Timeline for Explaining Dragons
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| Jun 10, 2021 at 23:30 | vote | accept | Alendyias | ||
| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:22 | answer | added | ProjectApex | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 5:48 | comment | added | PcMan | The animated movie "Fight of Dragons" has a good explanation. Dragons are big, hydrogen-generating gasbags. The fiery breath is hydrogen burp, ignited by electrostatic spark. Gas generated by chewed minerals chemical reaction with stomach acids. Big because, well, hydrogen balloons. I suspect a hefty application of handwavium and mathemafudging is required, too. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 5:02 | history | reopened |
Ichthys King Otkin Daron ProjectApex SurpriseDog |
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 19:42 | comment | added | Alendyias | @Daron: I've clarified Mimicry again, please let me know if it works better now. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 19:41 | history | edited | Alendyias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified Mimicry yet again
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 19:18 | comment | added | Daron | @Alendyias I did not get that impression at all from the question. You should change the description of Mimicry at the start question rather than adding extra stuff at the end. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 19:04 | history | edited | Alendyias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Slight change for clarification
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 19:03 | comment | added | Alendyias | @Daron: not exactly, you see there has to be a biological basis, a similar trait. Gigantos can't glide, so they can't gain flight....if they had sails, which could be used to glide, then I suppose they could develop that ability though... | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 18:57 | comment | added | Daron | @Alendyias Why not? It just has to eat a leafmaw and then something with wings. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 18:56 | comment | added | Alendyias | @Daron: good suggestion, though part of my reasoning is that one species alone can't develop into a wide variety of dragons. A Giganto, for example, cannot achieve flight through Mimicry. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 18:54 | comment | added | Daron | Start with a giganto, which is already a big lizard, rather than a normal lizard. Then you don't need to worry about how the lizard gets big. It is already big. Then it eats the other required enchantments to get wings and fire breath and such. The real question is why stop there? | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 18:51 | comment | added | Daron | Voting to reopen. This question is about how the ideosynchratic enchantment rules of the user's world can create a dragon. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 16:13 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 15:56 | history | edited | Alendyias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified Mimicry
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 13:32 | comment | added | ProjectApex | You probably need to rewrite this question so that you can make it clearer how you're asking about how to "build" a creature that has the common traits of an European dragon through the various enchantments and creature abilities in your world rather than about how to explain the evolution of a fully fledged dragon as a creature. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:31 | history | closed |
Trioxidane EDL KerrAvon2055 sphennings Frostfyre |
Duplicate of Dragon development | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 7:57 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 7:39 | comment | added | Trioxidane | I'm voting to close. There's a plethora of specific dragon questions already on this site. Most of the posed question(s) can be answered with these. I think it would be best to come back with specific questions if not all are answered. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 6:04 | comment | added | Anon | You make a lot of indirect references to rules discussed in other questions. This makes it difficult to help you without a complex understanding of your world. A few basic questions: Are dinosaurs plausible to include, and use as a base-case? Can your mimicry be chained, so that a pterosaur tearing into ascended parasites might gain the powers indirectly? Is there a compact list of the fantastic creatures available to mimic, along with their ecological niches? | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 4:05 | comment | added | John | first this question is asked a lot check others to to see what you can eliminate from this question. Second you need to define things like what large size is to you and what ecological role do you want for them, You also need to clarify how mimicry works. Also dinosaurs with bat like wings existed, look up Yi. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 3:49 | history | asked | Alendyias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |