Large red dragon mini with only 5 fire resist...

[Jefe Bergenstein]

Resist fire 5 seems incredibly wussy for something that freakin breathes fire. I'm wondering if the fire elementals will dare to break double digits of flame resistance...

 

[Simplicity]

I don't see anything about this being a large red dragon... Are we just assuming that because it has fire resist?

 

[Plane Sailing]

Uh, do you actually play DDM competitively? Because I am pretty certain that I can speak for the majority of the skirmish community when I say that almost none of us are going to shed a single tear about morale checks going away.

No, I've not played DDM at all - and considering the unanimous cheering happening here, I can reasonably assume that they didn't have a particularly, um, good use of morale

 

[Plane Sailing]

I don't see anything about this being a large red dragon... Are we just assuming that because it has fire resist?

Perhaps because it says Reach 2?

The new DDM rules have the following definition

Reach X: the creature can make melee attacks against enemies that are up to X squares away. Adjacent squares are always 1 square away.

So Reach 2 == 10ft reach => Large

 

[pawsplay]

Don't dragons have longer reach with their bites, though?

 

[Plane Sailing]

Don't dragons have longer reach with their bites, though?

There were some variations by dragon type.

 

[ruleslawyer]

I don't see anything about this being a large red dragon... Are we just assuming that because it has fire resist?

Perhaps because it says Reach 2?

I think Simplicity was referring to the red part rather than the large part.

 

[IanB]

No, I've not played DDM at all - and considering the unanimous cheering happening here, I can reasonably assume that they didn't have a particularly, um, good use of morale

It wasn't awful - if it was game-wrecking I doubt DDM would be the success it has been - but it basically added a huge random element to the game on top of the sort of 'core' randomness of attack rolls, saving throws, and initiative checks, and also was sort of warping the tournament environment at certain points in DDM history, as there were times when fearless pieces (like constructs) had a huge amount of value attached to them since you could ignore that random element with warband building.

In other words, getting rid of it means a wider variety of creatures become viable, and eliminates some of the chance for a superior player to lose a game via dice screw. I don't think anyone advocates removing all the randomness, but things like individual attack rolls aren't as wacky as morale checks sometimes were anyway.

 

[IanB]

I think Simplicity was referring to the red part rather than the large part.

Art looks red dragony, it has the 'evil' keyword, and resists fire. Not conclusive - it could be some other sort of evil fire resistant dragon - but it looks pretty likely that it is a red dragon.

 

[MerricB]

Resist fire 5 seems incredibly wussy for something that freakin breathes fire. I'm wondering if the fire elementals will dare to break double digits of flame resistance...

For DDM, 5 is a lot of resistance (as it is in DR). Damage values tend to be lower in DDM than in regular D&D, so the Dragon might actually have DR 10 in the full 4e.

Note that damage will also be likely lessened in 4e compared to 3e.

Cheers!