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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8435545" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I’m not sure they are as powerful as dnd dragons, but they’re still powerful. I’m not sure the dragons need non-dragons around, but they can’t (and most aren’t inclined to) exterminate them, so they’ve gotta coexist to some degree.   There is a place for ancient draconic powers, but they’re something like gods, or Fizban’s Great Wyrms (if the Great Wyrms had always been such, rather than growing into that power).   Like how many gods look human because they are concerned with mortal affairs, the great dragons look draconic.   What mortals can hang out with are more similar to Pern dragons, And they’re generally horse sized in body with wingspans similar to quetzalcoatlus. I’m undecided on whether they have 4 or 6 limbs.   that still leaves a powerful creature, though.  One way to balance spotlight time is to give less powerful characters more narrative control, and tools for driving social scenes, etc. Something like how Monster of The Week balances the mundane guy with the chosen one.    Another is to give the dragon character less stuff from outside their Ancestry. So less of thier power comes from Archetype, to make up for a noticeably stronger Ancestry.   Or bring up the power level of humans to match dragons! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😆" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" title="Grinning squinting face    :laughing:" data-shortname=":laughing:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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