Why do green dragons have the [air] subtype?

[dboxcar]

Why do green dragons have the air subtype? As far as I know, they live in the jungle, and if the game designers were just trying to round out the elements with a core chromatic and metallic dragon each, they have too many fire dragons and no metallic [air] dragon counterpart.

[Melcar]

Why do green dragons have the air subtype? As far as I know, they live in the jungle, and if the game designers were just trying to round out the elements with a core chromatic and metallic dragon each, they have too many fire dragons and no metallic [air] dragon counterpart.

Perhaps its because they have gaseous breath weapon?

[dboxcar]

Perhaps its because they have gaseous breath weapon?

Maaaaybe? But every metallic dragon has a gaseous breath weapon...

[Dalinale]

Back in the day, they did breath chlorine gas as their breath weapon. I'd imagine that creating it's own clouds of toxic gas in primeval forests got lost when they became more tied to acid and more magical poisons later on.

[Hackulator]

uh, cause it FLIES

duh

:smalltongue:

[Melcar]

Hmmm... It does seem weird...

If they need a sup-type I would probably give them the following and be done with it:

Red = Fire
Green = Earth
Blue = Air
White = Cold
Black = Sonic (perhaps)

[Eldan]

Maaaaybe? But every metallic dragon has a gaseous breath weapon...

Not quite. By D&D logic, lightning or fire, though plasma in the real world, don't count as gas. Green dragons explicitly exhale clouds of poison gas.

[hamishspence]

They're talking about the secondary, non-damaging breaths:

Brass dragon: sleep gas
Bronze dragon: repulsion gas
Copper dragon: slow gas
Gold dragon: weakening gas
Silver dragon: paralyzing gas

[Eldan]

Oh, of course. In that case, the answer is *shrug*.

Anyone got any older manuals to hand, see if their breath weapons were always like that?

[Crake]

It's because green dragons hang out in forests, and trees make oxygen.

Edit: Same reason blue dragons shoot lightning but have the earth subtype, because they hang out in deserts, which are made up of sand.

And why black dragons are water, cause they live in swamps.

Red and white should be obvious.

[Zombimode]

Red and white should be obvious.

Because Reds live in mountains and mountains are made of fire? :smallbiggrin:

[Crake]

Because Reds live in mountains and mountains are made of fire? :smallbiggrin:

More specifically reds live in volcanos, or areas of high geothermal activity AKA where it's hot :smalltongue: