Volos
2010-08-01, 03:53 PM
I have an amazing player who week after week brings an amazing energy and depth of story that I have never seen before and almost hope to never find again, just to preserve his utter and complete awesomeness.
My current problem is that he is unsatisfied royally pissed off about the disproportionate levels of kickassery between the Drakkensteed and the Dragonnel. For those of you who don't spend hours every day poring through 3.5 source books, the Drakkensteed is the obvious fluff choice over the Dragonnel. The Drakkensteed looks like a dragon, has similar HD to a horse, and looks like a ****ing dragon. The Dragonnel... (forgive me Bahamut for mentioning this failure of Io) ...looks like a cross between a drunk Pegasus and very lucky fiendish crocodile. It is literally impossible to look at the damn thing without either cracking up or murdering the closest thing to you. The conflict is that the Drakkensteed, as far as stats are concerned, is far inferior to the pants-on-head retarded Dragonnel.
The Drakkensteed has a crap fly speed and poor maneuverability, one bite attack, a trample, and low light vision.
The Dragonnel has a decent fly speed and average maneuverability, one bite and four claw attacks (but all it has is hooves on its feet), darkvision, immunity to sleep and paralysis, scent, a roar special attack, improved initiative, and speaks Draconic.
I'm sure that most of you will suggest to simply flip the stats around to make the more draconic looking Drakkensteed the more awesome of the two mounts, but I'm more concerned with the game-play balance involved in giving such a powerful paladin mount to a half-dragon character. Being that the Dragonnel (or the Drakkensteed if I switch the stats) is a dragon, it would be able to take dragonic feats and do impressive battlefield maneuvers, potentially outshining the other characters of the group. (That is before he does his paladin shiny effects) So, does it seem that the Drakkensteed is nerfed for a decent reason or were WOTC just hitting the bong a little hard that week?
My current problem is that he is unsatisfied royally pissed off about the disproportionate levels of kickassery between the Drakkensteed and the Dragonnel. For those of you who don't spend hours every day poring through 3.5 source books, the Drakkensteed is the obvious fluff choice over the Dragonnel. The Drakkensteed looks like a dragon, has similar HD to a horse, and looks like a ****ing dragon. The Dragonnel... (forgive me Bahamut for mentioning this failure of Io) ...looks like a cross between a drunk Pegasus and very lucky fiendish crocodile. It is literally impossible to look at the damn thing without either cracking up or murdering the closest thing to you. The conflict is that the Drakkensteed, as far as stats are concerned, is far inferior to the pants-on-head retarded Dragonnel.
The Drakkensteed has a crap fly speed and poor maneuverability, one bite attack, a trample, and low light vision.
The Dragonnel has a decent fly speed and average maneuverability, one bite and four claw attacks (but all it has is hooves on its feet), darkvision, immunity to sleep and paralysis, scent, a roar special attack, improved initiative, and speaks Draconic.
I'm sure that most of you will suggest to simply flip the stats around to make the more draconic looking Drakkensteed the more awesome of the two mounts, but I'm more concerned with the game-play balance involved in giving such a powerful paladin mount to a half-dragon character. Being that the Dragonnel (or the Drakkensteed if I switch the stats) is a dragon, it would be able to take dragonic feats and do impressive battlefield maneuvers, potentially outshining the other characters of the group. (That is before he does his paladin shiny effects) So, does it seem that the Drakkensteed is nerfed for a decent reason or were WOTC just hitting the bong a little hard that week?