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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 8645032" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>I'm mostly happy with dragons stats as-is. Just a few things:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I don't use alignment, and even when I did I didn't feel bound by it for dragons. So PCs who assume dragons are colour-coded for convenience are in for a shock or two.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I believe dragons should be the toughest monsters PCs face, which means that the CR for a dragon encounter will always be right at the top end of that "deadly" category. They can be beaten, but it's going to be a fight.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All dragons IMC, both the malevolent and the benign ones, have a besetting sin (most commonly pride or greed, but could be any). That may serve as a weakness for PCs to use against the dragon, or it may prove a complication when dealing with an ally.</li> </ul><p>Regarding dragonborn:</p><p></p><p>Dragonborn consider themselves to be the heirs of seen great progenitor dragons. In ancient history they founded The Final Empire, but when their sages foresaw some great disaster coming the best and the bravest of their kind were selected for The Return to the Egg - they were placed into suspended animation until it was all over. But something went wrong, they slept too long, and emerged much diminished shadows of themselves, and into a world overrun by elves, humans, and other such races.</p><p></p><p>All that said, there's something very confused about the Dragonborn account of their own history, because they claim to be descended from the <em>last</em> dragons, and they claim their empire stood longer than the entire life of the world so far, both of which are manifestly incorrect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 8645032, member: 22424"] I'm mostly happy with dragons stats as-is. Just a few things: [LIST] [*]I don't use alignment, and even when I did I didn't feel bound by it for dragons. So PCs who assume dragons are colour-coded for convenience are in for a shock or two. [*]I believe dragons should be the toughest monsters PCs face, which means that the CR for a dragon encounter will always be right at the top end of that "deadly" category. They can be beaten, but it's going to be a fight. [*]All dragons IMC, both the malevolent and the benign ones, have a besetting sin (most commonly pride or greed, but could be any). That may serve as a weakness for PCs to use against the dragon, or it may prove a complication when dealing with an ally. [/LIST] Regarding dragonborn: Dragonborn consider themselves to be the heirs of seen great progenitor dragons. In ancient history they founded The Final Empire, but when their sages foresaw some great disaster coming the best and the bravest of their kind were selected for The Return to the Egg - they were placed into suspended animation until it was all over. But something went wrong, they slept too long, and emerged much diminished shadows of themselves, and into a world overrun by elves, humans, and other such races. All that said, there's something very confused about the Dragonborn account of their own history, because they claim to be descended from the [I]last[/I] dragons, and they claim their empire stood longer than the entire life of the world so far, both of which are manifestly incorrect. [/QUOTE]
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