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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 6251173" data-attributes="member: 78958">Dragons can fly (fast!) and use breath weapons. Absent decent air cover, your Monk ought to have lost five times out of five. Ditto, and more so, the wolf.Dragons also qualify for a lot of [monstrous] feats, and a lot of dragon-only feats and prestige classes, which can make them quite strong. Explore some of the options in Draconomicon, Savage Species, and most importantly Dragon Magic, to see what I mean.Note that your dragon can use equipment: armor/barding most importantly (making it much tougher in a one-on-one, non-flying melee brawl), but also stuff like potions, wands (using Sor/Wiz spells, which are on his "class" list, so to speak), even weapons if you want.That said, yes, dragon PCs aren't exactly powerhouses. In an E6 campaign (i.e., using standard rules until characters hit 6th level, at which point leveling stops and you gain a feat instead of another level everytime you earn enough XP), your white dragon wyrmling actually makes a decent PC, but at higher levels, flight and breath weapon alone don't compare well to magic items/spells/other class features anymore.</blockquote>