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Jump into my discord, the creator frequents it and I'm sure he'd be willing to chat more about it.

I see what you did there..

book store, but i have a link in the description as well, although I'm sure it's sold out at this point. I've yet to find the 2025 version.

having a green dragon be a trickster is a good idea. But.. in our instance of a red dragon breathing poison.. I'm working on a video that explains how and what the DM can do to provide "foreshadow" and "context" and "clues".

thank you! :)

ehh... if the players are big enough to walk into a dragon's lair.. regardless of the type.. I mean... c'mon.. life has surprises and not all areas of a fantasy environment are safe.. Sometimes you gotta put something out there as a means to figure out an alternative....

@@gamemasters Sure, but if they walk into a dragon, one assumes that they've done their homework. Red dragons breathe fire, so their preparation would include consumables to deal with that. And, of course, pre-battle buffing would be of the same kind. They wouldn't bring fire-based spells or weapons that add fire damage to their Fighter's attacks. But when you, as the DM, arbitrarily go "yeah he's a red dragon, but this one spits acid instead of fire", with no explanation or hints to it, you've dropped your DMing to the level of Shamallan. You Shamallan-ized your story. Which is why, when you want to do things like this, you either let players know "in this world, red dragons breathe acid" ahead of time or, if you want this to be a special dragon, you provide hints and indications that this dragon is special BEFORE they do the encounter. And hey, if your players are basically Batman-in-DnD and over-prep themselves for upcoming battles, that's good planning on their end. They should be rewarded for forward thinking, predicting and planning things instead of just "yeah, whatever happens, happens, who cares". Adventurers would 1000% pre-plan for a fight with a dragon, not just go in "eh, it'll work out". By suddenly throwing random changes to established monsters, you're punishing them for roleplaying adventurers and paying attention. Plus, for some reason, you come across as a "DM against the PCs" in your reply. Hope I got that wrong, though.

I think that a whole lot of interpretation is taking place from an 18 second slice of video, because yes, there is A LOT more to it than just these presented 18 seconds. I'll also throw this out there.. A) not all encounters are meant to be combat driven. B) What if the red dragon is infected with this slaad tadpole and begs the characters to remove it, in exchange it will give to them a portion of it's treasure or otherwise help them in the future, or is that also not right because red dragons are chaotic evil. Bottom line is, a lot of assumption has been made when the context has not been presented. That said, I'm working on a "red dragon that breaths poison" context video. :)

@@gamemasters Well, I can only render my opinion on the 18 seconds I was given. A) If the players wanna do combat, they're gonna do combat. On their heads be it. B) Eh, Red Dragons are insanely arrogant and would 100% backstab the players. After all, sure, it can give them a portion of its treasure but that doesn't mean it can't eat them and take the treasure back. Chaotic Evil doesn't mean Chaotic Stupid. Besides, yeah, you can DEFINITELY make a Red Dragon that breathes anything, that was never the problem. The issue is giving your players, who aspire to be Dragon-slayers, enough tips for them to prepare properly instead of just pulling it out of nowhere. For instance, it could just very well be a souped up Dragon's Breath spell. Or the Dragon might have TWO bloodlines. Or it could be an experiment. Or it might have just spent some time in a different Elemental Plane (for whatever reason) and absorbed some of the elemental power there. It could have also just done a great or impressive enough service for Tiamat that she gave the Dragon a boon of more power. It could also NOT be a dragon, but an automaton of sorts, a quasi-resurrected ex-dragon that an Artificer/Necromancer/BBEG brought back, cobbled together and is using like their own private Kaiju (and some of the original Dragon's soul might still be around, plotting or even agreeing with this), sort of a still-fleshy Dracolich.

@lyravain6304 I do agree with you (and i love the concept of the still fleshy dracolich) that context needs to be there, and it likely would be. Along with clues and other strong hints. I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm going to even have a dragon in the game, it's going to be a core focus and the main subject, so 100% there would be indications along the way for the players to figure out the "puzzle".

@@Morgothlord47 I did that once when I went all pirate, it's been a while tho...

@@thunderstruck206 hahaha woah

watch the full video and you'll see the explanation (a slaad tadpole took up residence within the dragon).

@ that’s not a good explanation for multiple reasons

I agree. It's not perfect, but it's got some good information.

Hope you enjoy it!

Ah hahahahahahahahahahahahha!!!

hahaha I LOVE that!

History dose not dictate the present beyond causality, just because it was that way in the past doesn't mean it should be now, or that it shouldn't change. It can still be unfair even if it happened in previous editions. Let's face it, older D&D was/is a mess in a lot of ways. Telegraphing a red dragon and then making it poison currently breaks against the lore and also is a middle finger to a party doing the smart thing and playing with damage type and resistances. It's letting the party waste valuable table time on a strat that won't work and will feel unsatisfying. It's a hazard a DM runs into when they try and do something unexpected. Unexpected isn't always better.

generally items like that don't stack.

@gamemasters usually identical from effects don't stack, but notably, the ring of protection and cloak of protection do stack (because they have different names) so why wouldn't that also stack with boots of protection? I think that may feel weird and dissatisfying as a player.

not sure that there is any unfair fooling happening. Is it unfair fooling to walk into a town and encounter an orc that isn't evil? That said though, I'm all for adding in clues, have a low ground "fog" that is green in the area or cavern that gives off a slightly noxious fume.. I'm all for that too.

heh I like that, it still breaths fire.. but... "Your fire protection has no power here!"

silver rathalos from monster hunter

hmm.. I'm not sure how that would compel one to get shut down? Not all dragons of the same color breath the same type of damage, it's been like that since days of old D&D as well (specifically in Dragonlance). In a similar fashion, not all creatures of the same species are of the same alignment (ie not all orcs are evil).

@@KevekGaming think of it from an ancient dragons perspective They clearly see the fire protection So they start spewing unignited dragon breath fumes which is basically sulfur. Possible lower save or damage than the wire would do tho.

oh, I'm sure that there would be hints of it, "every now and again, you catch a whiff of noxious fumes" or "a low hanging green misty fog covers a low basin a bit farther into the cavern but you know from the map that you are approaching the red dragon's lair."

one hires a mastercrafter that can make that happen.

I'm still on the fence about it. I'm viewing it that they _could_ be the same, but can also _not_ be the same.. _at the same time_

ooohhh..! I like the gambling set idea!

beyond the table, there isn't much else mentioned regarding damage or combat regarding multiple targets or enemies. In my mind, however, multiple targets means any target beyond 1.

@@gamemasters Thanks for answering. Too bad they did not specify.

I'd make that a cursed item muhahahahaha

oh damn -3 constitution save vs jock itch lol

@@swordsnstones you mean a codpiece?

@@rikospostmodernlife lol ... old fashioned groin cup... sure