ichabod
Legned
The Re-Loring thread made me think of the changes I am planning for dragons in my world. It also made me wonder if and how other people have redone dragons in D&D.
This is how I am redoing dragons: Dragons hatch out of eggs as generic "unformed" drakes. They go out and find a territory they like, and adapt to it. So you have grass drakes, forest drakes, swamp drakes, and so on. After about a century, a drake sheds its skin and emerges as one of the types of primal dragon: air, earth, fire, or water. The fire dragons are like traditional red dragons. The water dragons are more like sea serpents. The air dragons are more like Chinese dragons (lions head, snake body with small legs, flies without wings). The earth dragons have no wings, six legs, and can burrow like a purple worm. After a few more centuries a primal dragon can shed its skin and emerge as an elder wyrm. Elder wyrms are completely unique creatures with their own forms and special abilities.
If you have redone dragons in D&D, how have you done it?
This is how I am redoing dragons: Dragons hatch out of eggs as generic "unformed" drakes. They go out and find a territory they like, and adapt to it. So you have grass drakes, forest drakes, swamp drakes, and so on. After about a century, a drake sheds its skin and emerges as one of the types of primal dragon: air, earth, fire, or water. The fire dragons are like traditional red dragons. The water dragons are more like sea serpents. The air dragons are more like Chinese dragons (lions head, snake body with small legs, flies without wings). The earth dragons have no wings, six legs, and can burrow like a purple worm. After a few more centuries a primal dragon can shed its skin and emerge as an elder wyrm. Elder wyrms are completely unique creatures with their own forms and special abilities.
If you have redone dragons in D&D, how have you done it?