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Post by Red Baron on Mar 3, 2020 21:40:33 GMT -6
If I had to chose, I think I would have to go with the classic green dragon.
I also like white and black dragons, but I hate blue dragons.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2020 21:50:28 GMT -6
chromatic for me... and any of the metal dragons!
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Post by flightcommander on Mar 3, 2020 22:10:02 GMT -6
Red, black, green in that order.
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Post by sixdemonbag on Mar 3, 2020 23:02:54 GMT -6
Is it too late to add a poll? I'll put in a vote for red dragons. Red dragons feel very "D&D" to me.
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Post by Starbeard on Mar 3, 2020 23:59:02 GMT -6
I don't think I've actually seen enough dragons in play at the table to have an opinion.
I do quite like the idea that all dragons are all colors, they just take on whatever color is associated with the current terrain. I'm not sure how exactly that would play out, but the thought seems nice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2020 3:11:55 GMT -6
i'll have to go with gold. something about good dragons has always interested me
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Post by Vile Traveller on Mar 4, 2020 3:36:29 GMT -6
Sorry, Red Baron, for me it's ... blue!  I've always liked them, but now this is partly because I've been casting about for a family crest - now, the Irish one has 3 red dragons, and the Welsh one has 3 blackbirds. Although my name is from the Welsh side, dragons are way cooler than blackbirds. And the colour, well, I have a thing about blue.  |
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Post by clownboss on Mar 6, 2020 11:01:03 GMT -6
Gold. Eyes on the prize.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 13:49:35 GMT -6
Is it too late to add a poll? I'll put in a vote for red dragons. Red dragons feel very "D&D" to me. Agree with that; I'm thinking of the cover of Dungeon Magazine #1. |
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Post by kenhr on Mar 6, 2020 17:16:29 GMT -6
Blue. When I was a kid we had an Advanced D&D beach towel that featured a blue dragon being ridden by a mace-wielding knight. Always loved the look of them, especially the crest on their head.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Mar 8, 2020 1:25:17 GMT -6
Red for the win!
I also love Behirs. They're kinda like dragons, right?
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Post by jeffb on Mar 13, 2020 8:23:28 GMT -6
Blue for sure- Lightning- Desert terrain (or seacliffs, if 4E Blues)
Also Green, White.
Never cared much for the rest of the chromatics or metallics
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Post by yesmar on May 9, 2020 13:12:07 GMT -6
I’m going to have to go with the Purple (Mottled) Dragon. After that it’s a tie between Black and Blue. But yeah, Purple all the way…
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Post by flightcommander on May 9, 2020 15:06:21 GMT -6
Wow, AD&D Beach Towel Dragon for the win  Honestly, my favorite dragon I've ever encountered (regardless of color) was the Black Dragon in the Hinterlands campaign run by waysoftheearth. I think it's difficult to make a dragon make sense in a dungeon, but this one totally did — kinda messed us up, too  Edit — forgot that there were two of them  |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 16:00:00 GMT -6
Sounds like a fine implementation. That's important. It is dungeons and dragons afterall.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on May 9, 2020 18:32:27 GMT -6
Red.
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Post by DungeonDevil on May 9, 2020 19:29:27 GMT -6
IMC I'm tending toward deemphasising colours (dechromaticising?) and dialling up individuality of personality and behavior.
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Post by sirjaguar on May 9, 2020 19:50:44 GMT -6
Electric blue.
Everything is better in blue, even dragons.
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Post by Piper on May 9, 2020 22:19:09 GMT -6
IMC nearly all dragons are tan with brown markings and breathe fire. Gold dragons are rumored to exist but so rarely appear in draconian form (which is indeed gold and not tan/brown) the common man believes they don't exist.
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Post by cometaryorbit on May 10, 2020 4:59:28 GMT -6
Reds are classic, of course, with their fire and generally Smaug-like nature. But I've liked black dragons since reading 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' in middle school many years ago - that acid breath is scary, and feels almost "plausible" in a way.
Blues have always been my least favorite of the chromatics... lightning and deserts don't seem to go together as well as the other dragons' "elements" and their habitats. Red dragons are classic; green and black dragons have more "natural" or "biological"-seeming breath weapons which fit their more life-filled habitats; white dragons are savage, animalistic and go well with frost giants etc.; but blues are just kind of... there.
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Post by Zulgyan on May 16, 2020 15:31:32 GMT -6
Red is the classic.
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Post by geoffrey on May 16, 2020 17:20:44 GMT -6
Can my favorite be the shen lung (from the AD&D Fiend Folio)? I like that it doesn't sleep and that you can't subdue it. I also like its powers of water fire and of the scaly command.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 17:33:06 GMT -6
If I go "by the book", then Reds and Blacks are tied. Reds are classic and they're great but Blacks appear deep in swamps and their heads rising slowly up like gigantic crocodiles (or very swiftly appearing to pull an unwary prey underneath!) is thematic and dark in the way that deep swamp encounters should be. I like to imagine they lord over the dinosaurs and the mermen.
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Post by tkdco2 on May 21, 2020 21:29:29 GMT -6
Silver dragons. They don't get much appreciation.
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Post by peelseel2 on May 22, 2020 1:34:45 GMT -6
Green. Nothing more subtle or manipulative.
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Post by Zakharan on May 23, 2020 4:08:07 GMT -6
Black and green are about equal for me, but I have to hand it to green. It's my favourite colour, and lurking in forests has a pleasant fairy-tale feel that juxtaposes with the oddly sci-fi chlorine gas breath.
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Post by magremore on Jun 3, 2020 15:19:48 GMT -6
Another vote for blue. In the longest running campaign I played in as a kid, my fighter somehow had a baby blue one as a companion for a while. Plus, like Vile, I have a thing for blue.
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Post by scottenkainen on Jun 3, 2020 21:11:53 GMT -6
White, black, and green are the only ones I've used in years.
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Post by magremore on Jun 4, 2020 4:07:29 GMT -6
Also I don't picture the blue dragon as entirely blue anymore. Just like a red-winged blackbird does not actually have red wings, only red and yellow stripes that are not even always visible, a blue dragon, aka sand dragon, is primarily brown. The blue in the name comes from its blue underbelly, most noticeable when soaring overhead.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Jun 4, 2020 7:06:02 GMT -6
a blue dragon, aka sand dragon, is primarily brown. The blue in the name comes from its blue underbelly, most noticeable when soaring overhead. That's going to be my next colour scheme when I paint a dragon mini. Minus the Balkenkreuze, obviously.   I plan to create a new Dreamscape Design logo when I relocate to Wales. I strongly suspect a blue dragon will feature. |
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