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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grassy Gnoll" data-source="post: 6699409" data-attributes="member: 6788652">How about, as they are generally solitary, that dragons are asexual and reproduce via parthenogenesis?The amassing of a hoard is essentially building a nest and when the nest is large enough the dragon lays it's eggs under its hoard and incubates them there. The size of the hoard is important in some very complex way to each dragon, hence why they guard them so zealously and the loss of even one gold piece will send them into a rage. The eggs that hatch may be all the same colour when born, a sort of translucent scale. The metallic dragons are drawn to the coinage part of the hoard which imbues them with their colour and personality, whereas the chromatic dragons are drawn to the gems in the hoard and derive their colouring from there - rubies for red, sapphires for blue, emeralds for green, pearls for white, and ebony/onyx for black.A dragon may tend to seek treasure of a certain type to tip the scales (no pun intended), but they may also be rather drawn to the 'sorting hat' approach. A blue dragon may therefore have a gold dragon parent which could make things interesting.Tiamat is all the colours because pretty, mine, gimme, I wants it... Bahamut is platinum, the zenith of the metals.Electrum dragons are rare as the ancient civilisations who provided electrum have died out and there isn't enough electrum to have a meaningful effect on the hoard with which a dragon hatchling bonds.Perhaps each dragon only hatches one child per cycle. Perhaps they hatch one of each (hence the need for a varied hoard). Either way, the parent sends them away, unless they are of the same colouration, in which case they may choose to raise them and to see their own colour, to which they themselves were drawn at hatching, reflected in their offspring.The material and colour they bond with drives them to seek environments that match their desires and colouration, as they love to look upon that colour. Dragons are vain, after all. To see their colour reflected in the world around them gives them pleasure.The metallic dragons are not quite so vain, they desire more order as befits the machined nature of the objects to which they were drawn and take their colour from - after all, a gemstone is a gemstone whether cut or not, but a coin is ordered and considered, a thing made rather than a thing found. Gold, silver, all are found raw, yes, but a coin in itself is that material made, manufactured, stamped and ordered.If only one egg per dragon, and that hatchling is a different colour to the parent, due to the time it takes to amass a large enough hoard, the parent will most likely despise the offspring. All coin dragons share a common bond of order, and all gem dragons the same in their way, though the chromatics are more inclined to covetousness and jealousy.PCs may be surprised to find the gold dragon patron reluctant to have them kill the red dragon burning the town because one is the others parent.Hey, just a random thought.Just a thought.</blockquote>

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