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<blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7866842" data-attributes="member: 6857506"><p>Apparently, I am in a narrative mood, but if you're short on time or attention -</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="TL;DR"]While AFAIK there is no 5e stat block labeled "Steel Dragon", there is an NPC in <em>Dungeon of the Mad Mage</em> who is described as "a female adult steel dragon" and appears to have been built as a tweaked Silver Dragon.[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>Actually, it's complicated. Having played only the true editions, 1* and 5*, skipping the apocryphal 2, 3, and 4, I had never heard of a Steel Dragon. Since there is no entry for 'Steel Dragon' on DnD Beyond, the first of [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER]'s two sources, I consulted the second, <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Dragons_(5e)" target="_blank">Dragons (5e)</a>. And indeed Steel Dragon appears in this list. Looking at the descriptions and references given in the Steel Dragon entry there, at first I thought that they all pointed back to previous (apocryphal <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) editions and I was getting all wound up to make fun of our Dear Leader for relying on a <em>fan site</em>. But then I noticed that there were two 5e documents in the list of references. One is to the Silver Dragon description in the 5e MM. That didn't make any sense until I looked at the other one, which points to <em>Dungeon of the Mad Mage. </em>It turns out that on Level 21, there is an NPC described thus</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So even if Steel Dragons didn't make it as a group, 'a steel dragon' did.</p><p></p><p>* Because, you know, those are the ones I played.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harzel, post: 7866842, member: 6857506"] Apparently, I am in a narrative mood, but if you're short on time or attention - [SPOILER="TL;DR"]While AFAIK there is no 5e stat block labeled "Steel Dragon", there is an NPC in [I]Dungeon of the Mad Mage[/I] who is described as "a female adult steel dragon" and appears to have been built as a tweaked Silver Dragon.[/SPOILER] Actually, it's complicated. Having played only the true editions, 1* and 5*, skipping the apocryphal 2, 3, and 4, I had never heard of a Steel Dragon. Since there is no entry for 'Steel Dragon' on DnD Beyond, the first of [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER]'s two sources, I consulted the second, [URL='https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Dragons_(5e)']Dragons (5e)[/URL]. And indeed Steel Dragon appears in this list. Looking at the descriptions and references given in the Steel Dragon entry there, at first I thought that they all pointed back to previous (apocryphal ;)) editions and I was getting all wound up to make fun of our Dear Leader for relying on a [I]fan site[/I]. But then I noticed that there were two 5e documents in the list of references. One is to the Silver Dragon description in the 5e MM. That didn't make any sense until I looked at the other one, which points to [I]Dungeon of the Mad Mage. [/I]It turns out that on Level 21, there is an NPC described thus So even if Steel Dragons didn't make it as a group, 'a steel dragon' did. * Because, you know, those are the ones I played. [/QUOTE]
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