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<blockquote data-quote="A'koss" data-source="post: 3004737" data-attributes="member: 840"><p>Dragons.</p><p></p><p>It was a little slow this morning so I headed over to WotC’s site and had a look at their latest “Fight Club” entry – <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fc/20060811a" target="_blank">Mavarothix, the Gargantuan Black Dragon</a>. Its entry is a tie-in for their new Dragon mini (which btw does look very cool indeed).</p><p></p><p>Then I started to read its stat block…</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>… yeah.</em></p><p></p><p>In that one paragraph I was reminded just how much the <em>soul</em> of the <strong>Dragon</strong> has been lost in a sea of spell power-ups and sorcerous tactics. The first thought that popped into my head was… <em>This isn’t a <strong>Dragon</strong>, this is a wizard trapped in a giant lizard’s body.</em> </p><p></p><p>It’s one of those cases where you know that this is the way this monster has been in 3e, but it took this one example to really drive that point home. And I wondered - where have the classic, literary iconic dragons gone? Where are my brute forces of nature? <em>My rampaging, pillaging, burning-down-the-village-because-it’s-Tuesday dragons?</em> Hmm…</p><p></p><p>And what do you do when you want to beef up a Gargantuan Black Dragon to make him even more fearsome…</p><p></p><p>You give him levels in Cleric and Mystic Theurge of course.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>… yeah.</em></p><p></p><p>Okay, so it’s not like it was the Dragon’s only choice of advancement but seeing this creature gave me one hell of an involuntary twitch. And through that spell-laden haze it reminded me of another other thing that’s always irked me about Dragons… </p><p></p><p>Here you have a near perfectly crafted engine of rampaging destruction… and then you give it an intelligence and wisdom so high that it virtually <em>begs</em> to be run contrary to its design. </p><p></p><p></p><p>So now I wonder if this is the kind of dragon today’s DMs like to run and I’m just being too <em>Olde School</em> here... or does this resonate with anyone else in the same way?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="A'koss, post: 3004737, member: 840"] Dragons. It was a little slow this morning so I headed over to WotC’s site and had a look at their latest “Fight Club” entry – [URL=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fc/20060811a]Mavarothix, the Gargantuan Black Dragon[/URL]. Its entry is a tie-in for their new Dragon mini (which btw does look very cool indeed). Then I started to read its stat block… [i]… yeah.[/i] In that one paragraph I was reminded just how much the [i]soul[/i] of the [b]Dragon[/b] has been lost in a sea of spell power-ups and sorcerous tactics. The first thought that popped into my head was… [i]This isn’t a [b]Dragon[/b], this is a wizard trapped in a giant lizard’s body.[/i] It’s one of those cases where you know that this is the way this monster has been in 3e, but it took this one example to really drive that point home. And I wondered - where have the classic, literary iconic dragons gone? Where are my brute forces of nature? [I]My rampaging, pillaging, burning-down-the-village-because-it’s-Tuesday dragons?[/I] Hmm… And what do you do when you want to beef up a Gargantuan Black Dragon to make him even more fearsome… You give him levels in Cleric and Mystic Theurge of course. [i]… yeah.[/i] Okay, so it’s not like it was the Dragon’s only choice of advancement but seeing this creature gave me one hell of an involuntary twitch. And through that spell-laden haze it reminded me of another other thing that’s always irked me about Dragons… Here you have a near perfectly crafted engine of rampaging destruction… and then you give it an intelligence and wisdom so high that it virtually [I]begs[/I] to be run contrary to its design. So now I wonder if this is the kind of dragon today’s DMs like to run and I’m just being too [i]Olde School[/i] here... or does this resonate with anyone else in the same way? [/QUOTE]
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