Copper Dragons have a well-deserved reputation as incorrigable pranksters, joke-tellers, and riddlers. They appreciate all forms of humor. Most are good-natured, but also have a covetous, miserly streak.

Copper Dragons like dry, rocky uplands and mountains. Their territories sometimes adjoin or overlap Brass Dragon's territories. The two species tend to get along well, but meetings between the two usually devolve into marathon conversations in which the Copper Dragons bombard the Brass Dragons with humor while the Brass Dragons blithely continue to banter. Such sessions usually end with one dragon or the other taking its leave none too gently.

Copper Dragons also find themselves with Silver, Red, or Blue Dragons for neighbors. The Silvers avoid too much contact with the Coppers. Blue or Red Dragons inevitably try to slay the Coppers or at least drive them away. Many a Copper Dragon considers the presence of a Blue or Red Dragon as challenge, and does all it can to annoy and embarrass the evil dragon without getting itself killed.

Copper Dragons usually make their lairs in narrow caves. They use their ability to move and shape stone to enhance their lairs, often concealing the entrances using move earth and stone shape. Within the lair, they construct twisting mazes, often with open tops to allow the dragon to fly or jump over intruders. Unlike most dragons, however, Copper Dragons are often happy to have cramped lairs that don't allow them space for flight; they depend on their ability to climb stone surfaces for mobility inside the lair.

Copper Dragons are powerful jumpers and climbers with massive thighs and shoulders.

A Copper Dragon's head has a short face and no beak. Broad, smooth browplates jut over the eyes, and long, flat coppery horns extend back from the browplates in a series of segments. The dragon also has backswept cheek ridges and frills on the backs of the lower jaws that sweep forward slightly. Layers of triangular blades point down from the chin, and as the dragon gets old, more layers with larger blades develop. The dragon has a long tongue that comes to a single point.

At birth, a Copper Dragon's scales have a ruddy brown color with a metallic tint. As the dragon gets older, the scales become finer and more coppery, assuming a soft, warm gloss by the young adult stage. A very old dragon's scales pick up a green tint. A Copper Dragon's pupils fade with age, and the eyes of a great wyrm resemble glowing turquoise orbs.

Copper Dragons have a stony odor.

Copper dragons have mantalike wings that show green and red mottling along the trailing edges. The upper alar limb is exceedinly short, giving the leading edges of the wings a U-shaped profile when viewed from below. The wings run down the dragon's entire body, almost to the tip of the tail.

The main portion of the wing is supposed by three phalanges and a modified alar olecranon. Spines sweeping backward at an angle from the backbone support the remainder of the wing.

A Copper Dragon's distinctive wing profile makes it easy to distinguish from the Brass Dragon, which can occupy similar habits.

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