Even dragons like to go on vacation. (Summer Fun: The Dragons, by Luvythicus)
Tag: Dragons
Worldbuilding Wednesday 9/19/18: Individual Dragons III
The earliest edition of Dungeons and Dragons released in the late 1970s listed only ten different types of dragons for adventurers to test themselves against. The good-aligned ones were Metallic: Copper, Brass, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, while the evil ones were Chromatic and named after colors: Black, White, Blue, Red, and Green. Each type had …
Dragon Hybrids That Didn’t Make the Cut
Evil sorcerers are known for their meddling in the dark arts, and that includes the creation of new and novel dragon breeds. But not all of them made it into the dark army or evil fortress. The lobster dragon tasted delicious on toast. They were slaughtered by the thousands. The cow dragon could give no …
Saucily Scaled
Glamour, thy name is Draco Terribilis.
The Pernese Dragon
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series put dragons on the map in the science fiction and fantasy world as both plausible alien creatures and the brand-spanking-new fantasy trope of the all-knowing, intelligent animal companion. The first two stories, “Weyr Search” and “Dragonrider” were published in Analog magazine in 1967; they later were incorporated into the first Pern …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 9/12/18: Individual Dragons II
In the fantasy world, you can pretty much combine any any other animal into a creature and still call it a dragon. Dragon turtles are the terrors of AD&D maritime kingdoms. A Chinese dragon/lhasa apso hybrid featured strongly in The NeverEnding Story movie. And as I’ll continue to do on my site for September, there …
Fetchingly Fanged
Cyguvid spent her days in luxury being fed bunches of grapes by her slaves. Then she ate the slaves too.
Americus [Review]
Americus by M. K. Reed and Jonathan Hill First Second, 2011 Dragons make an appearance in this graphic novel about the dangers of censorship in that the book-in-a-book under fire features a “wytch” protagonist who is half-dragon… leading to cries of bestiality from the Christian far right! Americus is based on a controversy of some …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 9/5/18: Individual Dragons I
One thing that can be said of the dragon sketch above, he certainly has personality! See more versions of Smaug here. Here’s something different in the worldbuilding department, a selection of randomgen* dragons for writing or gaming use, generated from lists of different characteristics like color, size, and type of treasure horde. A few random …
Devastatingly Draconian
Portrait of a very wicked lady.