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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 6165472" data-attributes="member: 8243">Brainstorming does kind of imply some sort of brain, which may disqualify meHey. How's it going? Good to see you again. Saw this and thought I would jump in. Not sure how much use any of this will be. Its been a long day, and I'm a bit shagged. 1. Psionic Drakes. I'm not sure why that sprang to mind, but depending on the role of psionics in your setting, it may be an interesting twist.2. Humm, will get back to this.3. They have to go into the mountains. Great snow covered peaks, howling storms, crystal clear and freezing cold air.1. A war of succession. Wars of succession are chaotic and dynamic, with no front lines, shifting loyalties, divided houses. And usually particularly nasty. Having drakes would make communication between scattered forces easier, as well scouting and skirmishing. If you have on one side a child king, supported by on powerful family, while on the other, a powerful duke (uncle of the child king) seeking to wrest the young king from his rival. A young child could be mistaken for a halfling. 2. Good question. If the halfings breed the drakes, who flies them? I assume that drakes are too small for an adult rider. Are the PC's suppling the drakes for other halfling warriors or goblin mercenaries or some such like horse breeders? I suppose I would have instinctively gone with having the drakes and halflings as a unit. Perhaps the halflings were ambushed/betrayed and their delivery stolen. Or perhaps the drakes themselves go crazy upon delivery, turning on their riders in a frenzy of violence. May riders are killed, some of the drakes kill themselves in their attempts to kill their riders. On drake in particular seems to lead the revolt (a psioninc drake). The drakes hate being used as warbeasts, but are unable to communicate this because they don't use speech (how do lizarsd communicate? scent?). The customer is enraged, the halflings forced to flee. Some time later the rebellious drake reappears. Eventually the drake and manages to overcome the halflings animosity/anger/confusion and communicate its feelings, and reveals the existence of the psioninc drakes. The halflings set off the find the psionic drakes (in the mountains?) gain their trust and form an alliance to free the other drakes and end the war and save the world! Yay!5. If the drakes are delivered as eggs, then you could have them deliver just before hatching when they imprint with a rider. Unless they go crazy and try to kill everyone.I think that somewhere along the line the PC's should rescue the child king. thotd</blockquote>

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