Draconomicon Excerpts: Famous Dragons of Greyhawk

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18DELTA

Nov 03, 2008 8:03:15
-Famous Dragons of Greyhawk
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D&D (Greyhawk) Dragons
The oldest D&D campaign setting boasts many famous dragons.

Aulicus
In forgotten barrows in a lonely swamp lurks a vampiric lizardfolk whose grasp on power is aided and abetted by the black dragon Aulicus. This black dragon appears in the adventure I2: Tomb of the Lizard King.

Brazzemal the Bright
Brazzemal has unusually light scales for a red dragon, and a particularly bright flaming breath. The dragon is given to long periods of sleepy torpor. But these habits do not make it too vulnerable, thanks to the location of its lair in a deep cavern under the volcanic ground in the Hellfurnaces. Above his chamber, fire giants lair. This red dragon appears in the adventure G3: Hall of the Fire Giant King.

Calcryx
Calcryx was the white dragon wyrmling mascot of a kobold tribe that lived in the ruins of a fallen fortress known as the Sunless Citadel. The white dragon was stolen by enemy goblins, and its fate afterward was never fully established. Calcryx appears in the adventure Sunless Citadel.

Farcluun
Near the Tower of the crazed mage Zagig is the cavernous lair of the ancient red dragon Farcluun, who knew full well of Zagig’s unstable state, and took what advantage it could. Farcluun appears in WGR1: Greyhawk Ruins.

Nightscale
This young black dragon lairs beneath the fallen dwarfhold of Khundrukar in a sunken cavern called the Black Lake. The dwarves are long gone, but various goblin and orc bands now inhabit the tunnels, but view visit Nightscale, because the black dragon is always hungry. Nightscale appears in the adventure Forge of Fury.
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rob_douglas

Nov 05, 2008 21:30:29
I never would have thought of 2 low-level 3E dragons from "generic" 'Hawk as famous dragons, and I2 is a little more generic than a true Greyhawk link I would like. I think there are other great ones - including a Greyhawk dragon who sings for the Opera, Aestrella Shanfarel. But I understand that is a bit too subtle for the book.

The Canonfire article on Dragons in Greyhawk is great. See that for many, many more!

http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=7

Now that's a great list.

ROB
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18DELTA

Nov 05, 2008 21:57:15
-Some info is better than no info right? ;)


18DELTA (Chosen of Cyric)
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rob_douglas

Nov 05, 2008 22:09:36
Yes - sorry, I forgot to mention that I was really pleased that they at least did mention Greyhawk, which bodes well. We can still hope for some kind of support we can use.

ROB