Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Astral Dragon Secrets
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2017
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"It's where you are when you aren't anywhere else." Really cool quote, but it can be said about every single location.
Tonke de Vries That's what I thought.
It's probably meant in a planar way thus it makes it a bit different.
"It's where you are when you aren't anywhere" How's that?
unless you believe in super position
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
*Gets reincarnated into an Astral Dragon*
"Sweet! I'm gonna plane shift"
*BOOM* Astralomitis
"Aww fudge"
*Astronomia plays*
Got it, in order to see a Astral Dragon, you have to collect all the dragonballs and the Dragon will give you a wish spell to use. 2:24
DUDE. Judge me if you'd like but that is the sole reason I've landed on this video. I'm researching Astral Dragon's because I need a template to use should the party fuck with Shenlong. The way I run it (since a wish can be used to replicate the effects of a 9th level spell, however there are limitations) the "dragonballs" are scattered across my setting and are sought out by many different factions and powerful creatures. Should one gather all 7, an Astral Dragon shifts to your realm and offers you 1 "unrestricted wish " . An example would be "I wish everyone who was killed by BLANK be brought back to life In a new body "
But unlike Shenlong in the show (who got murdered by Piccolo Daimyo) my shenlong ain't nothin to fuck with. And god forbid that 1% chance goes off and Shenlong goes berserk. No more dragonballs. And a lot of very angry creatures who want revenge on whoever summoned Shenlong last.
"The more intelligent you are the faster you can move" poor barbarians, forced to spend ages in the astral plane to go anywhere
Had a friend who decided on barbarian before rolling for stats. but he got 16-18 on all his rolls, and because he went with gnome for the meme he had 18 INT as a barbarian.
He would often read books without a shirt on.
I'm just having flashbacks to Clay in CR, who had 25ft of movement in the Astral Plane.
Damn, feeblemind is a ridiculous spell, but this bastard has it as a breath weapon!
I have an idea for what to hit my party with now they've beaten the tarrasque
Touchdown past the tarrasque, yall must be toughies huh? Get the mage in your party to lichdom but don't sign in with a weaker dark god. Then you guys are fine
They WHAT
...but the astral dragon is not in 5e
@@defensivekobra3873 make homebrew stats.
@@joshblack3626 i mean the mage whould have a LOT of issues if they fail an save for feeblemind
I guess this would be the answer to high level parties who think they're hot shit
I'm thinking the same thing. There are still plenty of enemies out there that Vox Machina would have to avoid.
Any planeswalker with half a brain would flee as fast and as far as their imagination could take them. Preferably with some magic that would temporarily raise their intelligence and wisdom as high as possible without too terrible permanent effects...
Just make a tribute, they love treasure, you should be fine
As shown in one of the recent eps...
mr welch could probably take on an astral dragon.
"What is the Astral Sea?" Space... It's space. I wanna go to Space. SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE.
Alright stupid question... if Astral Dragons can become powerful casters to the point where they can cast 10th level magic... why dont they learn plane shift via magic instead of freaking out?
Maybe it's not that they can't shift, but that they loose some kind of connection to the astral plane. One of the side effects is that they go mad, and another that they can no longer shift there.
So the current weave does not actually allow tenth level spells for non-deities the fact that someone stole the god who created the weaves power, Mystra in order to aid his country, destroyed it. Then he died, she sacrificed herself tto create a new weave that would never allow for tenth level spells to exist. 'Tis a legend
@@pieman1001000 if you lived 10,000 years im sure you might discover a loophole. Also through great sacrifice and multiple 9th lvl casters 10th lvl magic may be obtained in the current weave of mystra
what's stopping a cult from undoing what Mystra did by walking in it's shoes? I guess that's part of storytelling, you can always create a way to throw a wrench in someone's plans.
To cast Plane Shift, one needs a very particular component: a forked rod attuned to the plane to which one intends to travel.
Perhaps it is impossible to attune such a rod to the Astral Plane.
So an average astral dragon has an intelligence of like...60???
