Rainbow Dragon is from Dragon #146, "The Dragon's Bestiary" article. Prismatic Dragons are Epic Dragons from the Epic Level Handbook for 3.0E; I was only able to find three of them, and they're in their own grouping, as that's how 3.0E defined them.I think Rainbow Dragon is the chromatic version of the gemstone Prismatic Dragon. I might be wrong, tho.
If you check my blog post, which I'm using as a basis, you'll see that's correct!I'm assuming deep dragons (purple dragons in 4E) will be listed under the "renegade" category? Since 1E's purple dragons are a different thing.
Rahab comes from Dragon #062 (June 1982), a two-part article by Pat Reinken providing stats for Ahi, the Steel Dragon, and Rahab, the Grey Dragon. They're two individual dragons that don't fit into the draconic classifications in the 1E Monster Manual, to provide some monkey wrenches for DMs to throw into their games and surprise their players who've memorized the MM! They're decent NPCs IMO, and if I ever ran a dragon-centric campaign I'd probably use them.Why is Rahab included as the only named dragon (bezides the goddess)?
In reading the yellow dragon versions in 1E, 2E, and 3.0E/3.5E, they look to be mechanics updates of the original 1E version; the 4E Draconomicon doesn't have a Yellow Dragon. Is there something I missed?there are also two different versions of yellow dragon but they arent listed seperately
Would the two dragons from Dragon #96 fit there?I'm actually thinking I'll combine the Epic Dragons and Arcane Dragons lists, since that only makes a total of 5 and I'm pretty sure nobody but me actually likes or cares about any of them!