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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7872233" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>So, the first thing I did and something I will never reverse, is I stopped using the color code for dragons. In part, that is also because I wanted to move away from alignment for dragons, but when a dragon lands in front of a village I don't want everyone to say "oh, that's a silver one, no need to worry they're friendly" before I even say anything. </p><p></p><p>And if the silver attacked it would immediately be "Strange" and probably the work of some dark force corrupting or blackmailing it. </p><p></p><p>And, frankly, if I am working a plot like that, I don't want players to figure it out from the word go. I want there to be mystery. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Additionally, I don't like just describing them as lizards. Instead, I often describe them as elementals. The dragon isn't red with crimson scales, it is a creature of stone with lines of lava burning through it's heart and causing to it glow from the inside. Every step catches the ground alight in flame. They are just so much more viscerally obvious to be primordial forces of destruction if you describe them exactly like primordial forces. Volcanoes, glaciers, storms, you can get more out of that then the base dragon gets you I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7872233, member: 6801228"] So, the first thing I did and something I will never reverse, is I stopped using the color code for dragons. In part, that is also because I wanted to move away from alignment for dragons, but when a dragon lands in front of a village I don't want everyone to say "oh, that's a silver one, no need to worry they're friendly" before I even say anything. And if the silver attacked it would immediately be "Strange" and probably the work of some dark force corrupting or blackmailing it. And, frankly, if I am working a plot like that, I don't want players to figure it out from the word go. I want there to be mystery. Additionally, I don't like just describing them as lizards. Instead, I often describe them as elementals. The dragon isn't red with crimson scales, it is a creature of stone with lines of lava burning through it's heart and causing to it glow from the inside. Every step catches the ground alight in flame. They are just so much more viscerally obvious to be primordial forces of destruction if you describe them exactly like primordial forces. Volcanoes, glaciers, storms, you can get more out of that then the base dragon gets you I think. [/QUOTE]
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