B2: Keep on the Borderlands

[MerricB]

Totally don't have my books here. How big is a Basic/Expert blue dragon?

I think the correct answer is "as big as you want it to be".

Cheers!

 

[Hussar]

It totally pains me to admit this, but, my Basic book is actually missing some pages out of the center of the book, and that includes dragons. Very sad.

 

[ExploderWizard]

Even back in the day, D&D has always been as much about the wits of the players as rolling dice in a hack'n'slash-fest, at least to me and my fellow players.

It is sad that, for some, that is a sentiment that remains back in the day.

 

[Stormonu]

Totally don't have my books here. How big is a Basic/Expert blue dragon?

Unfortunately, neither the Moldvay nor Mentzer basic books say, other than "older dragons are bigger".

It is interesting to note than in 3E/4E a gargantuan dragon would easily fit (only taking up about 20 ft. square), and even a colossal dragon would have some wiggle room (taking up 30 ft. square).

It'd be the halls in and out of that room that'd be problematic...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

It'd be the halls in and out of that room that'd be problematic...

That's why dragons hire kobold waiters.

 

[Hussar]

I just got a mental image of the dragon tying a rope to some poor kobold and chucking it down the hall, trying to trawl for adventurers.

 

[haakon1]

If anything, it cries out to be the starting place for a Dungeon Master's homebrew campaign world!

Or the starting point in their Greyhawk (or whatever published world) campaign.

For me, it's where the campaign began, and that's at the edge of Bissel, the Yatils, Highfolk, and Veluna. Technically in Bissel, but just barely . . .

 

[haakon1]

I just got a mental image of the dragon tying a rope to some poor kobold and chucking it down the hall, trying to trawl for adventurers.

Alas, poor Meepo!

 

[darjr]

Didn't Shaintar start off as the keep? In the home campaign that turned into Shaintar that is.

 

[francisca]

Totally don't have my books here. How big is a Basic/Expert blue dragon?

In my mind, they're dragons. So, FRICKIN' HUUUUGE!

The first page in the moldvay basic book has a red dragon lighting up an adventuring party, and to my mind, that is about the right size.

I mean, I guess you can claim they are the size as seen in some of the Saint George paintings:

But really, who the hell wants to fight a snake-lizard-dog?

Now for the reason I came back:

Check out the cool ISO view map this guy did of the Caves of Chaos:

Troll and Flame: B2 Caves of Chaos Maps