Veeky Forums, what do you think about dragons?

Oh yeah, you can definitely take it too far.
But doing one or two things different helps remind people it is a fucking fantasy land. It is a literal fantasy. It is fantastic.

Don't have your elves be dwarves but called elves for no reason. But don't just follow what everyone else has done for no reason either.
Fucking mix it up now and then.

I like them, I usually try to seduce them.

My gm stopped including them in the game.

only one good dragon

Start seducing the unicorns/griffons/beholders then.

did someone say seduce the beholder?

I DON'T THINK ABOUT THEM AT ALL

Would dragon scales itch?

They're cool
Sexy too

If you mean in general probably not. Unless they were growing then they probably would.

It would be interesting to have dragons as an established ruling class of either a region or world. Like they make up the kings and high lord positions of the setting.

Clearly he is playing in Shadowrun.

But, the real question is. Do they shed?

I imagine they shed like lizards, where patches of their scales will fall off, so maybe. But god damn if they shed like snakes you are gonna get hella big skins left behind

The best Dragon would be a Pocket Dragon.

They grow to be the size of a small dog, and are pretty damn cool pets.

Well, of course. He's hanging out with his great-to-the-nth grandaughter and being the cool old uncle. Age requirements are waived for that.

I want to do something like that once I got the occasion.
The idea was strangely enough to pair them with dwarves, every big dwarf fortress having a dragon as protector/counsellor/prophet depending on the dragon, tied to the king.
Kinda like the Kirins in The Twelve Kingdoms now that I think about it. But with more violence on their part I guess.

I like that idea a lot and it seems to make sense fantasy wise (considering Tolkien and such)

DnD did this with kobolds at one point, didn't they?

Also, pic.

Yup, seduce all of the dragons.

I also like finding uses for dragons that actually work with how goddamn intelligent they actually are.

My favorite has been the dragon-king role. Elder dragon shows up because his dragon blood sorcerer decedents have been acting as sorcerer-kings. Takes over the kingdom rather quickly and proceeds to turn it into an economic powerhouse.

Favorite NPC I've done in years. Think Lord Vetinari but a dragon.

I like my dragons big, and goddamn scary. And not in the vague threat kind of way, I mean the scary where you go off to dungeoneer, and come back and the city you lived in for generations is GONE because the fucking thing leveled it out of rage and spite and fury

Ancient, powerful, and completely evil

/mlp/ please go, but leave the rest.

Feels like something out of Shadowrun. They could mind control 100% some race referred to as Drakes. They were powerful PCs, but you gave that all up a moment a Dragon showed up.

Love em

I like my dragons HUEG. Walking natural disasters massive enough to cover a small kingdom in their shadow.

Bonus points if they're highly intelligent and have alien/unknown motives.

Best monsters
Horribly overused but best monster

I'm really burned out on dragons. I'd just like for them to go out of fashion for a decade or so, then we can start fresh and hopefully avoid what described.

>/mlp/ please go, but leave the rest
When was the last time you had a unicorn in your game, Veeky Forums?

The last unicorn we encountered in our game was a painted donkey with a carrot on his head.

It nearly started a war between two kingdoms and made the wizards of a nearby academy flee into their secret magic underground "shitsgoindown"-bunker to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event.

I'm somewhat curious how we go from Monster Manuel trying to pass off a donkey as a unicorn all the way to a magic apocalypse.

In my current setting they're not creatures. They're natural disasters caused by warfare and chaos, and they have the ability to salt the earth and completely remove its ability to support life. They leave behind chalk deserts where they strike, making it absolutely uninhabitable. They're only shaped like asian dragons because the evil god that creates them is a nasty silver shenlong living in the moon.

I've also had them all mutated and disgusting, oozing puss and toxins as they rot alive. The last dragon was brought back as a skeletal thrall for some rich bastard who wanted a strong guard dog, and it escaped with some powerful necromantic curses. All of the existing dragons are disgusting corrupted horror shows that have lost their minds to the rot. They became sources of potent venom that just sort of shambled around polluting the earth.

I like dragons as long as they're given a new role other than 'really fucking dangerous enemy'.

I'm fine with them if they make sense in the game world, rather than being there just for the sake of it.

As a rule, I don't include dragons in my game, because I will inevitably design them in a way that sends players into you-know-where.

nigga, you KNOW we need that story now.

Guide this apparent descent into mystical mass-mania.

