Tooth and Claw - Artist!

[ffutures]

Just to say that frostfox has provided some illustrations for the Tooth and Claw RPG, and I am already suffering from cute dragon overload...

Meanwhile, here behind the cut is a map showing the location of Tiamath and neighbouring countries - this is more or less agreed with Jo, I think, but there may still be last minute changes.







And this is one of my manips for the section on communications and transport

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's Ivor the engine and Idris, look you!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Well, if Idris ever actually stoked the boiler...

[timill]

ISTR he spent quite a lot of time curled up in the firebox.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

In the firebox, look you? Didn't his scales get filthy?

While I remember, given fairly hilly / mountainous terrain and dragon-sized bodies - and a dragon liking for travelling in open-topped wagons so that they can stretch their wings and fly if they feel like it - would the dragon railways be better off going for something like standard gauge, broad gauge, or narrow-gauge? Assuming I've spelled gauge correctly, which I doubt (but this isn't the PC with the UK spell-checker).

[armb.livejournal.com]

> dragon-sized bodies

Which a quote you had earlier says is seventy feet long for a five-hundred year old dragon, twenty feet for a youngish one.
Even with proportionately fairly narrow bodies I think it's going to have to be a fairly broad gauge, whether tunnels, embankments and cuttings are more expensive than narrow ones would be or not. Things like slate and coal mines might use a narrower gauge and be manned dragonned by smaller crew who put up with being crowded though.