Huh. We’re nearly done with the dragons. That… feels strange. I could’ve sworn that would’ve taken longer. Granted, we have been in this section for basically the whole summer… Time has been weird this year.
Silver dragons, the final of the metallic dragons, are the friendliest of the bunch. They live moral lives, performing good deeds and causing no undeserved harm to others. Unlike gold or bronze dragons, they don’t actively seek out to destroy evil, though they’ll gladly oppose it if they must.
While they do appreciate the company of other silver dragons, they also greatly appreciate the friendship of humanoid creatures. Often times, they’ll spend more time in a human form than their true form. It’ll even adopt a persona, such as an old sage or a wanderer, to develop these bonds.
However, they’ll need to step away from these human lives pretty often to fulfill their dragonoid duties, such as tending to their hoards or… mating (yes, these dragons fuck). Unfortunately, they don’t exactly have a good sense of time. Often times, they’ll return to their human lives to find their friends have become old or just died. They tend to befriend several generations of humans with a single family as a result.
Now, humans aren’t the only creatures that silver dragons are drawn to. But they are the ones they find the most fascinating. Their short life spans give them a certain drive that silver dragons find interesting.
Hey! This lore is actually pretty cool! There is a ton you could do with this! Maybe the party meets an old man who used to be friends with one who sends them on a quest to reunite them. Or perhaps they stumble into a silver dragon’s mating ritual and need to choose how to handle it; do they protect the dragons from their enemies, or do they try and steal the egg for their personal gain? Or you could be a sneaky bastard of a DM and disguise a silver dragon as a long-standing NPC! There’s some fun stuff you can do here!
Now, as for a boss fight, this one is pretty themed around slowing the enemy down. Their frost breath will freeze you, sure. But if that doesn’t work, it has its slow breath, that will… slow you down. Huh. Funny how that works.
As for the rest… it’s a dragon. It has all the same stats and abilities as the others. Ya don’t want to fuck with it. But if you do, it’ll be a fun, terrifying time.
With all that in mind, let’s put Silver Dragons on the Best of the Bestiary!
- Beholder
- Death Tyrant
- Green Dragons
- Red Dragons
- Blue Dragons
- Black Dragons
- White Dragons
- Silver 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
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