D&D 5E Bronze and Brass Dragons vs. Iron and Adamantine Dragons: Which do you prefer?

[gyor]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant

Anyways I liked Steel Dragons, Orium Dragons, and Mithril Dragons.

For Chromatics I liked the Deep Dragons, aka Purple Dragons.

 

[jayoungr]

Brass just doesn't fit into any good metal sequence that I can think of.

Maybe it was meant to connect with the City of Brass?

 

[Leatherhead]

If we're going to have adamantine dragons, then I think we should have mithril dragons as well. The more, the merrier!

To be honest, Mithril sounds better than Adamantine. Both in a linguistic sense, and in an evocative sense. Adamantine draws up an image of just another big brick of a monster (well maybe a bigger brick of a monster, but that's still more of the same), where as Mithril implies speed and mystical inclinations beyond what other dragons would have.

And that's without looking at the stat blocks.

 

[ScaleyBob]

I really liked the Iron and Adamantium Dragons being core. There were designers notes that they got rid of the Bronze and Brass because they were too close to Copper in looks/Style, and wanted the Metallics to all be fairly distinctive.

Having the other return in the Dracomonicon2 was cool as well though - the more types the better. I also liked the Mithral, Steel, Mercury and Orium dragons.

What is Orium meant to be anyway? I tend to think of it as Uranium, but that would be silly. Not that thats stopped me in the past. There's Pink Dragons in my campaign. They incorporate the worst aspects of both the White and Red Dragons, breath a superheated blast of steam, and live in a constant state of near fury, because they're pink.

I've pretty much made Dragons for every color, and every Metal. The Metallics are divided into Noble and Non-Noble Metals, the Noble metallics tending towards good, the non-nobles Neutral.

THe other thing I really liked about 4E Dragons was that the Metallics weren't inherently good. They could be as selfish and unpleasant as the Chromatics, often slightly worse because they often believed themselves to be righteous. I also took it the other way and made some Chromatics not evil as well.

 

[ccs]

if I had to pick only two id choose the brass & bronze.

Fortunately, being the DM, I get to have whatever types I like.