Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32013442-20180413150815

Hello everyone! This will be a fairly short suggestion. Here we go!

We have had a copious amount of discussion on the subject of adding dragons, so let me make this simple and clear: I am not suggesting that we add dragons!!! They are too difficult to code and model. Fire breathing and flying? No. I am suggesting that we add Cold drakes and Wyrms, the two lesser species that have been overlooked for their more flashy and powerful cousins. But how would this be more lore accurate and easier to code than actual dragons? This should be obvious, but I will wax lyrical anyway. But first I will give a brief overview of the different species of “dragons” that we see in Lord of the Rings.

Dragons: This breed of gold hoarding reptilian have two wings, four legs, and will almost always breathe fire. This is what we mostly imagine Mevans putting into the mod, but sadly, this is also the hardest to code.

Drakes: The wingless four legged oversized lizards that can sometimes breathe fire, but more often than not are known as “Cold Drakes”, who do not breathe fire, but might exude smoke or steam.

Worms: The least potent of these large reptiles, mostly known as long-worms, have no legs and occasionally wings. They do not breathe fire.

Dragons are almost certainly extinct in the third age. As I said, Smaug is the last of the great dragons. But Scatha was a long-worm, whose kind infested the grey mountains. Thror’s younger brother was killed by a gigantic cold drake. Tolkien fails to mention exactly what happened to these creatures after the dwarves left the Grey Mountains, but that could be a simple oversight on Tolkien’s part.

Here are very simple platforms that could be used as learning platforms creating these two subspecies.

The naga from the twilight forest and the tameable dragon mounts from the mod of the same name.

What do you guys think? 