Magic items made from Great Red Dragon's corpse

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Well, assuming defenses don't properly scale with size, at least. My general rule of thumb for giant monsters is that they don't have any locations with DR less than 10% of hit points, and they have a BL of at least 10% of their mass, so a SM +4 (10 ton) dragon has a ST of at least 100 and DR 10 in its weak spots, and a SM +11 (150 yard, 30,000 ton) dragon has ST 5,500 and no locations with DR less than 550. Obviously, YMMV...

The giant dragon had a BL of around 87.5% of his weight and HPs to match. HP 3500, in fact. His effective DR ranged from 100 or so to a minimum of 32 or so on the eyes. The scale DR was DR 80 (Hardened 2), but this did not apply to eye DR. In addition, DR 20 was against non-magical weapons only.

But given the ability to aim for Chinks in Armour and the AD of typical magical weapons....

I don't really see any justification for DR 550 on the eyes, even for a huge dragon. Hits there hurt. They'll just usually not do enough damage to disable the dragon or even blind it. Unless the PCs are using powerful magical stuff that explodes, of course.