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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khuxan" data-source="post: 4652657" data-attributes="member: 38801">First of all, I like that you're mixing up dragons and that you made them elites rather than solos. That said, I have a few thoughts:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's hard to give feedback when there's very little flavour to work with. What do dragon wights look like? How are they created?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I don't like that black dragons are associated with necromancy. I'm not sure exactly why, except that it seems overdone and doesn't ring true. What if black dragons have a poisonous bite that infects the minds of lesser dragons and turns them into mindless wights, rather than a necrotic bite?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I think focussing on the personality of flame dragons makes them seem too much like humans. I expected them to be rampaging engines of destruction, not sensitive artistes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I also don't like the association of flame and polar dragons with elementals, though I know you need some sort of high-level minion for them. Elementals are just so overdone - especially in this edition - that I don't want anything more to do with them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">At first, the polar dragons didn't ring true - they were too different from white dragons for my liking. They grew on me, however, when I imagined vast libraries carved into the ice, sages frozen in the walls so the dragon can perform a quick ritual and interrogate them, a polar dragon restless and uncomfortable in the lush heat of a tropical temple. I think the wandering nature of the polar dragons will be more interesting if the flame dragons didn't also have that aspect to their personality.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That said, I think there has to be more to polar dragons than knowledge. 4th Edition has done a good job of making all monsters potential enemies, and so far flame, polar and silver dragons all seem fairly innocuous. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As for silver dragons, I think they're too benevolant. At least it's only one "good" dragon and not five like 3E, but even so I think it's too much. Their shapechanging and fascination with human culture seems to set them up as powers-behind-the-throne, petty despots always listening in on their subjects, and spies.</li> </ul>I like the idea, and think you have a good foundation with these four dragon types. But there are several changes that I recommend.</blockquote>

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