What do bronze dragons eat?

[atemu1234]

I noticed that in the SRD it states that bronze dragons hate to harm animals; what do they eat to keep up their (huge) biomass?

Partly a musing thread.

[Elderand]

I noticed that in the SRD it states that bronze dragons hate to harm animals; what do they eat to keep up their (huge) biomass?

Partly a musing thread.

Like every dragon, anything they please, rocks if it comes to that.

[hamishspence]

They dropped some of the data from the MM, which I think mentions that they eat sharks.

Draconomicon goes into more detail - may possibly mention that they eat sahaugin too, despite those being intelligent beings - due to massive enmity.

[Elderand]

They dropped some of the data from the MM, which I think mentions that they eat sharks.

Draconomicon goes into more detail - may possibly mention that they eat sahaugin too, despite those being intelligent beings - due to massive enmity.

To got into more detail the draconomicon says they eat aquatic plants, some sea food notably shark meat and occasionaly, pearls.

Still, it's a cultural thing, any true dragons can survive by eating pretty much anything.

[Flickerdart]

You are what you eat - so bronze dragons eat bronze. :smallbiggrin:

[Djinn_in_Tonic]

You are what you eat - so bronze dragons eat bronze. :smallbiggrin:

Then what do Prismatic Dragons eat? Rainbows?!?

[AWiz_Abroad]

Given that they're apex predators. . . Anything they want to .

[nedz]

Then what do Prismatic Dragons eat? Rainbows?!?

Yes, and Force Dragons eat Jedi.

[AWiz_Abroad]

This may finally explain why chromatic dragons are so evil.

[RedMage125]

As has been mentioned, all true dragons are TRULY omnivorous, in that they can survive on anything, even ore/stones/metal.

Bronze dragons PREFERRED food is seafood (evil aquatic beings like sahuagin and krakens as well as aquatic predators like sharks) and pearls are a particular delicacy for them.

They may hate to harm animals indiscriminately or accidentally, but they do have to eat. That line probably means they hate to harm animals outside of hunting.

They like to fight, though, especially for Good causes (and may join armies of such causes), so clearly humanoids don't qualify as "animals".

[ZamielVanWeber]

You are what you eat - so bronze dragons eat bronze. :smallbiggrin:

No wonder red dragons eat virgins. I would too if my diet primarily consisted of red.

[RedMage125]

No wonder red dragons eat virgins. I would to is my diet primarily consisted of red.

So brown dragons eat...ewwww

[Extra Anchovies]

So brown dragons eat...ewwww

I laughed much harder at this than I should have. I'm a legal adult in two months, I probably need to be better than that. Not that I particularly want to be, mind you.

[Honest Tiefling]

Would also mean that white dragons would probably prefer horses or cows to actual humanoids.

(Unless that humanoid has access to certain third party material...)

[Flickerdart]

Then what do Prismatic Dragons eat? Rainbows?!?
Don't be absurd. Prismatic Dragons eat prisms.

[MyrPsychologist]

Don't be absurd. Prismatic Dragons eat prisms.

This fact is the reason why Pink Floyd never took off in most campaign settings. Nobody can buy The Dark Side of the Moon

[Zordran]

Bronze dragons eat only other bronze dragons. They then give birth to a bronze dragon a while later (they're hermaphrodites).

[Chronos]

Quoth RedMage125:

As has been mentioned, all true dragons are TRULY omnivorous, in that they can survive on anything, even ore/stones/metal.
I like the word they came up with in Schlock Mercenary, to describe Sgt. Schlock: He's a mundivore. Devourer of the World, to translate it a bit poetically.

[Ferronach]

I laughed much harder at this than I should have. I'm a legal adult in two months, I probably need to be better than that. Not that I particularly want to be, mind you.

Don't worry! I have been an adult for anumber of years and still found that comment amusing.
You are good to laugh.

[ZamielVanWeber]

Bronze dragons eat only other bronze dragons. They then give birth to a bronze dragon a while later (they're hermaphrodites).

That would make them Zeus. Right from the forehead.

[nedz]

So brown dragons eat...ewwww

And Gold Dragons live on a liquid diet.

[atemu1234]

I laughed much harder at this than I should have. I'm a legal adult in two months, I probably need to be better than that. Not that I particularly want to be, mind you.

Shhhh... it's ok... I laughed too...

[RedMage125]

So...Urban dwelling Brown Dragons living in the sewers grow to tremendous size?

Sounds like my players just got their next BBEG (Big Brown Excrement Guy).

[Petrocorus]

I laughed much harder at this than I should have. I'm a legal adult in two months, I probably need to be better than that. Not that I particularly want to be, mind you.

What "adult" means?

On a related note, you just made me feel old.

[Ruethgar]

And Gold Dragons live on a liquid diet.

There are yellow dragons(Drag Compendium)... orange if you have kidney problems or are dehydrated.

[Zaydos]

The question has already been answered, but I keep picturing one just swimming through the sea mouth opened wide, a straining flap descending from the roof of their mouth to catch plankton as the water passes through their respiratory system. Then it rises up from the sea, a majestic eruption from the sea, and it drops all the shrimp and plankton into its gullet, before diving back down for a second sweep.

I mean the ocean does have the one group of dragon sized creatures on the planet and they subsist primarily on small shrimp and plankton (which is also technically animals for the most part but we rarely think of it that way).

[YossarianLives]

Do blue dragons live only off of water?

[Extra Anchovies]

Do blue dragons live only off of water?

No, they only eat Blues (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/monsters/blue.htm).

[DrMotives]

And here I was thinking that bronze dragons ate 3rd place awards. Learn something new every day.

[RedMage125]

No, they only eat Blues (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/monsters/blue.htm).

I thought they ate Blues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues).

[nedz]

Do blue dragons live only off of water?

No — they eat the sky.

[Zordran]

Toilet bowl cleaner.

[Ferronach]

And they drink:
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