D&D 5E Any old D&D adventures with non-bad guy dragons?

[The Grand User]

I'm interested in looking over some old adventures where dragons have a more positive role rather than a negative/bad guy role, though neutral ("there's a dragon in the hills over there" with not much more about it) or absent is fine. Or if the dragon is a hazard but the possibility of diplomacy is an available option, that would be fine too. (So something like the Dragonlance adventures would be an example of what I'm not interested in, since the point is there's all the evil dragons that need to be defeated)

I basically like to play in settings/adventures where the dragons are not kill-on-sight monsters of doom and destruction, where they're a little more like people in morality (and mostly grumpy hermits at the worst though there will of course be the few really nasty exceptions) though still need to be cautious around them.

 

[Paraxis]

The 4e adventure The Slaying Stone has a dragon encounter like you describe.

 

[HobbitFan]

What about the Council of Wyrms setting for 2nd edition D&D?

 

[aramis erak]

I'm interested in looking over some old adventures where dragons have a more positive role rather than a negative/bad guy role, though neutral ("there's a dragon in the hills over there" with not much more about it) or absent is fine. Or if the dragon is a hazard but the possibility of diplomacy is an available option, that would be fine too. (So something like the Dragonlance adventures would be an example of what I'm not interested in, since the point is there's all the evil dragons that need to be defeated)

I basically like to play in settings/adventures where the dragons are not kill-on-sight monsters of doom and destruction, where they're a little more like people in morality (and mostly grumpy hermits at the worst though there will of course be the few really nasty exceptions) though still need to be cautious around them.

Several Dragonlance adventures feature good-aligned dragons partnering with the Knights to defeat the evil dragons.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Gorgoldand's Gauntlet, where your sponsor is a gold dragon.

 

[Enkhidu]

To the Aid of Falx might fit the bill.

 

[The Grand User]

I got both the Slaying Stone and To the Aid of Falx from dndclassics.com (the latter being part of the Phoenix Egg), but I couldn't find Gorgoldand's Gauntlet. To the Aid of Falx looks particularly good for what I want

The Dragonlance adventures are what I'm not looking for, I want there to be dragons without the "defeat the evil dragons" bit, which is kind of hard to avoid in that setting.

And of course, I already have Council of Wyrms

 

[Paraxis]

I got both the Slaying Stone and To the Aid of Falx from dndclassics.com (the latter being part of the Phoenix Egg), but I couldn't find Gorgoldand's Gauntlet. To the Aid of Falx looks particularly good for what I want

Gorgoldans's Gauntlet is from Dungeon Magazine issue #86, May/June 2001 issue.

An interesting setting someone described to me once was a world where the dragons were the nobility, all dragons could polymorph and take the shape of humanoids no matter type, so many random npc's patrons and villains were in fact dragons in disguise. It was a homebrew thing, but with a base concept like that you could add in a lot of draconic flavor to any adventure, I believe dragons also could be any alignment in that world not locked into one based on scale color.

 

[Enkhidu]

...An interesting setting someone described to me once was a world where the dragons were the nobility, all dragons could polymorph and take the shape of humanoids no matter type, so many random npc's patrons and villains were in fact dragons in disguise. It was a homebrew thing, but with a base concept like that you could add in a lot of draconic flavor to any adventure, I believe dragons also could be any alignment in that world not locked into one based on scale color.

That sounds very similar to Richard Knaak's DragonRealms books.

 

[Bupp]

Somewhere in the WGA1-2-3 Falcon's Revenge/Falconmaster/Flames of the Falcon has a gold dragon that serves as an advisor/patron in the series.