Talk:Metallic dragon

To wich kind of dragons are Steel dragons and Mercury dragons members of? Are they also metallic dragons, or are they lesser dragons? Same question for Brown dragons, chromatic or lesser? (Historicus 16:35, 3 September 2008 (UTC))
 * Isint steel an alloy I thought all chromatic dragons were natural metals. --M Helvi&#39;virr 17:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * From what I gather while reading the books, steel and mercury dragons are considered outside of the metallic dragon family because of certain differences. Official D&D rules dictact that only the main metallic dragons are thus, while any others are cousins (of a sort), though Dragons of Faerûn calls the mercury and steel dragons as metallic dragon. I'm sure a quick stop at Candlekeep or the Wizards board would give us a conclusive answer. As for the chromatic question, brown dragons are detailed in Monsters of Faerûn, but not Dragons of Faerûn, suggesting that they're lesser dragons. That's by no means conclusive, but it is indicative. Gabeth 19:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Steel is an alloy, but so are bronze and brass, so there is no reason to exclude steel dragons based on this analogy. Daranios (talk) 16:31, February 16, 2015 (UTC)