History OurDragonsAreDifferent / TabletopGames

** Within the context of the RPG's main setting, Jizzral, dragons are born from the deity Bahamut who, in an inversion to how he's usually depicted in ''Dungeons & Dragons'', has several heads; one of those happen to be Tiamat, [[AdaptationalHeroism ironically]], but one of ''FAPP'''s supplements, ''Dragon Layer'', also reveals the rest of the heads to be Nidhogg, Ryujin, Leviathan, Vritra, and Typhon. It's also in ''Dragon Layer'' where Tiamat takes over Bahamut's body and banishes him, kicking off the events of the supplement's premade adventure. She too inverts ''D&D'' tradition here by having only a single head during ''Dragon Layer''.

** Ziatora, the only living dragon in [[BigApplesauce New Capenna]], is also a [[DemonicDragon demonic]] crime boss and leader of a [[WeirdTradeUnion corrupt construction union]].

** Tree dragons are small -- about human-sized -- lesser dragons that live forests with large, tall trees. They make their nests high in the canopies and mostly hunt small prey. They gather hoards, but these mostly consist of whatever shiny rocks and trinkets catch their eye and are almost entirely worthless.

*** Lesser and Greater Elemental Dragons are common elementals who have developed sufficiently in power that they assume draconic form. Lesser Elemental Dragons usually occupy low-to-middle level positions in the divine courts. Under normal conditions, elementals are seen as somewhat embarassing country cousins by the true gods; Lesser Elemental Dragons are an exception, and hold legal status as true gods, partly due to their power and partly due to the Five having been clearly displased at the continuation of legal discrimination when the first new first emerged. They can become Greater Elemental Dragons if they refine their power further, at the cost of becoming mindless engines of destruction that need to be sealed away for Creation's safety.

** The Five Elemental Dragons are souls/children (depending on edition) of the Primordial Gaia, who inhabit and power Creation's geomancy. The Lesser and Greater Elemental Dragons are elementals who have developed sufficiently in power that they assume draconic form, generally resembling Chinese and Japanese dragons.
** Cogwheel dragons are metal elementals native to the world-body of Autochthon who resemble immense, wingless, mechanical dragons made out of gleaming brass. Despite their appearance, they're not true dragons in the sense that the Elemental Dragons are -- indeed, it's fairly rare for them to evolve into one of Autochthon's own Elemental Dragon natives -- they just look similar. They exist to guard and protect important areas, especially metal-rich ones.
** The Dragon Kings are humanoid dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Relatedly, the Unconquered Sun's most well-known form besides his humanoid one is the golden dragon he appeared as when he was worshipped by the Dragon Kings.
** There are also two draconic [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yozi]]: [[GodOfEvil the Ebon Dragon]], a great wyrm made of living shadow, and Oramus, the Dragon Beyond the World, currently trapped in a prison made from his own seven wings.
** Among the demons there is Iyutha, the Vitriolic Dragon, a demon of the second circle who resembles a massive black-and-purple dragon with translucent wings. She hates all forms of love, beauty and order, and seeks to wreck or subvert them wherever she finds them.
** Halkomelem is a dragon-headed serpent made entirely of crimson paper scribed upon with golden ink, flies endlessly through the skies of Malfeas, and seeks nothing but to add ever more knowledge to that already recorded on its archive-body.
** Several mortal beasts are likewise named after or resemble dragons to various degrees. Apart from the "natural" examples -- such as ox-dragons (ceratopsians), pelagic dragons (huge plesiosaurs), sea dragons (mosasaurs) and river dragons (enormous crocodilian creatures) -- there are also creatures affected by the Wyld such as the snow wyrms, 200-foot monsters that look like traditional Eastern dragons but behave more like traditional Western kind, and the Behemoth Sayla the Yellow Wyrm, an immense serpentine reptile who guards a hoard of precious crystals in an underground lair and can fly without wings.
** Algal dragons are monsters of the Underworld resembling immense reptiles made out of seaweed and the bodies of their victims. They roam the Underworld's black oceans, destroying any ship they find to add its wreckage to their nests and the corpses of its crew to their bodies.

** Beyond the main family of dragonkind, there's a great variety of lesser strains descended from them by various circuitous means. [[OurWyvernsAreDifferent Wyverns]] are two-legged creatures created when Dream Dragons born from lustful dreams mate with each other, and have established wild populations. Wyrms are great legless serpents with wings; they split off from other dragons in the distant and unrecorded past, and are the friendliest dragon breed to humans. Stoorworms are monstrous, poison-breathing beasts created when draconic beings are corrupted by Chaos. Dragonewts are [[LizardFolk reptilian humanoids]] who are immortal, and grow over the centuries in size, wisdom and power, until one day they die and reincarnate as True Dragons -- in fact they need to die and reincarnate several times for this to happen, but they always retain all the memories from their previous lives. They form the oldest and perhaps the most alien[[note]]many aspects of their culture were based on JidaiGeki Japan, which was [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny original and fresh back then]][[/note]] civilization in Glorantha. The parent dragons mostly let the dragonewts fend for themselves, but on one famous occasion when enemies tried to destroy the one place in the world where dragonewts can be reborn, the dragons took a hand. The resulting "Dragonkill Wars" weren't named for what ''happened'' to the dragons... and ever since, wars against dragonewts have stopped short of trying to exterminate them. {{Dinosaurs|AreDragons}} are further descended from dragonewts, originating from dragonewts who lost sight of their goal due to becoming lost in emotional impulses, degenerated into beasts and became permanently trapped in flesh.

* ''TabletopGame/Wyrmlings'': Dragons in Wyrmlings are powerful creatures with a great deal of magical power. While young ones are quadripedal, adults can stand on two legs or four depending on their personal preference. They do have the conventional fire, lightning, and ice, but also have more unusual types such as Sand and Forest.