You missed a 1 before the 60.
@@battlepans1927 but if we are talking about it seriously with what the video told us since Nat20 always gives you a +5 then the astral dragons must have an average of 75 or do they???
The age of true dragons is at minimum 2,100 years according to the 3.5 editions in the dragonomicon. That's just a White great wyrm. The others can get older. The oldest being over 4,000 years for a gold dragon. That's not included the douche bags that cheat like Old Snarl or Tchazzar.
Ah yes the truely invincible form of an astral projection spell. It's only weakness being literally every threat in the astral sea. But somehow we're supposed to be surprised every time we're told something can get past it
Could you talk about the war between the Goblins and Orcs, if it's a large enough subject of course. Something about when they die their souls go to this other plane to fight for their gods. I'm not sure.
Astral Dragons confirmed to be Bane
YOU MERELY ADOPTED THE ASTRAL PLANE. I WAS BORN IN IT, MOLDED BY IT.
I am so glad I found this comment.
They're big dragons.
*F O R Y O U*
*SPACE DRAGONS WID FUQIN LAZORS*
Sorry, couldn't control myself.
Get some Gloryhammer goin' on in here.
Divided Reality fookn laser sights
Divided Reality Heldrake anyone?
Warlocks, if they don't already, need an Astral Dragon patron...
That's actually a pretty good idea
My half elf warlock had an astral dragon patron ((great old one))
@@vikingkaeleb588 Goolocks are so fun to play as.
Wouldn't they only be able to grant abilities/blessings for those in the astral plane, though?
these have to be some other most interesting videos on UA-cam to me. if I had to make a suggestion I would love to see a lore video on dragon gods like Bahamut/Tiamat or any others
never played dnd but learning about Ast Dragons is so fascinating. and your visuals and lore is amazingly crafted 💛 thx and pls do more! lookibg through all your dnd lore vids rn
DRAGONS FROM THE 9 HELLS!
That sounds metal af, please talk about that
There are HELL DRAGONS?!??!??!
DO IT RHEXX! Enlighten us upon the HELL DRAGONS!!!
A few REALLY cool ones and some of the outright most powerful. They are about as bad as they sound. The pryoclastic dragon's breath is so hot and forceful that it creates a searing flash of light... of which the very shock wave can vaporize most anything like a nuclear blast, it's chest is basically a volcanic furnace.
So, little comment here. Throughout D&D, we have had Good (metallic), Evil (Chromatic), Neutral (Gem), and Lawful (Ferrous).
Anyone know of Chaotic ones?
i believe fey dragons (and i think shadow dragons) are known for being chaotic
Yes, the nine hells has it's own brand of dragons. Cr 21 if I recall correctly for weakest variety. Can create fire at will without even breathing it. Hellfire. Teleport at will also, it's a bad sonofabitch. The abyss also has dragons. Insane, wild eyed, psycho dragons, filled with madness. Carceri has dragons also, very angry imprisoned dragons. Dragons that would be content to imprison you forever. You do not want any of those outer planar dragons. Chances are if you encounter one, it's because you're on that plane of existence, which means there's a 99% chance you're doomed in the greatest sense of the word. Even the river styx has a dragon, called styx dragons. They literally live in the river styx, a river that kills anything it touches, destroys any material it touches, it's hard to even find undead in the river styx, but those sick styx dragons?? They are in that bitch. One of the very few things that can be found in that river. You don't want it either, the river destroys your very mind, memories, and all. Even if you are an undead. The styx dragon?? It's mind is just fine, and it's going to end you if it finds you. Happily.
Wait can a wizard spend 1000s of years in the Astral plane and learn to cast level 3 spells and below as cantrips?
