Dragon Magic, any good?

[Ghostwind]

I've been toying around with getting Dragon Magic but haven't really heard that much about it. Is it any good and how useful is it?

 

[drothgery]

Reads well, has some interesting concepts, no idea what it's like in actual play.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's an excellent work, especially if you have a lot of the non-core books it supports and, of course, have need for a book full of draconic goodies.

Kobold worshippers of Tiamat are planning to destroy the barony in my campaign setting, so I'm going to be using a ton of the book over the next few months, starting with the very next adventure.

 

[Kristian Serrano]

With Draconomicon, Races of the Dragon, and Dragon Magic, I daydream of playing/running a heavy dragon campaign in which dragons are involved mystically and politically with the affairs of the "lesser races." Imagine something like a humanoid kingdoms ruled or guided by benevolent and/or malevolent dragons who are allied with or fighting against monstrous humanoids and/or the spawns of Tiamat.

 

[Crothian]

I did a review on it here . I really liked the book and am planning on using it heavily when I do an all Kobolds campaign for the next time I run D&D.

 

[Psion]

My quick take:

Good enough that you'll want to use it if you play a dragon themed game.

Not good enough, by itself, to make you want to play a dragon-themed game.


Draconomicon was a first class production for me; Dragon Magic doesn't quite make it to that level. But if you already have dragon feel on the mind, it scratches that itch, and makes a good partner to Draconomicon and Races of the Dragon in making that happen.

 

[Mark Hope]

With Draconomicon, Races of the Dragon, and Dragon Magic, I daydream of playing/running a heavy dragon campaign in which dragons are involved mystically and politically with the affairs of the "lesser races." Imagine something like a humanoid kingdoms ruled or guided by benevolent and/or malevolent dragons who are allied with or fighting against monstrous humanoids and/or the spawns of Tiamat.

You just described my current homebrew . Good stuff all round in Dragon Magic, but it's very much a supplemental work (unlike Draconomicon, which is a solid stand-alone product). If you have these elements in your games, it's worth getting. As said above, it doesn't quite cover all the bases on its own.

 

[Kafkonia]

I did a review on it here . I really liked the book and am planning on using it heavily when I do an all Kobolds campaign for the next time I run D&D.

I love kobolds but care not a whit for dragons themselves. Would I find this worthwhile?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I love kobolds but care not a whit for dragons themselves. Would I find this worthwhile?

The dragon in my campaign setting has been missing for a decade. The kobolds worship Tiamat, and so they use a lot of the stuff from Dragon Magic as an aspect of their devotion.

If your kobolds are similar (I actually have multiple competing sects of kobolds, so I can toss other flavors into the mix as I like), it's very useful, IMO.

A kobold dragonfire adept makes a lot more sense to me, personally, than a kobold warlock, for instance, and a group of them makes a hell of an evocative (and tougher) alternative to kobolds with small light crossbows.

 

[JustKim]

I love kobolds but care not a whit for dragons themselves. Would I find this worthwhile?

A lot of the mechanics are about making your characters dragonblooded in order to grant them neat powers. Since kobolds are already dragonblooded, they have a shortcut to all those neat powers. They are dragon-related, though, obviously.

The fluff is all about dragons as far as I remember. Nothing specifically about kobolds.