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<blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7592580" data-attributes="member: 6984451"><p>First off, it's funny that I voted for by far the least popular option in my own poll. I do shoehorn a dragon into every session I can. Even if it's just, as mentioned above, seen passing overhead from a great distance.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is an interesting response because it has a kind of absoluteness to it that seems to innately confer authority (like Chef, from South Park, telling everyone when teenagers are old enough to have sex: it's 17. "But doesn't it depend on the-" No. 17.)</p><p></p><p>Personally, in a 20 level <em>Dungeons & Dragons</em> campaign I would feel cheated if there were less than a dozen significant dragons, and I would expect to meet at least 20 distinct dragons over the course of the campaign (although obviously not at a rate of one dragon per level: they'd mostly be backloaded towards the higher level stuff). I'd also want to kill at least 6-10 dragons over the course of a 20 level campaign.</p><p></p><p>I know it's silly, and it's funnier still that I grew into this preference at such an old age (I expect like most of us there was no point in my life when I <em>didn't</em> think dragons were cool, but until 2015 or so I wasn't particularly worried about including "enough" of them in my D&D) but it's very important to me that my D&D have enough of the second D.</p><p></p><p>To anyone who has read this and thought "but doesn't having dragons appear regularly make them less special/less impressive ("oh yawn, another dragon")?" I think that's only the case if you run every dragon the same or at least run all your dragons similarly. Some of them should be combat encounters, some of them should be non-combat social encounters, some of them should be brief brushes with dragondom that don't qualify as encounters at all, and so on. Dragons should run the full spectrum of the gamut from dumb to ingenious and from evilest evil to purest good. No two dragons should be quite the same (well, excepting mated pairs, perhaps, although the idea of a long-married dragon couple that is constantly bickering is very amusing to me).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ParanoydStyle, post: 7592580, member: 6984451"] First off, it's funny that I voted for by far the least popular option in my own poll. I do shoehorn a dragon into every session I can. Even if it's just, as mentioned above, seen passing overhead from a great distance. This is an interesting response because it has a kind of absoluteness to it that seems to innately confer authority (like Chef, from South Park, telling everyone when teenagers are old enough to have sex: it's 17. "But doesn't it depend on the-" No. 17.) Personally, in a 20 level [I]Dungeons & Dragons[/I] campaign I would feel cheated if there were less than a dozen significant dragons, and I would expect to meet at least 20 distinct dragons over the course of the campaign (although obviously not at a rate of one dragon per level: they'd mostly be backloaded towards the higher level stuff). I'd also want to kill at least 6-10 dragons over the course of a 20 level campaign. I know it's silly, and it's funnier still that I grew into this preference at such an old age (I expect like most of us there was no point in my life when I [I]didn't[/I] think dragons were cool, but until 2015 or so I wasn't particularly worried about including "enough" of them in my D&D) but it's very important to me that my D&D have enough of the second D. To anyone who has read this and thought "but doesn't having dragons appear regularly make them less special/less impressive ("oh yawn, another dragon")?" I think that's only the case if you run every dragon the same or at least run all your dragons similarly. Some of them should be combat encounters, some of them should be non-combat social encounters, some of them should be brief brushes with dragondom that don't qualify as encounters at all, and so on. Dragons should run the full spectrum of the gamut from dumb to ingenious and from evilest evil to purest good. No two dragons should be quite the same (well, excepting mated pairs, perhaps, although the idea of a long-married dragon couple that is constantly bickering is very amusing to me). [/QUOTE]
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