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It goes in cycles, to piss on the dragons in published (x)D&D and its retroclones and spawn. So it is, so it shall ever be. Colour-coding dragons is dumb, they say! It's boring! So on, so forth.
Me, I like the dragon categories and honestly always have. Nice thematic packages and often (but not always, looking at you early-versions black dragon lol) great designs to back them up; and for a lot of them, the visuals work nicely with all the rest of them -- I mean, why wouldn't a dragon species that lives in the frozen hell-lands breathe ice and be white (or silver)? It's thematic! *lol*
(yes there are exceptions, one in particular, but you will take the striking contrast of a lapis lazuli-coloured blue dragon in the desert sands out of my cold dead hands. these colours work, damnit.)
Sometimes I wonder if a lot of the yelling comes from the alignment part of the equation; and that's a fairer cop, even if I'm not really bothered by alignment stuff in the game material I acquire (I use it if running Planescape, say, and by and large ignore it when it would be underfoot). Iirc there's been a few wobbles back and forth for a few critters on the alignment chart over the years or between [x]D&Ds, but honestly I'm too lazy to check something that unimportant ~
There's not really a point to this rambling, I was just thinking about dragons and had all this come to mind, possibly because I've posted some other kinds of dragons in various lists and whatnot recently. I like other themes and looks and such for dragons also! (I just really like dragons.)
But I can haz both.
It's not even that unknown to categorize species by colour name in the real world, lol. (blue jay, grey jay ... sable antelope, roan antelope, blue antelope/bluebuck ... red fox, grey fox ...)
Lol maybe that'll be another little project to put in the hopper, write up my own takes on the fifteen "core" [x]D&D-type dragons, maybe specifically for Lindwyrm because lol that's why.
And yes I said fifteen because the gem dragons are awesome and I said so. Nyeh. *lol*
Me, I like the dragon categories and honestly always have. Nice thematic packages and often (but not always, looking at you early-versions black dragon lol) great designs to back them up; and for a lot of them, the visuals work nicely with all the rest of them -- I mean, why wouldn't a dragon species that lives in the frozen hell-lands breathe ice and be white (or silver)? It's thematic! *lol*
(yes there are exceptions, one in particular, but you will take the striking contrast of a lapis lazuli-coloured blue dragon in the desert sands out of my cold dead hands. these colours work, damnit.)
Sometimes I wonder if a lot of the yelling comes from the alignment part of the equation; and that's a fairer cop, even if I'm not really bothered by alignment stuff in the game material I acquire (I use it if running Planescape, say, and by and large ignore it when it would be underfoot). Iirc there's been a few wobbles back and forth for a few critters on the alignment chart over the years or between [x]D&Ds, but honestly I'm too lazy to check something that unimportant ~
There's not really a point to this rambling, I was just thinking about dragons and had all this come to mind, possibly because I've posted some other kinds of dragons in various lists and whatnot recently. I like other themes and looks and such for dragons also! (I just really like dragons.)
But I can haz both.
It's not even that unknown to categorize species by colour name in the real world, lol. (blue jay, grey jay ... sable antelope, roan antelope, blue antelope/bluebuck ... red fox, grey fox ...)
Lol maybe that'll be another little project to put in the hopper, write up my own takes on the fifteen "core" [x]D&D-type dragons, maybe specifically for Lindwyrm because lol that's why.
And yes I said fifteen because the gem dragons are awesome and I said so. Nyeh. *lol*
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