you play as a dragon, in your lair, wizh a handful of kobolds, and a world map. you send your kobolds out to various locations to gazher zhings for you. zhey come back wizh stuff and stories. you only hear about zhe goings on of zhe world zhrough your kobolds. sometimes, zheres somezhing you dont zhink zhe kobolds can handle, and have to go yourself, which changes zhe game style completely, possibly depending on zhe event youre responding to? but going yourself is time and energy consuming, so youd have to go rampaging sparingly. and if you do it so much anyway, you get heroes and armies coming to your place. much wiser to sit and listen to your kobold stories. but im not your dragondad, you can do what you want.
[really, i like zhe concept of interacting wizh zhe world second hand, only hearing someone relay whats happening instead of seeing it yourself]