{"id":254865,"date":"2022-08-02T18:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=topics&#038;p=254865"},"modified":"2022-08-03T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T04:44:47","slug":"games-featuring-dragons","status":"publish","type":"topics","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-featuring-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Featuring Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dragons appear in the legends and folklore of cultures around the world, and the hero\u2019s\u00a0 journey to kill a dragon is widespread. In Western cultures, dragons are most often depicted as gigantic and monstrous creatures, having horns, four legs, wings, and the ability to breathe fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the many stories from modern literature from Tolkein\u2019s <i>The Hobbit<\/i>, LeGuin\u2019s <i>A Wizard of Earthsea<\/i>, McCaffrey\u2019s <i>Dragonriders of Pern<\/i>, and even Pratchett\u2019s <i>Discworld<\/i> series, we have a shared and common vision of what makes up a dragon\u2014and what makes up a dragon also makes up an interesting board game.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sampling of games that feature dragons as essential parts of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love dragons, especially in a board game?? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":254869,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"coauthors":[2466],"class_list":["post-254865","topics","type-topics","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Games Featuring Dragons &#8212; Meeple Mountain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-featuring-dragons\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-featuring-dragons\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Board Game Topics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Games Featuring Dragons\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Games Featuring Dragons &#8212; Meeple Mountain","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-featuring-dragons\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-featuring-dragons\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Board Game Topics","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Games Featuring Dragons"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/254865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topics"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/254865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254865"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=254865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}