This guy looks less like a red scaled dragon, and more like a scaleless with a really bad sunburn. |
Red dragons, in D&D, are just Smaug.
There’s really nothing else to it, they’re just Smaug, right down to the fire-breathing, greed, and ego.
After we’ve explored dragons that have the power to control BEES, desert dragons with camouflage that makes more sense than I thought it did (see my amendment to that post), and nature-loving dragons who literally enslave their natural enemies, just plain ol’ Smaug is gonna seem a little dull by comparison.
Red dragons are the most covetous and greedy of all dragons, forever seeking to increase their treasure hoards.
Isn’t that all of us?