Gregory's ServerFantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on
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 @mcc@mastodon.social They're a commitment! A dragon is for life, not just for Hogswatchnight. Imagine opening up your closet door and there in the back of your closet is your lap dragon, sitting on a rudimentary hoard of six nickels and 17 pennies. "Graaaak!", it says, as it spreads its wings wide (span 2ft 3in). The threat display is made somewhat less terrifying by its head getting caught in the underside of a coat, causing it to flap around briefly @mcc funny tidbit #TTRPG #Rolemaster bestiary (Creatires & Treasures vol III?) has exactly that: dragonettes. @mcc  @nazokiyoubinbou @kshandra @mcc in the first (chronologically, not necessarily publishing order?) Pern book the riding dragons are genetically engineered from cat-sized (and quite cat-like) indigenous flying fire-lizard things! @nazokiyoubinbou @kshandra @mcc Yes, there were. Dragonsong (the one with the cover photo in this discussion) introduced them as the original species that got bred / genetically engineered into the big dragons. @nazokiyoubinbou the swamp dragons sounded a little… undignified. I didn't realize they were small enough to sit in your shoulders! @mcc Also, getting itself totally tangled up in the coat hangers. Embarrassing. @mcc *takes the dragon and its hoard to a slightly larger hoard of 17 nickles 1 dime 1 quarter and 20 pennies making a lot of nickles and pennies and a lap dragon*   @eons @jmccleskey925  @mcc  @mcc And they can be trained to breathe just a lil bit of fire to light a candle or something. Or maybe to flambe a gourmet dish if you're feeling particularly show-offy @ImpudentStrumpet In some medieval societies, small trained dragons are the only way to get a flame of sufficient intensity and focus to make a proper Creme Brulee  @mcc @ImpudentStrumpet Reminds me of the stove skink: https://twitter.com/fiddleafox/status/1341202169287077889  @mcc @ImpudentStrumpet my grandma had an metal disk at the end of a stick+handle. She would put it on the stove flame until it's hot then drop it on a creme with sugar to turn it into a creme brulé. The result was much better than using a flamethrower from memory. Also, you need to put the sugar as late as possible else it will soak up the creme humidity and it wont caramelize. When working at a restaurant, I had a colleague put sugar well in advance then spend minutes warming wet sugar  I wanted a low level #ttrpg group to be able to fight a dragon. I made a wyrmling that had scared some goblins into mugging the local farmers for their copper pieces. It had a sizable amount of treasure, all in pennies. Alas, it was an acid dragon, so most of its hoard was corroded copper, but it didn't care. A key clue came to the PCs, when the gnome used "speak with animals" to ask the cows what they had seen, to which they replied "Holy shit! A talking gnome!" @smitty @SixSider  Oh, thank you. I'd always thought it was a spontaneous mutation. A selective breeding program makes so much sense.   @mcc my child did this, no change drawer was safe, it was always viewed with amusement and we would sometimes put change in drawers for them to find. :ablobfoxbongo: not dragon shaped, but loved shinies. Maybe more like a raccoon. But still cute! @mcc @johnayliff I think this might have to rock up in the next fantasy RPG I play in or run. @mcc https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6j18nm I remember to these little guys fondly |
@mcc very important to me that the tiny dragons also act basically the same as cats do re: their larger cousins