OSR Commentary On Expanded Dragons By James Mishler Games For Shadow Dark rpg But With Castles & Crusades Leanings

 "Expanded Dragons is a new system for generating dragons for the Shadowdark RPG.

The Expanded Dragons system enables the easy creation of six types of dragons of 1st to 20th level of power."

"The following subsystems are included:

• Core system, including determining Age Category, Level, Type, and Alignment.
• Determining Base Dragon Stats.
• Determining and applying Random Modifiers to Stats.
• Determining Base Statistics.
• Determining Dragon Talents, applying modifiers, and noting any special abilities.
• Determining Dragon Magic spells, if possessed.
• Determining Dragon Treasure.
• A sample dragon, complete with a breakdown of the use of the system, is included.

"This version of Expanded Dragons is designed specifically for use with the Shadowdark RPG, and is unrelated to and completely different from my earlier Expanded Dragons book, which was designed for use with Labyrinth Lord."

Expanded Dragons By James Mishler Games couldn't have come at a better time because this is perfectly suited for Castles and Crusades as an alternative to the dragons of the C&C system. Not only do you have a whole sale revamp of the dragons of the worlds most popular rpg but you got a great resource to bring new twists on the dragon myth in other OSR systems. And this is where Expanded Dragons takes a few unexpected twists. This includes full looks into Dragonic magic and treasures. These are easily applable to Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasures. 

Expanded Dragons By James Mishler Games magic, artifacts, and background could easily make a marked appearance in a C&C campaign where you've got the PC's seeking enchanted weaponry such as those that are going to be found within The Adventurer's Armory. We already know what's going to be in the book so dragons are going to need all of the help that they can get. Mishler games brings that advantage. 

  Dragons should be in my mind be highly unpredictable as suits monsters of legend and myth. These are monsters of legend and lore, Mishler Games does an excellent job of bringing more options for the dragons to take far more leadership positions. And this is something that we've also seen in other OSR products such as Adventurer, Conqueror, King's Heroic Fantasy Handbook. However Expanded Dragons let's dragons be dragons within a C&C campaign or other OSR campaign. The dragon here is a force of nature and magick a creature of both creation, destruction and even horror. Dragons as thier presented by Expanded Dragons are creatures worthy of being called Dragons.