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<blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6180651" data-attributes="member: 3192"><p>Greens</p><p>"wily, seductive, manipulative, controlling, scheming, and subtle." </p><p>Greens sound like a cat and mouse encounter and we're the mice. My read of the write up defines them as liars and controllers of others, environmental manifesters, and maze-lovers in forests. Plus a very specific lair dungeon created by the dragon.</p><p></p><p>I'd say these aren't just green dragons, there are a different species of dragon, as all dragons are. Greens have the D&D common, back leg heavy, front leg small, bat-winged dragon bodies. Slimmer than any others with a full body webbed crest, I see them as more agile than other dragons, perhaps faster than most upon the ground, especially for winding through treed terrain.</p><p></p><p>The MM says those old enough to talk can cast spells, older ones becoming pretty good at it. Also, "they are very nasty tempered and thoroughly evil." I suggest they are primarily forest creatures. They use the foliage cover to their advantage, roam less far than other dragons, fly very low over tree tops to avoid being seen, are colored for camouflage from above as well as within trees. I think they prefer clean, natural environments, not wet ones like their black scaled cousins or built up areas like cities, even abandoned ones. I'd think they'd more often bathe in the sunlight upon a massive tree branch than lair underground, as the MM says, but maybe that's where they nest and hide their treasures? A dug tunnel lair under the forest.</p><p></p><p>They enjoy living things, even if it is to hunt things down and eat them. I'd suggest they have voracious appetites like all dragons and their territory is hunted pretty thin after awhile. Like any dragon they don't like intruders and will spy them out when wandering. That means all other animals are food supply in their territory and probably known to the dragon. I like to think of greens as diurnal rather than nocturnal, wandering encounter times depending on the sun and weather. Mating is likely to drive lone greens to explore other portions of a forest or other forests altogether. Pairs almost certainly have larger den lairs, especially after young are born. Colonies may exist in large enough forests, but only deep inside wilder ones, away from dangerous dungeons, cities, or other powerful forest creatures like treants.</p><p></p><p>Wow, that's a lot. I guess I'll post later on blacks, which live in a far less hospitable environment (higher level terrain challenge).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="howandwhy99, post: 6180651, member: 3192"] Greens "wily, seductive, manipulative, controlling, scheming, and subtle." Greens sound like a cat and mouse encounter and we're the mice. My read of the write up defines them as liars and controllers of others, environmental manifesters, and maze-lovers in forests. Plus a very specific lair dungeon created by the dragon. I'd say these aren't just green dragons, there are a different species of dragon, as all dragons are. Greens have the D&D common, back leg heavy, front leg small, bat-winged dragon bodies. Slimmer than any others with a full body webbed crest, I see them as more agile than other dragons, perhaps faster than most upon the ground, especially for winding through treed terrain. The MM says those old enough to talk can cast spells, older ones becoming pretty good at it. Also, "they are very nasty tempered and thoroughly evil." I suggest they are primarily forest creatures. They use the foliage cover to their advantage, roam less far than other dragons, fly very low over tree tops to avoid being seen, are colored for camouflage from above as well as within trees. I think they prefer clean, natural environments, not wet ones like their black scaled cousins or built up areas like cities, even abandoned ones. I'd think they'd more often bathe in the sunlight upon a massive tree branch than lair underground, as the MM says, but maybe that's where they nest and hide their treasures? A dug tunnel lair under the forest. They enjoy living things, even if it is to hunt things down and eat them. I'd suggest they have voracious appetites like all dragons and their territory is hunted pretty thin after awhile. Like any dragon they don't like intruders and will spy them out when wandering. That means all other animals are food supply in their territory and probably known to the dragon. I like to think of greens as diurnal rather than nocturnal, wandering encounter times depending on the sun and weather. Mating is likely to drive lone greens to explore other portions of a forest or other forests altogether. Pairs almost certainly have larger den lairs, especially after young are born. Colonies may exist in large enough forests, but only deep inside wilder ones, away from dangerous dungeons, cities, or other powerful forest creatures like treants. Wow, that's a lot. I guess I'll post later on blacks, which live in a far less hospitable environment (higher level terrain challenge). [/QUOTE]
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