Talk:Deep dragon

Merge with Purple dragon
Okay: Debate on whether to merge this page with Purple dragon or vice versa. Go! (incidentally, I believe purple dragon should be merged with this page. I'd rather not have purple dragon confused with the cormyrian army when we have a perfectly good alternate name)hashtalk 19:38, March 7, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to be a party pooper but the purple dragon article was just a straight copy/paste from the sourcebook, so it had to go. To summarize, we have:
 * Deep dragon, Monsters of Faerûn, p.40
 * Purple dragon, Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons, p.38-40

The question is which of these is used more commonly?
 * List of dragons has 6 occurrences of deep dragons, while it has none of purple dragons at all.
 * Purple is from the newer source.
 * Deep is from the Realms-specific source, whereas purple is from the generic D&D source.
 * Using purple dragon might get confusing with Purple Dragons being something completely different (actually the Purple Dragons take their name from a black dragon who was just a bit old).

I'd have to say I'd prefer to keep DEEP DRAGON and redirect purple dragon to it. Anyone else? Fw190a8 (talk &middot; contr) 23:28, March 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Absolutely, I think we should go with the Forgotten Realms name over the core name, especially when it'll lead to less confusion. Cronje (talk &sdot; contribs) 00:14, March 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree. The Forgotten Realms lore should be primary in all things here (I don't think we need any core stuff at all.) -- BadCatMan 02:03, March 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Two cents... agreed! Darkwynters 02:46, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

Another Purple Dragon
There is a different (I think) purple dragon featured in Dragon Magazine 65 and 248. It’s similar to the Yellow and Salt dragons.

https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine065/page/n31/mode/2up?view=theater

https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine248/page/n31/mode/2up?view=theater

https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/Dragon%20Magazine%20Compendium/page/n197/mode/2up?view=theater