Following up on the Council of Wyrms idea ...

[Morkilus]

Here's the list, taken from the game:

Abysia - Red, Green, Blood, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Atlantis - Shadow, *Sea
Pythium - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Man - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Ulm - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold, Blood
C'Tis - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Arco - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Caelum - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Ermor - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Marignon - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Pangaea - Red, Blue, Green, *Carrion, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Vanheim - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold, Blood
Jotunheim - Red, Blue, Green, *Dracolich, Shadow, Storm, Gold, Blood
R'lyeh - Shadow, *Void
Mictlan - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold, Blood
T'ien Ch'i - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold
Machaka - Red, Blue, Green, Shadow, Storm, Gold

The ones with stars are unique, and should be taken by that nation if we want to get as many different dragons as possible. If this *is* going to be the diplomatic game though, I don't see why we shouldn't have as many players as possible, and therefore multiple dragons of the same kind would be okay. It will be a long game, and we should be able to be happy with our choices It would be nice to have a representation of at least one of each dragon, though... and there are eleven. I can wait to pick until we get more rules down, though I am leaning to one of the "new" dragons.

One game setting I would like to see is low indie strength... it makes for a more interesting early game, and gives a needed advantage to the "early game" nations that routinely get stomped later. That, and I'd like to see some dragons that aren't purely combat and/or bless-focused. With low indie settings, you can afford to have an initially weak dragon since you can use your nationals to expand. With diplomatic rules defaulting that all nations are initially at peace, we don't have to worry about people getting rolled early by SC pretenders.

Well, there's my 2 cents for now, and let's get some more ideas for house rules; I'm sure Panther wouldn't mind if we copied some of the CoW rules, and I'd be happy to help write some new ones (as Vice Chairwyrm )