Magic Dragons
It likely comes as no surprise to most of you, but I like dragons. I mean, not especially, not more than most other major fantasy elements, but I like them. I feel comfortable saying, in wholly unambiguous terms, that dragons are just plain cool. So, today’s Foursaken Feature is going to be about dragons.
There are two schools of thought when it comes to dragons: one portrays them as some sort of inherently arcane, pseudo-elemental force of the cosmos, law unto themselves. This is the same school of thought that produced the term “true dragon” and made it clear that if your dragon doesn’t have its own paint swatch at the paint store, it doesn’t really count for much (this is a bit of a misstatement, as your average hardware store would likely have hundreds of reds, but all of them would be named something like “ruby” or “fiery bachelor mauve” or similar, and not one of which would admit to just being plain old simple red). Other dragons are acceptable too, as long as they’re named after suitably elemental- and primal-sounding stuff, like “magma dragon,” or “tempest dragon,” or “shadow dragon,” etc.
I belong to the other school of thought, which says that while dragons are impressive, and often very intelligent, and cunning, and in some cases even masterful spellcasters, ultimately they’re really big, fire-breathing lizards. It saddens me that in order to make a dragon, for one, you have to provide seventeen different dragon stat-blocks by age, and two, you basically have to fall in with the outlines above, and can’t have dragons that sound like, I don’t know, some sort of species.
Then I thought back on how much fun all those Eldrazi were to make, as well as the Magic: the Gathering horrors, and decided to take some Magic: the Gathering dragons and convert them to 4th-edition. So here you go. Try not to get eaten.
