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Are there any good rpgs where the player characters are dragons?
I am familiar with the old D&D supplement "Council of Wyrms", but that was just screwing with some basic D&D stats and trying to wedge in dragon characters. (The setting was reasonably good though.)
Are there any built from the ground up on this theme?
The Fireborn RPG, released in 2004, features player characters who are dragons, shapeshifted to hide among humans in the modern day. Key to gameplay are "flashback" sequences, reflecting the great age and historical impact of dragonkind — it's a little like Highlander that way.
Castle Falkenstein includes Dragons as a primary character race. They are vital to the setting as presented, but vary considerably from the stereotypical dragon in body form...
CF's dragons are intelligent, magic using pterosaurs... Pterodraconis sapiens. Aside from this, they hold to the standard conventions: magic using, shape-shifting, flying and fire-breathing.
And no one answered, "Monsters, Monsters", the spin-off a tunnells and trolls? Not enough Old School Love. http://www.trollandtoad.com/p303719.html
On the Ecology of the Mud Dragon actually requires you to be a dragon! Oh, well, it's a devoluted, nowadays dragon that lives in junkyards and steals candies to babies but hey, I think this game fully addresses your question.
The Palladium Fantasy RPG, and by extension Rifts, allow player characters such as dragons with no conversion or alterations necessary.
A necessary supplement for such an endeavour using the 2nd Edition of the rules includes the Dragons and Gods book, which has a section dealing with playing dragons specifically. The book has notes on culture, maturation, drives, a deeper look into their natural abilities, experience charts, and all the species in one volume.
The first edition of the rules can be found as a pdf download from DrivethruRPG. If opting to use this edition of the rules, dragons can be found in the core book, with full stat and ability ranges for generation, but less overall social/cultural information, making the Dragons and Gods book fairly useful for both approaches.
Fantasy Craft is a toolkit system. The core rulebook includes a Drake character species, which is pretty close to being a dragon. The species includes fire breathing and claws, but not opposable thumbs or the ability to fit through a door designed for humans. It could form the base of such a campaign.
