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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 4973157" data-attributes="member: 23937">We actually considered doing this very thing with the dragons in the Bestairy, but we decided against it and to keep the 10 classic dragons mostly because that's the way it's ALWAYS been in the game. But that doesn't mean that dragons have to be so similar that you can only tell them apart by their color and what breathes out of their mouths. So we took pains to give each type of dragon a number of unique abilities, attacks, and defenses to further drive home the fact that while a red dragon and a blue dragon are both dragons... they'll hopefully feel like actually different creatures now. Especially with an older red dragon's ability to "sweat out fire" on anyone nearby or to melt stone with his breath or to manipulate fire, or the blue's ability to create mirages and sandstorms and create storms of lightning with its breath.And while there are still 12 age categories... and while we give out all the tools you need to build a dragon for any of those categories... the actual built stats for each dragon in the book are limited to 3 each—a young dragon, an adult, and an ancient dragon. These three age categories are, we think, the "iconic" ones for a dragon, the age categories that dragon encounters should usually happen at.</blockquote>