Cause if so I know where I’m going with my pc wizard
well not really, but if your pc has this as a goal, the chances are they will get killed by astral monsters. its far simpler to learn true polymorph to just become a dragon perminantly, (maybe an astral dragon) then live till your a wyrm and all your party has died of old age, then become a draco lich or something, i think its just safer that way.
oh but you will become the final villan for a new campaign for sure
@@nyanbrox5418 hmm cool DnD PvP but storywise its PvE
I think that would be a good idea for a campaign,
Or just straight up throw your players in and make them pick any non-humanoid race for their PC when they choose monster faction in a custom PvP event
@@kaitokobayashi6394 then form a guild called the great tomb of Nazarick and rule Exandria as Kasuma the immortal slime with a smartphone in another world?
@@nyanbrox5418 and have them equip a shield with a round green jewel at the center and have a dragon mount named shenlong
@@kaitokobayashi6394 xD
Hey. I really enjoy watching these clips, particularly as I’m only getting back into D&D after a LONG break off. It would be great if you could do a series on the outer planes like bytopia, elysium, limbo, pandemonium and the rest. I enjoyed your lore on Mechanus, and you touched on limbo when talking about the Slaads, but a series on who resides there as in gods and petioners, the planes topography and the rest. Bytopia is a fascinating place as is Sigil, but there’s not a lot on some of the lesser known planes so if you could get yours hands on some lore that we mere mortals can’t and share it with us then that would be great. Thanks 👍
2:00 "you only adapted to the Astral Sea. I was born in it. Molded by it. "
You should do the Concordant Dragons or Brainstealer Dragons next.
I would love to hear more about very powerful monsters like the Beholders, your videos on Beholders are my favorite that you've produced thus far! :D
“It is where you are... When you aren’t anywhere else.” The missile knows where it is at all times, it knows this because it knows where it isn’t, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation.
I'm loving everything about this series, it's really giving me some great insight into DnD lore as well as some campaign ideas keep it up man!
I'm enjoying these quite a lot. I run two 5e campaigns and i've always been more of a narrative DM. whilst I enjoy watching my players fight a tough creature I want my players to feel meaning behind everything. not just a random creature to fight with not story of its own. so I've been enjoying watching these and they've given me plenty of ideas for future encounters ;) keep it up. oh and if I was to ask you to do a lore video personally I would like one on one of the elemental realms, shadowfell or feywilds.
these dnd lore videos really help me out as I'm running a session myself and don't really know much about the lore
These D&D lore videos are absolutely fascinating. Good job as usual! :)
Your videos are giving me a lot of ideas for my campaign, and that's just the dragon videos I've seen so far
These are some great videos. Nice work! I'd love to see you cover some weird and obscure monsters: the zorbo and chagmat. I'd also love to see a video on all the weird parasite monsters in D&D, like ear seekers, rot grubs, cerebral parasites, etc.
Thank you very much for this video it was very enlightening!!
I probably watch this over five or six times and created a characters back story with the help of this video and a few others that you've created.
I'm just happy my GM will let me use it. he was actually rather quite excited when I wrote up the storyline for my character.
( compliant with all the rules)
I love playing games with GM's that love character backstories and love to implement them in the game.
it always adds this mysterious beautiful lure that is oh so very enchanting.
Next to ancient liches, astral dragons make the perfect vessel for performing "ancient magic", that is, being able to cast spells that abide by the rulesets of older editions.
Please make more of these! They have helped me get friends who would never have considered it to try D&D.
I'd like to compliment you on the MUSIC. It fit perfectly, calming and in theme. Few appreciate the process and work a video creator needs to do to make something good. This was good, thank you.
I just found your channel and have been loving the lore videos!! as a new fan of the wonderful world of dnd and Pathfinder I thank you for your high quality videos :) keep it up!
Thank you so much for all of this lore and stuff. It's really helping me be a better dungeon master and coming up with interesting story and plot stuff. So thank you
Tried doing some astral projection when I was younger, the silver cord is there too. Cool to know that the DnD writers put that in there as well as a game mechanic.
Angels! Id love to see you do a video on them, Love your content.
