Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d10 + 4) piercing damage.
Breath Weapons (Recharge 5–6). The dragon uses one of the following breath weapons.
Fire Breath. The dragon exhales fire in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Weakening Breath. The dragon exhales gas in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or have disadvantage on Strength-based attack rolls, Strength checks, and Strength saving throws for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
This is a cool polymorph
My my, how the tables have turned, eh Tinfire!?!?
have your players, if they plan on using it in combat, train the dragon. it will attach value to the dragon.
nerf it lol
The gold dragon still looks old as a wrymiling he has a MUSTACE made of STRINGS...
I did something similar. There was a part of Sunless Citadel where they were meant to find a white wyrmling dragon to basically turn into a sack of hp and xp, but i thought "how cool would it be if these kobolds had NO IDEA what they had, and this dragon was just so young that they didnt realize it was metallic? what if they stupidly thought it was some new 6th color of chromatic dragon, like a "yellow" dragon?"
And now its a 7th player character basically using highly homebrewed companion stats and character sheets, and slowly working through the "aging process" of being a dragon.
Nope, but I think that if you gave it something shiny to chase might work. ( I know it would work on me).
Basically, it's not innate, but it's heavily influenced genetically, socially, and religiously. It's like asking how the dragon can possibly have a base amount of intelligence, when for all we know this could be a stupid dragon. This is just the average, and enough Wyrmlings are LG that it's just assumed all of these Wyrmlings are LG. Ontop of this, Bahamut has been known to directly punish dragons who don't follow good alignments (Tiamat did the same when she wasn't stuck in Avernus)
I like the idea that all dragons have the capacity to be good, but that is a two way street, and all dragons also have the capacity to be bad, it's just rarer to "go evil" for a metallic dragon because no one will support them, metallics would support chromatics who become good, but not the other way around; Tiamat isn't around to punish chromatics, but Bahamut is still a general threat; metallics are more likely to gang up on evils, whereas chromatics can't really cooperate very well.
Sorry for the late reply, it's probably irrelevant to you now, but perhaps it won't be irrelevant to someone else.
Watch out for the sneezes! Baby dragons have a hard time controlling their breath weapons, so they may suddenly release it. If you can, try to avoid getting it overly excited. They also like taking baths A LOT.