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Does Tika get to keep her big 80s hair though?Look, they can change whatever they want.
As long as Sturm gets to keep his sweet 'stache.
Does Tika get to keep her big 80s hair though?Look, they can change whatever they want.
As long as Sturm gets to keep his sweet 'stache.
Would it be Dragonlance without her Lita Ford hair, or the many, many man-hugs shared between Tanis and Flint?Does Tika get to keep her big 80s hair though?
That's REALLY not true.Pretty much every draconian aside from the ones that turn to stone and trap weapons are more likely to cause more casualties on your side than the opponents. They're optimized to hose PCs, not fight in a war where things like arrow volleys exist.
Imagine the glorious chain reaction a single sniper can set off picking their targets in a column featuring draconians.
Even a hatchling dragon is worth more than a regiment of draconians unless now they're dragonborn and have actual combat abilities instead of the super power of dying fancy.
And I say this as someone who finds draconians to be one of the cooler ideas of the setting... just not for what they're supposed to be in-universe. These guys are lone assassins, not military units.
Dragons take years and years to grow to maturity. I don't know if it's specifically stated, but draconians seem to be ready to fight within a few months.You'd need hundreds of draconians to make that an even trade.
So the bozak's bones don't explode when they die and the kapak don't become a puddle of formation-decimating acid? Or was that not from the modules cherry-picked to argue? And in-universe is an arrow through the eye not fatal because of game statistics?But, no, a sniper couldn't set off a chain reaction. The only explody draconian was the aurak and they had about as many HP as a good sized giant. 8 HD monsters. Oh, and lets not forget they had mind control powers too.
Agreed. One of the themes I take from the novels and games is that of learning and change, and in a way they never did before.
The workd of Krynn took exactly the wrong lessons from the Cataclysm, so the painful lessons during and after the War are an important part of the growing up of the world. Starting with all those lessons already learnt takes away most of the interesting drama and themes, such as redemption. Redemption not just of people but also or organisations and of nations. If you start off perfect, how can there be any redemption?
Another theme is slavery, and the contrast of how races dealt with it. The metallic dragons were essentially enslaved by means of the capture of their eggs, and they made little to no effort to escape. Draconians were enslaved by their birth, and once given the chance to escape, many eagerly changed their actions and beliefs. Sometimes children learn lessons despite their elders.
Classic Kender, however, can go jump in a lake. Worked well in the books, but in the RPG they are nothing more than permission by the game authors for one player to royally — off everyone else at the table.
And PCs had less HP as well and there wasnt a million ways to heal or be brought back from death.I might be wrong about the hundreds of draconians actually. I think I'm misremembering.
But, there are a few things to keep in mind. Dragons in AD&D were a LOT smaller than in later editions. Like a whole lot smaller. The biggest dragons could ever get was 96 HP. That was an ancient, huge red. That's it. There weren't any bigger dragons. So, an 8 HD aurak, which you did get multiples from a single egg, had 8 HD - an Huge red dragon only had 12 HD. An average had 11 HD and an adult, average red dragon only had about 55 HP.
Put it this way. Khisanth, the biggest black dragon in Krynn, had 64 HP. A party of 9 PC's could, without a lot of difficulty, kill it in a couple of rounds at 5th level.
People really need to keep scale in mind when discussing this stuff.
Maybe a lot of dragon eggs were infertile or a lot of dragon fetuses never developed properly. If you could make a draconian out of one of those eggs (coz magic), you'd get the best of both.I'm pretty sure more non-dead dragons come from dragon eggs.
I thought the whole point of the way draconians are made is how eeeeevil it is to kill the baby dragon to get footsoldiers.Maybe a lot of dragon eggs were infertile or a lot of dragon fetuses never developed properly. If you could make a draconian out of one of those eggs (coz magic), you'd get the best of both.