D&D General What if every dragon was unique?

IIRC, there’s almost 50 different kinds of dragon in 3.5 DnD if you scour all the sourcebooks. Which is probably more than any playable setting really needs. That’s just true dragons and not counting age categories separately.
 

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Found my charts

Scale/Eye Color

Roll (D12)Scale/Eye ColorImmunity/Breath weapon
1BlackAcid
2BlueLightning
3BrassFire
4BronzeLightning
5BrownPiercing
6CopperAcid
7GoldFire
8GreenPoison
9IronSlashing
10RedFire
11SilverCold
12WhiteCold


Roll (d8)Eye ShapeBreath Shape
1-3Large SlitCone
4-6Narrow SlitLine
7CircularCrossbreed Ball
8RectangularCrossbreed Ray

Roll (d6)# of horns
1NoneAmbusher
2-31Range/Artillery
4-52Melee/Fighter
63Caster
 

In my game/world, there different types of beings called dragons.

Leviathan is a dragon, and is essentially a god.

Nidhogg is believed by many to be Tiamat, which makes her both a dragon and one of the greatest gods.

The Red Dragon (of Wales) is a powerful being on par with less powerful gods, as are the divine dragons of Asia.

These beings are singular, and beyond the ability of any mortal to effect in any way outside supplication or negotiation or outwitting, and even a group of extremely powerful PCs can only ever diminish their power, banish them from the mortal worlds for a time, stuff like that.

Then there are dragons of places and such that are more like…corporeal land spirits. Like a dryad but it’s a dragon.

Lastly there are mortal dragons which are closely related to the “spirit” dragons but are fully mortal, and can take an appearance that can pass for other mortal races. Not like D&D dragonborn, but way more variable and individually unique.

The lesser dragons are just as individual as the greater, varying in number of limbs, whether they have wings, and often reflecting an environment or element or having feline or canine facial features and fur, or crystalline spines, or being naturally covered in moss and/or growing branches and leaves like those of a willow or fern or other plant. Some have hide that seems stony, some leathery or furry, or bark like, and others have metallic scales.
 

Found my charts

Scale/Eye Color

Roll (D12)Scale/Eye ColorImmunity/Breath weapon
1BlackAcid
2BlueLightning
3BrassFire
4BronzeLightning
5BrownPiercing
6CopperAcid
7GoldFire
8GreenPoison
9IronSlashing
10RedFire
11SilverCold
12WhiteCold


Roll (d8)Eye ShapeBreath Shape
1-3Large SlitCone
4-6Narrow SlitLine
7CircularCrossbreed Ball
8RectangularCrossbreed Ray

Roll (d6)# of horns
1NoneAmbusher
2-31Range/Artillery
4-52Melee/Fighter
63Caster
This is so cool. Nice work.
 

IIRC, there’s almost 50 different kinds of dragon in 3.5 DnD if you scour all the sourcebooks. Which is probably more than any playable setting really needs. That’s just true dragons and not counting age categories separately.
The Core 3.5 MM gives you five chromatics, five metallics, dragon turtle, dragonne, pseudodragon, and wyvern.

The 3.5 Draconomicon gives you eight elemental drakes, faerie dragon, fang dragon, felldrake, nine landwyrms, ten planar dragons, shadow dragon, the squamous spewer, and the storm drake.
 
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The Core MM gives you five chromatics, five metallics, dragon turtle, dragonne, pseudodragon, and wyvern.

The 3.5 Draconomicon gives you eight elemental drakes, faerie dragon, fang dragon, felldrake, nine landwyrms, ten planar dragons, shadow dragon, the squamous spewer, and the storm drake.
Sounds like a nice menu of powerful monsters that I could use as unique individuals! Heck, I could even use the pseudodragon as an individual, perhaps as a previously gigantic dragon like the others, that was "shrunken" by a powerful wizard! Nice!!!
 


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