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<blockquote data-quote="Son of the Serpent" data-source="post: 7848047" data-attributes="member: 7015476">The answer is &quot;yes, dragon's wings are too small&quot;.&nbsp; Oddly enough this is actually something a lot of the earliest writers and creators for d&amp;d have known since the early days.&nbsp; As a result there are a couple different times in the canon where a weird little reference will be made to this fact usually accompanied by another entry saying something to the effect that the reason the wings arent larger is because the dragon's supernatural or magical nature assists it in staying aloft easier than it should be able to with such small wings.&nbsp; Its the mother of all lazy explanations imo unless you really lean hard into the idea of dragons being a bit of a massive avatar of the cosmic/planar/mystical.&nbsp; Then i suppose its acceptable.Such a creatures wings realistically should be so large that it would essentially stop being a practical creature to use though.&nbsp; I cant remember what the exact dimensions on it are, but ive seen calculations for humanoids with realidtic wing size and honestly they already breach that limit and humans are WAY smaller than dragons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Son of the Serpent, post: 7848047, member: 7015476"] The answer is "yes, dragon's wings are too small". Oddly enough this is actually something a lot of the earliest writers and creators for d&d have known since the early days. As a result there are a couple different times in the canon where a weird little reference will be made to this fact usually accompanied by another entry saying something to the effect that the reason the wings arent larger is because the dragon's supernatural or magical nature assists it in staying aloft easier than it should be able to with such small wings. Its the mother of all lazy explanations imo unless you really lean hard into the idea of dragons being a bit of a massive avatar of the cosmic/planar/mystical. Then i suppose its acceptable. Such a creatures wings realistically should be so large that it would essentially stop being a practical creature to use though. I cant remember what the exact dimensions on it are, but ive seen calculations for humanoids with realidtic wing size and honestly they already breach that limit and humans are WAY smaller than dragons. [/QUOTE]

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