Topic: Dragons and elements

[black flag]

Hi to All Folks here!
Are the dragons immune to all elements or only their types?

Tank IOU!

[craggles]

I'd go for just their own type (Fire dragon immune to Fire) and have the opposites as Slaying crits or at least a higher crit severity (Fire Dragons being effected by Ice attacks - perhaps resulting in a Slaying crit or using an E crit when the attack has gained a D crit (and an E+25 if an E crit was achieved)).

[ToM]

It surely depends on the setting and level of power your campaign is tuned on.

In low-magic/mytological settings like Middle Earth, dragons are more intended as primeval behemots and are impervious to ALL elements, or at least near invulnerable by nonmagic cold/heat and totally immune to own element type.

In other more magical settings like say Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance, expectations on the power of dragons are more mundane. So, even if older specimens may STILL be practically immune to cold/heat AND their own element, younger more common dragons may only be immune to own element.

This is obviously IMHO only and no official ruling about it, simple the way we always handled the matter in our campaigns.

[OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol]

It all depends on your world and how you handle dragons there.

[yammahoper]

What OLF said.

[Arioch]

Well, according to RMC C&T Dragons are:

Immune to the elements (fire, ice, light, air, and water)

and that's how I like my dragons: nearly unstoppable embodiments of destruction

But, as ToM said, it really depends on the campaign setting/power level