cavalier973
Hero
So, in Dragon # 418, I found the 4e version of the Thoul. Awesome. Someone in a MM/MV readthrough thread made the observation that 4e was derived more from Moldvay/Mentzer Basic than from AD&D, which means that the Thoul should have been in MM1.
Anyway...
Essentials dragons are cooler than their Core counterparts, because they get to act twice (at least in the first turn) and get to act first, basically, with their "Instinctive action" which give them an extra action on their initiative roll + 10 (if the dragon's initiative roll is 24, and the players all roll initiatives of, say, 25 through 30, the dragon still goes first, with its instinctive action on an initiative of 34.) I am unsure whether they get this second action each round, or just on the first one.
Anyway...
Essentials dragons are cooler than their Core counterparts, because they get to act twice (at least in the first turn) and get to act first, basically, with their "Instinctive action" which give them an extra action on their initiative roll + 10 (if the dragon's initiative roll is 24, and the players all roll initiatives of, say, 25 through 30, the dragon still goes first, with its instinctive action on an initiative of 34.) I am unsure whether they get this second action each round, or just on the first one.