The only question is...what does he look like? While I LOVED the way half dragons looked way back when they were first introduced in Council of Wyrms(which I still love- humans being somewhat...evil? GREAT!), things have changed a lot since then. There was an old issue of Dragon that I have somewhere in my pile that delved deeply into half dragons and their issues socially, and also a page in the back that went over the myriad of possible half dragon appearances. But as more and more material comes out, I've noticed that half dragons look increasingly static- a reptillian humanoid with a dragon's head. Did I miss something, or is this what they're supposed to look like now? I'm having a lot of trouble coming up with stuff for them in my homebrew....
Thanks in advance!
The only question is...what does he look like? While I LOVED the way half dragons looked way back when they were first introduced in Council of Wyrms(which I still love- humans being somewhat...evil? GREAT!), things have changed a lot since then. There was an old issue of Dragon that I have somewhere in my pile that delved deeply into half dragons and their issues socially, and also a page in the back that went over the myriad of possible half dragon appearances. But as more and more material comes out, I've noticed that half dragons look increasingly static- a reptillian humanoid with a dragon's head. Did I miss something, or is this what they're supposed to look like now? I'm having a lot of trouble coming up with stuff for them in my homebrew....
Thanks in advance!
If its a homebrew you run then they look like whatever you want them to look like. Certianly thats the policy with my home brew.
If you liked how they looked in an old Dragon Article then go with that.
Anyone and everyone that contributes anything to d&d contibutes as an individual rather than as part of a singular creative force. So for every artist that depicts a half-dragon, there will be a different style of half-dragon. Heck, dragons themselves are continuously depicted differently; look at 2nd edition MM (which I'm sure you at least remember) where they look totally like asian dragons, but in CoW and 3.x they've lost that look. Anyway, my answer for you is that there is no 'true' way that a half-dragon should look. It's totally up to you as a DM to decide that.
P.S. I'm with you! The newer half-dragon artwork sucks.
Half-Dragons can look like whatever you want them to. If you want to, you can roll some percentile to determine which parent they favor more.
If the half-dragon part is acquired through non-natural means (Dragon Disciple prestige class, for example), then you can have dragon features gradually take over the character. I did this with the Dragon Disciple character in my campaign and it was very effective. Probably because I kept making her make Fortitude saves to determine how much pain she was in due to some of the physical changes she was going through.
She really, really didn't like it when her wings grew in.
I have an adventure for my players which involves a tribe of formorian giants led by a half-blue dragon formorian giant. I got the idea when I put my first bluespawn godslayer mini next to a formorian giant mini.
I think I'm trying to agree with Lilith.
I had a blue dragon bloodline monk once(man that is a mouth full) I only played him for one adventure, but I kind of pictured his dark skin had almost a colbalt glimmer and he was bald with a pronouced forehead. He used a stunning headbutt many times that night.