Monster Manual 3: What do we know about it?

[Voadam]

I don't think we've heard anything about gem dragons. I don't even think they've really thought about them in 4e. They might after they get the scourge dragons done (which I presume will be in MM4).

As far as MM3, Lolth will be in it, as will mimics I believe.

I wouldn't expect gem dragons at least until after they come out with something substantial for psionics.

 

[fanboy2000]

I don't know if I'd directly equate the catastrophe dragons with Oriental dragons, as the volcanic dragon that was playtested didn't seem anything like an Oriental dragon from previous editions to me.

There were volcanic dragons in one of the 3e era anniversary issues of Dragon. IIRC, that same issue had rust dragons. (Now there's a catastrophe!)

 

[Mouseferatu]

OR i'm just remembering a joke rather than actual info.

I really don't know which it was.

It was a joke.

We've actually seen the cover, incidentally. It's Lolth.

I wouldn't expect gem dragons at least until after they come out with something substantial for psionics.

I'd also expect that we'll see scourge dragons (linnorms) before we see anything else, since that'll finish up the various dragon types already mentioned in MM. (Chromatic, metallic, catastrophic, scourge, and the planar dragons that are scattered throughout the various "parent" types.)

 

[Nahat Anoj]

As they should.

I think the juiciest irony would be if they decide to make gem dragons and hired you to write them ...

 

[Shroomy]

Besides being neutral and psionic, what were gem dragons all about again?

 

[ferratus]

I remember one of the gem dragons spat lozenges at you. I remember thinking at 13 years old that it was the lamest dragon ever.

 

[RangerWickett]

Is there a better look at the cover than this one?

 

[Nahat Anoj]

Besides being neutral and psionic, what were gem dragons all about again?

You've pretty much hit the two main draws to gem dragons. I don't know - I see how they're a bit superfluous now, but my young mind thought the idea of neutral dragons with psionics was totally rad.

They would definitely have to go back to the drawing board to make gem dragons have strong, distinct themes. I would make gem dragons the most mystical of dragon kind. Where dragons in 4e are basically a combination of elemental and astral stuff, perhaps gem dragons are a mixture of elemental and, say, Far Realm or Dream-Plane (as in the 4e Manual of the Planes) energy. I don't know, I need to think about it some more.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I think the juiciest irony would be if they decide to make gem dragons and hired you to write them ...

I actually wouldn't at all object to that.

Of course, they would then be stuck with my own ideas of what would make "gem dragons" cool, and I don't think it'd bear much resemblance to what we've seen before...

 

[Nahat Anoj]

I actually wouldn't at all object to that.

Of course, they would then be stuck with my own ideas of what would make "gem dragons" cool, and I don't think it'd bear much resemblance to what we've seen before...

That'd be okay by me.