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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9667941" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I get why folks appreciate that. I, personally, think metallic and chromatic dragons should remain clearly Western (even if the Gold was, for actually only a relatively brief time, the only Eastern-style dragon), and then separately there should also be Eastern-style dragons. IIRC, that's what 2e and 3e did? I could be mistaken about 2e but I know 3e (and PF1e) did that.My problem with the nu-Gold is that it isn't either thing. It isn't an Eastern dragon, like at all, and the stumpy, almost vestigial pseudowings look, frankly, feeble and useless, not graceful and powerful. The face definitely isn't Eastern, it's 100% Western, especially the horns. The only vaguely Eastern elements it has are an excessively long body, and the "whiskers" (and even those are more a D&D invention than a traditional thing).If they were going to make it Eastern, make it Eastern. But since they clearly don't want to do that, make it Western. We instead got something that's not only not either one, it's not even half either one (albeit closer to Western overall).It's the extensions from the digits on the wings. They're straight-up spider legs. They have nowhere near enough flesh to be manipulable the way they are, instead looking like chitinous appendages.Spoilered for folks like me who might not appreciate arthropod leg references.[SPOILER="Black dragon wing digits"][ATTACH=full]406360[/ATTACH][/SPOILER]I also don't care for the pretty blatantly xenomorph-inspired knobs along the spine, but that's not an intense dislike thing, just...it feels like lazy aesthetics, aping a singular notorious visual rather than doing something distinctive but acting like it is distinctive.</blockquote>

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