dragon-slaying

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They need to create dragons in order to justify their dragon-slaying crusade.

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They need to create dragons in order to justify their dragon-slaying crusade.

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They need to create dragons in order to justify their dragon-slaying crusade.

Their ad-copy and slogans, makes me feel like I'm about to be a general in a internet-dragon-slaying army or secret agent.

Oooh, or what if there's a dragon[1], and I need to be paid extra money so I can spend it on dragon-slaying gear?

I look forward to hearing about your dragon-slaying adventures.

Though it's not set in the same universe (Wotc being too busy not doing anything with the Planescape setting to license it), it will be more focused on existential questions than dragon-slaying.

¹ The one counterexample I can think of is the dragon-slaying lance that becomes more powerful every time it kills a dragon.

I’m reminded of the comparison to the dragon-slaying knight, finding himself with fewer and fewer dragons to slay, resorts to slaying increasingly small animals and, once nobody is impressed by that anymore, builds dragon effigies of straw.

Thing about dragons in Chinese mythologies (and to a certain point the East Asian Dragon mythos) is that dragons are neutral to good creatures that are typically a sign of awe, justice, fortune and wisdom (think Shenron in Dragon Ball anime) but can also be evil like in the famous Chinese story of Nezha conquers the dragon king which is a dragon-slaying story.