Do you think they have heavy-fishlike scales, or skin like a snake, or parhaps more like a dinosaur(propably like a crocodile).
The dinosaur like, nonscaled, surface would seem most propable since in glorantha dinosaurs and Dragons are closely related.
Also, do you see the dragons as hugely heavy reptilian creatures with relatively small wings(like those of a small bird, in comparison), that just flies magically.
Or do you see them as rather light and graceful creatures, with wings at least the sice of a tennis field halves for a drake of a few hundread kiloes (as aerodynamics would warrant).
I prefer the light wyrms and drakes myself. I like the dragons to actually look like creatures that are at home in the air, rather than the heavy looking brutes of AD&D art, with wings so small they would never fly. I also think Dragons tend to be much lighter than they look.
The only dragon I'm convinced has to have scales are those nifty Seadragons we see in AR. The best picture in the whole book IMO, btw.
If dragons do have scales, I think they are very tough and very light. Definitely not the iron scales suggested in Avalon Hill's (may it's name be cursed) creatures book, and I seem to recall AR. For the seadragons, I think the scales will look and feel like mother-of-pearl (do I remember the word right. That stuff that coats the surfaces of seashells), with shades from seagree to seablue, and of course pearly white.
-Adept
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