It was said back way back when that the empire of dragons and the kingdom of gianta fought.
But how did the empire of dragons look like?
How did they build buildings if at all?,wrote their draconic into a language? Did they create scrolls and papers like we do? Do they even bother with jewelry and clothing? With humanoid servants its easier to see,but what did they do before that?
I believe in FR there a place named... Thesselsomething that was ruled by a red dragon. Maybe research that.
I predict the architecture would be very large and open to facilitate flight. Heck, everything would be big given that baby dragons are human sized. Human servants would likely use crude flying machines to navigate through the large open areas. Gold would be extremely present, especially as detail work on walls of columns. City-wise, a large, open structure (hollowed out mountain?) with buildings arrayed throughout (faux-roman with silver inlays?) to make that truly 3-dimensional area makes the most sense to me.
Actually wait that might be fun as a setting for my next campaign...
So in my game, Tiamat lives in basically a pit ... and humanoid eyes can't tell what exactly the Court of Bahamut looks because there's literally too much gleam for non dragon eyes. It's basically light.
So on the prime material plane, dragons, even a civilization of dragons lived "primitively." That said many of both colors and metals do enjoy humanoid artisanship and in areas where there were dragon-led civilizations, all the architecture, and all the coin, was the product of whatever humanoids were tributed to the dragons. Dragons who saw their relationship with humanoids as partnership or mentorship would have infrastructure build that would facilitate communication and trade with peers. Dragons who saw their role as one of dominion, went for more oppressive styles.
If you poke around some of the Dragonlance books, there's descriptions of some lairs. They talk about work that couldn't have possibly done with humanoid hands, so on Krynn it's presumed in some places dragons used a mix of claw, magic, and maybe breath (fire and acid do have artisanal functions).
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The best D&D resource I have found that gives an interesting take on Dragons as a society with its own organizations and agendas is a 3.5 book called “Dragons of Eberron”.
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"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
The best D&D resource I have found that gives an interesting take on Dragons as a society with its own organizations and agendas is a 3.5 book called “Dragons of Eberron”.
Keith Baker also recently wrote an article on dragons, which includes bits of how Eberron was under dragon rule before they all retreated to Argonessen and went full shogunate-style isolationism. In short they played humanoid kingdoms like a game, treating "mere mortals" as expendable units in RTS. Some liked their mortals to propsper as a show of their ruler's wisdom and organizing skill, other waged wars for fun and petty grudges, paying little atention to the well-being of their subjects. Ultimately for both benevolent and cruel dragon rulers humanoids were no more than ants in an ant-farm for a kid.
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It was said back way back when that the empire of dragons and the kingdom of gianta fought.
But how did the empire of dragons look like?
How did they build buildings if at all?,wrote their draconic into a language? Did they create scrolls and papers like we do? Do they even bother with jewelry and clothing? With humanoid servants its easier to see,but what did they do before that?
I believe in FR there a place named... Thesselsomething that was ruled by a red dragon. Maybe research that.
I predict the architecture would be very large and open to facilitate flight. Heck, everything would be big given that baby dragons are human sized. Human servants would likely use crude flying machines to navigate through the large open areas. Gold would be extremely present, especially as detail work on walls of columns. City-wise, a large, open structure (hollowed out mountain?) with buildings arrayed throughout (faux-roman with silver inlays?) to make that truly 3-dimensional area makes the most sense to me.
Actually wait that might be fun as a setting for my next campaign...
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So in my game, Tiamat lives in basically a pit ... and humanoid eyes can't tell what exactly the Court of Bahamut looks because there's literally too much gleam for non dragon eyes. It's basically light.
So on the prime material plane, dragons, even a civilization of dragons lived "primitively." That said many of both colors and metals do enjoy humanoid artisanship and in areas where there were dragon-led civilizations, all the architecture, and all the coin, was the product of whatever humanoids were tributed to the dragons. Dragons who saw their relationship with humanoids as partnership or mentorship would have infrastructure build that would facilitate communication and trade with peers. Dragons who saw their role as one of dominion, went for more oppressive styles.
If you poke around some of the Dragonlance books, there's descriptions of some lairs. They talk about work that couldn't have possibly done with humanoid hands, so on Krynn it's presumed in some places dragons used a mix of claw, magic, and maybe breath (fire and acid do have artisanal functions).
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
The best D&D resource I have found that gives an interesting take on Dragons as a society with its own organizations and agendas is a 3.5 book called “Dragons of Eberron”.
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
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Keith Baker also recently wrote an article on dragons, which includes bits of how Eberron was under dragon rule before they all retreated to Argonessen and went full shogunate-style isolationism. In short they played humanoid kingdoms like a game, treating "mere mortals" as expendable units in RTS. Some liked their mortals to propsper as a show of their ruler's wisdom and organizing skill, other waged wars for fun and petty grudges, paying little atention to the well-being of their subjects. Ultimately for both benevolent and cruel dragon rulers humanoids were no more than ants in an ant-farm for a kid.