Steel dragon

Steel dragons, originally known as Greyhawk dragons, are a fictional race of dragon in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The creatures would later find their way into other settings, such as the Forgotten Realms.

Publication history

The steel dragon appeared in first edition in Dragon #62 (June 1982).

The steel dragon appeared in second edition for the Forgotten Realms setting in Draconomicon (1990). The steel dragon was further developed in Dragon Annual #3 (1998).

The wyrmling steel dragon, the very young steel dragon, the young steel dragon, the juvenile steel dragon, the young adult steel dragon, the adult steel dragon, the mature adult steel dragon, the old steel dragon, the very old steel dragon, the ancient steel dragon, the wyrm steel dragon, and the great wyrm steel dragon appeared in third edition for the Forgotten Realms setting in Dragons of Faerûn (2006).

Description

Steel dragons are much like the other races of metallic dragon with one primary exception: they prefer to maintain the form of a human (or other sentient race) in order to mingle with, infiltrate and study the cultures of men and their ilk. Because of this, few people know when they are interacting with a Steel Dragon.

Steel dragon (disambiguation)

Steel dragon or Steel Dragon can refer to:

Rock Star (2001 film)

Rock Star is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek and starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston. It tells the story of Chris "Izzy" Cole, a tribute band singer whose ascendance to the position of lead vocalist of his favorite band was inspired by the real-life story of Tim "Ripper" Owens, singer in a Judas Priest tribute band who was chosen to replace singer Rob Halford when he left the band.

Plot

Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg) is a Pittsburgh fanatical admirer of a 1980s heavy metal band called Steel Dragon. By day, Chris is a photocopier technician and by night, he is the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called Blood Pollution (the name is taken from a Steel Dragon song).

Internal struggles among the actual Steel Dragon band members culminate with the firing of their lead singer, Bobby Beers (Jason Flemyng), and the starting of recruitment sessions to find a new vocalist. Chris experiences his own strife with his Blood Pollution bandmates, particularly guitarist Rob Malcolm (Timothy Olyphant). During a live performance, Rob's playing fails to live up to Chris' over-demanding standards regarding note-for-note accuracy to the original Steel Dragon recordings, and Chris sabotages Rob's amplifier mid-song - a fight breaks out between the two onstage. The next day, Chris arrives at Blood Pollution's rehearsal space (the basement of an X-rated theater) to find that he's been fired and replaced with his arch-rival, the (now former) lead singer of another Steel Dragon tribute band. Rob also cites Chris' inability to create his own musical style, preferring to remain the singer in a tribute band.