Those are some great pics, Rogue. I'm a big fan of fantasy art in that style. Good finds, all.
As an aside, I think the only ka-niggit that has a chance is the one with the 7-foot long bastard sword toward the end there. and what is that hobbit wizard doing? Is he.....is he sicking the red dragon on the green one? Sure looks like it. Go hobbit-pokemon guy!
Hey, I just met one of those guys! Decent fella, name was Slin, gave me and my buddies a lift. Poor guy though, had to help him regenerate a leg. Damn green dragons. Didn't give Dorf the right to call him a wimp, though, but Slin taught him a lesson. Spit on the dope and damn near corroded his armor off. Guy needs to learn when to keep his mouth shut.
Looks like one of my old teachers. No sense of humor at all. I think my aunt had a thing for him though. Can't imagine why. Good kind of dragon, though, I've got to say. Saw him take on a pair of black wyrms and a blue juvie onces, and he brought them down in about a minute flat. Not the kind of dragon you want to get on the bad side of.
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Where did the pic of the green dragon sneaking up on the warrior come from?
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My fantasy world (steelmaster) has "Darwinnian Dragons" in short dragons whith adaptive camolauge like chemelons, venomus bites, combustable, acidic digestive siliva, and they don't fly, but they do burrow extensive lairs....
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Uraniun235 wrote:Why do fantasy dragons like gold? Is it an aphrodisiac for them or something?
I always thought it was like magpies and shiny things, or cats and catnip.
Oh, and nice pictures there, Rouge Nein.
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Uraniun235 wrote:Why do fantasy dragons like gold? Is it an aphrodisiac for them or something?
Gold, gems, items of value in general... Depends on who's myth you're talking about. Tolkien was quite clear that Smaug was keenly aware of the market value of his horde and simply took pleasure in being so wealthy. In D&D, gold dragons actually eat gems and pearls as a delicacy, while the reds are greedy by nature and steal and hoard treasure mainly out of spite, so others don't have it. Basically, generically I tend to pass it off as just another aspect of the alien mindset of highly intelligent creatures of such different and fantastic physiology.
I have also heard that it's a good measure of a mate...
you know, look I'm a big tough fighter, I've got all this gold, and fought off all these other male dragons that wanted to take it from me, wanna bump uglies?
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According to the Draconomicon, a good mate is worth his weight in gold... or has at least that much gold lying around. So, yes, it's a sexual thing, a way of saying "I've got a great big tonker" ... or of saying I've got more than enough money to make up for a tiny tonker.
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Uraniun235 wrote:Why do fantasy dragons like gold? Is it an aphrodisiac for them or something?
If you look at it historically through myth and symbolism, the dragon represented pagan female knowledge and power, and wisdom + power = wealth, for the most part. How the exact iconography of the dragon atop the vast horde of gold came to be, I'm not entirely sure, but as I do research on myth for both school and fun, I'll look it up.
