D&D General What if every dragon was unique?
- Thread starter bedir than
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Found my charts
Scale/Eye Color
Scale/Eye Color
| Roll (D12) | Scale/Eye Color | Immunity/Breath weapon |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | Acid |
| 2 | Blue | Lightning |
| 3 | Brass | Fire |
| 4 | Bronze | Lightning |
| 5 | Brown | Piercing |
| 6 | Copper | Acid |
| 7 | Gold | Fire |
| 8 | Green | Poison |
| 9 | Iron | Slashing |
| 10 | Red | Fire |
| 11 | Silver | Cold |
| 12 | White | Cold |
| Roll (d8) | Eye Shape | Breath Shape |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 | Large Slit | Cone |
| 4-6 | Narrow Slit | Line |
| 7 | Circular | Crossbreed Ball |
| 8 | Rectangular | Crossbreed Ray |
| Roll (d6) | # of horns | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | Ambusher |
| 2-3 | 1 | Range/Artillery |
| 4-5 | 2 | Melee/Fighter |
| 6 | 3 | Caster |
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
In my game/world, there different types of beings called dragons.
Leviathan is a dragon, and is essentially a god.
Nidhogg is believed by many to be Tiamat, which makes her both a dragon and one of the greatest gods.
The Red Dragon (of Wales) is a powerful being on par with less powerful gods, as are the divine dragons of Asia.
These beings are singular, and beyond the ability of any mortal to effect in any way outside supplication or negotiation or outwitting, and even a group of extremely powerful PCs can only ever diminish their power, banish them from the mortal worlds for a time, stuff like that.
Then there are dragons of places and such that are more like…corporeal land spirits. Like a dryad but it’s a dragon.
Lastly there are mortal dragons which are closely related to the “spirit” dragons but are fully mortal, and can take an appearance that can pass for other mortal races. Not like D&D dragonborn, but way more variable and individually unique.
The lesser dragons are just as individual as the greater, varying in number of limbs, whether they have wings, and often reflecting an environment or element or having feline or canine facial features and fur, or crystalline spines, or being naturally covered in moss and/or growing branches and leaves like those of a willow or fern or other plant. Some have hide that seems stony, some leathery or furry, or bark like, and others have metallic scales.
Leviathan is a dragon, and is essentially a god.
Nidhogg is believed by many to be Tiamat, which makes her both a dragon and one of the greatest gods.
The Red Dragon (of Wales) is a powerful being on par with less powerful gods, as are the divine dragons of Asia.
These beings are singular, and beyond the ability of any mortal to effect in any way outside supplication or negotiation or outwitting, and even a group of extremely powerful PCs can only ever diminish their power, banish them from the mortal worlds for a time, stuff like that.
Then there are dragons of places and such that are more like…corporeal land spirits. Like a dryad but it’s a dragon.
Lastly there are mortal dragons which are closely related to the “spirit” dragons but are fully mortal, and can take an appearance that can pass for other mortal races. Not like D&D dragonborn, but way more variable and individually unique.
The lesser dragons are just as individual as the greater, varying in number of limbs, whether they have wings, and often reflecting an environment or element or having feline or canine facial features and fur, or crystalline spines, or being naturally covered in moss and/or growing branches and leaves like those of a willow or fern or other plant. Some have hide that seems stony, some leathery or furry, or bark like, and others have metallic scales.
kermit4karate
A strong opinion is still only an opinion.
This is so cool. Nice work.
Voadam
Legend
The Core 3.5 MM gives you five chromatics, five metallics, dragon turtle, dragonne, pseudodragon, and wyvern.
The 3.5 Draconomicon gives you eight elemental drakes, faerie dragon, fang dragon, felldrake, nine landwyrms, ten planar dragons, shadow dragon, the squamous spewer, and the storm drake.
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Voadam
Legend
I expect WotC feel Fizban's Treasury of Dragons has got them covered for that topic area.
zarionofarabel
Hero
Sounds like a nice menu of powerful monsters that I could use as unique individuals! Heck, I could even use the pseudodragon as an individual, perhaps as a previously gigantic dragon like the others, that was "shrunken" by a powerful wizard! Nice!!!
They might need a Takhisis's Horde of Dragons book.....
