eponymous-rose:

Speaking of the D&D Monster Manual, I love how the metallic dragons are good-aligned but still inherently dragons, so all the worst qualities of the evil chromatic dragons are just kind of twisted into bizarre eccentricities. Metallic dragons seem sort of like weird aliens that have vaguely heard of what it means to be a Cheerful and Jovial Friend but don’t quite have the hang of it yet.

Brass dragons are so dedicated to conversation that if someone tries to cut off a conversation with them early, they’ll breathe sleep gas at them, bury them up to their neck in sand, wait for them to wake up, then keep idly chatting until they’ve hit their quota of small-talk, at which point they’ll happily let them go. Copper dragons can be mortally offended if people don’t laugh at their jokes. I love it.