Does Anyone Else Find It A Tad Bit Ridiculous That...

[Gez]

And breath weapons are color-coded also.

 

[X-Calator]

The breath weapon thing doesn't really bother me. Those are acceptable. It be absurd to see a blue, water-bound dragon breathe fire or something. It's the alignment based on chromatic or gem that gets me. But it's not a big deal.

 

[Gez]

The breath weapon thing doesn't really bother me. Those are acceptable. It be absurd to see a blue, water-bound dragon breathe fire or something. It's the alignment based on chromatic or gem that gets me. But it's not a big deal.

Blues are desert-dwelling and breath lightning. Water dwellings are black (acid), green (flesh-corrosive gas), bronze (lightning), and of course the dragon-turtle (overheated steam).

Wormy was a not-so-evil, not-so-chaotic green dragon who breathed fire.

 

[Wolf72]

Yeah, I just think it's supporting an archetype. It's awfully limited when you want to create a normal, common dragon that happens to be, say, of green color and plain skin and people remind you of a rule you don't agree with anyway. Then you have to make it a unique dragon and that's annoying at times. Just my opinion.

sounds like you want to just create a new dragon that will replace the standard dragons in your world.

in which case you should head over to the homebrews section and throw out some ideas ... be sure to include what y'er lookin' for so people know where to direct their energies.

good luck!

 

[Geocorona]

There's no reason, either, that in your world you couldn't

a) Make all dragons "Usually Neutral" just like humans or elementals.

b) Have isolated cultures of dragons with unusual alignment for their breed.

c) Have a species of dragon you created that only looks like one of the standard dragon species.

 

[sensate]

What I think is very odd is that white dragons have a cold breath weapon. Isn't that essentially useless in cold regions where most , if not all, predatory monsters are immune to cold based attacks? They should have an electrical breath weapon. I've heard that electricity conducts better in cold conditions.