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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaer" data-source="post: 3994881" data-attributes="member: 57861">There already was.  It was called Council of Wyrmms.  The big difference was, all the land was ruled by dragons, and the kingdoms weren't incredibly populated so that the dragons had vassals and servants, but nothing that was as large and as complete as a full kingdom.Different dragon types warred over their prefered terrain, and they would enslave and/or liberate the vassal populace (depending on whether chromatic was taking over for gem or metalic or vice-versa).  The adventure given in the setting (the setting was designed so that the PCs were dragon) was that the PCs were part of the Council of Wyrms, so they were raised by the council, not typical members of their species, and so had none of the prejuidices against others (if one PC wanted to be a Silver, and another a Red, it was possible).Of course, there were horrible power-level difference between the speices that never quite worked out: to "level up," the dragon needed to both go through a certain age and aquire a certain amount of treasure.  While a Gold dragon (strongest) needed a lot more treasure in the hoard to level up compared to a crystal dragon (weakest), they both needed to be the same age to do so (the idea was dragons absorbed power from their horde and formed a magical connection to thier treasure by sleeping on it).  So, while the crystal dragon needed like 1/4 of the gold dragon's wealth, they both needed to be the same age.Anyway, I always liked the idea of the setting and have had benevolent dragons rule kingdoms before in campaign settings.  My current homebrew features dragons ruling spefic territories, and while the dragon may not be (and generally isn't) a political ruler, the area is known as a dragon's territory.  You might be in the kingdom of Arisdonia or Thelismar as they are concieved by human and demihuman minds, but both are within the ancient wyrmm Aberrax's territory.  Does he try to rule, subjugate, or extor the populace?  No, he doesn't even care about the demihuman kingdoms.  Others have risen and fallen in his territory before, others will come after.  The fretting of such things are beneath his interest.  He hunts his territory as he wishes, and if he wants to raze a town for fun, he will do so, and who can stop him?  He is lord of his land, even if some human wears a gold headpiece and calls himself king.Why doesn't the kingdom hire adventures to rid themselves of this menace?  The bard's tell of the last time it was done, in Old Haldum.  All that remains of that place is melted slag; some acid, swampy masses that barely supports life; and softened, pitted stone.  Much like the male dragon in Reign of Fire, Aberrax doesn't generally concern himself with the affairs of man, but when such affairs interfer with him directly, he deals out harsh and terrible punishment.  Better to suffer the occasional dragon attack then to anger the creature and have it wipe the land clean of civilization.</blockquote>

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