I am running a game where I've done a good job of misleading the players into thinking I'm ripping off the McGuffin from one source (which I won't share as they frequent Veeky Forums) when I'm really ripping off pic related.
I am reluctant to put the PCs in the same room as that much power and rather than fiat the villains getting away with most of them, I figured I could adjust the talismans to not be as powerful or numerous. Which begs the question:
What would a dragon's power distilled into talismans result in?
Jose Barnes
Probably some huge fuck-off egg or some shit. Depending on the setting of course; a dragon's distilled power could be anything up to and including the world upon which the party stands, in the case of Eberron
>Probably some huge fuck-off egg or some shit. I wanted to keep the same form.
>Depending on the setting of course Yeah, I meant to mention that. It's effectively Not!Forgotten Realms.
The dragon is about mid-level, definitely more than a big lizard, but not a worldshaker either. Shendu was a good match, really.
Jackson Walker
Depends on the dragon, right? Shendu was a demon sorcerer more than just a dragon, so he had all those magic powers. An animalistic dragon might only have something like: >fire breath >super strength >flight >scaly armor or you could have a dragon that has some kind of magically boosted wisdom/intelligence, or even some kind of eldritch control of reality. Who or what is the dragon in question, and what are they normally capable of doing?
Logan Myers
>>flight >>(insert element) resistance >>natural damage resistance Badass, simple, I like it.
>>increased magic ability Touch vague but fits
>>ability to fuck anything Oh you.
Bentley Reed
>ability to sleep for hundreds of years
Andrew James
If memory serves both Shendu's dragon-ness and his demon sorcerer-ness were relevant. He was THE big-shot dragon that got the dragon zodiac power, then he used his demon magic to steal the zodiac powers from the other twelve big-shot animals to become even stronger.
And I think he also stole power from an Oni to command the Shadowkhan.
Dude basically took power from wherever he could find it to be the strongest motherfucker around.
