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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 255553" data-attributes="member: 2020">I have not perused Earthdawn, and know only a little about Shadowrun ... but I see your point, Reprisal.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Dragons are sometimes portrayed, even in D&D, as being social beings who can and will assume human or demihuman (or humanoid) form.   Thus, dragons can intermingle within the human and demihuman societies as they see fit to do.  With their wealth, intelligence, and innate powers, one would expect dragons to do for themselves pretty well in such a case.  Also, if a dragon has a human or demihuman (or humanoid) familiar, this gives the dragon an extra edge in blending in to the appropriate society in question.  However, I was using the old portrayal of the lone dragon on his treasure hoard.  I hope that all the dragons who live alone and in draconic form only do not become extinct, giving way to the social dragons who know how to mingle with the humans!  I suppose that might happen in an evolutionary what-if.  As for comparing dragons with elves:  there are generally more elves than dragons (unless, of course, Forrester kills them all as he did in the 1st IR.)  The elves, in a rare instance, actually have more bodies to throw into a combat than another race, and have the advantage thus, or so it would seem (I'd take the breath weapon and draconic magic over numbers, but that's me.)</blockquote>

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