Comments on: The Cub Report – Dragons Shape Our Tactics

By: Kemonojin

Kemonojin — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:45:07 +0000

Cyberpunk 2020 had a shopping book that had vehicles in it… one of them was the Dragon, a helicopter version of Puff the Magic Dragon. A double blade copter the size of the Flying Banana, with ALL the guns and a cargo copter’s capacity of ammo. It was described as ‘Use it as you would a real dragon, to kill big things and frighten small children.” After all these years, I still remember that line. :D

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:52:54 +0000

True that… absolutely true.

I can assure you of one thing… if you met a dragon unprepared in a game I was running, you’d just piss your pants knowing this one was going to be bad.

I think the first time I ran a new group that had dragon pinata expectations, I gave the dragon a pet kitty cat, and the dragon was asleep when they entered the lair. They saw the kitty, and decided the dragon was a polymorphed kitty, and the kitty was the actual dragon… and killed the kitty.

Turned out, the kitty was the dragon’s familiar… and the dragon was also an Archmage.

After they rerolled new characters, they had a renewed respect for dragons.

Or, to misquote The Order of the Stick, “Take away our magic, and you become an elf, but I remain a dragon”. Now, treat that dragon as a dragon… AND add being an archmage, played with all the cruel edge I could muster.

Poor bastards should have NEVER min/maxed characters and tried to game the system against me. Dump stats my ass.

By: Minos

Minos — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:46:44 +0000

Worse than the dragon loot piñata is the prevalence of the half-dragon template. D&D dragons are total sluts.

By: Minos

Minos — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:44:48 +0000

I always read Caraway Burnwine as Bumwine and picture people standing outside the bank chugging a bottle of Thunderbird.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:26:49 +0000

“He wants things to be able to be reasoned out. He wants to be able to look at something, and to infer from visual cues what it may be able to do, and how to try and attack it safely and successfully.”

This should be drilled into every game designer’s head. Twice.

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By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:41:25 +0000

That is a picture I’d love to see :-P

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:18:23 +0000

Talking about dps positioning for fighting dragons in WoW reminds me that when I first fought Onyxia, our raid leader demonstrated how to ‘assume dragon fighting dps position’ with a photo of his cat (playing the part of ‘sleeping dragon’) and a lego figurine.

By: Herr Drache

Herr Drache — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:14:57 +0000

Hmmm. Typical DPS position on dragon fights….
Face on the floor. That *is* one of the options, right? :)

By: Riegnman

Riegnman — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:34:27 +0000

+50DKP for this post.