nature of your homebrew as "Spells from Source A use the spellcasting attribute of Source A" is a concrete enough rule despite the other deviations from the rules.