Finally a few images of the completed bracelet. Redbalifrog Dragon Hatchling Summary Dragon beads are always so popular and actually has been somewhat of a year of the dragons. As always I love to hear from my readers. What are your thoughts on the Redbalifrog Dragon Hatchling? Will you be indulging in this bead? Hit the comments and let me know!
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I wile away my time enthusing about brands such as Trollbeads, Pandora and Redbalifrog while dabbling with fiction writing. I really like how you look at beads from different brands to see what would work on a bracelet.
I enjoy making bracelets for a particular occasion — movie release, new book, new tv show. I find not mixing brands a bit alien. I personally do like you ladies, I happily mix brands! I just think it restricts creativity so much though.
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I love this bead. The details are amazing. And, looking at the website, the price is also. I look forward to purchasing this sibling for my Baby Frankie. All in all, I love this entire release. I just have to figure out a way to prioritize my purchases, but the planning adds to the fun. Amanda always keeps her pricing so reasonable.
I just might have to get the RBF onyx now! Love how tiger eye and volcanic fossil tie right in, I find them on the huge side lol but here they look great! Elfbeads , Chamilia and Redbalifrog sure complement each other. Sigh… the RBF stones are now on the never ending list. Really love Cave In.. Promo shots did not do it justice,made it appear an extra maybe too large bead for most arrangrments but after having them find them spectacular and lovely worn alone or as you have them here..
Lol Victoria,keep this up and I may become desensitized to creepy crawlies and join you and the Fantasy crowd.: Cave In is amazing. Redbalifrog Dragon Hatchling is hands down my favorite from this release. I think I like it even more than Trollbeads Dragon Egg which is still on my wishlist. With all these eggs, hatchlings, and baby dragons on the market, it is very easy to make a dragon lair that a mother dragon has nested in. I suppose all I am looking for now would be beads that act as treasure that a dragon has collected. Perhaps I can just use my Earthbeads to represent the treasure, and use the silver to represent the dragons.
Earthbeads would work beautifully!
I often use stones for treasure too. That is very exciting to hear that you are planning elemental dragons. That is my favorite type of dragon. Just remember, your kids and your pets are never as cute as you think they are. It's up to you. In my Greyhawk campaign, orcs and black dragons are unalterably evil; in my Judges Guild campaign, they are not and although no PC has ever encountered a good orc a neutral black dragon has featured.
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Similarly the 1e MM says that alignment is "characteristic" of the monster, which leaves some options. The danger of making all alignments flexible is that it risks losing flavour. Drow, for example, have become something of a running joke because there seems to be more good-alignn exiled rebel drow than there are actual evil drow despite the fact that they're supposed to be renowned for their evilness.
It's become a cliche. None of which changes the fact that the DM is the last word and can do it any way that suits the nature of their particular world. Nor that DM discretion is canon. Monster Manual entries in some perhaps even most, nowadays editions frequently state that a creature's alignment is "Always [x]" or "Usually [y]", and may also contain things like "Any good" etc. For those creatures labelled "Always chaotic evil", it seems to me that this "Always" is interpretable as being an intrinsic characteristic of the creature, rather than a product of its upbringing, whereas "Usually" denotes more flexibility, perhaps implying that the creatures in question are more prone to making a personal choice early in life.
This in turn is not to say that an intelligent creature, born to chaotic evil, cannot decide later in life to turn from that path and become good. A strictly defined alignment anything other than "neutral" implies an understanding of the moral consequences of one's actions, and, beyond a certain point, denotes a choice to behave in a moral or immoral way. Is the mountain lion who drags off a small child to feed itself inherently chaotic evil?
No, it is an amoral predator with a defined alignment of neutral. It lacks any innate capacity to judge its own actions and perceive them as "wrong" — such a concept does not exist for the mountain lion, but the same cannot be said of a dragon beyond a certain age. But right off the bat the rules seem to imply an intrinsic and pervasive evil in the species as a whole, quite possibly from birth, as racially encoded in the DNA as the dragon's wings are.
And, to continue with the analogy, an older dragon can always choose not to fly, but it will still be born with wings. A seagull, on the other hand, cannot ponder and reflect on its abilities and make a conscious decision that it shall never fly again. It just flies — because that's what it does; it is part of its very nature, like the murderous mountain lion. So, a grey area in the canon I feel. My take on this is, admittedly, a bit of a judicious interpretation of RAW, but at the end of the day the DM is judge, jury… and of course executioner.
The creature is born with the indicated alignment. The creature may have a hereditary predisposition to the alignment or come from a plane that predetermines it. It is possible for individuals to change alignment, but such individuals are either unique or rare exceptions. It is inherently evil, but can be somewhat raised to be good DMG, Bytopia, optional rule: Pervasive Goodwill, pages Aside from just ruling it as such, I saw this question elsewhere I think on gitp, asking about whether handle animal could be used to raise a dragon to be good.
