Re: Re:True Dragons and heroic scale

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:50:01 +0100

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Joerg Baumgartner wrote:
> >> Hrm, good luck with that... The Dragonkill seems to strongly
> >> imply that it really is about as futile as that...
>
> That was about dragonS, not a single dragon at a time (which is all even
> Orlanth ever managed). There were dragons killed in that conflict, too.

Methinks the 'kill ratio' was, to put it extremely mildly, somewhat favorable for the dragons.  

> At the risk of getting game-mechanicy, this is probably what the Fear
> Dragons trait is about - perceiving True Dragons as the "resistance is
> futile" entities they are so much of the time.

There might be an aspect of confusing cause and effect here, don't you think?

Cheers,
Alex.

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