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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8869963" data-attributes="member: 86051">Being a purist, I'm in favor of that. ACs varying with age is a 2E invention and DWs are 1E.AC seems OK, especially since it would satisfy my 2E notion of DWs actually being equipped with dragon scale armor, which explains the color and can also serve to explain their immunity to the breath weapon of the parent dragon - sort of.Having a better AC than scale alone would perhaps also satisfy the desire to to equip them with shields as per the illustration, especially since I'm still inclined to ignore the shields for the reasons I mentioned upthread, most notably that they are not mentioned in the original text.That is, indeed, quite remarkable! I suppose the 1E metallic dragons had better ACs because they were of good alignment and D&D was "a game of heroic fantasy" and therefore good = better. I cannot begin to fathom why chromatic dragons suddenly have the edge over metallic dragons AC-wise.I'd say so.I assume you would base this on the various stats of the relevant dragons instead of just making them up? My purist heart says "no", especially in the light of my earlier argument against Age-based ACs.However, to my considerable surprise, I don't really really care that much in this case. Perhaps because it wouldn't really be an issue in 2E, where creatures don't have Dexterities et al. (brownies and 2.5E excepted).If anything, it might add some spice to encounter and sort of add to the notion that some teeth of wondrous power are more desirable than others.</blockquote>

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