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The fun thing about ttrpgs is the versatile storytelling nature of them. Like in that wizard wanting dragon's blood, for example, you don't technically have to slay the dragon. You could negotiate a deal with it where it will just give you a vial or two of its blood in exchange for, say, 250 gold per vial. Keeps the dragon alive for a near limitless supply of blood for the wizard, dragon gets gold to start building a hoard, and no one has to put their lives in danger.
@@NathanHydra not a problem. I've been playing and DMing for over 30 years and grew up starting out playing the old D&D "board" style game that had a few minis and player cards before moving on to AD&D. I've player in most of the different setting in D&D through the years. Though I do have to admit I stopped following after 3.5. I had no interest in 4.0 or 5.0 editions. Things changed way too much between 3.5 and 4.0 for my liking and 5.0 just became worse for me.
Great review, Guy! As a GM, i absolutely adore this book. What an amazing resource for D&Ds most iconic monster. The tables for each dragons personality/traits, the roleplaying and the maps of their lairs is top notch, inspiring. A+ book. Glad to have it on my shelf.
Speaking about the Dragon moving into an area and "terraforming" it too it's preferred conditions. I actually had this sort of "problem" going on in part of my campaign. An ancient white dragon moved into this area and the surroundings started freezing over. So much that 1/2 of a town was affected by the creeping freeze. On top of that, some comets were flying overhead and triggered a panic in the citizens. It's a shame that campaign didn't last long (real life got in the way).
In my experience, yes, I agree. It’s great for new DMs/GMs, especially if you’re the kind of person to make your own campaign instead of run a module. It gives good guidance on making/running adventures, lowering the effort to run the game, and plenty of prompts and information to make something YOU and your your party would like. I am biased against modules, but this one book feels like it is way more useful over a Dungeon Master’s career.
(2:14) - OGAS : For those whom don't follow you, or have not seen your other videos, or found you for the first time, it might be nice to explain what 'OGAS' is. Either a quick reminder/explanation within the video, or a point to a card where that 'term' is explained / described, or even a short text explanation in the description. