Quote Originally Posted by pabelfly View Post
Last observation, it's kinda weird that True Neutral characters cannot be Dragon Shamans. Makes sense given the alignments of the various MM dragons, but by the end of 3e, we had a bunch of Neutral dragons (Amethyst, Astral, Concordant, Ethereal, Lung, Mist, and Sand).
I think that's just a reflection of the cleric alignment restriction. Clerics after all also can't be True Neutral unless their deity is True Neutral. It is true that there are True Neutral dragon species (and gem dragons are in fact referenced in the adaptation section). On the other hand, as Beni-Kujaku observed, this book seems to be intended to be used even by people with no other books besides core, and so just focussing on the core dragons and not watering down the description with "A dragon shaman worshipping a True Neutral dragon can be True Neutral, even though there aren't any examples of that in the Monster Manual and we won't give you rules for them" makes sense.