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Legend
Dragons can have more and less pronounced differences. Deep dragons, shadow dragons, amber dragons, and cataclysmic dragons all mix things up.
Yeah, even with just European lore, there are more than just the fire breathing dragon. In fact, the fire breathing dragon was probably lesser known than others, like the lindworm, Cuélebre, guivre, Knucker, Azhdahak, Balaur, Lambton Worm, and the dragon of St. George (which spit venom, not fire).
As far as when will be enough? Probably never. If there's one constant between editions, it's making more dragons. These are just the 1e ones found in Dragon magazine, in addition to all the ones found in other books:
Dracolich 62
Dracones 64
Aquatic 65
Arack 66
Astral 67
Dragon, Chinese 68
T’ien Lung 70
Shen Lung 70
Li Lung 70
Pan Lung 70
Lung Wang 70
Yu Lung 70
Cobra 70
Draken 72
Electrum 72
Faerie 72
Fang 74
Grey 74
Ichthyodrake 75
Minidragon 75
Night 76
Obsidian 77
Orange 78
Phase 78
Purple 79
Rainbow 79
Sand 80
Scintillating 81
Steel 82
Stone 83
Yellow 84
Drake, Crystal 84
Drake, Demon 86
Drake, Shadow
Oh, the #s weren't the dragon issue #. They were page #s. I had compiled all the OD&D/1e monsters from Strategic Review and Dragon all into a single book (466 of them).Don't forget:
Quasar 96
what is wolfram and tyrium?For my own work (unrelated to the game I'm currently running), I wanted to make metallic and chromatic dragons line up more cleanly. So I ended up with the following:
Gold: As standard in D&D, linked to fire.
Silver: As standard in D&D, linked to cold.
Copper: As standard in D&D, linked to acid.
Iron: Lightning damage.
Cobalt: Thunder damage.
Wolfram: Radiant damage.
Tyrium: Psychic damage.
The Chromatics would originally have been the Prismatic dragons, gemstones.
Ruby => Red
Diamond => White
Emerald => Green
Onyx => Black
Sapphire => Blue
Topaz => Yellow (essentially unknown to mankind)
Amethyst => Purple (essentially unknown to mankind)
This allows both an element-to-element matchup and a separate color-to-color matchup (Gold/Yellow, Silver/White, Wolfram/Green, etc.) for interesting thematic parallels. With seven colors, there's slightly more variety outside of the black/white distinction. As noted, Yellow and Purple dragons are essentially unknown in this framework, and there haven't been any Prismatic dragons for so long, most people don't know they ever existed. Tiamat (I use a different name in this setup) is the corrupted, fallen version of the original ruler of all dragonkind, chosen by Io (again, different name) as their intended successor; Tiamat only has five heads, matching the five kinds of generally-known Chromatic dragons. For complicated plot reasons, that successor fell, leaving Bahamut (again, different name) to rule alone. The fall of Tiamat partially damaged reality, and Bahamut can't fix it on their own.
They are archaic words for respectively tungsten and neodymium.what is wolfram and tyrium?
thank youThey are archaic words for respectively tungsten and neodymium.