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How many age categories should dragons have?
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7122905" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I'm afraid you are actually addressing a question about how age categories should be implemented (hit points per hit dice, for example) and not how many there should be.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Technically that's not true. For example Yochlol use d10's. </p><p></p><p>I assure you, I don't need a primer on AD&D, or the history of dragon age categories.</p><p></p><p>I'm not asking any questions at all about how you think dragons should be implemented mechanically. I'm asking how many different age categories of dragons - that is to say how many different sizes or degrees of challenge - you feel they <em>ought</em> to have. By implication, I'm also asking something about challenge range and maximum challenge of a 'standard dragon'. Your answer could be based on game reasons like, "I'd like to have a dragon suitable for combat with both 1st level and 20th level parties and some even set of graduations in between", or it could be based on flavor reasons, "The classic eight age categories of 1e AD&D are what I would expect from a rules set, in part because that's how dragons are most commonly described both in my homebrew and in D&D intellectual property.", or some combination of both.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7122905, member: 4937"] I'm afraid you are actually addressing a question about how age categories should be implemented (hit points per hit dice, for example) and not how many there should be. Technically that's not true. For example Yochlol use d10's. I assure you, I don't need a primer on AD&D, or the history of dragon age categories. I'm not asking any questions at all about how you think dragons should be implemented mechanically. I'm asking how many different age categories of dragons - that is to say how many different sizes or degrees of challenge - you feel they [I]ought[/I] to have. By implication, I'm also asking something about challenge range and maximum challenge of a 'standard dragon'. Your answer could be based on game reasons like, "I'd like to have a dragon suitable for combat with both 1st level and 20th level parties and some even set of graduations in between", or it could be based on flavor reasons, "The classic eight age categories of 1e AD&D are what I would expect from a rules set, in part because that's how dragons are most commonly described both in my homebrew and in D&D intellectual property.", or some combination of both. [/QUOTE]
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