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Not the Monstrous Manual or the Planescape Monstrous Appendix. Is it from a module, or a late-2e supplement?
They were associated with Tiamat way back in the 1e AD&D Monster Manual II back in 1983.
Not the Monstrous Manual or the Planescape Monstrous Appendix. Is it from a module, or a late-2e supplement?
Ah. Weird that that element was nonexistent in 2e.They were associated with Tiamat way back in the 1e AD&D Monster Manual II back in 1983.
Not the Monstrous Manual or the Planescape Monstrous Appendix. Is it from a module, or a late-2e supplement?
MarkB said:Maybe they could be flesh-and-blood beings with an elemental connection, but be able to take on a fully elemental form as a limited-use special ability, giving them a major boost to their power and combat abilities for a limited duration.
Aside from not liking the term "linnorm drake" (why are the linnorms not awesome enough already?), I think there's a big aesthetic difference between them. 4e's catastrophic dragons are kind of made of elemental matter, but the linnorms are much more like beings of flesh and blood -- ancient flesh and magical blood, but still. The flame linnorm is shrouded in flame, with scales that burn, but it shouldn't be made of fire in my mind.
That's just me, though.
They are kind of horrible apocalypse given draconic form. They're a little more elementally-associated than the typical dragon, with forms like Rain, Flame, and Sea, but they're universally horrible, big, destructive, and dangerous, without any of the "niceties" of D&D's traditionally intelligent, brooding dragons.
Wait, what? Since when were abishai associated with Tiamat?
They were associated with Tiamat way back in the 1e AD&D Monster Manual II back in 1983.
The Dragonspawn: One of the few D&D Monsters that could ice skate.
Maybe the hobgoblins are kind of the answer here, eh? What if their breeding focused on dragon-things. Or at least the breeding of one tribe of hobgoblins, perhaps.
THIS.
I like the idea that Drakes were created by a breeding program. The Hobgoblins took some dragon eggs and bred new dragons more useful to their purposes. Ones that couldn't fly and escape, and were also dumber and more amenable to training.
Sounds like a tribe of hobgoblins that would soon be extinct (annihilated) to me. And not by the drakes if you get my drift....
THIS.
I like the idea that Drakes were created by a breeding program. The Hobgoblins took some dragon eggs and bred new dragons more useful to their purposes. Ones that couldn't fly and escape, and were also dumber and more amenable to training.
Sounds like a tribe of hobgoblins that would soon be extinct (annihilated) to me. And not by the drakes if you get my drift....
And there is the problem! True dragons put on a pedestal and are assumed to have vast overreaching power to destroy anything that offends them. It gets so bad in some games that managing to slay one dragon turns the campaign into "Flee from the dragon mafia!"Sounds like a tribe of hobgoblins that would soon be extinct (annihilated) to me. And not by the drakes if you get my drift....