why red dragon is the most powerful creature(spoiler)

demigame · Post by **demigame** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:41 am

is there any base knowledge about why red dragon alwayse is the most powerful creature in DnD?(BG2,NW1,NW2...)

GawainBS · Post by **GawainBS** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:14 am

They're the quintessential enemy in Dungeons and *Dragons*. It's tradition. Dragons always were opponents in fantasy /folklore, or at least mostly, and are widely recognized.

shift244 · Post by **shift244** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:40 am

You mean, other than the fact that Dungeons aNd DRAGONS is based of the thematic game play of the Knight in Shining Armor with his wise Wizard companion slaying the dragon, collecting it's hoard and rescuing the fair princess?

If you must know, dragon were typically fire breathing and came in a variety of shapes and sizes. Until D&D created frost, black, metal, chromatic, shadow etc etc dragons... which then made the ancient red dragon, the fire breathing gigantic dragon breed, THE dragon in remeniscent(sp?) play/story telling in D&D.

demigame · Post by **demigame** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:29 pm

shift244 wrote: If you must know, dragon were typically fire breathing and came in a variety of shapes and sizes. Until D&D created frost, black, metal, chromatic, shadow etc etc dragons... which then made the ancient red dragon, the fire breathing gigantic dragon breed, THE dragon in remeniscent(sp?) play/story telling in D&D.

oh, thanks for your good answer...

dragon breath = fire = reddragon's fire empower.....

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:00 pm

The Red Dragon is the strongest Chromatic dragon (Chromatic meaning Red, Blue, White, Green, and Black) just by stats alone based on DND rules. The strongest dragon in DND is Gold Dragon for normal, and the Prismatic Dragon if you have the epic level handbook on you.

GawainBS · Post by **GawainBS** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:06 am

I think he was rather asking after the concept of the dragon rather than the stats, no?
But it's true, it's the most powerful Evil Dragon in de Monster Manual.