What is a dragon's egg worth?
Chris
not hatch on our way to sell it. How much would an egg or dragon hatchling
(I know it will depend on the type of dragon) be worth to a powerful, good
wizard? Our party won't deal with evil wizards.
Chris
Larry Mead
: So, our party supposedly (in theory) found a dragon's egg. The egg may/may
: Chris
How much does two dozen chicken eggs cost at the market :)
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PJS
>So, our party supposedly (in theory) found a dragon's egg. The egg may/may
>not hatch on our way to sell it. How much would an egg or dragon hatchling
>(I know it will depend on the type of dragon) be worth to a powerful, good
>wizard? Our party won't deal with evil wizards.
Quite alot - even Owlbear eggs are worth 2000gp; a live dragon in 1st ed.
sold for 1d8 hundred gp per HIt Point.
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Lost Dragon
>pyrohydra egg.
Gah.. Blackguards and slavers each and every one of you!
Go give it to a druid if you can't raise it yourself :P
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Dave Brohman
>
> So, our party supposedly (in theory) found a dragon's egg. The egg may/may
> not hatch on our way to sell it. How much would an egg or dragon hatchling
> (I know it will depend on the type of dragon) be worth to a powerful, good
> wizard? Our party won't deal with evil wizards.
Whatever you can get for it.
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Dave Brohman
>
> >If it helps I just got 10,000 gp and a potion of cloud giant strength for a
> >pyrohydra egg.
>
> Gah.. Blackguards and slavers each and every one of you!
>
> Go give it to a druid if you can't raise it yourself :P
Not a bad idea. Never hurts to earn brownie-points with spellcasters.
:)
Zombie
pyrohydra egg.
Zombie
PJS <P...@winwaed.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Chris wrote in message ...
> >So, our party supposedly (in theory) found a dragon's egg. The egg
may/may
> >not hatch on our way to sell it. How much would an egg or dragon
hatchling
> >(I know it will depend on the type of dragon) be worth to a powerful,
good
> >wizard? Our party won't deal with evil wizards.
john v verkuilen
there are no dragons under age class 8, period and few above that (for very
important reasons I won't go into here; they don't have "breeds" either).
Possessing a dragon's egg would be worth a ton, provided you could even move
it without getting killed by one or more of the interested parties.
In a more typical campaign in which dragons are relatively more common (as
opposed to being nearly unique as IMC), I'd guess you could move it for magic
items, magic services, boons from nobles or other important people, or a
*crapload* of gold (presuming that someone even has that much gold).
Jay
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KuramaYou
hatchling would grow old enough to be real effective in combat, but it would be
fun to have a dragon!
It's not the size of the dog in the fight...
It's the size of the fight in the dog!
((Uness...it's a big dog with a lot of fight. Than you're screwed))
Michael (Darius)
> In a more typical campaign in which dragons are relatively more common
(as
> opposed to being nearly unique as IMC), I'd guess you could move it for
magic
> items, magic services, boons from nobles or other important people, or a
> *crapload* of gold (presuming that someone even has that much gold).
Exactly how much is a "crapload"? (Just Curious) *grin*
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Zombie
friendship, asuming that he would want a pyrohydra egg, I choose the cash
every time. Becides the wizaed who I sold it to was very happy and has quite
likely written me into his good books.
Zombie
Dave Brohman <dbro...@istar.ca> wrote in message
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> Lost Dragon wrote:
> >
> > >If it helps I just got 10,000 gp and a potion of cloud giant strength
for a
> > >pyrohydra egg.
> >
Neil Alexander
Michael (Darius) wrote in message <01bf60d0$ab8a60e0$1600000a@nanney>...
>Exactly how much is a "crapload"? (Just Curious) *grin*
>
>--
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Crapping gold???? OUCH!!!! Poor king Midas.
Bullethead
determine its worth. I mean, if one dragon egg could make an omelet that
could serve 20 people, then its worth the value of say 40 regular eggs. So
a couple silver pieces then?
Michael (Darius) wrote in message <01bf60d0$ab8a60e0$1600000a@nanney>...
>[snip]
>
>> In a more typical campaign in which dragons are relatively more common
>(as
>> opposed to being nearly unique as IMC), I'd guess you could move it for
>magic
>> items, magic services, boons from nobles or other important people, or a
>> *crapload* of gold (presuming that someone even has that much gold).
>
>Exactly how much is a "crapload"? (Just Curious) *grin*
>
>--
>- Michael (Darius)
Andrew Tellez
Bullethead wrote:
> I think the size of the omelet one could make out of the dragon egg should
> determine its worth. I mean, if one dragon egg could make an omelet that
> could serve 20 people, then its worth the value of say 40 regular eggs. So
> a couple silver pieces then?
But would the value increase once it hatched? How many cuts of dragon steak
could you get from a hatchling? Not to mention use as spell and magic item
components.
Hawkmoon
news:3884BEC4...@gwu.edu...
Obviously not immediately. Imagine a newly hatched chicken - mostly
fluff & bones. Newly hatched dragon would be the same without the
fluff :-)
john v verkuilen
>[snip]
>
>I wrote:
>> In a more typical campaign in which dragons are relatively more common
>(as
>> opposed to being nearly unique as IMC), I'd guess you could move it for
>magic
>> items, magic services, boons from nobles or other important people, or a
>> *crapload* of gold (presuming that someone even has that much gold).
