[Glorantha] Dragon eats lunar army

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:46:47PM +0300, Mikko Rintasaari wrote:
> I have no problem with the dragon there rising from the ground like a
> trout snapping up an insect. That's still not what I think it's like when
> a dragon is actually fighting as a part of an army.

I don't think that True Dragons "fight as part of an army" at all, in any meaningful sense. Look at how the boardgame Dragon Pass handles them, for example: no more than four of them wake up, after napping for 500 years or thereabouts, are "allied" by one side or another, "eliminate" (i.e., eat in one gulp) a whole stack of units -- that's likely on the order of an army brigade (if you don't save them for a division...) -- and are themselves "eliminated" (i.e., go back to sleep for another few centuries). Or look at King Of Sartar: they show up at the end to... tear down the entire Red Moon. Or Thrunhin Da, said to have the power of an _Ancestral_ Dragon (throw on another few masteries, and as many kilometres as you fancy).

Which isn't to say that that effect isn't feasible, if it's what you desire: dragonewts, wyrms, dinosaurs, dream dragons, and unusual or (further) "fallen off the true draconic path" variations on any of the above could all behave in the manner you seem to be looking for, without the inconvenience of being the size of a mountain range, and the power of a decent-sized god.

Cheers,
Alex. Received on Sat 01 Jul 2006 - 05:13:24 EEST