T love the Gold Dragon. It is really helpful in battles.

I wish dragons had less rigidity when it comes to alignment. I mean yes you can change it as a DM, but maybe its time that they ditch it. It feels like some dragons, like gold, silver, and copper, are far less likely to be opponents because its hard to justify why they would fight a party.

The thing is its not even necessary that they be aligned a certain way. Its not like devils, demons, and celestials where it's all strongly tied to the broader things in the cosmos. Tiamat could just as easily be the queen of evil dragons instead of chromatic dragons.

If you True Polymorph into this, do you become an adult and ancient gold dragon as you age?

No, you can just become either young, or ancient

True Polymorph is unique in that you take on the full stats of the creature that you choose. I think that you would age and so become adult and ancient. Otherwise, this is a good route to immortality.

True Polymorph only lasts for an hour. so you would only be able to have that weird immortality thing for an hour before you revert back

Not so. If you hold your concentration for an hour, the transformation lasts until the caster decides to undo the change.

i love being a dragon since he is half dragon and using it in battle to slay my enemies 

A simple awnser to this could be a gold dragon that has gotten off the deep end, thinking that a particular village or entire species/race deserved to be taken down because of the few interactions that they have seen within their life with similar results 

In the campaign I'm running the far eastern empire, kind of ancient china milieu, is ruled by an Emperor that wears a crown that enables him to polymorph permanently into a dragon. He mated with a gold dragon and his descendants are human/gold dragons able to polymorph between races. Which means they are gold dragons but driven by human desires. As they are all descended from the Emperor they are royalty and afflicted with massive egos. They are vain, self obsessed and arrogant, but consider themselves as lawful good, because they see the empire as good.

 Cool

can dragons morph into humans for an extended amount of time? or at all?

only adults i think

i be the dragon:)

I am not a dragon aney more :(((

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can dragons morph into humans for an extended amount of time? or at all?

 Only adult metallic dragons or older, but yes. Generally they can. 

What a great and mighty foe! Even when young, a gold dragon is a worthy opponent for a lower leveled party. 

It's weird that metallic dragons don't have elemental damage with their Bite attack like chromatics do.

I think that gold dragons are the most well known metalic dragons

When I was writing my party's first encounter with a dragon, that frustrated me too, because all the evil dragons were too strong for them. It was a copper dragon, and I just said that it was evil because it picked up its traits from the people who raised it (who were evil). That's usually a workaround I like to use. I think of the alignments as more of a suggestion for what a normal one would do.