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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7485059" data-attributes="member: 57383">Anyhow, going back to the original purpose of the post overall I am very impressed by the proposed 1E stat reforms for dragons. Can we expect descriptive entries for &quot;Metallic Dragon Species&quot; and Bahamut any time soon?Your stats for <a href="https://www.enworld.org/index.php?posts/7222837/" target="_blank">Tiamat</a> make an interesting comparison to the BECMI stats for the Master Set's <a href="https://www.enworld.org/index.php?posts/7455163/" target="_blank">Dragon Rulers</a>. Their general AC, HD and attacks are in the same general ballpark - did you use them for inspiration?As for suggestions/criticisms/feedback, I'm not enamoured of the White Dragon's 8% per age category magic resistance. Using 5% graduations seems preferable, since very few AD&amp;D monsters don't have magic resistances that are not neatly divisible by 5.I'd suggest 5% for hatchlings, then 10% less than standard for older ages (i.e. 70% at age category 8 instead of the usual 80%).Just out of personal preferences, I'd have put the Adult age category at rank 6 rather than 5, since the 1E original was just above the mid-number (being 5 out of 8). That way the &quot;Young Adult&quot; and &quot;Adult&quot; lie either side of the average just as they did in the original. I'd squeeze in a &quot;Juvenile&quot; and delete the &quot;Venerable&quot; to make up the difference. Oh, and I have a soft spot for 3E's &quot;Wyrmling&quot; for a baby dragon. Fighting &quot;Hatchlings&quot; suggests your heroes are crushing some helpless thing that's just crawled out of an egg.So my preferred 10-step age category titles would be:1 Wyrmling2 Very Young3 Young4 Juvenile5 Young Adult6 Adult7 Old8 Ancient9 Wyrm10 Great Wyrm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7485059, member: 57383"] Anyhow, going back to the original purpose of the post overall I am very impressed by the proposed 1E stat reforms for dragons. Can we expect descriptive entries for "Metallic Dragon Species" and Bahamut any time soon? Your stats for [URL="https://www.enworld.org/index.php?posts/7222837/"][B]Tiamat[/B][/URL] make an interesting comparison to the BECMI stats for the Master Set's [URL="https://www.enworld.org/index.php?posts/7455163/"]Dragon Rulers[/URL]. Their general AC, HD and attacks are in the same general ballpark - did you use them for inspiration? As for suggestions/criticisms/feedback, I'm not enamoured of the White Dragon's 8% per age category magic resistance. Using 5% graduations seems preferable, since very few AD&D monsters don't have magic resistances that are not neatly divisible by 5. I'd suggest 5% for hatchlings, then 10% less than standard for older ages (i.e. 70% at age category 8 instead of the usual 80%). Just out of personal preferences, I'd have put the Adult age category at rank 6 rather than 5, since the 1E original was just above the mid-number (being 5 out of 8). That way the "Young Adult" and "Adult" lie either side of the average just as they did in the original. I'd squeeze in a "Juvenile" and delete the "Venerable" to make up the difference. Oh, and I have a soft spot for 3E's "Wyrmling" for a baby dragon. Fighting "Hatchlings" suggests your heroes are crushing some helpless thing that's just crawled out of an egg. So my preferred 10-step age category titles would be: 1 Wyrmling 2 Very Young 3 Young 4 Juvenile 5 Young Adult 6 Adult 7 Old 8 Ancient 9 Wyrm 10 Great Wyrm [/QUOTE]

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