Can one simultaneously be noble and greedy at the same time? I mean, it is still a dragon. You’d think, if it were so noble, it wouldn’t horde treasure. Or, in this case, literally eat the shit.
Gold dragons are templars of justice and devourers of treasure. They’ll often keep to themselves, avoiding contact with other dragons (aside from its mate and children). Should they take a human form, they’ll frequent honest businesses and lend a helping hand in unseen ways, often for weeks on end. It is confident it can do this because of all the magical charms around its hoard, which would undoubtedly alert it to any intruder.
You can do some fun stuff with this one. Maybe a strange NPC that shows up and helps the party turns out to be a golden dragon! Or maybe the party is tasked with finding one, essentially making them find a needle in a haystack. There aren’t many stories there, but the few that there are could be really interesting!
As for the battle itself, this is likely the most difficult fight of all the good-aligned dragons. Mainly because, on top of fire breath, it has a breath that literally just makes you weaker. Have fun with that when you’re staring down a motherfucking dragon!!
With all that in mind, let’s put the Gold Dragons on the Best of the Bestiary!
- Beholder
- Death Tyrant
- Green Dragons
- Red Dragons
- Blue Dragons
- Black Dragons
- White Dragons
- Couatl
- Behir
- Aboleth
- Bronze Dragons
- Brass Dragons
- Copper Dragons
- Gold Dragons <—————-
- Chuul
- Chimera
- Death Knight
- Bone Devil
- Dracolich
- Ankheg
- Shadow Demon
- Marilith
- Aarackockra
- Azer
- Demilich
- Spectator
- Cambion
- Animated Armor
- Banshee
- Basilisk
- Yochlol
- Bulette
- Cloaker
- Darkmantle
- Doppelganger
- Pit Fiend
- Erinyes
- Chain Devil
- Bearded Devil
- Barbed Devil
- Spined Devil
- Ice Devil
- Nalfeshnee
- Glabrezu
- Chasme
- Barlgura
- Horned Devil
- Balor
- Shadow Dragon
- Vrock
- Dretch
- Goristro
- Hezrou
- Manes
- Quasit
- Planetar
- Imp
- Displacer Beast
- Carrion Crawler
- Rug of Smothering
- Bugbear Chief
- Bugbear
- Vine Blight
- Twig Blight
- Needle Blight
- Bullywug
- Cockatrice
- Lemure
- Solar
- Deva
- Cyclops
- Centaur
- Dinosaurs (All six of them)
- Flying Sword
- Crawling Claw
