Answering Questions about Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons (was: Primal Power Preview)

[RefinedBean]

Can we get back to the book and away from dragonhate?

Oh Rechan. You and your optimism.

 

[FabioMilitoPagliara]

Maybe bahamut just like to use gold dragon as one use item... most of the times

I got that this is for when the character are hopelessly overpowered by Bahamut if the party is of 11 demigods then "maybe" it could be interesting to have a full scale battle between

"Bahamut and his 8 gold dragon bodyguard" vs "The Demigods Eleven"

 

[Derren]

New update
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Excerpts: Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons: Draconic Organizations)

Did they just validate Die Vecna Die as canon? Ewwww.

What would be more interesting than simply example organizations with dragons in them (which at least in this example are pretty much interchangeable with most other creatures) is an paragraph which talks about how dragons tend to run organizations as compared to humans and how their (hopefully) very different psychology affects ranks, recruiting, etc.

 

[AllisterH]

New update
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Excerpts: Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons: Draconic Organizations)

Did they just validate Die Vecna Die as canon? Ewwww.

Um, wasn't Die Vecna Die the *OFFICIAL* explanation for the switchover from 2e to 3e?

 

[Stoat]

Um, wasn't Die Vecna Die the *OFFICIAL* explanation for the switchover from 2e to 3e?

IIRC, it was just a "campaign ending mega-adventure" like Apocalypse Stone, not *OFFICIAL* the way that, say, the FR Avatar Trilogy was.

I may be the only person alive who liked Die Vecna Die. It was just so gonzo, how can you not love it?

 

[Moon_Goddess]

Die Vecna Die may have not been "official" but it is part of venca's backstory and since he's now a core god then his backstory is canon.

 

[Derren]

Another update
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Excerpts: Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons: Draconic Organizations)

Just a small dragon lair/dungeon crawl.
Kill the dragon and go on....

I don't really see how this lair is any different than a chromatic dragon lair. The dragon certainly isn't (your only option is to fight).

And you get a first(?) look at the Orium dragon. It can throw stones and its breath weapon summons a minion (in addition to doing damage). The breath weapon recharges when the minion dies. So it might be better to simply ignore the minion.

 

[DragonFan]

I hope the Bronze Dragon is redesigned closer to the Dragonlance setting. There they are the most ferocious and physically strongest metallic, going all the way back to the first Bronze, Burll. We already know the Bronze is going to be a Brute, so hopefully he will be written as lumbering behemoth able to deal serious damage.

 

[RavinRay]

Bah!!

Why not call it electrum??!!?!!

If you wanna go old skool, go the whole way!! Don't be a wussy!!!

Why not consider the real-world gold-copper allow tumbaga for the mythological orichalcum? Then we can get the gold-silver alloy electrum and the silver-copper alloy billon.

 

[Phaezen]

Another update
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Excerpts: Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons: Draconic Organizations)

Just a small dragon lair/dungeon crawl.
Kill the dragon and go on....

I don't really see how this lair is any different than a chromatic dragon lair. The dragon certainly isn't (your only option is to fight).

And you get a first(?) look at the Orium dragon. It can throw stones and its breath weapon summons a minion (in addition to doing damage). The breath weapon recharges when the minion dies. So it might be better to simply ignore the minion.

Awesome lair though some really nice ideas to swipe for an encounter.

Fighting on a rickety scaffold staircase should make for a memorable encounter.