Everybody wins!īut before we get underway, I want to establish a few ground rules about how this thread is going to operate.įirst Rule of Dragon Club: Do not talk about Kobolds. Many of the tricks here could also be used by DMs to spice up Dragon encounters and enhance Dragon NPCs, and I’ll be adding some stuff specific to dragon encounters at the end. Nothing ruins your concept of an awesome dragon like having that dragon suck, so I’m going to do my utmost to ensure that doesn’t happen.
Because I agree that dragons are awesome, and want to help out those who want to take that awesomeness to its logical conclusion in their builds. Instead of giving the same limited advice over and over again, this Handbook aims to compile the various things that dragons can pull off and do well into one place, and to give a more in depth look into these options.
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And yet, dragons remain awesome, so every week or so, we get a thread here from someone who wants to know how to make a playable one. These things tend to make them unplayable. Because dragons are so awesome they have a bunch of HD in order to make them more difficult for PCs to kill, and have a bunch of extra abilities beyond those of the standard races, which translate into high LA. Vaz made the Spyro build from Iron Chef XLV, which drew my attention to the Divine Conversion PrCs.ġ23456789blaaa made it possible for me to add the Ferrous dragon varieties to the big list o' dragons.ĭragons are awesome. Thethird has offered up a huge number of useful suggestions for this guide. Reshy discussed a number of things pertaining to the handbook with me at length and wrote homebrew racial classes for most/all dragon varieties. Using the class, he also provided an improved version of a standard Steel Loredrake gish from the one I had previously, which required an age curse, though I did introduce a few tweaks. RelentlessImp called my attention to Dragonslayer as a way to meet weapon proficiency prereqs for dragon gishes. OMG Ponies provided the rules citation for the counterargument to the RAW legality of taking Racial Substitution Levels out of order. Mattie_p made a number of suggestions and explanations which have made this into a better resource for working with and around the dragon aging rules. Larkas made it possible for me to add the Orange, Purple, and Yellow dragon varieties to the list of dragons. JaronK has been generally forthcoming with helpful knowledge. Karnith also called my attention to the Horned Felldrake and Bozak Draconian as good Alter Self forms for natural armor. Gemini and Karnith provided summaries of the Dragon Psychoses, which I would not otherwise have had access to at the time.
Gavinfoxx reminded me of the oversight of the guide missing Scintilating Scales. Listed in alphabetical order.įax Celestis called my attention to the Xorvintaal dragon template. I’d also like to specifically acknowledge the following users. This forms the foundation for all of my draconic knowledge, with the occasional other thread here or there also helping my research into the subject along. This thread over at Brilliant Gameologists has been a tremendous boon.