Creating Rock Dragons.

Shade · Jun 20, 2005

Cold subtype sounds good.

Swim 60. I don't see these guys as "mostly aquatic" in their envirnoment, and even the Oceanus dragon only has a swim speed of 60 feet. If it needs to flee in a hurry, we could give it expeditious retreat or haste as a spell-like ability, or even the jet ability of the squid.

Knight Otu · Jun 20, 2005

Most swimming dragons have Swim 60. So I agree.

Krishnath · Jun 21, 2005

Swim 60', land 40' it is then, I think I'll start their flight speed at 100' slowly growing to 200' as the dragon ages.

Gez · Jun 22, 2005

Sounds alright.

Shade · Jun 22, 2005

Ditto.

Also, I'd love to see us break the (almost) "all dragons have Dex 10" law with these guys.

Krishnath · Jun 22, 2005

Shade said:
Ditto.

Also, I'd love to see us break the (almost) "all dragons have Dex 10" law with these guys.

Sure, we could give the granite a Dex score of 8...

Moving on, the mental stats for the Slate (as the physical stats are decided primarily by size, those have already been calculated), what should the starting mental stats be (At the wyrmling age category), they will later increase at every two age categories.

Knight Otu · Jun 22, 2005

Int 8, Wis 11, Cha 12?

Maybe a higher Wis could be ok, but this is relatively in line with other wyrmlings.

Shade · Jun 22, 2005

I could see a higher Wis, as they are probably more "aware" due to their focus on deflecting/sidestepping opponents.

Krishnath · Jun 22, 2005

Why the low int compared to the other mental ability scores? I would probably go with Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 10 myself, but I am open to suggestions.

Knight Otu · Jun 22, 2005

Basically, because they are the weakest of the bunch, and I did not want to give them overall better mental stats than the weakest of the metallic dragons. Reason enough?

Edit: As for why Int, it seems that Charisma and Wisdom are most fitting for the flavor we have in mind.