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Message: <blockquote data-quote="random user" data-source="post: 1568557" data-attributes="member: 16581">Here are some ideas, in random order, mix and match, or ignore as you see fit:- the symbiotes are like ing SG-1, they have a distinct personality and have long memories, though perhaps it's sort of hard to share them with the host.  This would allow the characters to gain certain insights of knowledge long ago, though not perfectly (unless that's what you want to do).This would also allow you to have more continuity than normal in case a character dies.  The human may die, but the symbiote may (in some cases) still live and find a new host.- There are people who oppose the symbiotes as they see they are unnatural.  Thus, all half-dragons are hunted by these people.- at some point maybe there is some disease that is causing the symbiotes to become sick (the party can temporarily lose their dragon powers, or maybe it just fades sometimes).  The party needs to figure out what's going on and fix it.- perhaps there are factions within the symbiotes (this is more ripping off sg-1).  Some of them believe in co-existing with their hosts and share their knowledge with them.  Others take control of their hosts, use up their life force then go on to inhabit another host.  This might have some interesting effects on how people view folks that are half-dragon.- perhaps while the symbiotes have dragon-like powers, they are something totally different.  They may be friendly with dragons, or biding their time before they can overthrow and kill real dragons- perhaps they require some sort of special food/mineral/magic to survive.  The characters may have to eternally seek out something in order to keep their symbiote alive.- perhaps a magical device has been created that can control some symbiotes and is wreaking havoc- perhaps humans have been secretly breeding "laboratory" symbiotes... these symbiotes grant the humans who host them the powers but none of the other cultural stuff... these humans will try and wipe out the naturally occuring symbiotes.Those are just some random ones.  I bet if you look at a lot of the SG-1 episodes that concern the symbiotes you could get a lot more ideas <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (a few were ripped from or were twists on episodes I remember)Just my 2cp</blockquote>

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