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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7488435" data-attributes="member: 57383">I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree them. I'm happy to have older dragons of the same HD and HP do more damage than younger ones, just not as much more as in this version.Well in principle I would have no objection to a &quot;Unified Dragon Table&quot;, although I'd add way more differentiation options than breath weapon type (Like Spellcasting, Flight, Natural Weapon Options, Venom, Corrosive/Poisonous Blood, etc.).There are way too many &quot;species&quot; of dragon in AD&amp;D. It' might have been better to have a single race of &quot;Dragons&quot; that was mutable enough to come in many different forms.Come to think of it, the original OD&amp;D version was somewhat like that, with a single Dragons entry covering &quot;six varieties of Dragons&quot;.Glad you like that idea.It might require dropping the +1/dice damage bonus for Huge Dragons to avoid an excessive fixed-point boost.Actually that reminds me, I'm looking askance at the Small Dragons doing the same breath weapon damage as the normal sized ones. I'd have been more inclined to reduce it slightly. Maybe knock off a single dice or, if it's a hatchling, reduce the dice size by one (i.e. an Adult Small White does 4d6 instead of 4d8 and a Hatchling Small White 1d4).That feels a bit feeble though.Wanting Great Wyrms to have breath weapons that are harder to save against than a Hatchling's, obviously. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7488435, member: 57383"] I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree them. I'm happy to have older dragons of the same HD and HP do more damage than younger ones, just not as much more as in this version. Well in principle I would have no objection to a "Unified Dragon Table", although I'd add way more differentiation options than breath weapon type (Like Spellcasting, Flight, Natural Weapon Options, Venom, Corrosive/Poisonous Blood, etc.). There are way too many "species" of dragon in AD&D. It' might have been better to have a single race of "Dragons" that was mutable enough to come in many different forms. Come to think of it, the original OD&D version was somewhat like that, with a single Dragons entry covering "six varieties of Dragons". Glad you like that idea. It might require dropping the +1/dice damage bonus for Huge Dragons to avoid an excessive fixed-point boost. Actually that reminds me, I'm looking askance at the Small Dragons doing the same breath weapon damage as the normal sized ones. I'd have been more inclined to reduce it slightly. Maybe knock off a single dice or, if it's a hatchling, reduce the dice size by one (i.e. an Adult Small White does 4d6 instead of 4d8 and a Hatchling Small White 1d4). That feels a bit feeble though. Wanting Great Wyrms to have breath weapons that are harder to save against than a Hatchling's, obviously. :p [/QUOTE]

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