D&D General Thoughts about Purple Dragon Knights

[Zardnaar]

Amethysts are purple, ergo they are purple dragons, just not Purple dragons. And the original purple dragon wasn't a Purple dragon either, it was a Black dragon.

Aware. The PDKs are military order. Dragonrider tie in is stupid imho.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Aware. The PDKs are military order. Dragonrider tie in is stupid imho.

It’s currently popular, in the way pseudo-medieval knights were 40 years ago. Ditching the dragonrider subclass was stupid imo.

 

[pawsplay]

Sometimes I'm really disappointed by the literal-mindedness of the D&D designers, and really reductive ideas about creating color and themes. Purple Dragon Knights are military order, not a bunch of fighters with pet dragons. This reminds me of when in 3e they took away Heironeous's association with the battle axe and gave him a longsword, because he was associated with paladins and paladins often... use longswords? Or in 4e when they made driders just another drow type, and not outcasts cursed by Lolth to create fear in her people.

I'm not saying the game can't change or there is anything sacred about any given piece of lore, but every time you change something completely, you throw out all the work done up to that point. I don't see a fair trade when you give up the PDK classic archetype in order to introduce a subclass that is weird and kind of doesn't work.