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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5028475" data-attributes="member: 3820">Gem dragons could make interesting rarities among the other breeds. If it were me, I'd probably use them as some sort of "purified" or "rarified" offshoot of another species. Maybe with beam-weapon breath to play up the prism motif. So, say, a ruby dragon is related to reds, and has a breath weapon that's more a beam of volcanic heat than proper fire. Or an emerald dragon is a "noble" form of green dragon, and its breath weapon is, I dunno, some sort of balefire-like beam of toxic radiation. Of course, it's me, and I don't even use the traditional color-coded and metallic-coded dragons entirely as written; a volcano-dwelling, fire-breathing dragon may be red because that's the color of his element, but you're as likely to run into a gray dragon that prowls barren, stony hills and is earth-aspected. Dragons reflect where they're born, not genetic subspecies. And their alignment is usually less "colors are evil, metals are less so" and more "their alignment is 'dragon'."</blockquote>