Perhaps it's time to stop the dracophilia

[Hjorimir]

Perhaps a lot of the feelings about dragons (and drow) are due to a parochial perspective? I haven't toss a dragon at my player group in well over a year and before that it had been about a year for the previous dragon battle.

Drow? Hrm, I think the last time I used any drow may have been three years ago now. Even then, they didn't represent a major campaign element and the same goes for dragons.

Now I find myself considering both of these monsters as something that might be, ironically, fresh within my campaign.

 

[Schmoe]

Yeah, but, drow don't feature in almost every supplement published. FR gets its own books that don't cross over into general supplements. And, well, the new PrC format is a personal taste.

But, good grief, how many bloody dragon types do we really need? Considing most games end around the low double digit levels, the vast majority of dragons are almost never used. We have this glut of practically useless monster statblocks clogging book after book.

Heck, even on the WOTC site, they've spent the last several months on "How to fight dragons" articles. And that's just for core dragons.

Did you happen to miss that 2006 was "The Year of the Dragon", according to WotC? Thus, there was a lot more dragon-specific stuff done by WotC in 2006 than they would normally do. I expect the amount of dragon-love to taper off quite a bit.

 

[GreatLemur]

Yeah, I've gotta say I'm pretty bored by dragons, too. They're overexposed and done to death, and not just by the three v.3.5 suppliments focusing on them. This is a problem larger than D&D (although Christ knows we don't need to see any more races, classes, and feats geared to let players kinda-sorta play as a dragon), and attributable to lots of airbrushed t-shirts and obnoxiously wanky art on Internet galleries.

Thing is, though, I really do like the dragon's niche in D&D. That is, not the killed-in-a-cave-by-a-knight routine, but their role as vastly patient and intelligent creatures with tremendous physical and magical power, and possibly capricious whims (so much better when they aren't color-coded by alignment...). But in spite of this, the whole dragon image has been so poisoned for me by decades of retardedness that I'd sooner use an aberration for the same role.

 

[Nightfall]

Hey, Nightfall, actually you're right. Scarred Lands has nothing to do with dragons. That's 'cos they're all freakin' dead in that setting. I knew there was another reason why I heart Scarred Lands.

Well not DEAD, dead but very much non-existent on Ghelspad, maybe a handful on Termana, and I'm sure Asherak has like 0. Only the Dragon Lands/Islands have any and it's not like they'll be leaving any time soon.

Most of the remaining dragons are Wrack anyway.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I'm a dracopiliac and proud of it. I have all dragon supplements to date and IMO they all rock!

Though, RotD brings up the rear.

 

[Nightfall]

I think you mean should have come out a dragon's rear, Fru.

But yeah I like my dragon supplements fine. I just love my Scarred Lands ones more!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I think you mean should have come out a dragon's rear, Fru.

Something like that I guess. It does leave much to be desired. Though it is a little better then a steaming nugget.

 

[Nightfall]

Fru,

Meh. I'll grant you I've read worse, but it's still not that far off from a steaming something...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Fru,

Meh. I'll grant you I've read worse, but it's still not that far off from a steaming something...

Yeah. That you are definetely right about. [ ]

 

[Melan]

nostalgia

What the hell does that word have to do with the topic? Or did 'nostalgia' change its meaning to 'things I vaguely don't like anymore'?