dragons

[warhorse11h]

Back in '83 or '84, I got involved with another game, one which did a much more detailed look at dragons than TFT. As a result the group I was playing with developed what we thought were some improvements to dragons.

Tail attack: we gave dragons one of four types of tail; plated, spiked, spade or whip and assigned a damage value for each. The tail swipe did damage to the first character hit, but still could knock anyone in the rear hexes down.

A 7 hex dragon could do the following damage with the tail. Plated- 1+2, Spiked 2-1, Spade 2-2, whip 1die.

Wing buffet: the dragon can knock anyone in his side hexes down by flaring his wings. It doesn't do damage.

A bite attack that did one to two points more than the claw attack. This would be an attack in lieu of using his breath weapon. A 7 hex could do a bite of 2+1.

A stooping dive attack that could result in the target taking damage from both the claw and bite attacks.

These were in addition to the other attacks available to a dragon. We found they made them a bit more dangerous.