>
>Exactly how much is a "crapload"? (Just Curious) *grin*
Depends on how much money is floating around and how much people want a
dragon egg. Could be many thousands of gold, could be very little. It's a
nearly unique item. I think you really need to think about demand and how
much money people have to spend. If you don't want to bother, heck, go with
the numbers in the book.
Bullethead
Andrew Tellez wrote in message <3884BEC4...@gwu.edu>...
>
>
>Bullethead wrote:
>
>> I think the size of the omelet one could make out of the dragon egg
should
>> determine its worth. I mean, if one dragon egg could make an omelet that
>> could serve 20 people, then its worth the value of say 40 regular eggs.
So
>> a couple silver pieces then?
>
>But would the value increase once it hatched? How many cuts of dragon
steak
>could you get from a hatchling? Not to mention use as spell and magic item
>components.
Now lets not count our dragons before they hatch please. If you were to
take such leaps, why not just wait until the dragon reaches an Ancient age
before slaughtering and cooking it. By then it would feed an army, but who
really wants to wait that long?
Andrew Tellez
Bullethead wrote:
> Now lets not count our dragons before they hatch please. If you were to
> take such leaps, why not just wait until the dragon reaches an Ancient age
> before slaughtering and cooking it. By then it would feed an army, but who
> really wants to wait that long?
I was thinking of selling the egg as a "dragon future" rather than as an egg.
The buyer probably doesn't want to go through the hassle of raising a dragon to
any respectable age, so I'd base the price on the value he could expect to get
from the potential dragon in the next few years.
Hatchling red dragons, for example, are wonderfully useful. A one foot body,
three feet of tail, and a 90' cone of fiery breath. Yeah, it's only 1d6+1, but
the area is huge. Carry it around like a flamethrower, wear it like a hat, and
have it guard your treasure.
Werebat
(Laughing at the image of a mage wearing a flamethrowing baby dragon for
a hat)
This is an example of the stupidity of the "fixed" breath weapon AoE's in
the MC. I use the length and width of the cone listed as average for a
young adult member of the species.
- Ron ^*^
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Jason Stitt
>
<snip>
>
> Now lets not count our dragons before they hatch please. If you were to
> take such leaps, why not just wait until the dragon reaches an Ancient age
> before slaughtering and cooking it. By then it would feed an army, but who
> really wants to wait that long?
Feed an army? You mean, EAT an army ;)
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Matthew Bond
Andrew Tellez wrote in message <3885D612...@gwu.edu>...
>Hatchling red dragons, for example, are wonderfully useful. A one foot
body,
>three feet of tail, and a 90' cone of fiery breath. Yeah, it's only 1d6+1,
but
>the area is huge. Carry it around like a flamethrower, wear it like a hat,
and
>have it guard your treasure.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Matt
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Andrew Tellez
Werebat wrote:
> This is an example of the stupidity of the "fixed" breath weapon AoE's in
> the MC. I use the length and width of the cone listed as average for a
> young adult member of the species.
The real stupidity is that a large great worm couldn't breathe the length of his
body. When the dragon creates its own safe zone, there is a problem. I would guess
that the dragon could use its breath weapon to clear off parasites and such, but at
the larger sizes they can't reach everywhere. Some of the larger ones might not be
able to reach the ground with the breath weapon unless they are lying down.
And why are the treasure hordes in such good shape? One would think that years of
pressure from the dragon and the effects of the breath weapon might leave the bulk of
the treasure as a single lump.
john v verkuilen
>And why are the treasure hordes in such good shape? One would think that
years of pressure from the dragon and the effects of the breath weapon might
leave the bulk of the treasure as a single lump.
No dragon treasure horde a GM would be willing to give out could *possibly*
be large enough to lie on without containing a billion or more coins. Smaug's
bed of gold was a neat image, but just not possible.
Varsil Savai
wrote:
>So, our party supposedly (in theory) found a dragon's egg. The egg may/may
>not hatch on our way to sell it. How much would an egg or dragon hatchling
>(I know it will depend on the type of dragon) be worth to a powerful, good
>wizard? Our party won't deal with evil wizards.
>
Whatever you could get, it's probably not worth it. The next dragon
who hears you're selling babies (as it'd see it) is probably going to
get a whole crapload of his friends to make you a much less happy
about your sale...
Caveat vendor?
John Merrall
: And why are the treasure hordes in such good shape? One would think
: that years of pressure from the dragon and the effects of the breath
: weapon might leave the bulk of the treasure as a single lump.
What's wrong with that? It would definitely be a lot harder for the
dragon's enemies to steal. ("Okay, now that we've killed the dragon, let's
go searching for a bag that'll hold this fifty-foot-wide golden pancake
that he was sleeping on.")
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>Now lets not count our dragons before they hatch please. If you were to
>take such leaps, why not just wait until the dragon reaches an Ancient >age before slaughtering and cooking it. By then it would feed an army, >but who really wants to wait that long?
But by then it would be tough. A fairly young dragon, fed only
milk...now there's a form of veal fit for an arch-mage!
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