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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7489550" data-attributes="member: 4937">The metallic write ups are nearing completion.  I'm asking for feedback a bit early because I'm less happy with them than the chromatics, and in particular I think the Brass write up is inspired but I'm much less enthusiastic about the other ones.A bit of background, I've never actually used a metallic dragon in game, and I've not really been happy with how metallics played out in settings where I was the player, or with any of the lore I'd seen built around them (mechanically or in its write up).  I've just never seen the point of them - why do we need good dragons and what role would they have in a story where the PC's are protagonists?   (I've often speculated that the good dragons were actually intended to be the oriental dragons in a lose way, before becoming their own thing when oriental dragons were considered more closely.)   In fact, my lack of use for metallics has led me from time to time to think about officially establishing within my setting that they don't in fact exist.  Indeed, the only metallic I'd ever considered in my setting is the rogue bronze that serves the Slaad Lord Ylorg, and while it is interesting that that creature may have a noble ulterior motive for doing so, it's such deep dark lore of my setting and so relatively unimportant that I didn't think it necessary worth including metallics in the setting.So I'm probably not the best person to do the write up.That said, the concept that I decided on using works I think brilliantly for the Brass dragon, to the extent that for the first time I'm actually trending in favor of 'metallic dragons actually exist in the world of Sartha'.  Big things:1) I'm not nearly as happy with the innate power selections for most of the metallics as I am for the Chromatics and the Brass dragon.  Any suggestions would be appreciated, though in 1e the possible spells that are core are pretty limited.  The more I worked on them, the harder it was to capture the ideas.  The Silver and Gold are particularly weak I think.2) I don't like the 'Heal' power associated with the ancient Silver dragon in part because Heal is and was a broken spell (even with its 1 round casting time), and wonder if it should be made 'Heal Other' or changed to some other spell the captures the idea.3) I'm not certain how much text to copy over from the chromatics write up.  Have I copied enough to be clear?</blockquote>

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