So, I'm doing a Drakewarden build and we use minis. However, for the Drake companion, I'm struggling to find an appropriately sized dragon. I'm not overly familiar with dragons in 5e, but all of the ones I can remember seem to be medium or larger (guard drakes are medium) and pseudodragons are tiny. Are there any "small" dragons? Preferably without wings...but I can either pretend they're not there or clip them off if I'm feeling lucky. Once I get to L7, it becomes medium and I can use wyrmlings, but I'm trying to figure out what I can do L3-7.
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To clarify, I want a drake or something that looks like one that is the size "small", so I can print a model to be a stand-in for my drake.
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You may want to see if you can find a 3d print file for one and then either find a friend or local place to print it for you (assuming you don’t have your own). I saw a couple like that on a quick search for drake figurine
You may want to see if you can find a 3d print file for one and then either find a friend or local place to print it for you (assuming you don’t have your own). I saw a couple like that on a quick search for drake figurine
Yeah, I have a printer, and I can get STLs, but I need to know the right creature name to get the right size, if that makes sense. I Googled drake figurine, but mostly it comes up with guard drakes or ones not scaled for 28mm, so they won't be the right size. I could try reducing them, but I'm not confident with that and I'm not sure of what I should be reducing them to.
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If you're looking for minis specifically, the Crested Felldrake from 3.5 Edition is a small (bipedal) dragon mini from the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures game. It was a common piece so it can usually be found for a buck or two online.
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This miniature is fairly small, taking up a little more than a square. I used it for on of my party members who had a baby dragon pet and it worked perfectly fine. The wings are separate pieces, so you don’t have to add them, though they don’t take up too much space.
If you're planning on getting to at least 7 levels in Drakewarden, I'd advise you to look at figuring out how to scale a STL or other file. That way you can use the same file once your drake gets bigger. Whether this means figuring it out now and scaling one down, or finding an appropriate small one and having some time to figure out how to correctly scale it up, that's up to you, but I figured I'd point it out.
I can scale STLs by a percentage, I'm just not sure how to scale between 5e sizes (eg what percent I need to reduce a medium creature to turn it into a small one). If a creature is in the Monster Manual, there's a guy who's done STLs of pretty much all of them that are available for free (plus a good few of the other ones as well) and I'm building up my mini collection, so I'm happy to do different prints since they'll contribute in the long run anyway.
But yeah, it is a good point to raise though, if I were trying to minimise the number of STLs because I was buying them or something.
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Edit: I also endorse the Reaper hatchling mentioned above. It doesn't stand up properly without adding a base, but it's an expressive and well detailed model. I got the white plastic Bones version.
I can scale STLs by a percentage, I'm just not sure how to scale between 5e sizes (eg what percent I need to reduce a medium creature to turn it into a small one).
5e sizes appear to be approximately the same as 3e and 4e sizes -- each step is x2 linear dimension, and space on a battlemap is poorly correlated with actual size -- so -50% should work for scaling a medium to small.
I just used the model for a Wyrmling (I also looked at the Pseudodragon, but couldn't find any models I liked). I know the drakewarden features say the drake doesn't have wings until level 7, but I think it's kind of silly that the drake just sprouts wings overnight.
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So, I'm doing a Drakewarden build and we use minis. However, for the Drake companion, I'm struggling to find an appropriately sized dragon. I'm not overly familiar with dragons in 5e, but all of the ones I can remember seem to be medium or larger (guard drakes are medium) and pseudodragons are tiny. Are there any "small" dragons? Preferably without wings...but I can either pretend they're not there or clip them off if I'm feeling lucky. Once I get to L7, it becomes medium and I can use wyrmlings, but I'm trying to figure out what I can do L3-7.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
To clarify, I want a drake or something that looks like one that is the size "small", so I can print a model to be a stand-in for my drake.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
You may want to see if you can find a 3d print file for one and then either find a friend or local place to print it for you (assuming you don’t have your own). I saw a couple like that on a quick search for drake figurine
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The guard drake miniature is small and wingless.
Yeah, I have a printer, and I can get STLs, but I need to know the right creature name to get the right size, if that makes sense. I Googled drake figurine, but mostly it comes up with guard drakes or ones not scaled for 28mm, so they won't be the right size. I could try reducing them, but I'm not confident with that and I'm not sure of what I should be reducing them to.
Are you talking about a specific one? The statblock says medium for Guard Drake, at least on my cards. I couldn't find in my books...
Edit: I found it. Usually, the cards are MM only but it's in MotM.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
If you're looking for minis specifically, the Crested Felldrake from 3.5 Edition is a small (bipedal) dragon mini from the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures game. It was a common piece so it can usually be found for a buck or two online.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
This miniature is fairly small, taking up a little more than a square. I used it for on of my party members who had a baby dragon pet and it worked perfectly fine. The wings are separate pieces, so you don’t have to add them, though they don’t take up too much space.
If you're planning on getting to at least 7 levels in Drakewarden, I'd advise you to look at figuring out how to scale a STL or other file. That way you can use the same file once your drake gets bigger. Whether this means figuring it out now and scaling one down, or finding an appropriate small one and having some time to figure out how to correctly scale it up, that's up to you, but I figured I'd point it out.
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I can scale STLs by a percentage, I'm just not sure how to scale between 5e sizes (eg what percent I need to reduce a medium creature to turn it into a small one). If a creature is in the Monster Manual, there's a guy who's done STLs of pretty much all of them that are available for free (plus a good few of the other ones as well) and I'm building up my mini collection, so I'm happy to do different prints since they'll contribute in the long run anyway.
But yeah, it is a good point to raise though, if I were trying to minimise the number of STLs because I was buying them or something.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
I'm talking about the 2008 D&D miniature guard drake from the Demonweb serie
If you were at my 3.5 table, we'd probably suggest this Crested Felldrake mini from the old tactics game. I always call him Reptar. He's Small.
Edit: I also endorse the Reaper hatchling mentioned above. It doesn't stand up properly without adding a base, but it's an expressive and well detailed model. I got the white plastic Bones version.
5e sizes appear to be approximately the same as 3e and 4e sizes -- each step is x2 linear dimension, and space on a battlemap is poorly correlated with actual size -- so -50% should work for scaling a medium to small.
I just used the model for a Wyrmling (I also looked at the Pseudodragon, but couldn't find any models I liked). I know the drakewarden features say the drake doesn't have wings until level 7, but I think it's kind of silly that the drake just sprouts wings overnight.