What is your favorite dragon

[KingSoft]

Like the OP, I am also partial to the Green Dragons. A lot of the 3rd edition material described them as honey-tongued liars, which makes it easy to use them for lots of roles outside of going "Rarr, Smash!".

Also one of the sorcebooks (heck if i can remember which one) said that one of Green Dragons favorite things to drink was morning dew, and that the dragons could be seen in the morning using their long tongue to carefully lick the dew off plants. That idea of a very big, very Evil dragon doing that will always give greens special place in my campaigns.

I think the Chlorine gas breath weapon is kinda of strange, but i guess by dnd standards that is a fairly mundane breath weapon. One gem dragon (amethyst, i think?) shots a gem that exploded in a wave of force, and another (Mercury, mabey?) shot madness causing light.

 

[Dark Dragon]

From the pictures in the MMs, I vote for the green dragon, closely followed by the silver and bronze dragons.

From gameplay, I used Balagos the Flying Flame (epic great wyrm red) quite often as a master of puppets and true king of Tethyr.

From the movies, I really liked Toothless and the small Terrible Terrors.

 

[Wolf72]

Also one of the sorcebooks (heck if i can remember which one) said that one of Green Dragons favorite things to drink was morning dew, and that the dragons could be seen in the morning using their long tongue to carefully lick the dew off plants.

I thought that was the brass dragon licking morning dew off of desert plants? ... I'm going out on a limb here, but either way I think it was the 2e Monstrous Compendium ... I liked that binder, despite it's massive size and my fear of tearing the pages.

My favorite is the copper ... just is.

 

[Tonguez]

Puff the Magic Dragon


but personally I loathe the DnD colour-coded dragons and so I don't use them (much). All my common dragons breath fire, spit acid and use magic (sometimes using it to develop alternate attacks like lightning or gas or frost etc). They can be any alignment and they are chameleons and so can change colour to match their surroundings (yes greens and blues and bronzes are all possible).

I also use Astral dragon-gods which come in gold (male) and silver (female)

 

[Gonozal]

My choice is quite booring compared to some of the more exotic ones here, the Red Dragon.
It just looks cool and is probably the most well-known dragon there is.

From the MM I quite like the bronze dragon, too. It's not my top choice, though.

 

[Phototoxin]

Black dragons - they look cool in D&D mythos, are a bit different while still being dragons.

They also have more environmental type effects which provide for a good tactical encounter.

 

[gamerprinter]

I ran a campaign where dragons weren't so common that every realm would be under constant threat - if you consider multiple nesting sets of dragons of every color and metal (that's a lot of dragons). So in that campaign, all infant dragons are 'colorless' or gray, by adolescence they formulate their own alignment (by choice) and then start to change color or their scales begin to become metallic. So any kind of dragon can spawn any possible color or metal dragon and different ones within the same nest. That way my world could support all the various types and colors of dragons, yet not be overwhelmed with dragons. Dragons were still important features of that campaign - I just needed different circumstances to support it better. There was an instance of a red fighting a gold, and they were brothers - for example.

 

[narayan]

I am partial to Black Dragons because of their preference for lairs. Swamps are not usually the best places for the fully-armored PC's to be slogging around in, and very often indeed their lairs may only be accessible from under water. Besides that, acid burns are very gruesome and generally makes for a very scary encounter.