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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gold Roger" data-source="post: 5894999" data-attributes="member: 33904">Before we get to some of the comments, let's look at something I touched uppon before:Dragons!Weeeeeee.Ahem.They're in the name of the game, so I don't want to stray to far from D&D standart assumptions. So:Big scary lizards, conveniently color coded (but not for alignment).Pretty rare and really very self-centered.Used to rule the surface world. Now? Not so much anymore.Speak and, good gods, write draconic.Get way old and dabble in theyr own form of sorcery.Basics clear? Cool, lets get to the chunky bits:Used to have their own gods, but most are awol ore mia (propably dead in some corner of the astral)Worship of dragon gods is a bit different from the worship of less powerful and egomanical beings. So sponsored worship by proxy is rather common, meaning a being that suites the god is worship as divine itself and its worshippers gain the blessing of said god.Not only dragons worship dragon gods.Four draconic gods are still active:Tiamat used to be the draconic fertility godess, but thanks to a bad deal with the archdevils she's now a gloryfied watchdog. These days she's pretty much completely bonkers, spawning countless absurd monsters and crackheaded cults.She might be one of the reasons dragons have become so rare, as, through her madness, many hatchling emerge twisted or not at all.Bahamut is a god of justice, law and righteousness. Sounds neat, but this is a dragon god we speak of, so his worshippers see their own views of good and law and such as absolutes. Some are still decent. The others you don't want to meet.Chronepsis is a god of death, time, history, hoarding and observation. More and more dragons follow his creed and resign themself from an active place in the world. Unless you need a prophecy or a greedy watcher has set his eyes on a particular trinked, you'll only get endless monologues on history, phillosophy and theology out of his adherents.Last, Garyx is the divine incarnation of draconic power, ego and megalomania. Most fond of worship by proxy, if you believe yourself to be awesome and destined for greatness, chances are you have his blessing.It should be noted that dragon gods pander to the draconic ego, not embody it. Garyx for example is not worshipped by shouting how great he is, but by the worshipper shouting how great he or Garyx proxy is.Dragons have always had their minions, as they disdain any ordinary matter, but still once had a striving culture. While a dragon can survive without minions, it seems most minions are helpless without masters.Kobolds are the least of these minions. Without a master to guide them, they are to insignificant to amount to anything. Masterless kobolds are considered no more than clever pests, just the thing for novice adventurers to sharpen their skills on.Lizardmen are mostly workforce. They seem unable to procreate without a master around. Only if they find another way to do so (through a demon infused lizardman king for example) you'll ever meet bigger groups of them. There's also talk of unfettered "dragonborn" lizardmen. Sounds like drunk talk to me.Last there's the fearsome aquatic sahuagin. These creatures seem to fall to frenzied madness without master around.I was thinking the north might be so cold, as that's where the stairway to heaven stands, guarded by armies of frost giants.Giants build with solid clouds, ice and fire. Physiology and food of giants are very diferent from humans, so who can tell their excrement from other "sky stuff"?Well, elves propably can, I see agriculture and waste disposal as their main jobs in the sky.The possibility of the occasional literal crapstorm on the high sea also entertains me.Stolen sea, hm? I could see giants confiscating landmarks and selling them to neogi, mercanes and other spelljamming planar traders.</blockquote>

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