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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scarbonac" data-source="post: 900054" data-attributes="member: 9129">IMC, I decided that dragons were nearly extinct on the base world; since I make extensive use of Spelljammer, I relocated most of the dragons to other planets in the system, so that some worlds are dominated while others have the ''standard'' number of dragons, and others have none. Those that do remain on the main campaign world are a mixed bag of power levels and colors. In their stead, I introduced  the Vyrrn (based off of the wyvern), a weaker collection of bastardized draco-wyvern crossbred half-species  (chromatic only; the metallics wouldn't lower themselves to breed with wyverns). Thy're much smaller than dragons, have the wyvern physique (but are the color of their particular draconic ancestor), including the poisonous tail-stinger, and have a weaker breath-weapon that their draconic forbears. The cool bit is that the stinger, in some specimens, is modified by freaky magical genetics, to allow a version of the forbears' breath-weapon attack in addition to the normal breath-weapon.A red Vyrrn can opt to squirt and ignite its poison, rather like a flame-thrower; a white Vyrrn can spray a cone of frosty-cold venom, and the black Vyrrn's poison is actually a concentrated acid which can be injected, squirted as a stream or sprayed as a choking, corrosive cloud. Blues spray an electrified gel.A bit of a narsty surprise, indeed, me old China. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Most of my players have only encountered Vyrrns, with two very weak red dragons tossed into the mix, over a 15-year period. On the plus side (for me as DM), Vyrrn have much lesser treasure than dragons.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />When they finally meet some real arse-kicking dragons, I expect to hear them cry for their mommies like pre-schoolers being sent to a daycare run by Freddie Krueger.</blockquote>

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