Ampersand: Draconians!

[Imaro]

Think about it this way. If Dragonlance was the setting, wouldn't it make more sense to wait until the Dragonlance books come out to put draconians out there? After all, they're an iconic monster race for Dragonlance.

The funny thing is that 4e's philosophy of everything is core, makes me wonder about this. I mean, The Warforged appeared in Dragon (even though we knew Eberron would be the second setting released and that they were as intrinsic to it as draconians are to Dragonlance) and WotC had no compunctions about turning around and printing them again in the EPG.

While I don't think they will reprint the same info in both books, the new philosophy along with the singular nature of mosters, means they could easily print some "monster" draconians in the Draconomicon 2 but turn around and put different "monster" draconians in Dragonlance... along with rules to make them a playable race. That way you aren't necessarily slighted by purchasing the DLPG & DLCG without the Draconomicon 2... but it sure creates an incentive for a DL DM to invest in it.

 

[avin]

Think about it this way. If Dragonlance was the setting, wouldn't it make more sense to wait until the Dragonlance books come out to put draconians out there? After all, they're an iconic monster race for Dragonlance.

They probably want minis ready to use when it ships.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Think about it this way. If Dragonlance was the setting, wouldn't it make more sense to wait until the Dragonlance books come out to put draconians out there? After all, they're an iconic monster race for Dragonlance.

Uh... that's what I said initially no?

I was saying that Dragonlance would be bettered suited coming out on it's 25th as opposed to some of the monsters coming out on the 25th that were made possible through DL.

 

[Xyxox]

Cool, this could make my two boxes of Ral Partha Draconians worth more!

 

[The_Fan]

1) So this is either an indication that the main concepts of Dragonlance are getting absorbed into core, thus leaving a book as unnecessary, or a preview, paving the way for a Dragonlance setting in 2010. And so the debate continues.

2) Brass, bronze, and...cobalt? That's new. Wonder what it's "element" will be.

3) Did anyone else look at the Aurak's death power and immediately think of templating it up to solo? +5 to saves means this guy is not going down easily.

 

[Klaus]

Why, oh why is the Sivak large? I want that mini for a dragonborn!

Funny thing: I liked the concept of draconians so much, in my homebrew I added a third god to the Bahamut/Tiamat dynamic, and had Faluzure steal chromatic eggs and hatch chromatic draconians from them.

 

[AngryMojo]

3) Did anyone else look at the Aurak's death power and immediately think of templating it up to solo? +5 to saves means this guy is not going down easily.

You're a sick, sick man. I love it, but you're sick.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Why, oh why is the Sivak large? I want that mini for a dragonborn!

Funny thing: I liked the concept of draconians so much, in my homebrew I added a third god to the Bahamut/Tiamat dynamic, and had Faluzure steal chromatic eggs and hatch chromatic draconians from them.

Spawn of Tiamat sometimes follows that no?

 

[Klaus]

Spawn of Tiamat sometimes follows that no?

Some of them, yeah. But mine was more like the draconians, with each color yielding a type of draconian (and mind you, this was back in 1996).

 

[gribble]

Why, oh why is the Sivak large? I want that mini for a dragonborn!

Weren't they always large? I remember it always struck me as odd that the sivaks were larger than the auraks.