D&D General What's The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons?

pukunui · May 24, 2023

doctorhook said:
This is gonna be a kids book not a game book. Not much to see or speculate here, folks.

If it's basically the 3.5e Draconomicon without all the 3.5e crunch, that could actually be quite useful as a game reference book.

Parmandur · May 24, 2023

doctorhook said:
This is gonna be a kids book not a game book. Not much to see or speculate here, folks.

I mean, my kids may beg to differ.

doctorhook · May 24, 2023

pukunui said:
If it's basically the 3.5e Draconomicon without all the 3.5e crunch, that could actually be quite useful as a game reference book.

Yeah but based on the info above, it’s not based on the 3.5E Draconomicon, it’s just based on some previously published kids’ books. 128 page hardcover, and I bet it will be digest sized. While it will surely be a fun read, if you’re posting on these forums I’m pretty sure you won’t get much use out of these.

doctorhook · May 24, 2023

Parmandur said:
I mean, my kids may beg to differ.

Word. But kids are the target audience, not veteran gamers, right?

Parmandur · May 24, 2023

doctorhook said:
Word. But kids are the target audience, not veteran gamers, right?

For sure.

pukunui · May 24, 2023

doctorhook said:
Yeah but based on the info above, it’s not based on the 3.5E Draconomicon, it’s just based on some previously published kids’ books. 128 page hardcover, and I bet it will be digest sized. While it will surely be a fun read, if you’re posting on these forums I’m pretty sure you won’t get much use out of these.

But what if those books were also based on the 3.5e Draconomicon? I've never read them, so I wouldn't know. Dragons had different lore (and there were different combos of dragons) in the 4e era. I would think a 5e era book, regardless of its audience, would stick to 5e lore (which is closer to 3.5e lore than 4e lore).

This is, of course, all speculation. I do like the cover. That's about all I can say for now.

Parmandur · May 24, 2023

pukunui said:
But what if those books were also based on the 3.5e Draconomicon? I've never read them, so I wouldn't know. Dragons had different lore (and there were different combos of dragons) in the 4e era. I would think a 5e era book, regardless of its audience, would stick to 5e lore (which is closer to 3.5e lore than 4e lore).

This is, of course, all speculation. I do like the cover. That's about all I can say for now.

I guess these were also set in Drsgonlance, which has other lore altogether? So, weird.

Maxperson · May 24, 2023

Mercador said:
I wonder if there will be reused content from Fizban?

Probably. They haven't been shy about reusing content in prior books and Fizban's had dragon lore in it.

pukunui · May 24, 2023

Parmandur said:
I guess these were also set in Drsgonlance, which has other lore altogether? So, weird.

Huh. You're right. The fictional author, Sindri Suncatcher, is a kender. Since the first one came out in 2006, it is technically a 3.5e era book. It's the later two that came out during the 4e era.

Whizbang Dustyboots · May 24, 2023

Parmandur said:
It's a complete recycling of 3 4E era kids books, so I suppose anyone who read them could say?

I had them all. It was not a reprinting of any of the 3E dragon lore (as I recall, these books predated the 4E dragon books), beyond the fact that the same things were true and not, lore-wise.

In many cases, these books made up new, largely harmless lore, like establishing Feywild geography or elements of vampire society or breaking down verbal components for wizard magic.

These are books squarely aimed at elementary age students, and skewed a least a year younger than the current Young Adventurers Guides.