I find it coll when they actively interact with other species.
I also like them in modern setting too, shadowrun or not, it brings another level of fun.
often the DF type of '!!FUN!!', but still fun anyway

the fuck?
you can't leave us hanging with a hook like that

There is no dragon here. Move on, nothing to see.

I like them. Not quite as much as some others on Veeky Forums do ie, not sexually but I still like them. I use them in my campaigns a little too often and post in dragon threads on this board. Maybe it's just because I like reptiles, but I've always found them fascinating.

I've actually been trying to write a story based on a prompt I got from a dragon thread. The prompt initially said "Dragon appears next to you, what do", but my plot has sort of spiraled off into something involving magical slavery, elven conspiracy theories, and the entire race of dragons getting banished to Earth. It's been extremely difficult to write, but this second re-write has been going okay, I guess.

>what do you think about dragons?
Eh, a bit overdone if you ask me.

My suspension of disbelief really struggles with things which are huge, so massive dragons are a real turn off for me.
Generally I dislike them aesthetically anyway (I've never really found dinosaurs all that either).

So yeah, not fond of them.

I bit disappointed I've never faced one in game actually

Got an RPG setting where Dragons have ruled over humans since the dawn of time, and only recently have humans been able to break away, due to the Dragons killing each other for about a century and a half straight.

Tried to make them as plausible as possible, with huge wingspans, a hollow bone-structure, and warm blood.

>Doesn't like dinosaurs or dragons
Do you also hate whales? Elephants? Moose?

>plausible as possible
Magical beings.

Same. My GM keeps hyping them up in his campaign as being sooo powerful than us puny PCs could never viably beat once, especially since it would use magic to fuck shit up.

I wanna go on a dragon hunt that takes up multiple sessions, at least one just for setting up all the traps and plans and equipment we'd need to bring such a beast down.

I like medieval dragons, abominations longing to be put out of their misery.

The most implausible thing about dragons to be honest is their ability to hold up their wings for indefinite amount of time. What's up with that? You never see a bird doing that; dragons do it all the time, everytime.

I like dragons, though I tend to like them as true End-Game class encounters you don't slay from mid-level onwards.

And used sparingly like Alternatively, they might be in an arranged marriage. When you live as long as a dragon, you gotta court mortals young or else your limited time with a beloved is just that much more limited.

What is your favorite chromatic/metallic type?

It's tied between red and white for me.

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Red

Unlike , I can't get enough of them. They're the quintessential fantasy creature for a reason, you know.

I haven't.

No one in our group has a pure enough heart for one to appear.

>Chromatic
Blue. Sucker for the designs WOTC and Paizo use, and they're desert dragons with lightning powers.

>Metallic
Copper. They're hilarious.

I did this.
I had a kinda Japanese-Dorf kingdom in my setting. Instead of an island, it was located in a valley in the center of the highest moutain chain. Very small country, isolationnists people, you get the shtick.
I had a kind of Dwarven Shogun, ruling in stead of the emperor, who was never seen, locked away in his palace.
You guessed it, my PC had to battle and make their way through miles and miles of gardens to get to that palace, climb to the plateau in its center, and there layed a very old dragon, the Emperor

I had some clues along the way. The high-ranking officers and such had scale armor. Fire and fireworks were omnipresent in their culture etc...

I tried to be subtle, but one of my playher guessed it, so I guessed I wasn't that subtle. He didn't spoil the surprise though.

I'm fond of red and silver

Would it be interesting to have a fantasy setting where dragons fly in herds, like wild horses do? Every herd has a 'stallion', so to speak, a alpha male dragon responsible for protecting the herd, who, if comes across in certain situations, will attack you. Also would allow for involvement of drakes and young dragons across the path of the party that've fallen off the back of a herd or is lost, providing more varied dragon types.

>fulfill my fetishes seath.jpg

I think dragons are pretty cool. I like Asian serpent dragons myself.

I can't dig the arranged marriage vibe. Unless she's like some incarnation of a god, it doesn't seem worth a dragon's time.

I want to be fucked by one.

