[Rathar]

I agree that dragons in dom 3 have a deflated value from both dom 2 and "reality." I think that you will find more success in creating "balanced" new dom 3 dragon pretenders if you go for a cross creature sort of ability set, such as fear 5, awe 1 and claw/claw/bite magic attacks, and then each dragon type has their own abilities such as the iced base dragon being immune to cold, bit o extra damage to fire and a cold breath weapon.

Too much special weirdness and whatnot will end up with things that cost 300 points to be "balanced".