You meet a silver dragon wearing humanoid skin

[Hugo Solis]

Sharoth wrote:

~jumps and screams~ AHHH!!!! A DRAGON!!! ~Runs~

hey, where are you going? You forgot you drow-skin bikini!

*chases after the nakkid' dragon*

[robertness]

Mikaze wrote:

KnightErrantJR wrote:

robertness wrote:

I just imagined a case of dragon "organ donor" syndrome.

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Dragon: When I die, please take my hide and fashion armor from it so we can continue to fight together.
Kilzalot: Score! *cough* I mean, I'll wear it with honor.

That would actually make for a nice counterpoint to the RP scenario I was proposing above.

"No, really, he told me to skin him and wear his scales. I totally respected him. It was a gift, I swear!"

My first thought was that I'd love to have both of those characters in a party. :)

My second thought, after remembering that dragons can and do mate with humanoids, was of a dead-serious variant of Robertness' character clutching his/her own gold-scale-armored arms and tearfully protesting that that armor is all he/she has to remember his/her lover by.

:O

In response to your first thought, any time you want to run something just give a shout.

And my third thought is, and the dragon and humanoid had a child who inherits the dragonskin armor. Then JR's priest of Apsu shows up. "Think of Apsu's children, yada, yada."
"But I am a child of Apsu!"

[Alitan]

In the second place, I never play characters that go the heavily armored (or even medium armored) route...

But in the first place, as I mentioned in another thread -- pissing off every other dragon who sees you in your dragonhide armor is a really non-survival trait.

[Threeshades]

I like to simplify matters of good and evil to

1. Is it harming anyone -> no -> proceed to 3.
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Yes
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2. Is it gratuitous harm, or in benefit to an equal or lesser amount of beings that don't depend on the benefit -> yes -> Evil
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No
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3. Is it helping anyone but yourself -> yes -> Good
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No
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Neutral

The dragon wears armor made of drowskin. Under the hypothetical premise that drow skin has any sort of quality to even make it useful as armor: How did he get the material? Drow obviously died for it, but did they die only so the dragon could made armor. Or did they die while attacking innocents, being killed by a defending party or something similar?

In the latter case the drow were dead already they didn't need their skin anymore, so who cares?

[Midnight_Angel]

Careful with that simplification.

If read literally, the robbing and murdering an innocent person, done by a gang, or even a pair of persons, would be a good act by this standard.

1) Harming? Yes.
2) Gratuitous? No.
2a)In benefit to an equal or lesser amount of beings that don't depend on the benefit? No.
3) Helping anyone but myself? Yes. (my buddy)

-> Good.

[Threeshades]

okay theres a flaw in the 2a premise's formulation. as long as there is no dependency on the benefit it doesn't matter if the beneficiaries outnumber the ones harmed.

[KenderKin]

How about the idea that the humaniod skin does absolutely nothing to protect the dragon from damage!

Leather armor made from leather which is from cows, so cow hide is tougher than .....for the sake of argument....human skin.

So my new idea is to make armor from Saran wrap, which would be the same as a dragon wearing people skin.

[The Drunken Dragon]

Josh M. wrote:

I think one major difference is that Dragon's are known for having super-tough hide. Dragon hide armor has always been seen as a sort of trophy, since humanoids are inherently weaker, epic level PC's aside.

But Your point still stands; the skin of sentient creature makes very questionable taste, no matter the alignment.

Depends on how he got it...dragon scale often comes loose on its own...collect enough and you can make a set of armor...or pay the dragon for scale...otherwise, yeah, it is kind of grizzly. But no less grizzly then, lets say, fighting a bear and then making a skin out of it after you've killed it. According to some culture, btw, NOT using every aspect of a creature you've killed is considered pointlessly wasteful (so, take the guy's armor if you can use it...take the creature's skin if you can use it...letting it decompose into nothing and let him die for nothing is the truer sin, I guess). What would be ultimately evil is to kill something simply so that you could make its skin into a vest...that's just Cruella DeVille logic right there...

[Turin the Mad]

But ... that drow has just the pattern of spottings I've been searching for centuries! And her hair, just wow.

[The Drunken Dragon]

You could always just got the standard mad necromancer route: "but she's perfect...I must have her skin....wehehehehehehehehehe!" Yes. But that sounds a tad villainous to me...

[Kryzbyn]

pres man wrote:

Would we be so cavalier about cutting down trees if they screamed?

** spoiler omitted **

Spoiler:

For no apparent reason.