Half-dragon Dragon?

[the Jester]

We have the Pink/Magenta Dragon right here, in Germany. An old, arrogant Bastard that threatens to devour everyone that uses its color or its favourite letter ("T"). Every day I hope some Knight arrives on a white Charger and slays the beast.

That one was yellow in the past, btw.

But what's its breath weapon??

 

[Kae'Yoss]

But what's its breath weapon??

Fould speach, I'd say...

 

[Gez]

The chromatic dragons fit the three primary additive colors: Red, Green, Blue. Plus Black and White.

What is lacking now is the three primary substractive colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

What is lacking now is the three primary substractive colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow.

How far do you want to take that? What powers does a #872ABC-Dragon have?

 

[Gez]

Well, I think 16777216 different chromatic dragons would be nice. It would shut down all the needs that people have to "complete the color wheel" as if dragons were spawned by painting sets.


That said, less trollishly and on the initial topic; I would not use the half-dragon template for dragons. I don't see why a half-white red dragon would be smarter and stronger than a red dragon. Sure, superiority of the hybrids and all that; but the half-dragon type is destined to bring a creature to dragonhood.

What I would do is use the mother as the base dragon, and simply give the offspring the element immunity and main breath weapon of the father, in addition to everything from the mother.

So, a half-white red dragon would be immune to fire and cold, and could use its breath weapon for either a cone of fire or a cone of cold.

A half-brass gold dragon would be immune to fire, and would have three types of breath weapons: line of fire, cone of fire, cone of weakening gas.

 

[woodelf]

That was my premise in 1e...

There was an old Dragon mag article that had a similar thing, too, but I did it first. I even reverse-engineered a yellow dragon (green minus blue equals...?)

Really? You came up with your other-color dragons before Sept '82? Cool. Not doubting your claim to have done it yourself, just wondering if you saw the same article i did, since they *did* have yellows (the parents, with blues, of green dragons).

Anyway, on the general theory here: may i suggest sticking with color theory--it just sounds cooler. Magenta *is* purple (albeit, a particular shade of purple); red + white is, as someone said, pink.

 

[Kitsunekaboom]

The half-dragon template can be added to any living corporeal creature. Sooo... would it be crazy to have, say, a green dragon with the half-red dragon template to simulate a crossbreed??

Is it ridiculous to do something like this? As a dm, does this idea make you go, "Oooh, cool," or, "Wow, lame"? As a player, would you be taken aback in the sort of pleasant "oh, crap, our dm's after us" way or the "gosh, why can't our dm do cool stuff instead" way?

Cross posting to rules and general monster talk....

There is a half-bred dragon template in Monsters Handbook from the Legends and Lairs series. It's a rather good. You just combine the abilities and take the best stats from two different breeds of dragons of the same age category. This adds +1 to the cr (which I guess is ok because you can't use both rbeath weapons at once).

 

[the Jester]

Really? You came up with your other-color dragons before Sept '82? Cool. Not doubting your claim to have done it yourself, just wondering if you saw the same article i did, since they *did* have yellows (the parents, with blues, of green dragons).

Yeah, it was right about when I was first getting into running a campaign vs. individual adventures, and I saw that issue of Dragon after I'd already done up a couple of my new dragons (I think yellow and violet). Eventually I had my yellow (who breathed a sleep gas), orange (who breathed heat, not fire, that sapped strength and did some damage- I think half his hp rather than the dragon's hp? 1e, you know. It's been a long time), violet (breathed a deadly disintigrating energy), indigo (keened with a sonic attack- how that came from disintegration + lightning I don't quite recall ), etc. I wanted the whole ROY G BIV thing... I also had brown dragons, who were genetically engineered and were super bad, essentially always hasted, etc.

Ah, the old days...

 

[Akercockren]

You could try out my hybrid template, the link is in my signature...