What dragonrealms need are dragons, crafty, intelligent, super knowledgeable about magic, and a breath weapon that shames any war mage or moon mage spell. They should start at roughly 1200 combats at the weakest and go up to needing fully buffed PCs at 2000. Dragons Dragons Dragons.

I remember hearing about dragons that where suppose to take large groups to kill, but that was years ago. So my guess is they got cut some where along the way.
would have been cool though

Speaking of korograths, now that there's that mechanic that caps damage so one person can't one shot something, they should come back.

>>I one shot kill things daily.

Most of us hunting with capped weapons do. None of these critters have damage capped at a very low level to prevent such things.

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GM controlled World Dragon... That would be awesome to see.

>>I completely love the idea of dragons and was heartbroken when I found out there were none after my brother dragged me into this game back on aol; however, a pure dragon isnt realistic to fight in DR lore. If dragons can earn the reverence of the gods (The Guardians) or bring them to the brink (World Dragon) then I dont want to meet one on the battlefield. However, smaller dragonkin-like versions would be awesome such as drakes, wyvern, welps, etc.

This. A Dragon would be at about 100,000 ranks of offense and defense. I don't imagine trying to fight a real one would be very fun for anyone at all.

Fighting dragons would be a grin. But I'd want a logical backstory for it.

>> If Everild and Meraud don't want to fight dragons, I'm pretty sure a dragon would be quite comfortable with you manning a catapult.

Yeah...good point.

Every dragon I've heard of in DR lore has immense power so my comments were just based on historical facts. Could there be a couple lazy only quasi powerful dragons hiding away in the mountains of Elanthia in seclusion? Sure, but I believe it was Armifer who has stated in a previous dragon-esque thread that if a player were to come across a dragon in a combative setting then it would be a very brief encounter....for the player.

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>The only other dragon is the World Dragon.

Not exactly true. First off, there's at least two types of standard dragons, life and elemental. Plus, I suspect the World Dragon isn't a dragon so much as something huge and lizardy that people label a dragon.

Plus, there was a fragment of a message that indicated a dragon was severely injured by an arrow, indicating they're not even close to invincible.

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>>Plus, there was a fragment of a message that indicated a dragon was severely injured by an arrow, indicating they're not even close to invincible.

Details on both of these, please.

> > Plus, I suspect the World Dragon isn't a dragon so much as something huge and lizardy that people label a dragon.

>Um, is there actually anything to suggest that the World Dragon is real? I always assumed it was just a myth.

I am partial to that it could be a myth, but don't forget this isn't exactly the real world were cosmic and powerful, and weird things are explained by other worldly events. I mean by this:

Gods and goddesses are proven to exist, they have walked amongst us. Clerics really do get their power by the Gods. More to the point Magic is real.

So is something that the gods themselves had to fight real, I'd say yes. Is it a true Dragon? What's a true Dragon. Once again I'd suggest yes.
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> Gods and goddesses are proven to exist, they have walked amongst us.

They walk among us, but they're often not the best of communicators. Just because they're real doesn't mean they'll answer all our questions. If they fought the world dragon, it was eons ago, and they would be some of the only witnesses. Have they actually come out and said, "Yep, we gave that lizard the smack down."?

> Also - something caused Grahzir to shatter and wounded a god.

I believe the MMs have plenty of evidence that Grazhir did exist as a moon* and did shatter. But do we actually know that Peri'el is/was injured?

While we're on the subject of things from pre-history: the MM party line is that Katamba used to be gold. What evidence can they have for this? Or are they just pulling it out of nowhere?

*Yes, I know that in some sense Grazhir still exists as a moon.

>>Once combat is fixed and scaled, boss type characters will probably be way more plausible mechanically speaking.

LFG Aldauth Heroic +2

Exhibit 1: Dragon beating the Immortals

Exhibit 2: Enter the Dragon starring Bruce Lee

Your character does not want any part of either.

Just a note Dragons do exist in Dragon Realms. See the new leader of the Dragon Priest and his visit to Shard.

A Dragon Priest assassin sweeps the area with its serpentine eyes and snarls, "You can not hide forever! Your fate hasss already been sssealed!"
A Dragon Priest assassin eyes narrow as it points at you and hisses, "You ssshall be retired, mark!"