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Shapeshifting dragons - only metallic?
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<blockquote data-quote="The Grassy Gnoll" data-source="post: 6807550" data-attributes="member: 6788652"><p>If from the earliest days of d&d there were 6 types of dragon, 5 chromatic and baddies and only the 1 metallic being a goodie, the shape change ability allows the gold dragon to be mega rare and also an npc advisor/mentor while shape changed; all a bit mysterious and exotic, more spiritual/knowledge-hoarding than sat atop a pile of gold. </p><p></p><p>I've never been a fan of brass dragons. What next? Tin? Aluminium? Please.</p><p></p><p>I dont bother with any other metallic dragon than gold, for flavour purposes.</p><p></p><p>In the event of a dragon war, the scattered and hidden gold dragons would be hopelessly outnumbered by the chromatic ones, and thus they make themselves known to other races in order to help them fight the evil dragon army. Adventure hook! </p><p></p><p>Were chromatics inmate shape changers they'd all be kings or tyrants or tax collectors and wouldn't Smaug it up in a cave somewhere. That in itself might be a nice premise for a campaign world, though there may also be a concurrent development in dragon/shapechanger identification magic or artefacts. </p><p></p><p>If you allow chromatics to be innate shape changers I'd nerf the ability a little - time limit, perhaps longer than an hour, and a higher reveal threshold: say, up to 12 hours and requires 12 hours rest before they can shape change again, and they need to sustain 10% (young), 20% (adult), or 33% (ancient) of their total HP before the need to check for dropping the shape change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Grassy Gnoll, post: 6807550, member: 6788652"] If from the earliest days of d&d there were 6 types of dragon, 5 chromatic and baddies and only the 1 metallic being a goodie, the shape change ability allows the gold dragon to be mega rare and also an npc advisor/mentor while shape changed; all a bit mysterious and exotic, more spiritual/knowledge-hoarding than sat atop a pile of gold. I've never been a fan of brass dragons. What next? Tin? Aluminium? Please. I dont bother with any other metallic dragon than gold, for flavour purposes. In the event of a dragon war, the scattered and hidden gold dragons would be hopelessly outnumbered by the chromatic ones, and thus they make themselves known to other races in order to help them fight the evil dragon army. Adventure hook! Were chromatics inmate shape changers they'd all be kings or tyrants or tax collectors and wouldn't Smaug it up in a cave somewhere. That in itself might be a nice premise for a campaign world, though there may also be a concurrent development in dragon/shapechanger identification magic or artefacts. If you allow chromatics to be innate shape changers I'd nerf the ability a little - time limit, perhaps longer than an hour, and a higher reveal threshold: say, up to 12 hours and requires 12 hours rest before they can shape change again, and they need to sustain 10% (young), 20% (adult), or 33% (ancient) of their total HP before the need to check for dropping the shape change. [/QUOTE]
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