Cataclysmic Dragons

[Ballbarian]

That is much better HB.

[HoneyBadger]

Thanks everybody for the great advice. Without you egging me on, It wouldn't have come out as good as it did. I'm not sure when the next dragon will come out, but I've got some ideas for the Sirocco, so that may be next.

[HoneyBadger]

Since the Flood Dragon required such a painful process to look right ("right" in this case meaning "weird and ugly"), I decided to make the Sirocco Dragon look as mad, bad, and dangerous to know as possible, from the start.

First of all, he doesn't have any eyes, instead employing massive heat-sinks (they also detect magic, so undead and animated creatures aren't safe) to detect his prey. So he's blind-which as I understand it, is an advantage over Darkvision. The sensitive heat-sinks are covered by a massive skull of exposed bone. He's not as physically powerful as some of the other dragons, but he has quite a few advantages: First of all, he's got access to both Air and Fire paths. Other paths cost 125 (25 less than the Volcanic Dragon). In addition to that, he's got Stealth (0) and is a good (better than the average dragon, anyway) undead leader. His breath attack doesn't do a lot of damage, but has good range and area, and causes Decay. His bite also causes Decay. Significantly, he'll have a Forestform where he loses his Stealth but his bite becomes Lifedraining and his Fear goes up to 10. He's got full Flying and the ability to summon Long Dead in battle-the bodies of those who have been consumed by the sands will rise up and fight for him-but he also loses this in the Forest. Finally, he'll have 3 misc slots (Dragon average is 2)-so as you can imagine, with dragons healing themselves, he can make a pretty mean assassin, with the right gear.

His disadvantages include: a complete inability to enter the water (even if you give him an item of water-breathing, he has an extremely weak, immobile waterform), and a very strong weakness to water/ice spells (200%). Also, he consumes much more than the average Dragon (probably Gluttony 100). He's also got a particularly weak Dominion (1 instead of Dragon average 2), and slightly lower than dragon-average MR-even lower in Forests.

Presenting the new Sirocco dragon!:

[Gregstrom]

One thing with a weak, immobile waterform - if you accidentally put him in the water you won't be able to get him out again.

[HoneyBadger]

Next up is the Avalanche Dragon. Feared by men and jotuns alike, the massive Avalanche Dragon is but an enormous Wyrm, without limbs or wings. Crushing huge trees in it's path to splinters, and freezing all around it, this dragon makes it's home in the vast northern glaciers, which it burrows into, creating enormous tunnels in the diamond-hard ice like a common worm might burrow into an apple.

Although quite tough and strong, the Avalanche Dragon lacks the combat abilities of many of it's brethren. As a size 6 trampler, it's fine against small troops, and it's bone-crushing bite is indeed something to fear, but at first glance, it's not the most versatile or powerful of the dragon breeds. It does have a very good cold aura, and it gains Protection in cold areas, but it's not much better than a Behemoth in warm lands, and it's slow movement (1) makes it harder to use as an SC. It also lacks magical diversity, having only Water, and all other paths at 125.
It's true might lies in two special abilities that it possesses: First of all, it has a devastating breath weapon-good range, good area, good damage, and numbness. Secondly, it has the ability to lay eggs.

These eggs are it's best feature: They have Fear (0), a cold aura, a lot of hitpoints, and also gain Prot. in cold. And they can hatch. Their Secondform-if the eggform is destroyed-is that of a ravenous Icewyrm:
size 3, Fear (2) 2 magical bites per round, cold aura, berserk, and blind. The Icewyrms will only remain for a single battle, but enough of them together can do a lot of damage, and even a single one can be difficult to take down.

[HoneyBadger]

That's the idea, if you accidentally put him in the water, you need to teleport him to get him out again. In the meantime, it's quite easy for an enemy to destroy him, since he'll be defenseless. It's a much-needed handicap.

[Gregstrom]

Would copystatting a vampire make it impossible for the dragon to enter the water even with weter breathing?

[Skirmisher]

I just wanted to chime in and say great work! This looks real interesting. Will these dragons be availible as strickly pretenders, or commanders? or both?

Somebody had mentioned somewhere that dragons were lacking ,this would seem to adress that directly.

[HoneyBadger]

They'll mainly be available as Pretenders, although they could also be Independents, and ofcourse they'll be Wishable.

Thanks for the compliment! It keeps me going

I have no idea, Gregstrom...if I could make the Sirocco unable to enter the water, I would.

Next up will be the Dust Dragon-I've got a good start on it, but I doubt I'll get it done tonight. The only reason I posted the Avalanche is because of how simple it was to color, but the Dust will be a lot more complex.

[llamabeast]

HB - you should use GIMP instead of Paint. It's also free, and vastly, vastly superior. Just type it in Google and you can find it straight away.

I don't know how you have the patience to spend more than a few minutes using Paint. I would cry.