Why do dragons like hoarding treasure so much? They can't even spend it they're big stupid lizards.
>>732188008Gold is a soft metal and a sleeping dragon can breathe fire so it needs something both soft and with a high melting temperature to sleep on.
>>732188008its so they have big manly knights to rape
that's their bedterry pratchett spoke of this
dragons are hot
>>732188008only a fraction of how stupid and cartoonish real-life greed can be
What does this have to do with video games? This is more like a general /tg/ worldbuilding question.
it's an allegory, stupid!
>>732188008I'm making a Dragon CRPG. Hoards are one of the main power mechanics. The bigger your dragon is, the bigger hoard you need. At certain stages of hoard size you'll get bonuses to your dragon stats. Going below a threshold will reduce your power instead, so beware of wasting too much or being robbed. You can eat some of the gold to restore HP, if you are injured.
>>732188008Why did you crop out the part of the picture where I'm standing, pointing at my adorable autistic dragon wife and humorously also saying "mine"?
>>732188008maybe they do it to lure foolish adventures
It's because lesser creatures consider it to be valuble. Same resson they demand flawless virgin sacrifices to eat when they don't even taste different. It's a blatant flex. They are fantasy equivalents of pagan idols, a tax and punishment upon societies which tolerate their existence.
>>732188008jews were never depicted as dragons either
>>732189089Do you post progress anywhere, so I can check back in a few years and be mad that you've abandoned it? Sounds like a fun game.
>>732188864>What does this have to do with video games?Nothing, jannies don't care about these threads so they let them stay, same reason why warhammer 40k or firearms in fantasy settings threads don't get deleted and usually reach the bump limit when 90% of the posts aren't about vidya, not that I'm complaining.
>>732188289based
I just slayed a dragon and got like 10 gold when there was like hundreds of thousands decorating the cave.This fucking makes me reee
>>732189380clearly that was just gold in its digestive system or stuck in its scales, why didn't you loot the rest of the cave?? sounds like a (You) problem really
>>732189285I'll post some progress in /crpgg/ and probably dev threads here on /v/, when I get to proper coding and making assets. Currently working on a tabletop, paper version to flesh out core. And experimenting with coding stuff like map generation or inventory systems. It'll take a while probably, but somebody gotta finally make that perfect dragon rpg, you know?
>>732188008gold shinydumb human like shiny thingscome into lair and get eaten no need to go out and hunt.
>All these made up answers. Tolkien made his dragons be attracted to gold because they're a divine tax policy. They punish greed on a civilization level.
>>732188008Itd the dowry to marry human boys
>>732188008Dragons are secretly planning to irradiate fort Knox to inflate the value of their own gold reserves.
>>732190261And who gave them that idea, I wonder?
>>732190240Tolkien depicted them like that, because that's what he read about drakon in ancient myths and legends.
>>732188008it's like disgusting billionaire kikes. They can't possibly use that money but knowing that hoarding it makes life miserable for normal people is enough.Then they go next level and use that money to actively lobby parties and support corporations making your life even worse. At the very least the dragon stays in his cuck cave in the mountains and only comes out to devour a virgin or burn one meager backward village.
>>732188008>Why do dragons like hoarding treasure so muchDragons represented Satan in some Christian belief systems, so capricious and greedy.
>>732190261>Do you expect me to talk?>NO SIR JAMES OF BOND, I EXPECT YOU TO FRY
>>732190446>because that's what he read about drakon in ancient myths and legends.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dragon_(Beowulf)He based it off of Beowulf's Dragon.
>>732188008It's the principle of the thing, it's stuff that they gathered or took with their own claws.
>>732190387The issue with this scenario is assuming evil dragons are reasonable creatures. If he was a reasonable being he wouldn't intrinsically know every single coin in his horde, hunting down the thief of a single item for hundreds of miles and killing thousands just to track them down. The dragon doesn't want to part with the valuable objects even for the prospect of more valuable objects in the future.
>>732189245need Jewess dragon waifu to lecture me about the persecution of her people by evil Teutonic knights while we lay together in out gold hoard
>>732188008Why do Steam users like hoarding games so much? They don't even play them they're big stupid faggots.
>>732188008It's probably because dragons used to be incarnations of evil and sin. Therefore the greed
>>732191352>steam sale threads are a bunch of greedy dragons thirst posting about their game hoards and discount
>>732188289Caim pls
>>732188008It's an allegoryGrigori
>>732191453Cute.
>>732188008they are just like birds that like shiny objects, they collect them to build a nest
>stealth dragon fucker thread
>>732188008Shiny and bragging rights.
>>732188008it's a retard magnet
>>732194664Why would anyone want to fuck a dragon?
>>732194664it was all on topic until you've showed up
>>732188008They like greedy human schmeat.
