D&D 5E D&D Gem Dragons Are Officially Back

So if you're (not) like me and you don't have the time or patience to watch Spoilers & Swag, you may have missed this awesome reveal... Gem Dragons are back! And I don't just mean back in a third-party book like Matt Colville's Strongholds and Followers (great book, check it out), I mean back officially for D&D 5e.

In case you don't know, Gem Dragons are the third-wheel of dragonkind... they are not Good (Metallic) or Evil (Chromatic), they are Neutral. This makes them easily overlooked in the struggle of good vs. evil, but they've popped up here and there in previous editions.

But it looks like Gem Dragons have returned, first to promote the sale of a very expensive sapphire dice set. This little paper fold-out is included (screenshots below), complete with lore for gem dragons and a statblock for the Adult Sapphire Dragon specifically.

Of course, if you don't want to buy a pricey set of dice for a statblock... you're in luck, as Nathan Stewart reveals that everybody else will get access to it "early in 2020, where we [WotC] will have some fun ways to get that out there." So it looks like some product will be released including the Neutral Dragons, a new adventure or maybe a new monster book!

Feel free to speculate, here's the images;

 

[Umbran]

Are they truly outrageous?

 

[NotAYakk]

Adventure, excitement, glamour and glitter, fashion and fame

 

[Charlaquin]

Evidence for a manual of the planes style book keeps on piling up.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Awesome! Gem Dragons are an old favorite of mine, and I'm glad to see them finally updated for this edition. Can't wait to see what product they are released in....

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Evidence for a manual of the planes style book keeps on piling up.

Indeed. Gem Dragons are highly associated with psionics as well, so there may be some more implementation of those rules.

 

[Beleriphon]

Are they truly outrageous?

Only if they're holograms.

 

[Leatherhead]

You ever feel like Chromatic dragons got the short end of the stick because they don't have a solid secondary unifying theme like "Metallic" or "Gem"?

I mean I suppose there is a demand for "normal" dragons to fight, but the good and neutral ones just have much better aesthetics and are immediately identifiable as a D&D thing.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

You ever feel like Chromatic dragons got the short end of the stick because they don't have a solid secondary unifying theme like "Metallic" or "Gem"?

I mean I suppose there is a demand for "normal" dragons to fight, but the good and neutral ones just have much better aesthetics and are immediately identifiable as a D&D thing.

I've always felt the reverse, that Chromatic dragons get all the attention because they are more similar to popular conception of what a dragon is. Sure they might not be as unique to D&D, but that's what Tiamat herself is for.

 

[Leatherhead]

I've always felt the reverse, that Chromatic dragons get all the attention because they are more similar to popular conception of what a dragon is.

I always attributed that to players getting to fight them more often.

It's kind of hard to justify a fight with a Gold Dragon, but that would be an amazing fight to imagine. How it twists and turns in the sky, wrapping around the party to come at them from the front with it's head and the back with it's tail.