Web Enhancement for White Plume Mountain

[SWBaxter]

It's just, as Nightfall said, that the "first" Dragotha (the Dragon 134/AoW one) is more interesting. He's unique. He has a history and unique abilities. This Dragotha's pretty bland. Well, as bland as a dracolich can be, really.

IIRC, the first time the Dracolich was statted up - in a Dragon article sometime in the 1980s - the author noted that he was directly inspired by the Dragotha note on the White Plume Mountain map. So the "first" Dragotha actually was a "bland" Dracolich. And so the circle of... well, something... is complete.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wouldn't say that Fiendish Codex I has been wholeheartedly embraced by the people most twitchy about D&D "continuity." I think they've mostly been drowned out, though, other than the freefloating CR stuff.

 

[demiurge1138]

I wouldn't say that Fiendish Codex I has been wholeheartedly embraced by the people most twitchy about D&D "continuity." I think they've mostly been drowned out, though, other than the freefloating CR stuff.

I was thinking more of the "Into the Abyss" chapter than the Demon Prince CRs. We'll see world peace and all diseases eradicated before everyone's happy on that subject.

 

[Robbastard]

Why should we have to be limited to one interpretation of the dragon Dragotha? Neither of the two options contradicts the original source (the original White Plume Mountain) in any way. Either is a legitimate use for the undead dragon marked on the map.

Options are good, instead of some unnecessary reference to an artificial "canon."

Different interpretations are fine for your own campaign, but some of us expect the publisher to have some respect for continuity. Dragotha has been described as a red dragon for almost 20 years, and now some writer decides to throw continuity out the window and make him a black dragon? And Ctenmiir is made into a dwarf (despite the accompanying illustration which shows him looking very un-dwarflike), all for a tenuous connection to link him to Whelm? Pfft!

What next, are we to be treated to some alternate "interpretation" of Driz'zt that makes him a gnome? Or how about Elminster as a firenewt monk, or Raistlen as a goblin bard?

 

[JoeGKushner]

Didn't Dragotha wind up in the Forgotten Realms at one point?

Continuity can be a strange thing.