Humor Dragons?


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I remember reading in some Campaign Setting book a little snippet about a sort of degenerated dragon type called Humor Dragons that were presumably based off the four humors. For an upcoming dragon heavy campaign my GM wants us all to sort of ally ourselves with a certain dragon and I was thinking of allying myself with humor dragon, but now that I'm looking for it I cant find the book that had the information on them. I'm starting to think that they were something my mind made up at this point.

Does anyone know what I'm thinking of? Any help is appreciated.

Silver Crusade

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black - slapstick
blue - puns, clever wordplay
green - situational
red - roasts
white - mimes

Silver Crusade

the other four humors

blood - red
bile - black
phlegm - blue or green
yellow bile - white


No but I'm pretty sure I saw something about actual Humor Dragons, like they were made of blood or black bile or whatever. I might be mis-remembering something but if I'm not it would be cool to know.


I think they were mentioned in a 3.5 book, along with Sin dragons and a few others. My understanding is that they have since been retconned out of existence, or are at least an idea that will not be followed up on.


That's a shame, thanks for the info though. Guess I'll ally with a brass then.


Ajaxis wrote:

black - slapstick

blue - puns, clever wordplay
green - situational
red - roasts
white - mimes

This actually makes sense. The kind of humor each chromatic dragon type could be known for. I can see some great RP potential here.

Silver Crusade

:)

Red dragon = roasts. After that popped into my head I had to come up with the others.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

The concept of humor dragons based on the 4 temperaments (and several other dragon typess we tested in that early article back in Pathfinder #4) have been abandoned.


Why? Just too many dragon types to fit in one world without making it overcrowded with dragons (or dragon-dominant instead of humanoid-dominant)?

I've always had that problem when I try to make up my own D&D/PF worlds -- the long-lived, baseline very powerful beings (like dragons) seem like they should dominate ... if there are enough of each of even 10 types to make a viable species, they should probably massively outnumber the characters who are high-level enough to counter an adult or older dragon.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

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KtA wrote:
Why? Just too many dragon types to fit in one world without making it overcrowded with dragons (or dragon-dominant instead of humanoid-dominant)?

Because we've got better ideas for true dragons.


It's probably my sweet tooth and a lack of snack food talking, but every time I have seen this thread today I keep reading it as Good Humor Dragons...

Shadow Lodge

Plus, they seem to have a hard rule about all true dragons coming in batches of 5.


James Jacobs wrote:

The concept of humor dragons based on the 4 temperaments (and several other dragon typess we tested in that early article back in Pathfinder #4) have been abandoned.

That's a shame. Then again, that means nobody's stopping me from picking them up and using them in my own campaign setting.

Sovereign Court

How about making 'em FALSE dragons then ?

Sovereign Court RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8

Or steal from the Scarred lands and make then wrack dragons.


Stat them for Wayfinder!


Humor drakes.

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