D&D 4E Sell me on these 4e sourcebooks!

[Knightfall]

Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons -- exactly what it says on the tin. Not nearly as good as the 3e Draconomicon (which was one of the best of all the 3e books), but decent.

It's kind of a weird book, though, because the metallics are the good guys. So the book goes to great lengths to find bizarre reasons why the PCs might need to fight a gold dragon, or something, and then it introduces a bunch of other metallics too, seemingly just so there can be bad guy metallics.

That said, the only time I have cracked this open since purchasing it was to grab a random combat encounter. So I guess I'm a hypocrite when it comes to having the PCs fight good guy dragons.

I think you missed the message, then: Metallic dragons are no longer the good guys. Just like in the Eberron setting, (metallic) dragons can have any alignment.

I don't recall the book giving any 'bizarre' reasons why the PCs might be opposed by metallic dragons. Actually, I found the reasons perfectly reasonable and way more interesting than the motivations of your typical 'evil' chromatic dragons.

After reading it, I've been thinking to completely get rid of the chromatic dragons and only use the metallic ones. It's that good.

I picked up the metallics book the other day. I'm very happy with it, especially...

Draconians!!!!

And I like the fact that the metallics are unaligned. I changed the alignments of dragons in my v.3.5 world, Kulan, to neutral (or partially neutral) years ago.