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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 4013891" data-attributes="member: 29746"><p><strong>New Super-dragon (commentary)</strong></p><p></p><p>As originally suggested in the Epic Bestiary thread, where I discussed the ideas I had for a Dark Matter/Superposition Dragon, I decided to base this beast in part on my own new Portfolio of Concealment (posted early in the Custom Divine Abilities thread). I also based it on the idea, put forth in several sci-fi and fantasy series including Pullman's <em>His Dark Materials</em> and a fundamental conceit of the much-loved <strong>Dark*Matter</strong> setting for Alternity and d20 Modern, that the substance modern Earth scientists call "dark matter" is deeply related to the "supernatural" and magic, and in some inexplicable way may be tied to the operation of consciousness itself. This, for example, is why the Dark Energy breath weapon always "knows" the best way to manifest itself upon a particular target, and thus becomes its most vulnerable energy type regardless of what that is (and, importantly, being different things to different targets- even of the same breath attack). It also explains my decision to include several magic-affecting abilities in the dragon's list of spell-likes.</p><p></p><p><em>Hellball</em>, as a choice for the capstone, is there because it's an explosion of most of the energy types simultaneously, and also because I didn't see anything more screamingly obvious to give them there. The general pattern of Adamic dragons in the Epic Bestiary (though admittedly we only have two to go by) is that the Epic spells with higher DCs are granted to the dragon at higher age categories, and that's the convention I stuck to in this case even though I might have preferred a different order otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 4013891, member: 29746"] [b]New Super-dragon (commentary)[/b] As originally suggested in the Epic Bestiary thread, where I discussed the ideas I had for a Dark Matter/Superposition Dragon, I decided to base this beast in part on my own new Portfolio of Concealment (posted early in the Custom Divine Abilities thread). I also based it on the idea, put forth in several sci-fi and fantasy series including Pullman's [i]His Dark Materials[/i] and a fundamental conceit of the much-loved [b]Dark*Matter[/b] setting for Alternity and d20 Modern, that the substance modern Earth scientists call "dark matter" is deeply related to the "supernatural" and magic, and in some inexplicable way may be tied to the operation of consciousness itself. This, for example, is why the Dark Energy breath weapon always "knows" the best way to manifest itself upon a particular target, and thus becomes its most vulnerable energy type regardless of what that is (and, importantly, being different things to different targets- even of the same breath attack). It also explains my decision to include several magic-affecting abilities in the dragon's list of spell-likes. [i]Hellball[/i], as a choice for the capstone, is there because it's an explosion of most of the energy types simultaneously, and also because I didn't see anything more screamingly obvious to give them there. The general pattern of Adamic dragons in the Epic Bestiary (though admittedly we only have two to go by) is that the Epic spells with higher DCs are granted to the dragon at higher age categories, and that's the convention I stuck to in this case even though I might have preferred a different order otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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