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So, just to get it out of the way, the wrack dragons are an edge case. Are they "true dragons?" Not exactly. But they're a cool addition to the arsenal of dragons, as they were machines of destruction created by the Titans for their war on the Gods. They're also the source of dragonborn (called...

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. Here's a list of the Wrack dragons from the Scarred Lands setting by Sword & Sorcery Studios. When 3rd edition was first published, Wizards of the Coast released the...

So, I thought I had the full measure of these guys, but then I realized the Solar Dragon in the new 5E box set isn't the same as the Sun Dragon from 2E. In fact, it's description name drops three dragons from 2E, but it's breath weapon doesn't exactly match any of them! It's birth seems like the...

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. Here's a list of the Spelljammer dragons published for D&D to date; this is expanded beyond just 5E, since there were a ton of interesting dragons published for earlier...

I figure, we're about to move firmly into 3rd party territory, we should polish off the few remaining "official" dragon families: the Epics and the Arcanes. Both were in response to meta-game concerns as opposed to being created organically (for example, by modifying a real-world group such as...

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. So, there have been a few "families" of dragons that are rather small; I'm thinking here of the Epic Dragons (introduced in the Epic Level Handbook) and the Arcane Dragons...

A place to discuss the dragons in the D&D Survivor: Catastrophic Dragons thread.

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. We're deep into the dragons now, up to the 4th edition days. This poll, we're voting on Catastrophic Dragons, introduced in Monster Manual 3 (2010), this group of dragons...

This is the companion thread for the Planar Dragon thread.

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. I thought I'd do a list of slightly more popular dragons rather than go to another group nobody seems to care about. So here's a list of the Planar dragons published for...

Many, many moons ago (I believe 2008), gaming blogger Kenneth Newqvist wrote a now-gone post about his "Book of Almost Everything," a set of articles he photocopied (or printed out) and kept handy in a binder when he was running, so that he could pull out an NPC, a locale, a situation, or...

On Mystara, the law-chaos axis is considerably more important to dragons than good-evil. Dragons who favor order, cooperation, and civilization are opposed by those who endorse individualism, wild living, and destruction. When it comes to good and evil Mystaran dragons are predominantly neutral...

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. Here's a list of the Mystaran dragons published for D&D to date. They were originally introduced in the Master Set; earlier Holmes, B/X, and BECMI products used the...

Companion thread to the Survivor thread for Ferrous dragons. And before anyone complains, per the original article: He's probably/basically/maybe a metamorphosis of an iron dragon, which maybe/basically/probably makes him a new life stage at the very least, probably a new species since he's...

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. Here's a list of the Ferrous dragons published for D&D to date. Originally introduced in Dragon magazine issue #170, in the article "The Dragon's Bestiary: Give your...

A note on nomenclature: eventually, these were officially called "Lung" dragons after the Wade-Giles transliteration of the Chinese 龙 (simplified) or 龍 (imperial), as "lung". Nowadays, this is usually transliterated into English as "lóng". So, yes, the official D&D name for them as "dragon...

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. Here's a list of the Asian dragons (technically Chinese) published for D&D to date. Originally introduced in Dragon magazine issue #24, in the article "Chinese Dragons" by...

Companion thread for the Gem Dragon survivor thread.

@CleverNickName said they wouldn't do another thread and in the Companion thread people wondered if there could be another. Here's a list of the gem dragons published for D&D to date. Originally introduced in Dragon magazine issue #37 in the article "That’s Not In The Monster Manual!" by Arthur...

This is the companion thread for the poll thread here.