Nagas and other "lost" pretenders

[Gandalf Parker]

I know Im jumping in late but I want to make a comment on the ORIGINAL post in this thread. Those from the newsGroups know that Im big on taking whatever seems to be "worthless" in the game and trying hard to find a reason for it.

Lord of Night I wont even discuss in this post since I find it way too useful as a pretender.

Dragons have their pros and cons but one of the things I havent seen yet is an advantage which was obviously planned into them. Their human forms appear to be exactly like other human forms in the game. There are a variety of attacks (such as assassins) where long and careful planning would amount to a big surprise when the wimpy human with only magic to worry about does a form change into a massive winged breathing mosnter.

I do feel that dragons have areas which could stand some upgrading. For one thing I dont like that magic items on the human form will dissapear completely during a change (how about dumping them into the Lab if space is available). Some natural abilitys sticking around would be a big help also, such as the blue dragon still being able to enter the water.

There are other pretenders which can stand some tweaking although most suggestions I see seem directed in the same direction such as making combat or search prtenders out of them. Moving that direction would eventually make them all the same. Id like to see more experimentation and variety of fixes to the lesser chosen ones in order to have MORE choices of strategy rather than less.