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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3794220" data-attributes="member: 40961">I doubt basic dragon design will change.I wish it would.  Honestly, D&D dragons suck.  They're a horrible hybrid of western "big rampaging animal" dragons with norse "ancient lizard that slumbers on a pile of gold" dragons and with eastern "ancient magical shapechanging spellcasting being which intervenes in the lot of mankind" dragons.By schmooshing every possible type of dragon into one critter, then allowing your design work to be guided by the color wheel, dragons have become the least evocative monster (to me) in all of D&D.If I ruled WOTC for a day, the first thing I'd do is separate out the dragon archetypes into different dragons.  I'd be guided in dragon design by archetype, not by a box of crayons.</blockquote>