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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 5996947" data-attributes="member: 16760">Well, I don't know about racist, but I've always been annoyed by D&D's <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0207.html" target="_blank">color-coded</a> dragons.It's positively story-destroying to be able to tell at a glance that a dragon is Chaotic Evil, breathes fire, and so on.I'm with SLOTHmaster to this extent, that I'd rather see 'mountain dragons', 'swamp dragons', and the like.  I just know for a fact that I'm not going to. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />And then when we had all these evil chromatic dragons, we had to come up with symmetrically matching good metallic ones... and neutral crystalline ones... and so on.  When it would have made more sense to just let dragons be, y'know, people, and freed up their alignment tendencies a bit.  I don't mind if mountain dragons breathe fire, mostly have red scales, and are mostly pretty cranky.  I just don't want to see "red = killable with a clear conscience".I'd keep the gold dragon as an Asian variant, and also free up its alignment, then lose most of the other metallics.  But again, I know this will never happen.</blockquote>