The Tavern (OOC)
Ha, I noticed the breath weapon too, but I figured it was a small price to pay to become a mythic god-eater! And yeah, that 300' cone is a city burner and army-killer, even if the damage potential is a whole 1-12 lower. And they get force damage to their attacks instead of elemental; when the dragon can eat a ghost and virtually nobody in existence has resistance to its most common attack, that's a strong dragon.
I won't be averse if you want to amp some things up, of course, but that ball is entirely in your court. Having 9th level spells is a pretty major ace in the hole, as is the ambiguously unkillable nature of dragons in general, so I'm not going to start banging pots and pans while I chant "Maaaaaat, I'm not godly enooooough!"
And yeah, both the methods you mention make a lot of sense! Either 2/Challenge or a major uptick when she hibernates and wakes up in the next age category and let my 26 points be personal flair (and of course I won't complain that it might make Vydi stronger on-average than a dragon of similar age!). I hoped you were planning to do one or the other, in fact, but it felt unnecessary to start suggesting things myself when you probably had a plan.
The one other possibility that I had thought of is a slight spin on the 2/level idea, which would be that I choose where to put 1 (Vydi's unique style) and then you decide where to put 1 (the natural growth that's normal for a Red). But truly, any way we do it, I am stoked as can be.
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That second one is very similar to the idea I described above, so that'd be cool with me. If you'd prefer Vydi be more of a scrappy underdog for a given age category, though, that's fine with me, too!
I will say, I'm very accustomed to 3.5 and Pathfinder where getting bigger increases Strength and Con significantly, so keeping it to method 1 still appeals to me in that way (a nice big chunk of power after she's spent a year or a decade growing larger in her sleep).
This message was last edited by the player at 21:10, Sun 23 Jan 2022.