shadesofmauve:

So D&D’Souza black dragons are supposed to live in swamps, right? Pretty amphibious, live in swamps, lair in…

caves. With a main entrance and a back entrance.

In swamps.

I really have trouble with the idea that there’s these dragon-sized caves in an area with such a high water table, y’know? We have to go through miles of swamp to reach this lair, it’s not one little boggy place in a mountain valley otherwise filled with nice caves. And the cave has to have two entrances, too? I can believe in dragons, but not this geology.

So… maybe it’s not geology. Because a lair in a marshy place with exacting design specifications sounds a lot like a totally natural thing –

A beaver lodge.

So now I have this new image of black dragons industriously gnawing down giant trees to construct their mighty swamp lairs, and I am so much happier.

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#dragons #story ideas I will never write #D&D #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once