#but picturing a young dragon paddling a new log over to its lair makes me happier

[shadesofmauve]

So D&D 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.

#thesupersquirrel #is not subscribing to my idea #(he's gm'ing this one) #disclaimer: i never really liked D&D's color-coded dragons #but picturing a young dragon paddling a new log over to its lair makes me happier #beaver dragons #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dungeons and beavers #swamps and dragons #the Z team #drqgon ecology