>>732188008I'm stealing this picture for my dragon pictures hoard btw
>>732188008European dragons are often associated with greed, largely due to Fafnir and recently his literary descendant Smaug.
>>732189240>a tax and punishment upon societies which tolerate their existence.It's pretty fucking obvious that they are an allegory for greed and wealth, the interesting thing is what they are supposed to represent in the times where dragons were most relevant as a storytelling tool. They represent the wealthy but lazy and corrupt monarch pretty much perfectly, which is why games like Shadowrun put dragons in more "modern" roles of extreme power and wealth as CEOs, Nepo babies and corrupt politicians.
>>732188008To attract mates
>>732194141This
>>732188008The OG dragon was a dwarf prince who killed his dad to still his treasure and was turned into a dragon by a magic ring. Before being killed by a dude with an invisibility cloak and magic sword.
I like bulky new HoMM dragon designsCan't believe gay fairy dragon is back and Crystal isn't
>>732195124Yeah, like me.
>>732188008Do you think Dragons need an appraiser for determining what's valuable or are they natural born appraisers?If they're natural born appraisers, why don't they become landlords that lease the land, mineral rights and air separately? Why are they retarded?
Why do Dragons desire young virgin maidens? Get your mind out of the gutter and think about it.
>>732188008Some birds also do this in real life (corvids).
>>732196629Every dragon naturally feels and intuitively estimates the value of a hoard or items they come across. Some choose to learn a proper appraisal and accountant skills for precision on top of that.They don't respect fiat currency and other non dragon, society established values, because those are tied to civilizations or mortal races. These tend to devalue or disappear completely with time. Dragons like things that can exist as long as they do and only somewhat respect creatures that are on power level as them. So they rarely respect borders and claim of non dragons. It's dragon's territory first and you only happened to have "your" kingdom here, because you were allowed too or the dragon can't be bothered to btfo you in this century.
>>732196629They're definitely natural born appraisers.>why don't they become landlords that lease the land, mineral rights and air separately?Same reason they don't loan away a percentage of their hoard. They don't want filthy lesser beings touching their fucking valuables, even if they could technically pull a profit doing so. I could still see a particular dragon maybe being an exception, but that's just that, an exception.
>>732191303Exactly. Dragons are not motivated by greed as much as they are by envy. They just want others to have less than them, and potentially enriching others while enriching themselves might upset their place on the top of the pile.
fuck you for ruining everything, faggot
>>732196629Smaug instinctively knew exactly what was in his hoard and when it was missing, so presumably he had some grasp of its value too.
>>732196629A dragon can't be everywhere at once and managing an army to protect its land would be a hassle.
>>732191314Would she have scaly kazaar milkers too?
>>732188008Why do crows collect shiny objects?
>>732199279Why don't you?
>>732194141The lizard ain't wrong. If I could I'd invest in gold
>>732198012
>>732194141Based reptilian, hiding the real valuable resources away from the space jews.
>>732194701>dragon earns more money than you because he just takes it
>>732199239The milkiest
>>732199564fag
>>732199830says the guy who posted a nude male with his penis prominently on display
>>732197096Fiat can be traded for gold, or they could only accept payments in gold
>>732199885i didn't post that, I just called you a fag, fag
>>732199947Anon if you are into seeing naked guys being fellated by animals then its you who are gay
>>732200030that's a lady, just one with scales
>>732188008dragons symbolize sin>greed: goes without saying>wrath: belligerent and with a hair-trigger temper>lust: they steal young virgin maidens. can breed with anything>sloth: when not torching some nearby town, lays all day on top of its hoard>envy: they despise power and will knock anyone powerful down a peg or two>gluttony: will raid farms and gorge itself on their food, leaving nothing>pride: haughty and arrogant, they think they stand above mortals>>732188864the entire point is to derail authentic vidya threads and only leave up off-topic threads and blatant ads
>>732188008You can only rehash the damsel routine so many times, so a more mundane incentive to go kill dragons needed to be invented.
>>732200507Why evil lizard kidnap princess instead of just eat her?
>>732200837Same reason you buy groceries instead of just eating it right there in the store.
>encounter dragon>think it's an optional superboss>it's actually required to progress the story
>dragon cooperates with a kingdom to surround himself in luxury in a central keep while protecting his humans when necessaryabsolute cinema
>>732201329>find powerful superboss creature>you can abort the battle and chill together instead of being forced to kill itany games that do this?
they have human servants that go and buy shit for them
>>732201467Undertale I guess
>>732188008its not about having, its about taking, just like (((them)))
how many /v/ posters are secretly dragons?
Gold is soft, dragonscales are hard, and dragons are fat fucks that weigh hundreds of tons. All the intricate gold jewellery and coins would be smushed to shit. Stupid fucking lizards.
>>732201365>Dragon king invents alchemical homunculus body so he can walk anongst human citizens without the distance of royalty and subjects>they all know its him
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