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[diggity60503]

I am curious if anyone can shed light on the origin/establishment of the health/save points related to a dragon.

Was the 5/5 decision based on the idea that it would take X number of units averaging X health/melee/missile to stand a chance of beating the dragon?

That is to say, when the game was play-tested was it with the hope that an 18 point army could absorb the saves necessary from the dragon attack and in turn have a chance at killing it?

Asking related to something I'm thinking about related to a "game variation".

Thanks.
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[chuckpint]

We don't have any history on the original game's playtests. Sometimes reading the original rules, it's not clear it had any playtests done judging by some of the major changes that were made early on after the first release. For example, originally, all the basic spells (there were no racial spells) cost one point less. So there were one point spells. That was way unbalanced on magic (not that to it's completely balanced now).

So the idea of giving dragons 5 health was to make them "bigger" than monsters. I'm only guessing, but the 5 auto-saves would have been simpler that giving them say 4 auto-saves.
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[cliffwiggs]

What would be your thoughts if the dragons were 'bigger' than that? i.e. either had more health or more autosaves or maybe less of one that the other? It would have to stay balanced with the belly.
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