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[Frumple]

Yeah... D&D dragons, at least, are like fantasy humans on some kind of unholy conglomeration of steroids, viagra, and spanish fly. They can manage to impregnate (or get knocked up by) things that don't have a reproductive system. Or organs. Dragons find a way.

Also, EB, a tree is both living and corporeal. Pretty sure there's shenanigan methods of getting around either of those two, too.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Well, at least they have to be a living corporeal creature. I can imagine the horrors of a half-dragon tree.

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Does that template allow entities made living through magic?

[My Name is Immaterial]

I don't see why not. Do you have an example?

[Frumple]

I think the real question is whether the entirety of a coral reef would get the template, or just each individual polyp. Swarm rules?

And could you imagine what a necromancer could do with a half-dragon coral reef if it's the latter? Rig up an AoE reanimation spell, suddenly millions of ECL worth of undead half-dragon coral polyps.

[SOLDIER First]

I both completely regret and am horrifyingly intrigued by this line of conversation I unwittingly started.
Wait, if a dragon can knock up anything corporeal, and the atmosphere is corporeal...
_{Also, is the "dragons can literally knock up anything" part true}

[andrea]

I don't see why not. Do you have an example?

an animated companion cube?

[Eric Blank]

I assume that unless the air itself is alive, then no, you can't have a half-dragon atmosphere.

Also, yes, a dragon can knock up anything. Just like you can. But unlike you, the anything or the dragon could actually produce viable offspring.

Also, I was trying to express relief that dragon babies have to at least be living organisms. I CAN imagine plant-dragon. I cannot imagine car-dragon.

[Neonivek]

YEAH! I just turned all the Wizard Cantrips into monsters!

[Frumple]

Yeeeaaaahhh, EB, they don't exactly have to be living organisms, per se, they just have to be living, and magic can apply the living attribute to... well, things like cars. Blocks of iron, clothes, whatever.

Pretty sure there's also stuff to turn incorporeal things corporeal, so... yeah. It'd take some spell slots and probably material (and/or XP) expenditure, but if a dragon or half-dragon really wants a half-dragon whatever, it's almost certainly doable.

Does mean the flaming underclothes apocalypse is unlikely to happen, though. Still probably possible, thanks to all the mimic-variations and similar such critters in the monster books, but not as likely.

[Bohandas]

Yeeeaaaahhh, EB, they don't exactly have to be living organisms, per se, they just have to be living, and magic can apply the living attribute to... well, things like cars. Blocks of iron, clothes, whatever.

Constructs don't count per the RAW; IIRC

EDIT:
Speaking of half-creature templates, what's the point of the 4 intelligence or higher requirement for the half-fiend template. I mean I understand why there's that requitement for half-celestials but I don't get why there's a similar one for half-fiends.

[Rolan7]

I like how somehow the comments manage to be worse than the video...

Also 10/10 discussion on where half-dragons come from.  I think the book of erotic fantasy clarified the issue...  Obviously the worst part of that book.

[Bohandas]

I like how somehow the comments manage to be worse than the video...

Also 10/10 discussion on where half-dragons come from.  I think the book of erotic fantasy clarified the issue...  Obviously the worst part of that book.

The NBoUCK was better

[My Name is Immaterial]

I assume that unless the air itself is alive, then no, you can't have a half-dragon atmosphere.

Air elementals are alive and don't have the incorporeal subtype.
Q.E.D., You can have a half-dragon atmosphere.

YEAH! I just turned all the Wizard Cantrips into monsters!

You're joking, but it's actually a thing. MM3, "Living Spell" template. Turns spells into oozes. Technically, there's no rules specifically for Cantrips, but I don't see why they wouldn't work.
Oh, and yes, you can have a half-dragon fireball.

[Bohandas]

68.) Some sphinxes press gang the pcs into a high stakes quiz show hosted by one for the entertainment of the others
69.) Giant mutant scorpions
70.) A cone shaped depression in the dunes rings a deep hole into the underdark
71.) Another traveler who pulls a knife on you and tries to steal all your water
72.) Magical variety of some normally decidedly non-desert animalo which has developed the ability to create water
73.) Camel train
74.) A formian or modron is counting the grains of sand