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Saturday, June 06, 2009

The Outrage! Dwarven Wiz-er...I mean, Unaligned Metallics!!?!?

From the "Seriously? This Is A Big Deal?" Department

Apparently, the latest travesty being thrust upon us in 4E is the fact that metallic dragons aren't good or lawful good, but "unaligned". The chromatics are still evil - but unaligned metallics? The horror!

Or not. I admit I was surprised to see it, but who cares? It's easy enough to just say "Hey, gold dragons are good in my world." Has nothing to do with verisimilitude (neither does the way rust monsters work now, but that's another post). Tradition? That's a valid argument, but in retrospect, I rarely used metallic dragons anyway. When they did show up it was in some sort of role-playing/non-combat manner, such that I really didn't need stats for them to begin with.

In any case, Bahamut is still good (lawful good, to be exact), so there's still that.

(BTW, the title is in reference to the vitriol pre-3E about the fact that dwarves could be wizards. insert yet another use of the "more things change" saying)

On the other hand, why the duergar have quills now...TF? :)

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