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[–] monsteratmydesk@dice.camp 3 points 1 day ago

@MouseKeyboard someone in the thread likened humans to dragons as being like cats. This has so much potential. Like a dragon that pampers their disgruntled pet human. Who gets angry and knocks over priceless treasure when it doesn’t like what it gets for dinner. One dragon hordes a whole community of humans. One dragon has a human that kills goblins and leaves them for the dragon because it’s pretty sure the dragon doesn’t know how to feed itself.

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 3 points 1 day ago

Would there be dragon's that fear humans in the same way arachnophobe's fear spiders?

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wait, does this mean that dragons think about dragon/human romances the same way we think about bee movie????????

i.... i need a minute,

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Under rated comment.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a human should be able to fly.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

The human, of course, flies anyway, because it does not care what dragons think is impossible.

[–] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Valid post, and given the scale of DnD dragons I'd say that an adventurer is about the size of a cat relative to an adult dragon. IRL, a cat being able to attack you and successfully kill you would be pretty fucked up even if it's theoretically possible.

Incidentally however...

A cat in DnD does have the ability to reliably fight and kill a Commoner.

So what I'm saying is that it should actually be a valid plot to put humans in the position of some shitty media's dragons- once dominant, but through the power of one especially heroic housecat who has exceptionally strong plot armour, we are reduced to a dying race, ancient and forgotten by the new era.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

More like a pride of lions bringing down an elephant, or maybe wolves on a bison.

1v1 dragon slaying would still be more like a badger taking on a tiger.

Player characters (as opposed to non d&d dragon slaying stories) aren't usually as ill prepared as a cat is vs a human, and rarely "hunt" alone. PCs have better weapons than claws and teeth, and the ability to coordinate attacks reduces the advantage of size and power the dragon has more than the comparison between a cat and a standard, unarmed human.

I do, however, love the idea presented :)

[–] blackbelt352@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago

To use another IRL example, humans did drive the wooly mammoth to complete extinction with little more than sharpened rocks attached to sticks.

Humanity's ability of cooperation is a massive force multiplier and let's us accomplish tasks that would kill and individual.

In a fight badger vs tiger I'm not sure if I'd put my money on the tiger. At least the European badgers are nasty af. Golden rule: if you hit them / run them over with a car, don't leave the car. They're pretty sure still alive and mad as hell and you'll regret it.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

Mortality is a birth defect...

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