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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flying Toaster" data-source="post: 9750967" data-attributes="member: 7052563">In one of the Best of Dragon magazine compilations there was a reprint of an early article that introduced three new chromatic dragons: orange, yellow, and purple.  The author used science and the existing MM lore to extrapolate breath weapons for them.  IIRC orange and yellow had some kind of caustic sodium-based breath weapons, and the purple had an energy blast that combined fire and electricity. In art class in school I was taught the RYB subtractive color model, which combines three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) to make three secondary colors (orange, green, purple).  When I read the article as a teenager I immediately realized that the author was using this model to fill in the colors of the chromatic dragon rainbow, as it were.  I had always wondered why D&D had only white, black, green, blue, and red, but now I think Gygax might have been using some version of the RGB additive color model, which uses red, green, and blue as primaries.  I always liked these dragons and wish they had been adopted officially.  I think the Tales of the Valiant 5E variant from Kobold Press might have a yellow dragon, but I doubt it is based on the old article.  I once used the Caves of Chaos map from B2 The Keep On The Borderlands to make a quick adventure, and restocked it with different monsters.  IIRC I reused the ogre cave as the lair of a young purple dragon.  The look on the players’ faces when they realized that they were facing a mystery chromatic dragon was priceless...</blockquote>

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