Hi All.
I'm relatively new to D&D/Pathfinder, so I'm still in the process of assimilating the lore. That said, I'm in the process of dreaming up a game I want to GM, and I'm considering having it center around dragons - not sure on much of anything yet, but I'd like to have the PCs encountering dragons from early levels (i.e. wyrmlings, or maybe non-combat interactions with older dragons). I was wondering if anyone could point me to a place, online or otherwise, that would be a good source of information on the temperments/habits/etc of the various dragon species. I've already perused obvious places like the SRDs and wikis, but I was hoping to dig a little deeper if possible. Alternatively, some benevolent and knowledgeable folk could just school me on here. : )
Many thanks!
Dragons Revisited.
Hi All.
I'm relatively new to D&D/Pathfinder, so I'm still in the process of assimilating the lore. That said, I'm in the process of dreaming up a game I want to GM, and I'm considering having it center around dragons - not sure on much of anything yet, but I'd like to have the PCs encountering dragons from early levels (i.e. wyrmlings, or maybe non-combat interactions with older dragons). I was wondering if anyone could point me to a place, online or otherwise, that would be a good source of information on the temperments/habits/etc of the various dragon species. I've already perused obvious places like the SRDs and wikis, but I was hoping to dig a little deeper if possible. Alternatively, some benevolent and knowledgeable folk could just school me on here. : )
Many thanks!
Every campaign setting has their dragons a little different. Pathfinder has a book call Dragons revisited.
Dragons even the good ones are a proud bunch and look down on the "lesser" races such as humans, elves, and so on. They all love treasure. They are incredibly smart. Being a dragonslayer(active dragon hunter) only makes one a target, but that is not a hard and fast rule. It is just my take on them. After all if you are the bully on the block you can't have some peon(lesser race) smacking you around.
I'd still really recommend the Draconomicon book or pdf if you can find a copy. It doesn't all apply to Pathfinder but it goes into excrutiating detail on dragons. You can always tailor it to just use what you want. You won't find a much better resource in any case.
I'd still really recommend the Draconomicon book or pdf if you can find a copy. It doesn't all apply to Pathfinder but it goes into excrutiating detail on dragons. You can always tailor it to just use what you want. You won't find a much better resource in any case.
Based on what I've seen scouring the net, that's the conclusion I'm coming to as well. I can get mechanics elsewhere, but it seems like, as far as fluff is concerned, Draconomicon is the way to go. I'd be curious to know the differences between it and Paizo resources, but it seems like the former is the one to get if you only get one.
Draconomicon was probably the best 3.5 book WotC ever released, so it's definitely worth purchasing. Tons of Dragon-related content, including both flavor and mechanics :)
As for differences between it and Pathfinder products, the main one is the size; Draconomicon clocks in at nearly 300 pages. 100 of those pages is spent on sample statblocks for each age category of each of the 10 metallic and chromatic Dragons; those pages won't be all that useful for PF games, since Dragon stats were changed considerably from 3.5 to PF. There's 50 pages of new Dragons, Drakes, and Dragon-related monsters, 40 pages of player feats, spells, etc related to Dragons and fighting Dragons, 40 pages of Dragon feats, spells, items and PrCs, and 50 pages of Dragon flavor (physiology, society, life cycle, etc).