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<blockquote data-quote="taliesin15" data-source="post: 4369150" data-attributes="member: 22058">In fleshing out a continent, I was thinking that Dragons must be even more rare than usually presented. Take two facts: by nature, they are highly territorial (quite like any predator), and the slowest ones can fly 120 miles in a day, the fastest 320. That's quite a huge range! Unless Dragons are constantly getting on each other's turf, say in one part of a continent, they'd have to be very scarce, especially given that land is also occupied by other strong monsters and characters, not to mention civilizations. Though there would be some overlap, I'm having a hard time imagining that too many Dragons would exist on an average continent.Take two examples: a continent like medieval Europe, or say Greyhawk's Flanneass. In the latter I've noticed in some sources (particularly the Greyhawk Gazetteer) that there are Dragons in some of the mountain regions in the west and one of the forests. Seems in an area of say a 200 mile radius more than a few Dragons would likely be a place where Dragons would be constantly fighting each other for territory. Same thing in a chain of mountains.It just doesn't seem like a continent the size of Europe, considering the range of a Dragon, would have more than ten or twelve Dragons--even that's pushing it a bit, I think. Unless one argues that Dragons tend to go in long hibernations after eating or something. Another idea is that some of them live in very remote places, perhaps distant islands, where they simply dominate all the land there, and fly to humanoid populated continents every once in a while to generally rape and pillage and raise hell.Looking for suggestions on this conundrum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="taliesin15, post: 4369150, member: 22058"] In fleshing out a continent, I was thinking that Dragons must be even more rare than usually presented. Take two facts: by nature, they are highly territorial (quite like any predator), and the slowest ones can fly 120 miles in a day, the fastest 320. That's quite a huge range! Unless Dragons are constantly getting on each other's turf, say in one part of a continent, they'd have to be very scarce, especially given that land is also occupied by other strong monsters and characters, not to mention civilizations. Though there would be some overlap, I'm having a hard time imagining that too many Dragons would exist on an average continent. Take two examples: a continent like medieval Europe, or say Greyhawk's Flanneass. In the latter I've noticed in some sources (particularly the Greyhawk Gazetteer) that there are Dragons in some of the mountain regions in the west and one of the forests. Seems in an area of say a 200 mile radius more than a few Dragons would likely be a place where Dragons would be constantly fighting each other for territory. Same thing in a chain of mountains. It just doesn't seem like a continent the size of Europe, considering the range of a Dragon, would have more than ten or twelve Dragons--even that's pushing it a bit, I think. Unless one argues that Dragons tend to go in long hibernations after eating or something. Another idea is that some of them live in very remote places, perhaps distant islands, where they simply dominate all the land there, and fly to humanoid populated continents every once in a while to generally rape and pillage and raise hell. Looking for suggestions on this conundrum. [/QUOTE]

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