Even though I have never played a D&D game, these videos help me to really understand the world and lore. Thank you.
these are great videos. i was a bit skeptical about them in the beginning because i subscribed to your channel for the elder scrolls videos, but after i started getting more into d&d i decided to give these videos a try and i was not disappointed. great job man, keep up the awesome job :D
Time does pass in the Astral Plane, just divide by over 1500 (I forget the actual number, it's been decades). If you Probability Traveled there, you could spend what seems to be an eternity without even needing to take a breath. So, holding your breath for weeks is easy and you never seem to thirst nor get hungry. On the plane, your mind is far accelerated beyond the physical, making time seem to slow. That is because it is a plane of mind and why your intellect determines your speed there. Dragons are far from lazy, despite how often they seem to get caught napping (big monster conserving calories, makes sense). An Astral Dragon would not want to wait a virtual eternity to grow up. A hungry mind of a curious hatchling looking into various other planes as a voyeur gets old fast, even for a super-intelligent hatchling. Life must be lived and growth must be done at some point. On the Astral Plane, it is watching everything in virtual photographs (super slow).
Sorry for the rant. Former Dungeon Master here (a really good one). I applaud your research and videos. I just subscribed.
Any way of you being a dm for me? exclusively? I crave dnd and can't get it.
@@danielsousa8151 I'm a dinosaur, my friend. I intellectually still follow AD&D and love the brighter people who follow it like Chris Perkins of PAX and AJ Picket (The Mighty Gluestick) here on UA-cam. Those guys might be open to devoted cam-related playing. As for exclusively, that is not a gaming style most people do. It's like the role-playing version of reading a kid to sleep. It has its perks, but with one player that gets old for both DM and player really quick... and burns out the DM.
We need much more comments and people like this :)
been trying to find some D&D lore and ur the only one i've found. keep up the good work
Thank you for these videos. It makes me realize how much more amazing the D&D world is!
Astral Dragon: You mearly plane shifted to the astral plan, i was born on the astral plane, moulded by it.
It would be nice to see you do a video on every type of dragon. You go more in depth in different areas than a lot of lore videos I’ve seen
Wonderful material for a quest involving the Astral Plane. Thanks and congratulations for the channel
Awesome video! just love the lore and world of D&D bus specially dragons! thank you very much and please keep going with the awesome work
This reminds me of the void dragon from tome of beasts. Please do more dragon lore!
loves these they help me and my campaign with understanding whats going on but not telling me or them what to do but giving me and them too much of an idea with witch to work or have fun and have a brake
you make very great vids, and I would love to watch you actually play this
Keep these coming dude these are fantastic presentation, images everything I'm really enjoying just subscribe
i wanna listen to you talk about the dragons from the nine hells! wow!
I hope you keep doing this this is actually really good
These are great and just listening to them gives me tons of ideas for my own campaign. Aside from dragons (Which are absolutely awesone) I think i'd love to see a video of yours on the Shadow plane and the shadar-kai. Or maybe another legendary creature such as the Kraken (and underwater realms). To be honest I like these videos so much I'd be happy with anything. Thanks for making them.
10th Level spells, you can't just drop such a thing on me ! Madness I say, madness !
Thank you for making these. Excellent Job! Always enjoing them
Im Loving the dnd lore, keep up the vids man, great job!
What would I want to see a video about? All of them. I learn a ton from these videos, even about things I thought I was well versed in.
These videos are fantastic. You seem to tackle a lot of the weird and wonderful monsters. I was wondering would you ever cover the various crazy creatures and or strange war-machines of Eberron?
Thanks man your wonderful explanation has given me a great idea for a DND campaign.
Can you talk about the Platinum Dragon Bahamut?
You should do D&D gaming vids. As in you playing D&D.
John Ferrara i think so to
There's issues with that though, like how to film it (composition wise)
Plus, require a whole lot of editing, cutting out dead bits and the like. Plus, if something goes wrong, you can't just re-record, as it's not easy to just roll back and redo a section of play.
Foxymew Live D&D games are very popular and require little to no editing.
I think that very much depends on the group. On how you play. I haven't seen any live D&D games, so I don't know how different they are from my own game sessions, for example.
