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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8263471" data-attributes="member: 6801845">When it comes to the flight speed of dragons, you have a couple of options.  One is that the speed they have is their normal "walking" speed.  The speed that they use when they need to maneuver and engage in combat.  That gives us 9 MPH at a slow steady speed which is significantly faster than humans.But this is flying.  Assuming they glide they can probably dash/run for long periods to double their speed.  That gets you to 18 MPH.  Significantly faster than any way humans would be able to travel barring magic or technology not normally associated with D&D levels of technology.While dragons are magic and can break the sound barrier if you want them to (do they have afterburners?), I'd compare them to birds for speed.  Geese fly at around 40 MPH, albatrosses 50 MPH.  I'm discounting diving speeds of birds of prey because that's not sustainable.But what if we look at a flying creature that's even bigger?  Well, pterosaurs may have flown at 80 MPH.So all I can really say is that when doing long distance flying, they fly as fast as you want them to fly.  They're flying because of magic and can ignore the massive not particularly aerodynamic shape through the air with wings that make no sense after all.  Personally?  I'd probably put it closer to the 80 MPH for long distance travel.But when it comes to combat engagements?  Reserving enough energy to recharge breath weapons, maneuver and potentially attack?  Then it's 80 feet every 6 seconds or so.   <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" /></blockquote>

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