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Greetings everyone.
Having read both the Draconomcion book of Dragons (D&D) and dragons revised(PF)I find I personally prefer how the metallic dragons are presented in the Draconomicon over those in the revised. Especially Silvers as I was never personally a big fan of their immense paladin esque theme and prefer the Draconomicons defining of them.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should best incorporate the Draconomicon definings of them without having to alter the background too much?
Greetings everyone.
Having read both the Draconomcion book of Dragons (D&D) and dragons revised(PF)I find I personally prefer how the metallic dragons are presented in the Draconomicon over those in the revised. Especially Silvers as I was never personally a big fan of their immense paladin esque theme and prefer the Draconomicons defining of them.
My main campaign setting is Golarion and I prefer to use the Draconomicon as a guide for dragons when designing their personalities, habits, character etc. Now the problem I have is if I change certain ways Dragons behave will their be any major reprocussions in regards to past events. I.e if silvers arn't paladins anymore what effect could that have on past events that featured them promonently?
P.S I was going to edit the first post but as the option is now unavailable just ignore it and continue to the second.
First bit of advice to give is: your campaign, your world, change what you want. There were never any Wizards of the Coast Intellectual Property Purity Police, nor are there any Paizo ones either.
If you want something that makes a bit of internal consistency and sense, here's an option. The biggest difference of all in Pathfinder is that dragons are no longer "tied" to their alignments. There are fallen golds (not many), and redeemed reds (well, one....maybe). Silvers in particular are highly prone to tarnishing because of their zealous nature.
So use that to your advantage. Leave history as it is, but put in a small event that happened that maybe not many people are aware of (DC 25 Knowledge Arcana or such, if it should ever matter).
The Corrosion Compact. In the year XXXX, a gathering of silver dragons assembled after reports from all over Golarion made a single fact clear: while there was no end in sight to evil, the zealous pursuit of its destructing by the silver bloodlines was beginning to cause more and more collateral damage, chaos, and further evil. More silver dragons were tarnishing with each decade, and it was decided that a greater emphasis on self-discipline and humility was needed more than aggressive crusading and thoughts of being above the common law.
As an object lesson in such humility, most silvers voluntarily exiled themselves into "mortal lives", usually with a small and reasonable escape clause (defending other creatures, feeding, or mortal peril being common, although a rare few apparently went into permanent mortal exile).
This gives you a way to bring silvers "back" to the Draconimicon standard (apologies if my recall of their personality in that is off, over the years multiple editions, settings, other dragons, and such blur the memory), without having to retrofit any of Golarion's history to account for their "new" personalities.
Personally, I'm going to use silvers as a "OH CRAP" scenario, sort of like the Infinite Flight in World of Warcraft. In my Golarion, silvers are tarnishing more and more quickly, but they don't have the humility to believe it is possible when they are told of it. Eventually (and that's a fairly soon eventuality) the entire silver flight will be a corrupted race of Tyrant dragons imposing martial law upon everything they can see.
My tangent aside, hope the idea helps you some.