Comments on: D&D 4E review: DRAGONS!!!

By: Issac

Issac — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:15:24 +0000

Hey, I have a Brass in my campaign thats an intimate part of the plot.The players enjoy his prescence and find the dragons character intriguing. Besides its up to the DM to figure out what really differentiates one race from another, dropping creatures which were initally brought in by Dragonlance seems a little like a sad attempt to glam up the game. Cool names and colors don’t make good D&D, its roleplay, game play, and DM attention which make a good game. “If it ain’t broke, leave it alone.”

By: Marty Lund

Marty Lund — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:50:09 +0000

Cutting Brass and Bronze makes sense – they were just alloys of Copper anyway. Silver, Copper, and Gold were pure metallic elements. What’s worse, Bronze was higher on the hierarchy as an alloy-dragon than Copper was as a pure-metal.

Iron and Adamantine are likewise pure metallic elements, and make much more sense to include.

Seriously, I think we’ll be better off with just Copper, Iron, and Adamantine Dragons that than Copper, Copper-diluted-with-Tin, and Copper-diluted-with-Zinc Dragons.

By: The Chatty DM

The Chatty DM — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:31:30 +0000

He he he he!

Chatty Whistles innocently

By: Musings of the Chatty DM » Blog Archive » Mini-Fluff’N’Crunch: Requiem for my Bronze Friend

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:30:14 +0000

[...] That perfidious and oh so diabolical Yax has been reading all those “WotC presents” books and, through his Red Dragon comic-relief Minion Expy, has announced that our cherished Wizards on the Coast are revamping the dragons. [...]

By: The Chatty DM

The Chatty DM — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:21:42 +0000

Dragons…. color coded for your convenience…

As always Expy, you are a great comedian… that surprising considering you’re only a Red…

You are so going down too!

By: Dave T. Game

Dave T. Game — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:21:59 +0000

Yeah, Copper/Brass/Bronze are nowhere near what I’d call “an integral part of the game.” I’m running a campaign now that uses all the colors of dragon in the Monster Manual, and even I have a hard time keeping them straight as a DM. It’s bad design to have things so visually similar- they should stand out both in personality and in color.

Also, it’s insanely easy to houserule, and we’ll probably see the other colors in some kind of supplement.

By: Yax

Yax — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:13:12 +0000

The logic behind the change is that few players could actually make the difference between the 3 (copper, brass, bronze).

I have to admit I can’t really tell them apart myself. Maybe I’m too fixated on Reds.

By: Ecrodorias

Ecrodorias — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:31:46 +0000

Why drop dragons? Brass Dragons and Bronze dragons have been part of my campaign for years, okay easy to convert over I should imagine, but why not add new stuff rather than removing something thats such an integral part of the game. Most players can name the types of dragons, and in Dragonlance games especially they all have significance…