StarshipMaximus But very few of them are of a very good quality like GCP.
Hey man, I've recently started playing D&D with a group of friends, I'm the DM and we've never played before. These videos are super interesting and helpful, thanks a lot, keep it up!
Pls dont stop doing these D&D videos as a DM I find them fascinating
Great video Rhexx! There was a lot of stuff i didnt know. Maybe Shadow Dragons next?
I always look forward to your D&D lore videos!
Dammit! Another one of your videos I’m somehow gonna have to work into my current campaign because it’s so damn cool!!!
amazing video as always i learn a lot!!!
Yo keep this going, they're really fantastic and your voice is to DIE for
wait. 1% chance? thats a pretty low chance but... dragons live thousands of years... literally its inevitable that any one dragon will eventually go insane.
But what if some dragons are all astral dragons who got stuck in the material plan?
Dude this playlist is sick!
love these videos :) im currently about to start a campaign as an outlander mountain dwarf barbarian looking for a wyvern and perhaps a pseudo dragon as companions.. But a lore video on any of these would be a great watch
Loved it!
Can you do the Githyanki & Githzerai next?
Love your videos!
Wow that explains so much thanks Rhexx. I was wondering about the loss of magic that creates legendary items. Turns out it isn't lost. May have to create a quest out of that bit of info.
I really like these! you should do some lore videos for older versions of the monster manuals (As well as more stuff on the current ones!)
You have the tone of a true DM. I love it.
A young adventurer following an Astral Dragon during it's panicked rampage until the powerful beast collapses, helpless. The adventurer, rather than taking glory, or, even revenge for the lives torn apart by this creature, offers them a sacrifice in exchange for a pact. This adventurer will find a way to return this dragon to the astral sea. They need only power, and time.
10,000 years sounds like a long time (and it is), but humanoids can live longer than that. Elf Druids can theoretically live over 15,000 years and wizards that use the clone spell can listen live theoretically forever. Unearthed Arcana Mystics are immortal and have a half chance of having their soul/mind live on and make a new body when they die.
I would love to hear something about the deities, how they live and deal with each other. Especially the celestial plane seems to have a lot of that going on. Some interesting questions arise from that. We know that evil deities have games of power between them since they don't really care about others than themselves. But how do good deities solve disputes? Do they go to war? I'd love to get a video on something like that!
Inevitables from the plane of Mechanus help mediate these conflicts.
i'd love to hear more about the various planes such as Mechanus and Limbo!
Oh jeez, thanks for this lore vid! The final boss in my campaign (next week) is an astral dragon. Definitely not one that's insta-death for a party, but it's gonna be a fight to remember.
Man, you're simply the best. Can I request that after you finish with the True Dragons series, you add the "lesser" and dragonkind? Dragonborns, Kobolds and the like?
Waiting for your next lore video, can't wait.
i would adore a video regarding the vast dangers of the sea, for example the sea dragon
3:21 That is My Desktop background and I have a playmat with that art on it. (I also have a playmat with Cthulhu, but i like my dragon one more.)
Yeas!! Waited all week for d&d lore
Dragons from the Nine Hells would be amazing! Please cover that next! Your videos are amazing and entertaining. *clicks bell icon*
Barbarian fighting an astral dragon: AAAAAARGH
Astral dragon: *uses breath weapon*
Barbarian: AAAAAARGH
great video, DND lore is something hard to discuss about, but still you do it very good.
Also I appreciate the mtg arts you used ;)
HAGS seriously do a lore video on hags! easily my fav dnd monster
Great vid man! Nine hells dragons next pleaseee!!! :)
Listen to your videos all day. Thanks
These videos are great. He's a great story teller.
"I was born in it, molded by" -some astral dragon
I love your videos!!!
I really like these lores thanks
Dood we need more D&D Lore from Mr.Rexx!
Great video. Thanks for uploading!
I'd love to hear about the dragons from hell. Or about why you think ethereal dragons are so cool. Whichever you fancy.
Keep up the great work!