| From: | "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: ADMIN: DRAGONS AS NEXT NERPS? |
| Date: | Sun, 12 Mar 1995 13:18:20 -0600 |
> I vaguely remember that book, but don't remember which one it was...
See previous message...
> Wouldn't a dragon look awfully bloated if it was pumped up with
> hydrogen? And what happens when some clown gets his greasy cyber-palms
> on some armor-piercing incendiary rounds? Although "A Dragon Named
> Hindenburg" would make a good name for something...
1) Every representation I've ever seen had dragons getting HUGE prior to
breathign fire or taking off (like they were taking a deep breath).
2) Human bazooka's are relatively recent evolutionary trait, and there
would have been no time for it to have been selected against.
> I vote magic as the cause of most of the incredible abilities. AFter
> all, if they were scientifically explainable with "normal" science,
> dragons would have been flying around before the Awakening.
Who says they wern't flying around? I have an innate problem with the
totally magic explaination. It just seems so artificial.
> Perhaps dragons who do breathe fire (I seem to recall that not all of
> them do) have some sort of innate magical/genetic "affinity" for certain
> types of elemental fire magic (and perhaps should have bonuses in the
> case of full mage-dragons.)
Thos dragon's that don't breathe fire don't have that bio-electricity
gland. Seems to work...
> Besides, I thought a dragon ate (as the punchline goes) "Whatever it
> wants"...
Of course, but it's calcium and other hydrogen-producing things that make
the fire...
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