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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7603950" data-attributes="member: 2209">I didn't think about it much but I read that Gygax wanted variety to surprise his players. So green is standard for lizardy things and most people would probably expect a dragon to be green. Red is Smaug. Black is from Sleeping Beauty. That seems a reasonable start. White for cold seems obvious and blue for sky with lightning kind of works and then gold has the good chinese dragon motif stuff I'm not super familiar with but assume is sort of out there.As for why the five metals, it all started with gold, so silver and bronze seem natural extensions for the olympics association, and for the D&D coins you add in copper, and then to get the full five match up to the chromatics you've got the city of brass? I would have expected Iron but the good dragons were always little used oddballs anyway so they got less mind space than the chromatics and I never really thought about it.</blockquote>