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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6931367" data-attributes="member: 6701872">The role of dragons in my game differs frequently.Sometimes they are barely more than animals that have a deadly cunning, a spoken language, and a lust for wealth that draws other greedy beings into their orbit as worshipers or subservient users (trading doing stuff for the dragon's benefit for, hopefully, protection and/or wealth from the dragon).Fairly often they are the last lingering vestiges of an ancient time of splendor and magical power - rare, and hiding out to try and outlast their enemies (metallics vs. chromatics) as the last ditch effort to "win" the war that is directly responsible for their all around dwindling numbers. These sort are also often willing to impart potent items or "forgotten" knowledge to adventurers they take a liking to, and often functionally hire on other creatures to protect their lair against treasure-hungry adventurers and their other enemies.In one campaign the role they serve is two-part. The first being that a clutch of five silver dragon siblings are companion-mounts to the party, renewing the ancient and lost tradition of the Dwarves (and in this case their allies) riding into battle on the backs of allied dragons to fight in the name of Law and Good. The second part being the most powerful known form of intelligent life, representing a great source of power to turn toward a cause (which is largely serving as a foil to the opposition in the campaign involving a cult that worships ancient undead dragons and seeks to end all existence, so I guess maybe you could say the role of dragons is three-part, with the third part being "to let me use these cool minis I got from the Bones kickstarter").And I'm also not opposed to using settings in which the role of dragons is something entirely different (like how in Dark Sun, a dragon is more of what a high-level wizard can become than it is a different species of creature), or even non-existent or undefined because there either aren't any dragons or as-of-campaign start no one has heard of such a thing as a dragon even though they do exist somewhere out in the world.</blockquote>

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