Adding diverse dragons (feel free to join in)

[BolasNicol]

So most of us have encountered dragons, and lets bet honest, after 4-5 battles you have seen pretty much every kind already. I will be trying to get a mod that adds diversity to dragons, thus making dragon fights more interesting and should add some extra enjoyment for the avid player.

 

This will be a pretty big project so anyone willing to help will be appreciated, be it if you want to help with the modelling, adding sounds, effects, battle music, ideas for where to place the dragons etc.

 

Got some ideas and I am already doing some conceptual art for some of the ideas I have (will upload them as soon as I can).

 

Here's a list of some dragons that I've come up with so far:

 

1 Storm/Lightning Dragon: It will be more lithe dragon, far less muscles, longer neck, tail and legs. The idea is that this is a dragon designed to be more adapt for soaring the skies. The attack will be shock based, like for instance it will be sending out the spark spell, but with higher damage and longer range. These dragons can perhaps be encountered nere shores, and the chance of encountering it could be increased during the raining.

 

2 Black dragon: I felt it was kind of a let down that there was only one black dragon in skyrim. This implementation could be easy by just using an already existing model, just making it black. Encounters can be increased during night time.

 

3 Marsh/Swamp dragons: Been doing some concept sketches for this one, the idea is that this dragon is more amphibian like, i.e. the skin should be smoother and the feet should be webbed. Also it should emit that green vomit that can be seen used by sick people in the quest for the spellbreaker shiel (don't remember the name). In addition the breath attack should add poisson damage. They could for example be encountered around or in marshes and swamps.

 

4 Albino dragons: just an idea and it would be really cool, white dragons with red eyes. They should spawn very rarely and perhaps drop something extra. Another cool idea to go along with them being white could perhaps be that they have the ability to heal themselves every now and then. Can be encountered anywhere, but should be very rare.

 

When it comes to sounds, I will try to find some sound samples that will add diversity to the sounds the dragon makes (roaring, breathing fire etc)

 

As for now, I will try to finish the concept art and try to figure out how to model them.

 

I need ideas for dragons, sounds, effects, pretty much everything that would be cool to implement to the mod. And feel free to join in!

[Almightygir]

speaking from a dungeons and dragons standpoint, dragons are catagorised into two groups:

 

Chromatic dragons - generally evil, come in the following verieties from largest to smallest, most to least powerful:

Red - Fire based abilities, fully grown is gargantuan, makes it's den in volcanic areas, in large caves.

Black - poisonous gas, fully grown is around 80% the size of red dragon, lives in swamp/marshland, tunnels underwater to make its den.

Green - weak fire based breath, has mind control/fear abilities, fully grown is around 65% the size of red dragon, lives in forests.

Blue - lightning based abilities, around the same size as green dragons, lives in deserts/arid regions, is a bit of a trickster.

White - frost based abilities, around 50% the size of red dragons, lives on snowy peaks or icy regions.

 

Metallic dragons - generally good, they are relative in size/power to their chromatic counterparts, so in order from largest/most powerful to smallest/weakest:

Gold - fire abilities

Silver - frost abilities

Copper - acid breath

Bronze - lightning abilities

Brass - weak fire abilities

[BolasNicol]

speaking from a dungeons and dragons standpoint, dragons are catagorised into two groups:

 

Chromatic dragons - generally evil, come in the following verieties from largest to smallest, most to least powerful:

Red - Fire based abilities, fully grown is gargantuan, makes it's den in volcanic areas, in large caves.

Black - poisonous gas, fully grown is around 80% the size of red dragon, lives in swamp/marshland, tunnels underwater to make its den.

Green - weak fire based breath, has mind control/fear abilities, fully grown is around 65% the size of red dragon, lives in forests.

Blue - lightning based abilities, around the same size as green dragons, lives in deserts/arid regions, is a bit of a trickster.

White - frost based abilities, around 50% the size of red dragons, lives on snowy peaks or icy regions.

 

Metallic dragons - generally good, they are relative in size/power to their chromatic counterparts, so in order from largest/most powerful to smallest/weakest:

Gold - fire abilities

Silver - frost abilities

Copper - acid breath

Bronze - lightning abilities

Brass - weak fire abilities

 

Really cool ideas, especially the idea of metallic dragons, it's an idea I must implement!

 

Oh, btw, I saw your work, it's amazing!