From:	Ahrain Ahrain-Drigar@**********.com
Subject:	BIG! Critters
Date:	Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:16:05 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.net>
Subject: RE: BIG! Critters


> I love dragons, and I use them, but that doesn't mean that they show up
that
> often. Just say the words "Great Dragon" to any of my players, though,
and
> watch their reaction. (I'm reminded of a Jeff Foxworthy routine: "SHIT!
I
> haven't had coffee yet! Don't ever do that again!")

I never stated I have that much willpower (probably a 2 or possibly 3 : P).

Jeff Foxworthy: *Immages of Redneck Dragon jokes.....shudder*

> "Be vewwy quiet! I'm hunting dwagons!"
>
> They've clearly never heard the expression "Do not meddle in the affairs
of
> dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

They did after that. (EGM grin). Then 2nd Ed. came out and stole my ideas.
*pout*

> I've actually considered it a time or two, but haven't found the proper
> amount of unstructured free time to do anything with it.

Tell me about it. 22 hours of overtime in the past 2 weeks for me.

> Once upon a time -- call it 12 or 13 years ago, I think it was -- I wrote
an
> article on lengths and weights for dragons in AD&D and sent it in to
DRAGON
> Magazine. Got rejected (and probably rightly so) because they had a
similar
> article already in the pipeline. I don't think I have an electronic copy
of
> it anymore, but I might still have the hard copy. If I do, I'll OCR the
> thing in and see what I can do about making it available on the web.

That woulr be mucho appreciated.

> Oh, yeah, easily, especially when you consider that a dragon is going to
> weigh many, many tons. Yeah, definitely going to have to look through my
> stuff and try to find that article.

See above. : )

> A troll with a Strength and Body both of 10 can lift/throw 400 kg;
deadlift,
> it's 800 kg. Dividing the 800 into the 31,750 gives us just a shade under
> 40 trolls. Assuming, of course, they all live long enough to approach the
> dragon.

For some reason I have an image of Big "D" being carried in by 50 trolls, on
a liter, to an episode of Wyrm Talk.

: P

Ahrain