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Strange Dragons

There's a fun article about D&D's weirdest dragons.

#1) Seems obvious to me. It's not a substance. It's a vibration in spacetime. Think about how humans whistle by creating a wind tunnel. Now imagine that a dragon could do that with spacetime.

Your best attacks would logically be trying to knock out its front teeth, or having the thief stand back and lob peanut-butter crackers at its mouth.

#2) Somebody really needs to make a lich out of that, because then you would have a zombie brain-stealing dragon. :D

#3) Hey, every species has some neurovariant people who can't stop talking about that one thing they're really passionate about. No need to make fun of them.

#5) Kind of reminds me of karma tribbles, who are attracted to negative karma and instantly balance it, which makes bad people suddenly have hellishly bad luck. And if you thought tribbles were trouble, they also come in bear and mammoth size.

#6) The "classy" version of copper dragons is the Magnificent Bastard. You know, kind of like Sherlock Holmes. Which kind of makes me want to add a kobold Watson or something like that.

#8) In my fantasy world of Hallelaine, it's the raspberry dragons that breathe intoxicating fumes. They're small dragons with extremely thick nubbled hide, they eat fruit, and that means they're in competition with big cranky bears. So it's mostly a defensive weapon. Still hilarious when it hits a party and the badass fighter starts seeing pink elephants.

10) So he's kind of like Ogun, capable of possessing a new mount if his current one dies. We're gonna need a lot of salt.

11) And thus very easily distracted with the right kind of bait. We've got one Goth virgin, one giant obsidian mirror, and a pack of clove cigarettes. Hit it!

12) Magpies. We kill it with magpies.

13) This is basically what I did with all the dragons in A Conflagration of Dragons. They use metals and other elements to make armored skin, tough claws, breath weapons, eggshells, all kinds of stuff. The different colors are not separate species but color phases, based on which elements an individual dragon's body uses most efficiently. It's kind of like how some dune grasses use silica to make themselves inedible, or monarch butterflies taste awful by borrowing milkweed compounds. So that's why the dragons are going after treasure all the time.

14) Tch. They would more properly be called Teflon Dragons. They simply exist in all dimensions, so from the bottom of a temporal gravity well it looks like they age randomly. But it's kind of like how a spiral intersecting a 2D world looks like a small circle going in a loop. You're only seeing a fragment of something much larger whose organization doesn't fit into your space.

15)
For my wings are made of tungsten,
and my flesh is glass and steel,
I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield.
Once upon a lifetime, I died a pioneer,
Now I sing within a spaceship's heart,
Does anybody hear?

brithistorian

February 28 2015, 18:35:00 UTC 6 years ago

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I especially liked this comment: http://io9.com/that-dragon-is-magnificent-i-especially-love-the-way-t-1688507151

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technoshaman

February 28 2015, 21:01:15 UTC 6 years ago

GYAAAAAH! I thought RDJ was bad going meta...

February 28 2015, 21:11:17 UTC 6 years ago

RDJ?

February 28 2015, 22:16:19 UTC 6 years ago

Robert Downey Jr.

Frame one: Captain America: The dress is BLUE.
Frame two: Tony Stark: The dress is WHITE.
Frame three: promo for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR.
(Implying that a simple disagreement over colour leads to Bad Things. )

March 1 2015, 00:04:22 UTC 6 years ago

Ah! Thanks for the explanation.

February 28 2015, 21:00:26 UTC 6 years ago

I saw what you did there, meme-checking the Blues Brothers!

What's the last verse from?

Try this ...

ysabetwordsmith

February 28 2015, 23:00:08 UTC 6 years ago

>>I saw what you did there, meme-checking the Blues Brothers! <<

Yay!

>> What's the last verse from? <<

"The Phoenix"

fayanora

March 1 2015, 01:50:25 UTC 6 years ago

On my main fantasy planet Orion, there was a species of dragon that had adamantium armor. Since adamantium is a pseudo-matter element comprised of solid magic, they just plain grew it using magic that was already floating around in the environment. But their armor and their vicious nature got them hunted to extinction. The only one left, after a fashion, is the spirit of the last one killed which haunts an evil sword called Belfrek, that someone fashioned from his armor. The sword kills anyone who tries to wield it, unless the wielder is an Elf. It was an Elf that killed his body and made Belfrek, so the sword likes to make Elves murder their own kind.