New Dragon Article: Dragon Hoards

[Plane Sailing]

And I couldn't help but notice that all the bitching and moaning didn't force Wizards to drop the nose-spike from their dragon.

I still can't get over the nose-spike making the dragon look like, essentially, a 12-year olds drawing of a dragon.

IMO of course.

The picture is otherwise a good picture (but it would be a great one without the nose spike!). What was wrong with jowls on a green dragon anyway
Cheers

 

[Anti-Sean]

Mistakes can be adventures in disguise. the style, fabric, design all things point to an age of two centuries, but these nations were not founded so long ago! How can such artifacts exist? Magical forgeries? Or are they something stranger yet?

Thanks for ruining my whining and passive-aggressive flaunting of my familiarity with the setting with your level-headedness and clever use of imagination.

 

[DaveMage]

WoTC just posted the newest Dragon article, a tie-in to the new Dragons of Eberron sourcebook by Amber Scott. It's Eberron specific, but I think it has some nice utility for any campaign setting:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20071008

Nice to see it's not just a reprint of the Draconomicon sample hoards.

Great web enhancement!

 

[helium3]

First off, wrt the nose spike, I don't know ANY 12 year olds that can draw that well.

Secondly, while the content is fine (though not great enough to induce me to pay for it) I'm so disappointed by WotC's continuing inability to take advantage of the features that a website can provide. There's absolutely no reason for that article to have the format that it did. Those hoards should've been anchored at the very least, with a link to a print friendly version for both the entire list and each individual list.

 

[Hellcow]

The CR 25 hoard contains several 200 year old standards; however, two of the nations mentioned (Q'Barra and Valenar) did not exist 200 years ago.

Valenar didn't exist. However, the Valaes Tairn - the culture that claimed Valenar - have been around for over thirty thousand years. So that one's easy; it's a Tairnadal banner, which the average modern human will associate with Valenar. Personally, I don't think that the Valaes Tairn are so invested in their physical territory that they would print up new stationary for it; I think they are using the same banners in Valenar today they used when their ancesters fought the Dhakaani thousands of years ago.

The Q'barra one is tougher. As "New Galifar", Q'barra could hold to the iconography of old Galifar. Thus this could be a banner that would serve as a Q'barran banner in the present day, or a Galfaran banner over a century ago. But I admit, that's a stretch. So Bad Amber! No biscuit!

I'll predict that a significant number of Eberron fans will be griping because this articles "cheapens dragons into creatures that sit on hoards for adventurers to loot."

Well, that griping should last all of a week until Dragons of Eberron comes out. DoE specifically addresses the rationale behind draconic hoards. There's a lot more to dragons in Eberron than random goldwarmers.