In the imminent Dragon Delves, you’ll find all sorts of examples for how Metallic Dragons can be a part of your campaign.
Dragon Delves is literally around the corner (if not already out for many of you), but before it hits, I want to take a second and point out that in the upcoming book, you’ll find plenty of guidance on how you can incorporate Metallic Dragons into your campaigns. Historically, this hasn’t always been the easiest thing to do.
I think a big part of that difficulty comes from the role that metallic dragons fill in the game. They’re “good dragons” usually. This means they’re out there being forces of good—and from DM to DM that can mean a lot of different things. Usually it means that metallic dragons end up being quest givers. And while that’s still kind of true in Dragon Delves, there are plenty of times where you’ll run into a metallic dragon who isn’t just about to send you on an errand to retrieve five wolf hides, or whatever.
Dragon Delves: Making Metallic Dragons Meatier In D&D
One of the things I really like about Dragon Delves is that it makes dragons feature in every adventure. But you’re not always fighting them. In fact, in one of the early adventures in the upcoming anthology, the players are sent to rescue a dragon. In this case, a gold dragon wyrmling that doesn’t know any better. Doesn’t understand why it’s a bad thing that it accidentally set some of the village on fire.
And that’s putting a very broad, as-few-spoilers-as-possible filter on the events. Suffice it to say, the gold dragon Briochebane presents the dragon as quest object in a cool and interesting way. It highlights the impetuous nature of a wyrmling in conjunction with a drive to try and be “helpful” and shows how that can be a recipe for adventure.
That’s jus the tip of the metallic dragon iceberg, though. In an adventure all about an Orcus cult, we get a look at a silver dragon as a sort of schemer and adventuring companion, which is maybe the first time in D&D I’ve seen a dragon as a “co-conspirator.” But hopefully not the last.
And when it comes time to show off a copper dragon, we get to see how a metallic dragon might be an adversary without necessarily being an enemy. Here the dragon holds something that players need to get. In order to do so, players will have to either convince the dragon to surrender its treasure or resort to some other methods. Either way, it presents the dragon as an obstacle to the quest, but not necessarily the “final boss” in terms of the quest.
I think if you want to give your dragons a little more personality, you may want to look through someof the preview materials for Dragon Delves. And if you are hungry for even more, you can snag a copy of Dragon Delves most any place where you find TTRPGs tomorrow (June 8th).
So check back then for more on this most draconic of adventure anthologies.
Dragons dragons and more dragons, coming tomorrow!
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