“If I weren't so platinum, I'd be blue. Not as in sad or down. Quite the opposite. I'd be delighted to be a blue dragon... if I weren't a platinum one.”
— Fizban
Use the tables, map, and other information in this section to craft unique encounters with blue dragons.
Use the Blue Dragon Personality Traits and Blue Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive blue dragon characters, and use the Blue Dragon Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon.
| d8 | Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I enforce order and social hierarchies because I believe this is how strong societies are built. |
| 2 | Why waste time and energy murdering weaker creatures when I can make them entertain me instead? |
| 3 | My children, whether born to me or chosen by me, are treasures. |
| 4 | Nothing is funnier than tricking a thirsty traveler into drinking a mouthful of sand. |
| 5 | I have standards for my hoard. Not just any gem or trinket will do. |
| 6 | I'm so pleased with myself and my own good fortune that I can't stop laughing or chuckling. |
| 7 | I would rather destroy my lair and lose my hoard than allow anyone to steal from me. |
| 8 | I am sometimes secretly impressed by what other peoples can accomplish with the proper guidance. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Order. Life is best when everyone is part of a hierarchy and rules are clear and consistent. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Humor. Lesser beings exist to be my playthings, and I excel at finding ways to toy with them. (Evil) |
| 3 | Taste. I value my possessions for more than just their beauty and consider gauche displays of wealth a sign of inferiority. (Any) |
| 4 | Family. Blood ties are irrevocable, and even if one doesn't particularly like one's family members, they come before anyone else. (Lawful) |
| 5 | Display. One should never take risks or waste resources by using power if one can achieve the same results merely by the threat of power. (Any) |
| 6 | Loyalty. I don't form bonds with those outside my kindred often. But when I do, I am an unshakable and powerful ally. (Good) |
| Age | Spell Save DC | Spells Known |
|---|---|---|
| Young | 15 | create or destroy water, major image |
| Adult | 17 | arcane eye, create or destroy water, major image |
| Ancient | 20 | arcane eye, create or destroy water, major image, project image |
The Blue Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving blue dragons.
| d8 | Adventure Hook |
|---|---|
| 1 | A blue dragon family demands tribute from desert communities in exchange for protection. |
| 2 | Enraged at the loss of a wyrmling, a blue dragon is causing lightning storms to destroy coastal settlements and refuses to stop until someone delivers the adventurer responsible. |
| 3 | A prosperous-looking city appears among the desert dunes, drawing explorers and treasure hunters aplenty, but it's an illusion created by a blue dragon. |
| 4 | A blue dragon promises great wealth to anyone who offers worthy treasures—but eats anyone who misses the mark. |
| 5 | A blue dragon recently acquired trunks full of dress clothes and costumes and is abducting people to put on a fashion show. |
| 6 | A pair of blue dragons is hiring adventurers to find their missing egg, which appears to have been stolen by another blue dragon related to them. |
| 7 | Rock slides have closed a mountain pass, and the only other road through the area wends through the territory of a blue dragon notorious for playing illusory tricks on travelers. |
| 8 | Blue dragon wyrmlings are playing deadly pranks on the people in their territory, and those people are afraid to ask the wyrmlings' parents to stop them. |
In contrast to most chromatic dragons, blue dragons see value in relationships with other creatures, even if the power balance in those relationships is always weighted in the dragon's favor. Though territorial, they are willing to allow creatures they consider their servants to live peacefully within their domains. Blue dragons are also more family oriented than many other dragons, and it's not unusual to find a multigenerational extended family of blue dragons sharing a territory. Other creatures need to tread carefully in such a place, for any injury or insult to one of the dragons is considered a strike against the whole family.
| d6 | Connected Creatures |
|---|---|
| 1 | A recently hatched brood of blue dragon wyrmlings has adopted a wounded pseudodragon as a sibling. |
| 2 | A blue dragon wyrmling frequently wanders off to a nearby city, where the residents treat the wyrmling as royalty. |
| 3 | A clan of druids has taken in an orphaned blue dragon wyrmling, and its members are trying to teach the creature the value of compassion. |
| 4 | A family of gnolls is holding a blue dragon wyrmling hostage in an attempt to force the wyrmling's parents to leave the gnolls' hunting grounds. |
| 5 | Because of the friendship between a bandit leader's child and a blue dragon wyrmling, the wyrmling's parents are considering allowing the bandits to move into the dragons' territory. |
| 6 | The accidental death of a blue dragon wyrmling has caused a sibling to seek revenge. |
| d6 | Connected Creatures |
|---|---|
| 1 | A young blue dragon's family was killed, and the dragon is building a whole realm as a base for exterminating those responsible. |
| 2 | A young blue dragon claims the rule of a fast-growing city to impress the dragon's family. |
| 3 | A young blue dragon running a protection racket has run afoul of an efreeti, who has decided the area would be better off without dragons. |
| 4 | A tough but fair young blue dragon leads a fanatically loyal mercenary squad. |
| 5 | A young blue dragon schemes to take over a guardian naga's ancient temple. |
| 6 | A mummy lord keeps a young blue dragonbodyguard as a sign of power. |
| d8 | Connected Creatures |
|---|---|
| 1 | An adult blue dragon rules a city and applies exacting standards of aesthetic perfection to everything and everyone in it, swiftly disposing of anyone who fails to meet those standards. |
| 2 | An adult blue dragon and an efreeti have formed a friendship over the decades. They now share a territory and assist one another in protecting it. |
| 3 | Feeling unappreciated and disrespected in one family, an adult blue dragon offers allegiance to a rival dragon family, setting off a blood feud. |
| 4 | A pair of adult blue dragons has decided to take over a thriving, wealthy city, whose governor is desperate to buy them off. |
| 5 | Decades ago, a gynosphinx insulted an adult blue dragon, earning the lasting enmity of a whole dragon family. |
| 6 | An adult blue dragon has adopted a half-blue dragon as an heir and is setting this heir up to be a puppet ruler. |
| 7 | An adult blue dragon plans to present a loyal bandit clan to a bronze dragon as a courting gift. |
| 8 | An adult blue dragon is obsessed with getting at the treasure guarded by a medusa. |
| d4 | Connected Creatures |
|---|---|
| 1 | An ancient blue dragon is worried that no members of the younger generation are strong enough to inherit the ancient dragon's territory, and this elder is trying to start a war to test the younger dragons and determine which, if any, might be a worthy heir. |
| 2 | An ancient blue dragon without offspring has adopted wyrmlings of various colors—including a number stolen from the wyrmlings' parents. |
| 3 | An ancient blue dragon is training an androsphinx as heir to the region the dragon rules and searching for magic items that will allow the sphinx to control the weather as the dragon does. |
| 4 | Under the pretense of helping an ancient blue dragon become a dracolich, an archmage is actually hoping to claim the dragon's vast hoard. |
Iymrith, "Doom of the Desert," flies above her lair
Blue dragons make their lairs in deserts and other arid landscapes. They prefer warm climates, but if an otherwise ideal potential lair presents itself in a cold environment, they find ways to adapt. Instead of seeking out lofty domiciles, blue dragons build their lairs underground, burrowing beneath sand or using magic to hew rock into an intricate warren of rooms and tunnels that can be expanded to accommodate a growing family. Still, they appreciate the tactical advantages of height and usually create their lairs near a spire or cliff from which they can keep watch over their territory.