Comments on: Star Crossed Dragons

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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:33:05 +0000

[...] many millennia, during this time it is possible for dragons to have some unlikely relationships. The Pink, Cyan and Rose Gold dragons are not the only crossbred dragons that have been recorded throughout the ages. Here are a couple [...]

By: Xaos Bob

Xaos Bob — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:12:41 +0000

Fairly recently, I sprang a gelatinous cube vampire on some players…

Relating to dragons, though, I have used a green/red hybrid, striped like a psychedelic tiger and breathing a cloud of inflammable vapor, and her mate, a red/white hybrid patched like a Holstein who breathed alcohol-based sleet. Both breath weapons self-ignited one round after being breathed. Ah, the looks on the players’ faces when that happened, right after the “Well, that wasn’t so bad” moment was past.

One idea that I statted up but that never made it to my table was a little absinthe (green/faerie) that breathed a poisonous cloud (a zone, in 4e parlance) that made you not care you were dying… ;)

I have also used an orange dragon (red/yellow…ah, Second Ed days) who breathed a stream of molten glass, and a lapis dragon (blue/sapphire) that blasted thunder and lightning. My ~piece de resistance~, however, was not a dragon, but an Alien Queen who had incubated in a red dragon, gaining draconic form (including wing-powered flight), a napalm breath weapon (acid + fire)…and fire immunity. My players loved it, their characters weren’t as excited.

BIG fan of dragon crossbreeds and the possibilities for their breath weapons even from my earliest days DMing.

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:29:54 +0000

@Scott If you figure out a great way to use time travel then I’d say cash in on that cash cow. :D

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:26:16 +0000

@Tyson, i haven’t used the mechanic in game as i haven’t had need to yet. During play testing it comes across as just an interesting way to recieve more turns. Perhaps one day i’ll devise a known game breaking and fun to use time travel method. When i do i’ll travel back to this point in time and let you know what it is.

Scott

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:40:21 +0000

@Scott Have you ever used this in a game? If so how did your players react to the idea?

It does fix the problem of not breaking the game, but it does lack a certain flair to the entire time travel motif and really act as powerful boots of haste.

@Megan I think your own to something with the cross breeding dragons being like mules, it’d be a good explanation why you can’t find to many of them (ie not cataloged in the monster manual).