I just assumed they were just gold coloured, rather than made out of literal gold. You know, the slightly more sensible option (as far as that applies to giant firebreathing flying lizards).
Well,
you look up the density of dragonscale. Given that it's completely arrowproof (remember, arrows cut through plate armor like a hot needle through a sheet of butter), it's definitely not keratin.
How would you feel if someone was sticking drills into you and cutting out your bones and blood and skin and stuff?
Have you ever had a bone marrow biopsy? This is exactly what that is.
I don't want a biopsy and they're taking a lot more than bone marrow so no it isn't that.
I just assumed they were just gold coloured, rather than made out of literal gold. You know, the slightly more sensible option (as far as that applies to giant firebreathing flying lizards).
Especially since gold isn't an organic material, or one found in measurable quantities in life, so in order to grow scales he'd literally have to eat treasure and then somehow deposit fully formed scales onto himself.
Many dragons from the legends did something more or less like that. Either they did eat metals and incorporate them into their bodies, or they lay down on hoards of treasure and let the treasure act as scales.
Destroy everything and everyone.
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And one turn before I was going to hit the reset button.
Begin terraforming GreatWyrmGold's face into volcanic atmosphere that constantly erupts and spews lava on him.
"What do you expect this to do? A, it makes no sense. B, I am immune to fire."
Irrelevant. Lava is molten rock. Rock is super-effective against fire. You are gold dragon and breathe fire, thus you are fire element. Ergo, lava is super effective against the GWG.
Lava is Fire element. Everyone knows that. More importantly, in the source material for gold dragons, lava deals fire damage and is explicitly noted to not deal any damage to fire-immune creatures.
And by what logic does Rock deal extra damage to Fire?
Create a new universe. One where people don't want to shoot my face.