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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7998834" data-attributes="member: 6993955">Meh, this is one of those core fantasy things that depend so much on personal buy-in to various tropes that it's going to be impossible to really get a fix on in any general sense. Dragons are pretty much the Ur monster in the fantasy genre. The importance they play in the genre directly indexes the variety of depictions and twists we see. Orcs tend to be orcs in a far more stable way than dragons are 'dragons' in fantasy. As the Ur monster, dragons will also get defined, to a certain point anyway, in opposition to the genre niche a campaign inhabits. High fantasy, low fantasy, grim fantasy, four colour fantasy, etc etc etc.This is maybe a little more obviously true when you examine dragons from game to game rather than from campaign to campaign within D&D, but I suspect dragons have a whole lotta variance even within D&D.</blockquote>