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Okay, I'm trying to compile a list of the most famous-est dragons from D&D. The ones that just about everyone knows.
1) Flame (Dungeon "Into the Fire" and two sequels)
2) Khisanth (DragonLance)
3) Brazemal (Greyhawk, various)
4) Gelid the White (Dungeon "The Ice Tyrant")
4) Klauth (FR)
6) Nightscale ("The Forge of Fury")
7) Hookface (SCAP)
8) Icingdeath (The Crystal Shard)
9) Ebondeath (FR, The Mere of Dead Men)
10)Ilthane (Dungeon, Age of Worms)
Who else? And, are these the top ten? I gotta be forgetting some bigger than Icingdeath, Ebondeath and Ilthane, maybe even Hookface.
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I'd suggest:
Ashardalon (most notably from Bastion of Broken Souls, although he was referenced in several other modules of that initial WotC series);
Calcryx (from Sunless Citadel, although possibly misspelled); and
a blue dragon whose name eludes me, but lived in the moathouse in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. A real PC-killer, that one.
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Utreshimon is the Blue from Return to ToEE. I guess I didn't remember him because I eliminated him from the campaign when I ran it -- it just didn't feel right, fluff-wise, with the campaign I was trying to run. (I don't use a red dragon in Ravenloft for the same reason -- it just doesn't fit.) Also, Utreshimon isn't in the original; it's like Cook the Great was just trying to throw it in for effect.
Nonetheless, I know that, according to Dungeon116, "everyone" played through Return to ToEE and that would be an encounter that everyone remembers -- likely the first encounter for some groups in the whole campaign!
Anybody else have big memories of this Blue Dragon?
Synn, the female Red Dragon from the old D&D boxed set (BECMI)/ Rules Cyclopedia/ AD&D Mystara (and even the CAPCOM beat'em up 'D&D: Shadow over Mystara), who poses to be a Glantian noble (Dolores Hillsbury) while secretly trying to overthrow the government of Glantri and become the new ruler.
(in the beat'em up, her human appearance is more... juicy - think of Seoni with horns, you can have a look at her here)
Maya, the female Silver Dragon who is the lover of Sir Karl Gaardsen from the old SSI games 'Champions of Krynn' and 'Death Knights of Krynn'
(you can have a look at her human form here) - loosely based on Silvara, the female Silver Dragon who is the lover of Gilthanas (the brother of Laurana) in the Dragonlance Chronicles series.
Hmmm... I wonder why I remember only female dragons ;) ...
Synn, from the video game!
Crap, sorry about the lack of a spoiler -- I flagged it.
Spoilered.
Kazavon.
Khyber, Sybris and Eberron.
Khyber, Sybris and Eberron.
Of course, how could I forget ! But it's Siberys, BTW.
Also... did anyone else noticed a 'change on gender' of the iconic Dragons of the Eberron Campaign Settings ? Except for Khyber (who was and still is considered female), I remember that in the first Eberron manuals, Siberys was described as female and Eberron as male... but in the last 3.5 products (I dunno about 4th ed - and I'm not even interested, BTW - ) I'm sure that they are described as 'Eberron = female, Siberys = male'...
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I agree with a lot of these.
Some of my favs in no particular order (and yes there will be doubles form those above)
Forgotten Realms
Zz'Pzora
Mistinarperandnacles Hai Draco
Icingdeath
Shimmergloom
Dragonlance...
Skie
Khisanth (if for no other reason than that she made me give up DMing. I haven't DM'd since I did DL1 back when I was 17)
Cyan Bloodbane
Silvara
Synn, from the video game!
** spoiler omitted **
Yeh the Big D kicks every other dragons backside - how many dragons become President of the United Canadian & American States. Unfortunately he is a Shadowrun Dragon, although Loftwyr gives him a run for his money.
Khyber, Sybris and Eberron.Of course, how could I forget ! But it's Siberys, BTW.
Also... did anyone else noticed a 'change on gender' of the iconic Dragons of the Eberron Campaign Settings ? Except for Khyber (who was and still is considered female), I remember that in the first Eberron manuals, Siberys was described as female and Eberron as male... but in the last 3.5 products (I dunno about 4th ed - and I'm not even interested, BTW - ) I'm sure that they are described as 'Eberron = female, Siberys = male'...
In 4E Eberron and Khyber are usualy described as male and Siberys as female. They are also the primordial Dragons so their sex changes with culture and race.
In 4E Eberron and Khyber are usualy described as male and Siberys as female. They are also the primordial Dragons so their sex changes with culture and race.
Uh, so they changed AGAIN...
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Khyber = the Mother of Fiends = male... sure, right...
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In 4E Eberron and Khyber are usualy described as male and Siberys as female. They are also the primordial Dragons so their sex changes with culture and race.
Uh, so they changed AGAIN...
[sarcasm]
Khyber = the Mother of Fiends = male... sure, right...
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Khyber just spits out bad 'seeds'.
Also not a D&D dragon but a shout out to Smaug from the Hobbit.
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In the Forgotten Realms novel Cormyr, the identify the basis of the Purple Dragon Heraldic Device. It is based on a great wyrm black dragon that ruled the area for centuries. His name was something atrocious, Tharmalaguous (sic).
He was so old, that the fringes of his scales were turning purple - hence the Purple Dragon of Cormyr.