Right from my setting. Kobolds are the "wise" race. Kobolds can become masters in a craft in only a few months by mind melding with one of their dragon leaders

>“Dragons” are the rarest breed of Kobold. Its estimated that only one in a million Winged One's will be a Dragon. Dragons for the first 100 years or so seem no different than a Winged One. Then at some point they some how metamorphisize into the great dragons. They will not share anything on this process. What can be said is the Dragons are extremely powerful. Just one could raze an entire fortified castle town. Luckily they are not vengeful or angry beasts at heart and will only stir to war when absolutely necessary. Instead they busy themselves with leading their race and overseeing their empire. The great Dragons knowledge is so vast and perfect that they seem to know everything and can recall anything perfectly. Thus they are the wardens of the worlds knowledge. They freely share this within their own race. Unfortunately they only rarely share knowledge with outsiders. Thankfully though they are warm hearted and if an outsider seeks their knowledge with the intent to do good such as curing a plague or figuring out how to grow more food for the masses they will likely share. It is unknown how long dragons live as only one has been known to die of natural causes and even then it is unknown how true that statement is as the dragons are silent on the mater. As of this writing there are 9 dragons on the council of fangs. This council serves as the entire upper government of the Kobold's. All major decisions are made by the council and spread by the Winged Ones across their empire. Local government is controlled by a council of winged ones for the larger settlements or just one or two Winged Ones for the smaller settlements.

Currently I'm enjoying the idea of replacing dragons entirely by two creatures; the great python and the mighty magpie.

The great pythons are gigantic underground snakes. Powerful and strong they are also deeply intelligent with a cold and unfeeling edge of cunning to them. They can hypnotize people with their eyes and like to manipulate human society in generations-long plots and plans.

Next are the Might Magpies- gigantic birds that make nests on mountains. They collect shinies to attract mates and are about as dangerous as dragon-sized birb can be.

I am doing this because dragons, who are;
>Flying
>Wealthy
>Magical
>Strong
>Extremely intelligent
Are a bit too 'OP' for my tastes, so I changed them into two somewhat lesser creatures.

I've always wondered what it would be like to have a setting with all the dragons being like fairytale dragons, a bit like 'puff the magic dragon', looking even more cartoony then this guy with light blue scales and purple pokedots and so on.

Maybe they'd be somewhat gullible and dumb, but most are pretty nice creatures.

They're to be our wives.

I wanna fuck one

someone edit this and put the kings face as a aayee lmao meme

>Not being the Dragons wife

>They're to be our wives.
You got it backwards user, you're to be her husband

>Being the dragons husband
>Not being a dragons brood mother being raped repeatedly and forced to lay hundreds of eggs a year

>Not being your dragonwife's devoted husband, waiting on her hand and foot as you bathe in her majesty

No nipples, no visible penetration, no dick, as SFW as it gets.

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But the dragon is the one with a fortune's worth of time. Why not try to eck out every year they can from a potential mate?

Oh, shit, this does lead to the horrible idea of dragons making themselves appear as young mortal races and hanging out in schools to find companionship.

And using horribly dated slang the whole time. It's like being a highschooler now and seeing this kid who dresses and talks like he's from the early 90's.

>And using horribly dated slang the whole time. It's like being a highschooler now and seeing this kid who dresses and talks like he's from the early 90's.
Sounds kinda funny actually

>"Those dirty hei-contani"
>"those what?"
>"Oh... you call them knife-ears don't you?"
>"WHAT?!"
>"Wait, I know! they're called elves this age aren't they? Damn, someone should really stop changing all the names every few centuries. I blame the monkey-people."

Best taste.

>Not enslaving the Dragon, and bending it to your every whim
>Not humbling what once was mighty
Plebs go home.

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Too big to fit in a regular cookpot.

>Doung the enslaving

>not being the dragon's slave and letting her hold you in her mouth

>not being swallowed by the dragoness

Get a bigger one then

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Can't we just treat each other in an equal, mutually respectful fashion

That "school girl" is actually a 1000-year-old dragon.

I'm gonna need a source on that

Ain't it grand

youtube.com/watch?v=WM3N3255Bvk

starts around 17:55

>mutually respectful
I don't understand

You went there very fast, a lot faster than I normally do when dragons comes up
Slow down buddy, that's kinda creepy

Whenever they appear I have to desperately struggle against being pulled into my own Magical Realm. I don't include them in the game I run specifically because I am pretty sure I would end up either waifuing my own NPCs or baiting my players into doing the same.

The porn subfolder titled 'Dragons' is the biggest folder on my HDD. It's mostly non-anthro. This is by design, not for lack of anthro dragons.

>That filename

Eyup.