Dragons and Templates that increase size

[Frumple]

Would like opinion/ruling on this.

When you give a dragon an inherited template that increases its size would you treat the beast as the larger size and assign damage from its attacks according to the dragon damage table, or first make the dragon then increase the damage from its attack via. the table on increasing damage with size?

[boring7]

Theoretically the tables are supposed to gel. I assume in practice they do not? Presuming they do not, go Dragon first, then increase size with damage table.

The difference in effort is minor (look at two tables instead of one) and the difference in damage is going to be, at the absolute worst I can think of, 2.5 points of average damage.

Flavor-wise, I rationalize it as a dragon not being "naturally" larger like a normal dragon, and thus not necessarily the same proportions as a dragon that was simply older.

[wraithstrike]

Make the dragon first then increase the size.