Pern Dragon Colors

crawfish

I read the books but never RPed. I feel like I missed out.

crawfish

Also green.

IoleRae

green green green, always a green, I played so many greens

Was going to get a gold once, quit the game like 3 weeks before it happened /shakesfist

If I played pern NOW…

either a non-rider (prolly a Harper) or…

Another green. Because duck responsibility and duck the weirdass popularity contests around gold, no thanks.

Tori

I never played a greenrider so I think I would love to try that experience

dvoraen

I just want a tl;dr of what dragon colors and styles mean, since I haven’t read any Pern books.

farfalla

@dvoraen
Gold (F) - only women riders. Female leaders.
Bronze (M) - only men. Male leaders.
Brown (M) - only men in the books, any in games.
Blue (M) - only men in the books, any in games.
Green (F) - was only men in the books, then some women. Any in games.

Gold is biggest, down in order through green. In the books, that’s kind of the order of importance, too. Not in games, though.

Only Gold lay eggs, but Green and Gold both have mating flights regularly.

There isn’t really any technical difference between them as far as personality but there are a lot of stereotypes.

Prototart

@farfalla said in Pern Dragon Colors:

You can only have one. Which color do you play and why.

midnighth

tsar

Brown.

Because I’d play this again.

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Floof

@helvetica said in Pern Dragon Colors:

somebody else with a puppy name

That might’ve been me (PuppyBreath)! I’d posted about my post-apoc Pern idea, but I gave up on it because of, uh, real virus things happening. And never came up with another reason for post-apoc.

As for dragon color, usually bronze or green depending on if I want to be macho queer or chaos gay.

hellfrog

@Floof said in Pern Dragon Colors:

As for dragon color, usually bronze or green depending on if I want to be macho queer or chaos gay.

Oh so I guess I chose right in just choosing my favorite color

KarmaBum

@tsar I love Murderface.

tsar

@KarmaBum He was definitely a thing that I regretted having to leave behind.

Tributary

I think I only read one of the books, and it had a white dragon. I don’t remember any of this.

IoleRae

@Tributary

He was a runt and a genetic mutation.

helvetica

@Floof said in Pern Dragon Colors:

@helvetica said in Pern Dragon Colors:

somebody else with a puppy name

That might’ve been me (PuppyBreath)! I’d posted about my post-apoc Pern idea, but I gave up on it because of, uh, real virus things happening. And never came up with another reason for post-apoc.

well, I remain a fan!

Prototart

@Tributary said in Pern Dragon Colors:

I think I only read one of the books, and it had a white dragon. I don’t remember any of this.

apparently he was white because he was like this super special dragon who was every dragon color at once and he could time travel

Tributary

@Prototart The book was so unremarkable to me that I do not remember the plot at all. Just that the cover was green and had a white dragon on the cover. Got it from my cousin when my aunt cleaned out his room.

But clearly I managed to read the most super special dragon one. Win!

IoleRae

@Prototart said in Pern Dragon Colors:

@Tributary said in Pern Dragon Colors:

I think I only read one of the books, and it had a white dragon. I don’t remember any of this.

apparently he was white because he was like this super special dragon who was every dragon color at once and he could time travel

ALL dragons can time travel.

Ruth was a mutant and a runt.

Taika

I can’t remember the name of the books for the life of me. The pern books are spin-off/continuation of a sci-fi series McCaffrey did and it covered how they turned fire lizards into dragons. My gramma used to have all the books for the sci-fi side - she loved sci-fi and never got into the fantasty side.

IoleRae

@Taika

Dragonsdawn was the book you’re referring to; it covers the original landing on Pern, the charter, the initial crisis, and the creation of the dragons. It was a prequel, written after many of the other Pern books.

Pern is technically in the same universe as The Tower and Hive series (The Rowen being the most well known) and the Crystal Singer series, but they’re soooooooooo far away and basically off the star maps that it’s irrelevant. The rules for psionics and the weird genetics and the like are the same between the three series, but the sun of the Pern series (Rukhbat or w/e, I can’t spell it) being mentioned in the other two in passing is the only DIRECT connection (unless Todd McCaffery has done something more with it over the years).