Why does Dragon type cost so much in ARG's guidelines?

[deuxhero]

I'm well aware these rules are full of holes (An intelligence boost is worth the same as an extra skill point, even though it is strictly better), but figured I'd double check.

Dragon costs 10 points and has Darkvision (2 RP), Low-Light Vision (1 RP), Immunity to sleep (<2 RP) and paralysis (unclear, though certainly not high given Duergar immunities get that, poison and +2 against spells for 4 and the save against spells itself is 3), plus the double-edge immunity to "___ Person" spells (1 RP going by Fey which has only this and the 1 point Low-Light Vision for 2 points). There's no secret hidden advantage to the Dragon type I missed?

[avr]

Aside from people being able to kill you, skin you and turn the skin into armour? Or is that just true dragons? No. You've seen another of the flaws in the race point system of the ARG.

[Meirril]

Well, technically there are some other advantages. Certain spells and items only work on certain types of creature. As long as you can avoid the 'Humanoid' type you can't be affected by Hold Person for instance.

Most of the places where it would be an actual advantage are edge cases. Like if you were reincarnated...99% of GMs would have you come back as your own race. That 1% would have you come back as some sort of random dragon-kin.

Ploymorph is another place where being type Dragon would be an advantage. Now you can use Polymorph Any Object to permanently mimic Form of the Dragon II.

And some guy with a bane:dragon weapon is going to wreck you. Enjoy.

[deuxhero]

I mentioned not being effected by Person spells, but that's doable by every non-humanoid typed creature.

[Magicdealer]

Access to some dragon-specific feats/abilities, shenanigans with reincarnate, and an attempt to keep dragons scary and menacing and not, say, every fourth member of an adventuring party. The wyvaran exist though, so there's that.

[Melkiador]

Dragon can be a prerequisite for a lot of other good race builder options. And I think they are overpricing the sleep and paralyze immunity. I bet they counted that as 4 points.

You can’t always look at those abilities in a vacuum either. Sometimes a combination of abilities is stronger than the whole, though I don’t think that’s what’s happening here.