From:	Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject:	BIG! Critters
Date:	Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:42:37 -0500

From: Ahrain
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:16 PM

> > 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.

So far, no luck. Found a similar article on age stages for dragons in 1st
Edition AD&D (where an elf would outlive a dragon, at least the way things
were written at the time), which is a very cheesy article written when I was
much younger. But so far, can't find hard copy of the weights article.
There are a lot of boxes in my storage unit, though, and it might still be
in one of those.

> > 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.

I think it would take considerably more than that to lift and carry a dragon
any appreciable distance.

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Patrick E. Goodman
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