If you take the creature to the plane of Bytopia and stay for 1d4 days after it fails a DC10 wisdom throw its alignment will change to either Neutral or Lawful good whichever is closer, therefore Neutral Good permanently There are spells to detect the value of a creature's good-evil score; there are items that affect or require certain ranges of values; there are areas that are beneficial and inimical, depending on a creature's value.
There are planes dedicated to particular values on the good-evil scale. Creatures from these planes are good or evil, as appropriate, by nature. Even more, they cannot change their nature. A fiend is always evil. A celestial is always good.
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A modron is always neutral. On the Prime plane, however, creatures get to choose. It is one of the things that differentiates Prime planes from Outer planes. In other words, not all goblins are evil. Whether or not this applies to dragons is up to the GM. In the Forgotten Realms, dragons are not native to Faerun - they fell to the ground many thousands of years ago.
One could argue they are descended from extra planar creatures, so their alignment is locked into their nature.
One could also argue they came from another Prime plane, so nurture plays a part. Many of the player races are described as having alignments of either good or evil, or lawful or chaotic, but there many examples both in game and in official novels of unique individuals bucking the trend in spectacular fashion. Dragons are highly intelligent creatures, often more than the typical player races.
This intelligence in my opinion gives them the capacity to learn, to break instincts and, more importantly, choose their own path. It's tempting to look in the Monsters Manual and declare that all Black Dragons are the same. But such rare and powerful creatures should be every bit as unique as any player race. With all of these instincts which its "parents" keep scolding it for following; parents that it cannot help but feel are somehow inferior.
Khisanth is a FINE example of a canon black dragon who at least for a while certainly didn't fit the typical alignment of her kind. However with the death of her companions, due to the actions of some human bandits, Khisanth threw away the peaceful life with her new friends and instead flew into a rage, killing the bandits and leaving the area altogether.
Originally, alignments were not related to moral choices that you make or should make, but rather where you stood in the planar war, for example in 2e.
Only later editions tried adding "morality" and "depth" to it to make it something you "can control" or "be influenced by". The problem with alignments in general is how they're grossly misinterpreted. If you're basing your campaign around them, you need to define what they do: Otherwise you end up in meaningless bickering over "lul im chaotic ebil xd" responses when asked why did your character do X. In your particular question - I don't see why not. Depending on setting, dragons might take a while to be brought up, so unless your party is a bunch of elves or other creatures that can live for as long as dragons do or even outlive them, it might not be reasonable or even plausible at all to pursue this goal.
Crystal dragons capture white dragons and raise them to be non-evil. These dragons are accepted by their smaller, more intelligent cousins as part of the clan, as full members. Not sure how that works out, come breeding time, nor how silver dragons react to a white and crystal when these meetings occur.
I recall a group of gulley dwarves from the old 2nd edition game, and a very nurturing and protective old red dragon, who had gone senile and thought them her brood.
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My point is that a DM ultimately decides. There is no canon, ultimately, because an exception can always be made with good storytelling or bad, as the case may be. Thauglorimorgorus is the wisest black dragon I ever know and his young dragon followers are not half bad as evil chromatic dragons.
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Can a Black Dragon Hatchling be raised to be good? Or is it inherently evil? The following came up during my campaign: Angew 2, 1 10 Iajitsu 2 5 There is practical issue: There are two great answers to this question, so I think the choice comes down to you as a DM: What is Canon in your world? By canon, as your question asks, nope. First we'll define the word canon so we're clear about what we're discussing as it applies here, I'll leave out definitions that don't apply: Canon; a general rule, law, principle or criterion by which something is judged; or a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine or the works of a particular author or artist that are considered genuine With those definitions established, I'll be citing the Monster Manual for 5th Edition, which is based upon the Forgotten Realms setting.
Chromatic Dragons Driven by Greed. The following is where alignment comes into play. On top of that, the main header on the page titled Dragons also covers this pertinent bit emphasis mine: Lino Frank Ciaralli Yes, but is this selfishness and evilness something innate or a byproduct of chromatic dragon culture? I think there's space for alternatives. This answer is simply wrong: Sorry, but you're wrong. The "brief" description in the Monster Manual, are for how creatures behave and act, and dragons are no different than say, Ogres or Gelatinous Cubes. I'm just going to point out that for dragons this "brief" description is a full page, followed by another full page for each colour independently, all pointing out how evil they are.
A DM is of course free to change this up , but the question here was about canon in 5e. Under Black Dragon we have Brutal and Cruel: All chromatic dragons are evil, but black dragons stand apart for their sadistic nature. There's even canon dragons that don't fit the mold for this. There's an ancient red dragon in Storm King that basically thinks "little human things are so weak and soft, I should help them" and offers magic items for free, because it doesn't really need them. Is it a good aligned dragon? Maybe not, but that doesn't change the fact that the dragon isn't greedy, so the "lore" isn't set in stone.
Besides, even devils can be redeemed, as has been shown in previous editions. If you're talking about Klauth, he is thoroughly evil.