Favorite version: White Dragon [poll]
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dave2008
Legend
All 1e dragonlance dragons had their own art direction. In the case of the white dragon: the MM version had a single backward point horn/sail, while the dragonlance version had 5 backward pointing horns. It is clear in the 2 pictures you posted of the 1e white dragon.
Sacrosanct
Legend
Nah, it wasn't that dragonlance had it's own art direction, it was that each artist had leeway. That's why Easley's dragons look different than Elmore's, or Caldwell's, even if they were illustrating the same 1ed dragon type.
I fully admit I approached this poll flawed. A better poll would have been which artist's rendition of the dragons over the editions do people like better.
Tony Vargas
Legend
Sacrosanct
Legend
It wasn't meant to be. I said it could be for any reason. People just gravitated towards the appearance.
I feel sort of bad for voting for 5E, but I can't help it. Something about the way it's drawn in motion, trotting forward, looking like an actual beast, really grabs me--and the slight iridescence to the wing membrane just clinches it.
Second choice is 1/2E. I love how it looms over the ship.
Second choice is 1/2E. I love how it looms over the ship.
Tony Vargas
Legend
I didn't catch that. But, I did also like the ways dragons worked in 1e - fear, subdual, hps/die based on age instead of a random roll, breath weapons that did their max hp in damage, etc - they were more clearly distinct from other monsters.
MechaTarrasque
Hero
Funny enough, that was the image I was gonna use at first
For the longest time, I would describe dragons as bipedal, like an eagle with 2 big legs, 2 big wings, and (I admit not very eagle-like) 2 smaller chest claws.....
I may go back to that to mess with some of my newer players (some of the old ones will be "not this again.").
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
I think we all know who the best white dragon really is:
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Legatus Legionis
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