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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velenne" data-source="post: 1254627" data-attributes="member: 1856">As a matter of fact, this very issue came up last saturday.  Coinciding with the recent release of the Draconomicon, my group has just begun an all-dragon-PC campaign.  The setting itself allows for some balance in this regard: a pre-common races world of practically all dragons and a few reptillian subspecies.After a long and extremely thorough debate, we came to the same conclusion most of you have:  A PC can do anything a dragon can do but much better.  We compared the ECL's to monsters of the same CR and found that we couldn't beat their SR, DR, AC or versatility.  20% of our resources?  Fah, try 120%!   It gets worse when you try to go into Epic ECL's.  Much worse.We're basically big melee machines. The paltry spell selection doesn't make up for the lack of high-level casters in the group when facing high-level monsters.  What versatility we do have can be matched by any PC of 4 levels lower than our ECL.  And the worst part of all?  Lots of hit points... no healing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Then came the issue of equipping our dragons.  If we go by PC gear value, we end up with dragons with FAR more horde value than a dragon of 5 age categories above us.  In a world of mostly dragons, this would be a problem.</blockquote>

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