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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9361218" data-attributes="member: 984">I very distinctly remember 2e dragons.  Hitting the gym and getting their stats/power bumped really turned them into foes to remember as compared to their 1e incarnations!  Suddenly the big name on the front of the book really meant something.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And then there were the specific rules for FR, where their breath weapons were (if memory serves) based on their HP, and they could deal up to that amount per day... including all at once, if they wanted to.  Brutal.I remember on the whole liking the look/artwork of the dragons as done in 3e.  (Though I haven't revisited them recently.)Total agreement that 4e had the most interesting and flavourful dragons when it came to their use in encounters, moving away from "scaly sorcerers with big teeth" to foes that not only used their environment, but they WERE the environment, coupled with so many interesting and tactical things to do.  And that also made them tie more into the world/elemental cosmology.5e is a step back from 4e, but fortunately not as flat as 3e when it comes to using them.  And regardless of any edition or any game, there is the red dragon painting to rule them all, that I had on my wall for many years (and still have the poster):  <a href="https://www.keithparkinson.com/product/the-great-red-dragon-photo-stock-print-copy/" target="_blank">THE GREAT RED DRAGON – Glossy Photo Print</a>  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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