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Games_R_life 01-21-07, 10:06 PM	Hey everyone! Well, my town just opened up a new Super-Wal-Mart, no comments on that please, and they had a larger book section so I looked around and found "A Practical Guide to Dragons". And ever being the geek I picked it up and opened it, and on the page I opened to was a picture of a Red Dragon (I found it! Its from here:http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG76.jpg !!) I was sure I'd seen before. After a few moments of thinking I remebered it from a D&D website. So I bought it (only 10.79!). I read it and then recognized that the book is referring to DragonLance, "War of the Lance", "Kender", and "Dragons returning" clued me in... So in you guys expert opinon should I consider this book usable material for enhaceing my groups battle with a dragon? Is it reliable enough in your opinon? It is not officially D&D, and does not say DragonLance anywhere on it but it is lisenced be Wizards and printed by "Mirror Stone". LMK what you think! :) The Book: http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h267/Games_R_life/Dragon.jpg The Dragon I've seen before: http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h267/Games_R_life/RedDragon.jpg
savant_warlord13 01-22-07, 03:30 PM	My sister has the book. I have looked through it a little, but I am unfamiliar with Dragonlance. All I can tell you is that many of the Illustrations are anatomically incorrect. A notable example is the green dragon on the front cover which has two short alar phalanges in each wing like a silver dragon when it should have only one. Also, many dragons have eyes of the wrong color.
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht 01-22-07, 05:03 PM	My sister has the book. I have looked through it a little, but I am unfamiliar with Dragonlance. All I can tell you is that many of the Illustrations are anatomically incorrect. A notable example is the green dragon on the front cover which has two short alar phalanges in each wing like a silver dragon when it should have only one. Also, many dragons have eyes of the wrong color. I am going to punch you. And I'm not going to stop until you can explain why I had to do this.
savant_warlord13 01-22-07, 05:09 PM	I am going to punch you. And I'm not going to stop until you can explain why I had to do this. Nitpicking?
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht 01-22-07, 05:32 PM	Nitpicking? Yes.
Games_R_life 01-22-07, 07:30 PM	So is it reliable enough?? :confused:
Bluehero 01-22-07, 08:54 PM	Its kind of like an expanded flavor text version of the draconomicon. Still, I would reccomend the draconomicon over this because it has all the same art, most of the flavor text, and actual game mechanics.
Knute 01-23-07, 03:02 PM	Unless you're publishing your adventure I don't see the issue. Do you like the content? Last I heard using using non-core material is not a punishable offense. Do you have authenticity police you have to answer to? K
Insane Pixie 01-23-07, 06:10 PM	Unless you're publishing your adventure I don't see the issue. Do you like the content? Last I heard using using non-core material is not a punishable offense. Do you have authenticity police you have to answer to? K I'm sure we all just adore your rude sarcasm, but what the OP (seemed) to be asking was if, since the book is published by wizards, is it a reliable source of dragon information for a D&D game? He could use it regardless, but from the general consensus, it's not exactly canon.