Dungeons & Dragons Lore: What are Gold Dragons? 

I kind of prefer it this way. It leads to who wins being up to circumstance. Which i guess you could say is true for almost everything.

I liked it in 2nd Ed. AD&D - the golds were always higher hit-dice and masterful spellcasters, but reds were far more vicious. Silvers and reds were close. :)

@@kepler3654 yeah the golds had a higher hit die, reds had more total dice. What tended to happen was golds were far more powerful spell casters while reds were a greater physical threat. Silvers were in no way a match for a red. Hence why they tended to get their little orders together and lead armies to take down reds. The chief advantage metallics usually had was an ability to form coalitions. indeed during the second rage when the cult came forward a copper got a bunch of chromantics to kill a particularly powerful green by using their own mistrust of each other against them. The thing I hate most in newer editions are the cultural retcons. Reds are excellent and highly protective parents with both the male and female often spending up to a century together raising their young. Only the white dragons abandoned their young.

thats a tough one, I love them both for different reasons but I think I have had some better moments and storys with chromatic dragons, although gemstones might be taking their place for me.