When I next run a thing that needs dragons, I'm apt to specifically discard the idea that the various types of dragons are species that breed true.
Careful, James Wyatt is coming for your prep notes.Oh no! I better tell the steel dragon in my homebrew setting that they're just a folktale!
So far, the results suggest that folks are overwhelmingly neutral on the topic.My guess from what I've been seeing is the Song and Steel Dragon side bar might the closest to universally disliked as something gets in 5e, but I'm curious how much of a consensus their erasure is disliked or hated really is.
Well, I mean...Um, that is a language issue, not a lore issue.
You could easily run any dragon in the MM as a beast and no one would no. There is no Mayo there really.
^That.Let us not pretend that old-hand players have no expectations and do not leap to conclusions - they totally do. We, as GMs, often have to do some work to be original and avoid or subvert those expectations.
Oh, sure. Make more Gem Dragons and maybe hint at Song and Steel Dragons... but what's stopping them from making some "Lesser" dragons. "Degenerate" dragons.Yeah. Well, they have decades of precedent that you know they have to work with. Suddenly breaking from that wasn't going to happen.
So are you telling me there are no more Song Dragons? I figured they would be featured in Fizban. Is this not the case?Do you like or dislike Song & Steeal Dragons being demoted to Folklore
A sidebar mentions that some mortals have been confused by encounters with Copper Dragons or something.So are you telling me there are no more Song Dragons? I figured they would be featured in Fizban. Is this not the case?
Has anyone told Karasendrieth that she is a copper dragon and not a song dragon?A sidebar mentions that some mortals have been confused by encounters with Copper Dragons or something.