Cataclysmic Dragons

[Lingchih]

Nice. Are you drawing these yourself? If so, nice job.

[HoneyBadger]

Yes, the two pictures I just posted are original (as are the volcano dragon pics) and took a little under 8 hours time to draw from scratch, combined. And all the pictures I post here will be original, unless otherwise noted.

I could average a little faster when I had access to ImageForge, but Paint's quite a bit slower, since it lacks many of the tools I like to use. By the way, they're not quite exactly the colors I wanted/chose, due to converting them from bitmaps to JPegs-it fades them out and mixes them a little bit, giving the pictures a slightly washed-out appearance. Since it seems to actually help the pictures look a little better and the colors blend together, I don't mind if they're not quite as bright as they're supposed to be.

Thanks! it's a lot of fun and a real labor of love, so I'm glad you're enjoying it too

[HoneyBadger]

I'd mostly want a "dragon" tag to allow different forged items, creatures, and spells, to have different effects on dragons, than say demons or undead. A "dragonslayer" sword, for instance, that did triple damage to true dragons, drakes, and wyverns, etc. would be nice to see in the game.

The main reason for the demon tag-controversial though it may be-is to allow holy magic to damage them. Even the earliest stories about the Loch Ness Monster had a bishop driving the monster away with the power of his faith, so it's got a lot of mythic precedence.

[HoneyBadger]

Sorry it took so long to answer your question, Jim, but I haven't decided what the humanlike forms of the various dragons will be, so it's possible the Volcanic Dragon human form might have 4 arm slots. As far as the dragon form itself, the answer is no, the dragons themselves are all going to be designed as SCs "out of the box" with only 2-4 Misc. slots. It would just be impossible to balance them, if they had access to more than misc slots.

As it is, I've got to be very careful, because these dragons are meant to have a much larger presence-and for a longer period of time-on the battlefield than the current dragon Pretenders.

[JimMorrison]

Ahah, makes sense actually. You've put quite a bit of thought into these I think, it looks very promising and exciting.

I can't wait to see an 8-10 player game with the rule that everyone plays a different cataclysmic dragon.

[HoneyBadger]

I can't wait either, I think it'll be fun!

Here's the attack sprite for the lesser dragon head:

[Poopsi]

The earthçuake dragon reminds me vaguely of the things in "Tremors"

[HoneyBadger]

It makes sense that they might, given that they're both big, earth-dwelling critters.

Here's the attack sprite (finally!) for the Earthquake Dragon. Took almost as long as the normal sprite in this case-about 5-6 hours-since so much content was added.

I'm not quite sure how these guys are gonna scale, against the background of a Dom3 battle, but this guy's the biggest of all the dragons, and ought to be pretty enormous-noticeably larger than the previous volcanic dragon:

[Ballbarian]

Keep it up HB.
Looking good.

[HoneyBadger]

Thanks! I'm working on the flood dragon as we speak.