Draconomicon: The Book of Dragons

by Andy Collins, James Wyatt, Skip Williams

The Book of Dragons

This title takes a comprehensive look at the dragons of the D&D world from a variety of perspectives. It includes information on playing dragons and dragon-like creatures, how to run a dragon in a fight, and how to both fight dragons and work with them as allies.

There are statistics on dragons of every type and at every age category, in addition to examples of lairs, hoards, and dragon minions. There are new rules, feats, spells, prestige classes, magic items, and other materials associated specifically with interaction with dragons including illustrated lairs and rules for creating treasure hoards. The book itself is designed in a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and constructed of premium materials.

To use this supplement, a Dungeon Master also needs the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual. A player needs only the Player's Handbook.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Gaming, Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons, Dragons, Reference, Games

288 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name.

Other authors publishing under this name are:

Andy Collins, Writer, painter and designer of jewelry born 1973
Andy Collins, Nom de plume of a Brazilian female author
Andy Collins, Pseudonym of Andrzej Sieradzki
Andy Collins
Andy Collins, Baseball coach
Andy Collins, Teacher
Andy Collins, Communication expert and trainer
Andy Collins, Travel

Reviews

[Anastasiaadamov · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since this is an actual guidebook I had to pace myself and take some time to read trough it. I got some nice ideas and had fun reading trough most of it.
The illustrations were a nice touch but I think the book itself could have had more wow factor in both the design and the contents.
Dragons are magical creatures and while I got what is needed to relate to dragons while playing DnD I think there was room for more wow along the way...

[Keelan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I could give this book 10 stars, I read it for days and days, definitely a gateway to my dragon enthusiasm.

[R J Royer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
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I really love this book and I am going to be giving it away before the end of November 2017. If you are interested in it message me.

[Ben Nealis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great in every way. A must have in the back pocket of every DM that can find it this manual has provided countless lore snippets and dragons I had never even heard of before. I particularly enjoyed the section on named dragons and what their grand plans are. Overall a staple on my game shelf and one of my favorite supplement books I've ever picked up.

[Alexis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great images and reference.

[Stefanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Als iemand weet hoe ik in NL/BE aan een hardcopy kan komen, hoor ik het graag. Zoonlief heeft 'm online gevonden en is er verliefd op.

[Antonella · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is, to my opinion, the best book about dragons. Very detailed about chromatic and metallic dragons, but it doesn't even mention the gem dragons and that's the only big flaw it has, but otherwise it has prestige classes for playing characters, feats for dragons and treasures, besides the description of the favourite lairs for every tipe of chromatic and metallic dragons and also draconic templates according to race and age for every kind of dragon.

The other interesting thing about this book is that it describes the draconic anathomy and it says also that dragons may look reptilians in the outside they're more like cats in some anathomic aspects, like the structure of the eyes and the fact that reptiles are cold blooded and dragons aren't.

[Shawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a reference book for Advanced D&D. This is a great book that goes deep into the way dragons work. It tells their weaknesses, habitats, what their lairs look like and how they're set up, their life cycles and just about everything you could ever want to know about dragons. It also gives templates for half-dragon characters and introduces new types of dragon based characters. It truly is an all inclusive dragon reference book.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

An ok resource for dragons. I loved the detailed sections on the 10 main true dragons. Too bad there isn't note on dragon society. Instead there's a lot of stat block fillers coming from the 120 sample dragon NPCs. The items and spells section are fine. The new monsters section is a bit bland, mostly containing monsters already published elsewhere.

[Dallas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is meant for use in Dungeons and Dragons and that is what I originally bought it for. However, it has gorgeous illustrations and covers just about every aspects of dragons you could think of. It works well as a resource for generating ideas for stories as well as just being an interesting read.

[Espresso · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was stolen from me, but it was so wonderful that we just purchased it a second time!

[Razakius · Rating 4 out of 5]

very good description of dragons

[Dustin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great illustrations and has some useful stuff for the game.

[April Armstrong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bring you to a new way to look at dragons. great source book for a Dungeons & Dragons game.

[Angie Marker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful photos and helpful hints on dragons (defeating, playing, or just working with)

[Forest · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everything you ever wanted to know about D&D dragons. I still pick it up to just peruse.