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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ConnorSB" data-source="post: 1201402" data-attributes="member: 14273">Lets see...First it talks about advantages and disadvantages of having a dragon in the party. Basically this part is pretty obvious: dragons have cool powers and players dont, but as they age, dragons cant fit small places like humans can, and in addition will have the usual monster problems of low HP and saves (which they exchanged for cool powerz). This section is reasonably useful, mostly as a reminder to the player and DM what they are getting into.It then talks about dragons as mounts, and includes a table of thier overland movement and load range sorted by size of riders and type/size of dragon. This part is pretty useful, as it includes not only the awsome table, but outlines the circumstances associated w/ dragon mounts, like raising a dragon, caring for a dragon mount, and asking service of a non-mount dragon ("Hey mr. Red dragon, take me home!" *breathes fire* "Hey, stupid adventurer, No!").Then it talks about dragons as NPC members of the party, and has various tables for use as a regular cohort, a paladin's special mount, a blackguard's fiendish servent, and a wizard/sorcerer's familier. The tables include the special benifits they recieve from each and equivelent level for the character to use them. This part is integral for anyone who wants a dragon NPC in the party, as it provides info for basically everything. Oh, and there is a special Wiz/Sorc feat, Dragon Familier, that lets you get a dragon familier.Finally it talks about dragons as PCs. It provides two sample ideas for how to integrate dragon PCs and/or the PrCs of the book. It talks about how one goes up in levels as a dragon (b/c since dragons age, things get funky), including how a dragon gains feats and skills. Finally, there are three tables.One is the HD, Level adjustment, and ECL of all the chromatic/color dragons by color and age (The ones in the MM).The next is the same format but for the "other" true dragons. These are the psionic dragons and the planar dragons. These tables are a bit condensed, and refer back to the first set (IE: The BLAH Dragon is  the same as the COLOR dragon, save that its HD look like #/#/#/#).The third table is the Level adjustments for the "lesser dragons." Figuring the ECL is left up to the reader.Basically, the section provides most of the hard to figure out crunch for using dragons in the party, and sends the reader off to other books and sections to find the real stats for everything (IE: it provides the ECL for a wyrmling blue dragon, but not the statistics. Those are in the later chapters). It's got some good ideas and points to make, and provides quite a few tangible solutions. I think its actually pretty useful, for being a rather short section. My only beef w/ it is that you probably need Savage Species to make it work "legally", and the back cover doesn't ever say that the SS might be useful, or needed.</blockquote>

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