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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 6936078" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>I don't see a book totally dedicated to dragons in 5e. Why? Just look at its 3e counterpart in the <em>Draconomicon</em>.</p><p></p><p><em>Draconomicon</em> is 288 pages, which is fairly substantially more than Volo's at 224. So, why not just prune some of the extraneous stuff and get it down to Volo's size? Simple - the book is <em>mostly</em> extraneous stuff! There are:</p><p></p><p>12 pages of dragon prestige classes (not in 5e)</p><p>19 pages of dragon feats, spells, and magic items (massively reduced in 5e)</p><p>13 pages of PC prestige classes (not in 5e, but some subclass types could take up a few pages)</p><p>18 pages of PC feats, spells, and magic items. (massively reduced in 5e)</p><p>and... a <em>whopping 77 pages</em> of examples of dragons of each type and age category. (age categories of which today we only have 4 of, not 12)</p><p></p><p>There are also several redundant dragons in the monster section (dracolich, faerie dragons. shadow dragon), as well as, well, just too many dragon-type creatures, to the point of draconic overkill.</p><p></p><p></p><p>What would be useful would be (although even here, some bloat could be cut):</p><p></p><p>51 pages on draconic lore.</p><p>9 pages on how to run dragons as a DM</p><p>12 pages on dragonish stuff for PCs (how to fight them, options for dragons as mounts/cohorts and even characters)</p><p></p><p>The monster section is 53 pages, let's say 30-ish or so is quality enough to update to 5e, and then throw in 15 more for the gem dragons not in the book. </p><p></p><p>So that gets us to about 120 pages, if one doesn't cut some out some of the extraneous lore. One could add in a few more pages of lore for the missing gem dragons, and then a few pages more detailing specific dragons, but to get to 224 pages of quality stuff is going to be hard. I'd much rather see a dragon book combined with some other concept to fill out a full book of quality, than have just a dragon book with 1/3 - 1/2 of filler material.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 6936078, member: 6801060"] I don't see a book totally dedicated to dragons in 5e. Why? Just look at its 3e counterpart in the [I]Draconomicon[/I]. [I]Draconomicon[/I] is 288 pages, which is fairly substantially more than Volo's at 224. So, why not just prune some of the extraneous stuff and get it down to Volo's size? Simple - the book is [I]mostly[/I] extraneous stuff! There are: 12 pages of dragon prestige classes (not in 5e) 19 pages of dragon feats, spells, and magic items (massively reduced in 5e) 13 pages of PC prestige classes (not in 5e, but some subclass types could take up a few pages) 18 pages of PC feats, spells, and magic items. (massively reduced in 5e) and... a [I]whopping 77 pages[/I] of examples of dragons of each type and age category. (age categories of which today we only have 4 of, not 12) There are also several redundant dragons in the monster section (dracolich, faerie dragons. shadow dragon), as well as, well, just too many dragon-type creatures, to the point of draconic overkill. What would be useful would be (although even here, some bloat could be cut): 51 pages on draconic lore. 9 pages on how to run dragons as a DM 12 pages on dragonish stuff for PCs (how to fight them, options for dragons as mounts/cohorts and even characters) The monster section is 53 pages, let's say 30-ish or so is quality enough to update to 5e, and then throw in 15 more for the gem dragons not in the book. So that gets us to about 120 pages, if one doesn't cut some out some of the extraneous lore. One could add in a few more pages of lore for the missing gem dragons, and then a few pages more detailing specific dragons, but to get to 224 pages of quality stuff is going to be hard. I'd much rather see a dragon book combined with some other concept to fill out a full book of quality, than have just a dragon book with 1/3 - 1/2 of filler material. [/QUOTE]
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