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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 4001550" data-attributes="member: 48692">In other threads I've contributed to.  Because I use D&D and its tropes as a basis for narrative fiction, not gaming.  For whatever reason, plain vanilla D&D stimulates my imagination more than most other fictional settings.  I don't game, but I do like my fiction to at least somewhat resemble the actual game itself.  I'll take liberties with mechanics and things like that, but otherwise it should be a recognizable match.  As such, the nuances of dragons are important.  Not in the least.  If you read my Canonfire articles, you'll see that they're all fluff-no crunchy bits whatsoever.  I go into the history, background, and details of the setting, fleshing it out, filling in gaps, writing source material that can fit comfortably into any system.  What I write, DMs can use as fodder for their campaigns or simply to get their own creative engines running.  They can take some of the thumbnail material I write and run with it-Newly Discovered Dungeons, for example, are only summarized in a paragraph or two, and individual DMs can design the actual dungeons as they see fit.  Since there are no stats or rules, DMs can use it for any edition, or any system, really-there's nothing preventing them from using SAGA, RuneQuest, KABAL, Dragonsword, or any other RPG system, if they're so inclined.  There are no official stats or crunchy bits-I don't do prestige classes or anything like that-so individual DMs and players can make up their own rules bits to suit themselves.  It's funny sometimes how, on message boards, the people who respond sometimes nail exactly what the OP was getting at, even if he didn't quite nail it down in the first post.  This is exactly what I mean.</blockquote>

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