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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 4654263" data-attributes="member: 40398">Oops, yeah I could have given a brief description of those. Dragon wights are [usually] humanoid victims that the dragon was too full to eat. They're walking shields and TV dinners at the same time!It does seem like every villain wants a piece of the undead action, with Orcus as the scariest core monster doesn't it? Well to be honest, the necro theme rings true for me anyway. Black dragons are my compilation of all the traditional dragon evil-ness, so the necro theme just fits IMO. Personally I don't think the intent of the heavy concentration of undead in the MM is meant to be represenative of any game world; I think that a DM is supposed to pick a couple villain types to be his world's undead masters and leave the rest out. That's how I run the Dying Earth at least.I love the sages frozen in ice idea!I'll refine my descriptions of flame and polar dragons, because I meant for both types to be possible enemies or allies. For example flame dragons are creative, but they also have hot tempers, so PCs can end up fighting one as easily as discussing classical art with one. It all depends on the dragon because I intentionally wanted each dragon to have one or two predefined personality traits, and leave the rest up to the DM. Much like human NPCs.Also, I didn't intend flames or polars to be natural wanderers, I just added those sentences as examples of why a group of PCs might encounter a dragon outside of its lair. Maybe those sentences aren't necessary though.Do you have any other ideas? I thought about doing M:tG-like color associations, like goblins and orcs for flame dragons and faeries and whales for polar dragons, but it seemed too hard to justify having those minions exist over all three tiers.Silver dragons are supposed to be innocuous, for sure. I gave them a Mount ability to emphasize their PC-friendly nature. Well, except in an Evil campaign. I appreciate a focus on enemy monsters, but I think 4e's single-minded obsession with them is taking it too far. The silver dragon is my compilation of the traditional metallics' Goodness, and I don't intend on having any others.Of course, there is always the occasional rogue silver who uses his shape changing ability and his race's famous benevolence to become a villainous super power.</blockquote>

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