GMs: Do you change the colors of your dragons?

[tarchon]

They do have biological color, but that doesn't mean they don't know how to use Prestidigitate and disguise.

 

[Evilhalfling]

In the Green Isles dragons are a single species seperated by color and fuction; gold queens, Bronze warriors, Copper builders, and Brass fertile males/philosphers.

all the dragons default to neutral evil, placing their own concerns and wants above all else.
I have introduced a Ln copper guardian of a human city, and a NG bronze (pacifist)
in both cases the alignment defines only its actions, having adopted the roles for personal gain.
The dragons are less intelligent than Core, and very self centered regardless of Alignment.

 

[ThirdWizard]

I have never changed the mechanics of color to powers, nor have I ever made a dragon disguise themself to look like a different color dragon. I can't recall changing a dragon's alignment to something other than what it's color implies, but I wouldn't be opposed to that.

 

[Psion]

I allow a little flexibility (I change "always" in the dragon alignment entry to "usually"). But as for alignment tendencies, yeah, I fall in step with the meta-setting.

Now when it comes to what OTHER dragons populate my universe, all bets are off. (For example, anyone remember the old ferrous dragon article? It takes quite an expert to distinguish a chromium dragon from a silver dragon...)

 

[devilbat]

I'm generally lazy, so I go by the book.

 

[Morpheus]

Eberron alignments are "fuzzy", so I pretty much stick to the color-coding in the MM. After all, that Black Dragon may be more of an ally than that Silver Dragon who is trying to recover parts of the Draconic Propheicies that you have...

 

[Kanegrundar]

I mix it up a lot like Eberron's fuzzy alignments. A Gold Dragon may fully believe in justice and order, but his belief that certain parts of society are evil and deserve nothing but death and kills entire enclaves of goblins or hobgoblins (that may not really be evil, but are preceived as such because of being goblinoid) makes that dragon evil as any classic red dragon.

Kane

 

[ThirdWizard]

Now when it comes to what OTHER dragons populate my universe, all bets are off. (For example, anyone remember the old ferrous dragon article? It takes quite an expert to distinguish a chromium dragon from a silver dragon...)

I remember when I used a chaos dragon the PCs had no idea what was going on. "It's green! Wait... is it turning redish? *they burn from its cone of fire* Quick use cold attacks! Wait... is it turning black? AHHHHH!!"

 

[freebfrost]

For the most part, I use the standard dragons per the rules, but occasionally I will throw my players for a loop with something different.

The best was a red dragon who happened to be born blue. Even with all the warnings to "beware the blue flame," they confronted it packed to the gills with electricity protection and carrying lots of fire spells...

 

[Bryon_Soulweaver]

A little here, a little there; I go by my DM's dragon style; always unique.


A 130 foot long gold dragon with a brown underbelly,a large horn comes out from the top of the skull(like the red dragon) then splits halfway, it has four legs in the front instead of two and all six legs have slightly larger claws than normal. A third of the dragon's scales are partially black while the tail does have black scales and a stinger.


Bonus: If anyone guesses the breath weapon(s?) they get an invisible 3-foot cookie!