Would you have been upset if Gold Dragons WERE LG?

[Imperialus]

Why would I *want* the option to use Metallic Dragons as antagonists? Because Eberron taught me a long time ago that having unpredictable dragons is *waaaaay* more fun than having a monster with "I'm a Good Guy" printed over his head.

Yeah, this... Except for me it was Shadowrun... Especially the Draco foundation.

 

[Barcode]

Not upset. I'll change the alignment if I need to.

If their powers were all based on making bunnies fluffy and instilling warmth in the hearts of children everywhere, I might start off irritated, but then start thinking about ways to make that horribly, twistedly evil...

 

[Jack99]

Nope, wouldn't care. Because it is fantastically, utterly unimportant.

If I'm brutally honest, IMO it's the sort of thing people complain about when they're just looking for something to complain about.

Upset? Nah. Disinterested, with a soupçon of disappointment for the lost opportunity of making them more flexible.

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[Storminator]

If they had kept them LG I wouldn't have batted an eye, or more honestly, even noticed. But since they did change them to Unaligned, and that caught my attention, I say the change is 100% for the better.

PS

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Never used the D&D alignment system in the first place (in any edition) so I would not have noticed but recently I have been relying a lot on modules so it could be interesting to get a module with an evil gold dragon.

 

[jensun]

I give my allies and antagonists personalities rather than alignments so it makes no difference to me.

Also, I support pudding as a new official alignment for all monsters.

 

[SKyOdin]

It would have bugged me. I never liked the "all metallics are good and all chromatics are evil" rule. So I would have considered a LG alignment on Gold Dragons to be a wasted opportunity.

 

[Harlekin]

I would be irritated if the designers realized that unaligned golden dragons allowed better gaming but still decided to leave the alignment at LG for legacy reasons.

 

[Dausuul]

I've seen a lot of threads asking those who want gold dragons as LG to essentially defend their opinion, so I thought I'd turn the tables a bit and see how others feel.

If the Monster Manual had come out with Gold Dragons as Lawful Good, would you have been upset? Assume that there hadn't been any word or warning that they were going to be anything but LG. Would you be more or less upset if the other metallic dragons were unaligned, but gold stayed LG?

Upset? No. They've been Lawful Good since before the Good/Evil axis even existed. My feelings on the subject were settled long ago, so there'd have been no reason to get upset about things staying as they were.

I would have just gone right on never, ever using them.

 

[Maggan]

Never gave it much thought

I would not have been upset, but I would probably have continued a habit I've had since I started with the Red Box Basic Set and not used them at all.

Never saw much use for LG dragons, to be honest. But I wouldn't have been upset about a minor rules change. But then again, I'm not upset about major rules changes either.

Things change. I will always have my old games to play if I for some reason can't game with a new revision of a rules set.

Que sera, sera and all that. IMO of course, and YMMV.

/M