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<blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 8105409" data-attributes="member: 83242"><p>Just a quite not on dragon CR. With the green I tried to balance the defensive and offensive CR like I did for the red. However, that will not be the case for all of the dragons. The blue in particular I am think off as relatively high attack and low defense. I just want to create a much variance as possible in the dragons and how they are played.</p><p></p><p>That is the idea, glad it is coming through.</p><p>It was a left over from an older design where I gave greens the change shape ability the metallic have (I started with adult greens in that version). I will remove from the mythic actions, not sure if I will put back in actions or just give them polymorph. </p><p>It was intentional. Dread whispers inflicts damage where immolate doesn't and actually is a major player in the CR calculation, whereas Immolate foe is not. Different strokes for different dragons. I'm open to suggestions of course.</p></blockquote><p>Yes, and here is where it gets interesting. The red dragon relies on its melee and breath weapon attacks for its CR. The green dragon gets a lot of its damage from its Legendary Actions, outside BW and melee. Because of this, I had more flexibility to use lair actions as damage producers (and wall of thorns is pretty good at that). So for the green dragon - they could be used every round (though they don't have to be). </p><p></p><p>Also, I haven't figured out the best way to express the limitation yet.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="dave2008, post: 8105409, member: 83242"] Just a quite not on dragon CR. With the green I tried to balance the defensive and offensive CR like I did for the red. However, that will not be the case for all of the dragons. The blue in particular I am think off as relatively high attack and low defense. I just want to create a much variance as possible in the dragons and how they are played. That is the idea, glad it is coming through. It was a left over from an older design where I gave greens the change shape ability the metallic have (I started with adult greens in that version). I will remove from the mythic actions, not sure if I will put back in actions or just give them polymorph. It was intentional. Dread whispers inflicts damage where immolate doesn't and actually is a major player in the CR calculation, whereas Immolate foe is not. Different strokes for different dragons. I'm open to suggestions of course. [/QUOTE] Yes, and here is where it gets interesting. The red dragon relies on its melee and breath weapon attacks for its CR. The green dragon gets a lot of its damage from its Legendary Actions, outside BW and melee. Because of this, I had more flexibility to use lair actions as damage producers (and wall of thorns is pretty good at that). So for the green dragon - they could be used every round (though they don't have to be). Also, I haven't figured out the best way to express the limitation yet. [/QUOTE]
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