Green Dragon

[Charwoman Gene]

It's gotten worse... The miniature and the Miniatures rules art make the green dragon look ridiculous.

 

[Cadfan]

I only have the image on the cover, as I can't download the rest of the rules document onto this computer.

But I don't see the problem.

Look, for better or worse, D&D has about a billion different types of dragons.

Now, we could go all old school, and make every single one of them look the same except for a change in color. But that would be kind of lame.

So they have to vary them.

I know this will be upsetting for those who like the classic Elmore style dragons, but I highly suspect that you'll get your Elmore style dragon when the art for the red dragon rolls around. Classic dragon gets the classic art.

Meanwhile, something has to be done to make sure that every other dragon type doesn't look just like a red dragon with a new paint job.

 

[Einan]

I have to say that the cover painting makes me go meh, but the mini looks horrible. It looks like the mouth goes a little too far back into the skull. I hope it's just a bad photo.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

But I don't see the problem.

IT HAS A FREAKING HORN POINTING STRAIGHT OUT OF IT'S NOSE!

 

[mhensley]

IT HAS A FREAKING HORN POINTING STRAIGHT OUT OF IT'S NOSE!

It's a unidragon.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

It's a unidragon.

Sorry, I'm just in rant mode today. My pastor and I are having an argument in his blog about whether or not the Transformers movie sucked. I am really feely opinionated and crazed.

 

[Stormtalon]

Well, if it's any consolation, Worlds and Monsters makes it pretty explicit that of the chromatics, the only one that got a makeover was the Green dragon. It's partly due to the change in its breath weapon to a poisonous gas (they commented that everything about the dragon should scream "poison -- get away!"), and also because of the chromatics, the Green had the most "generic dragon" look to it.

There's a painting of a Red dragon in all its classic 3.x glory and a spectacular pic of a Silver, looking as sleek and shimmery as ever. So, there's no need to fear a wholesale revamping of dragons -- it's just the green that got whacked with the spiky-stick.

 

[Scribble]

Got it...

Can't say I see a problem either... There are plenty of real world lizards with features quite similar actually.

 

[Counterspin]

Lizards generally have some sort of nose horn in the egg to break through the shell, don't they? I know a lot of them grow out of it, but don't they all pretty much start with one?

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Well, if it's any consolation, Worlds and Monsters makes it pretty explicit that of the chromatics, the only one that got a makeover was the Green dragon.

It is a tiny consolation.