Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
I'm seeing a dragon with a cobra neck/head, scorpion tail that has no wings but can fly on a magical sandstorm, ala Dao/Djinn.
D&D 5E New and Different Dragons! Forest/Green Dragon!
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I'm seeing a dragon with a cobra neck/head, scorpion tail that has no wings but can fly on a magical sandstorm, ala Dao/Djinn.
Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
Exactly! The dragons in that game werent just big cats with scales and an attitude problem.
Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
Change of mind!
A desert dragon should def' be godzilla-like, with the super-burrow speed, and little bearded dragon vibe, with a bronze'n blue palette!
Urriak Uruk
Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
To my knowledge, there hasn't truly been an "Far Realm" style dragon. You could lore-explain it many ways, like links to Mind Flayers or Beholders or something. But the appearance could be something like the dragon Slifer from Yu-Gi-Oh.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I do prefer to have dragons be able to fill more roles than the common western beast of destruction, like the Red Dragon of Wales, and many/most Eastern dragons.
I love the mantislike dragon, and I think there can be multiple variants of forest dragon.
Flamestrike
Legend
Ive always wanted to run a realm where the core philosophy is more inspired by Shinto or Animism than by Indo-european style pantheons of deities, superimposed with a 'heaven and hell' outer cosmos which seems to be the default.
Something like a realm where elementalism replaces the pseudo good v evil dualism of conventional DnD, and is central to the metaphysis of the realm.
A an extension of that, I'd like to position dragons as the literal embodiments of those elements. Similar to Rolemaster, with Fire drakes, Frost Drakes, Water Drakes etc replacing the chromatic dragons of DnD.
I just need to get off my backside and design the elements. I want the standard big 4, plus light and darkness added in as well, plus Plasma (all the elements together) and Nether (an absence of all the elements); again similar to Rolemaster.
I'll get there one day.
Something like a realm where elementalism replaces the pseudo good v evil dualism of conventional DnD, and is central to the metaphysis of the realm.
A an extension of that, I'd like to position dragons as the literal embodiments of those elements. Similar to Rolemaster, with Fire drakes, Frost Drakes, Water Drakes etc replacing the chromatic dragons of DnD.
I just need to get off my backside and design the elements. I want the standard big 4, plus light and darkness added in as well, plus Plasma (all the elements together) and Nether (an absence of all the elements); again similar to Rolemaster.
I'll get there one day.
Urriak Uruk
Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
There also aren't enough dragons themed around the Outer Planes either; you could easily develop 9 dragons for the Hells alone (one for each layer).
I've snagged this screenshot from AQW (a weird-as-hell moba I used to play as a child); they ran an event called "7 Deadly Dragons," one dragon based on each type of sin.
My personal favorites of course being Sloth and Gluttony.
I've snagged this screenshot from AQW (a weird-as-hell moba I used to play as a child); they ran an event called "7 Deadly Dragons," one dragon based on each type of sin.
My personal favorites of course being Sloth and Gluttony.
Flamestrike
Legend
They look like something Voltron would fight.
Urriak Uruk
Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
The game I snap-shotted is not famous for its visuals... even though I do like the concepts.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Okay! So, I like the idea of them having either vestigial wings or no wings at all, or maybe gliding wings! Give them an incredible leap, climb speed, a confusion breath/aura, and camouflage.
I think they vary in appearance, with some being more chitinous, while others are bark-covered and overgrown with moss, and the elder dragons even having ferns and such growing from their surface bark.
I think one of their attacks is a Vine Snap that deals piercing and poison damage, and grapples the target. They can also Bite, Claw, or use their tail, which is barbed and poisonous.
Legendary Actions would include attacking with any of the above, using camoflauge to disapear, leaping across the battlefield without opportunity attacks, roaring to expand and intensify their aura, and awakening plant creatures or summoning bugs.
Spells, they'd get the control druidic spells, fog cloud, ensnaring strike, and some illusion stuff, like mirror image.
Lair Actions, would be stuff like felling trees to create AoE attacks, making the earth erupt with huge insect plagues from underneath an area, and an at-will sort of effect like speak with animals and plant growth, basically making the land just outright reject the dragon's enemies.
Personality wise, Good Forest Dragons are wise more than smart, curious, enjoy goofs and pranks, and are incredibly vicious defenders of the wild. They tend to enjoy the company of treants, dryads, and other plant races most, but are also known to consort with satyrs and centaurs, firbolgs, and forest gnomes, as well as those wood elves who truly live with nature, rather than simply in the wild.
Evil Forest Dragons are still quite wise, but their wisdom is foul, and turned to seeing into the weaknesses of lesser creatures. They are deceptive, and use their insight and cleverness to corrupt the creatures of the forest, turning healthy woods into the sort of dark forests that villagers speak of in whispers. These dragons enjoy the company of deadly nymps, keplies, hags, giant spiders, corrupt treants, and are often served by blights of all sorts.
I think they vary in appearance, with some being more chitinous, while others are bark-covered and overgrown with moss, and the elder dragons even having ferns and such growing from their surface bark.
I think one of their attacks is a Vine Snap that deals piercing and poison damage, and grapples the target. They can also Bite, Claw, or use their tail, which is barbed and poisonous.
Legendary Actions would include attacking with any of the above, using camoflauge to disapear, leaping across the battlefield without opportunity attacks, roaring to expand and intensify their aura, and awakening plant creatures or summoning bugs.
Spells, they'd get the control druidic spells, fog cloud, ensnaring strike, and some illusion stuff, like mirror image.
Lair Actions, would be stuff like felling trees to create AoE attacks, making the earth erupt with huge insect plagues from underneath an area, and an at-will sort of effect like speak with animals and plant growth, basically making the land just outright reject the dragon's enemies.
Personality wise, Good Forest Dragons are wise more than smart, curious, enjoy goofs and pranks, and are incredibly vicious defenders of the wild. They tend to enjoy the company of treants, dryads, and other plant races most, but are also known to consort with satyrs and centaurs, firbolgs, and forest gnomes, as well as those wood elves who truly live with nature, rather than simply in the wild.
Evil Forest Dragons are still quite wise, but their wisdom is foul, and turned to seeing into the weaknesses of lesser creatures. They are deceptive, and use their insight and cleverness to corrupt the creatures of the forest, turning healthy woods into the sort of dark forests that villagers speak of in whispers. These dragons enjoy the company of deadly nymps, keplies, hags, giant spiders, corrupt treants, and are often served by blights of all sorts.
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