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andrewknaut 08-24-07, 12:57 PM	Ok, so i know that dragons can take on different shapes, however, i wonder how they do this. Do they just cast polymorph on themselves, or do they gain the ability once they have enough hit dice?
JulesCARV 08-24-07, 01:47 PM	Depends on the type of dragon. The lawful good dragons -- bronze (young), gold (wyrmling), and silver (wyrmling) -- get alternate form as a supernatural ability. (I'm not sure why it's all three LG dragons that get this ability, while none of the other seven do, and it strikes me as a bit silly, but regardless, that's how it works.) All others have to wait to get polymorph, which they get at CL 9 (mature adult for reds, brasses, and coppers, old for blues, greens, very old for blacks, and ancient for whites.)
Raiden Drake 08-24-07, 01:58 PM	In my games I allow dragons to take a feat that grant them alternate from (only human form, always the same), the only prerequisite is to be a true dragon... One of my players actually use that feat the day he decided to play a green dragon (the monster advancement is in a dragon magazine I don’t remember the number)
Grumman 08-24-07, 02:05 PM	One of my players actually use that feat the day he decided to play a green dragon (the monster advancement is in a dragon magazine I don’t remember the number) It was Dragon 332. I'm currently waiting for an opportunity to use that very article.
Jefuri no Oni 08-24-07, 07:09 PM	I just give the ability to turn into people to every single type of dragon in my games regardless of age or color. After all it's a well known fact that the universe bends in order to let dragons do what ever they want and be as powerful as possible.:dragon:
Raiden Drake 08-25-07, 09:21 AM	It was Dragon 332. I'm currently waiting for an opportunity to use that very article. They are not power houses I tell you, and unless you do some serious min/maxing they are kind of weak. If you want to play a dragon it shouldn't be because of the power, but because the status. The player in question, I remember, was the last survivor of a long line of green dragons he didn't know what happened to the the rest of them and was traveling to find it. I allow him to multiclass but only if he never have more class levels than monster levels, he take some rouge levels and some swordsage levels. And was the party face, because at first they didn't know he was a dragon he was manipulating them to do his biding, choosing to tell them only what he wanted to know, it was very fun.
andrewknaut 08-25-07, 10:28 AM	ya, i have a player thinking of doing that at latter game, which would be sweet cause I'm doing an Eberron game and it would fit the story perfectly. I will have to check out that Dragon magazine, thanks guys.
GoriceXII 08-25-07, 11:02 AM	I'll have to check it out too. Thanks for mentioning it.
Tequila_Sunrise 08-25-07, 03:13 PM	I just give the ability to turn into people to every single type of dragon in my games regardless of age or color. After all it's a well known fact that the universe bends in order to let dragons do what ever they want and be as powerful as possible.:dragon: My thoughts exactly. Giving any dragon the ability to turn into a mere mortal isn't going to break anything.
LycanAssassin 08-26-07, 02:01 AM	I played an adv. once where the drow king and queen actually turned out to be shadow dragons. Yeah, that sucked. The fight didn't last very long....at all. In fact it wasn't even a fight