Kalin Agrivar |
Brown Dragons, does anyone else miss them? I always liked them. I liked how they were chromatic yet they were still good dragons.
I don't remember any "good" brown dragons from 1st ed D&D on...there were evil chromatic variants and brown-ish dragon variants but unless it was back in Basic when golds were the only metallic I can't think of any
chbgraphicarts |
Brown Dragons weren't in 2nd Ed in the Monstrous Manual, but I do believe they existed in the Dragonlance Appendix of the Monstrous Compendium.
They were Sand Dragons in 3.5, and in 4E they were re-codified as Brown Dragons.
There were also Iron Dragons, Yellow Dragons, and Adamantine Dragons in 4E
Personally, in my games, I replace the Brass Dragon in name with "Iron Dragon" as the fifth Metallic (using minis), mostly because it's nearly impossible to tell the difference visually between Brass and Copper (as a color). Copper and Gold are much easier (copper is red, gold is more yellowish).
I miss the Sand Dragon, yes, but we still have the Blue Dragon.
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Kalin Agrivar |
there was a brown/amber gemstone dragon in Basic...but the chromatic brown was introduced the Forgotten Realms (maybe 1st in Dragon magazine) as was the yellow dragon (there as a diffrent yellow brought in Dragon magazine, one of the missing chromatics)...both were desert dwelling dragons...and later in 3rd ed in Sandstorm they made the sand dragon, (which was brownish-yellowish) and the rattler dragon (purple/gray) in the Realm's Shining South, two more desert dragons lol
boring7 |
I kind of liked the Gem dragons, but I think their association with psionics was what kept them out of most materials.
And there were some very interesting dragons that showed up in Dragon Magazine that were hybrids of chromatic types. The Purple Dragon (aka "energy dragon") was fun because it's breath weapon was a cutting laser. The same article had a version of the yellow dragon, it didn't have wings but could swim through sand or sea like an eel and was very fast.
The other problem with variant dragons is; there are ever so many possibilities, how much is "too much"? I mean, I remember all the extra-planar dragons, it got a bit crazy.
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