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Re: (TFT) House Rules?



Pride sounds good, as does a Murder...but since its Dragons, how about a Decimation (or even an Armeggedon)?

On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:15 GMT Margaret Tapley wrote:

>> Answers.com says that there are around 500,000 elephants around in  
>> Africa and about 40,000 in Asia.
>> If elephants were dragons that means 135,000 years of youth potions  
>> all told.
>
>They're not, though. Elephants run in herds, and dragons are normally  
>solitary (and territorial!). Has anyone heard of/encountered a group  
>of dragons? What do you call a group of dragons anyway? A pride? A  
>flame? A hoard? Hmm...
>
>Still, dragon population densities are probably lower than those of  
>elephants, if only because of their carnivorous habits. A given amount  
>of land can grow a lot more grass than rabbits/deer/cattle/whatever  
>dragons like to eat.
>
>The quoted elephant population is probably less than a "natural"  
>population would be because people hunt elephants for their tusks  
>etc., but people would hunt dragons for their hearts, dung, scales,  
>etc., too, so even if dragons are harder to kill than elephants,  
>there's probably a nearly equal pressure on them. Of course, dragons,  
>being intelligent, would resent this...Dragon wars anyone?
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