Dragonlance Dragonlance "Reimagined".

[Micah Sweet]

You'd need hundreds of draconians to make that an even trade.

Takes a long time for a dragon to grow up. Draconians are practically ready out of the box from what I remember. They're the jem'hadar of D&D.

 

[cbwjm]

You'd need hundreds of draconians to make that an even trade.

Pretty much the response from @Alzrius explains it, it takes a long time for that hatchling to turn into a major threat for an enemy army whereas you can hatch out dozens of draconians from a single dragon egg and, assuming they are quick to mature, have a fighting force a lot faster than waiting for a dragon to grow. Of course it backfired due to good and evil needing to balance out.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

You'd need hundreds of draconians to make that an even trade.

You get dozens of fully-grown draconians (at least, base on what I remember) instead one one hatchling dragon. I think in a war situation you'd rather have the former.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Pretty much the response from @Alzrius explains it, it takes a long time for that hatchling to turn into a major threat for an enemy army whereas you can hatch out dozens of draconians from a single dragon egg and, assuming they are quick to mature, have a fighting force a lot faster than waiting for a dragon to grow. Of course it backfired due to good and evil needing to balance out.

They don't need to mature - they came out fully grown from the dragon eggs. The only time you get "baby" draconians is through natural reproduction through the very rare female draconians.

 

[Vaalingrade]

If only time travel existed on Kyrnn...

 

[QuentinGeorge]

More of Takisis and her buddies being incompetent isn't as fun as more of the 'Good' gods being monstrously evil, sadly.

Edit: Seriously ' we could have a few more highly disposable foot soldiers... or a living siege engine. Who chooses A in this test?!

A hatchling dragon is not a living siege engine. It is a <CR4 creature that will take centuries to become formidable. On the other hand, dozens of draconians (of the same CR) seems like a pretty good deal.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

If only time travel existed on Kyrnn...

A single time journeying device that can transport humans, ogres or elves or otherwise malfunction horribly? What a fantastic plan.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

"Hold on Ariakas, I know the Whitestone forces are bearing down on us, but have you considered instead of instantly creating new soldiers, we: go on a sidetrip to Wayreth, (somehow) convince the Conclave to loan us the time travel device (even though they hate us, even the Black Robes), use it to travel back in time to ancient Istar, become nannies to a bunch of wyrmlings, travel back to our own time, and are hopefully able to convince the now adult dragons to fight for us?"

 

[Vaalingrade]

Pretty much every draconian aside from the ones that turn to stone and trap weapons are more likely to cause more casualties on your side than the opponents. They're optimized to hose PCs, not fight in a war where things like arrow volleys exist.

Imagine the glorious chain reaction a single sniper can set off picking their targets in a column featuring draconians.

Even a hatchling dragon is worth more than a regiment of draconians unless now they're dragonborn and have actual combat abilities instead of the super power of dying fancy.

And I say this as someone who finds draconians to be one of the cooler ideas of the setting... just not for what they're supposed to be in-universe. These guys are lone assassins, not military units.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Look, they can change whatever they want.

As long as Sturm gets to keep his sweet 'stache.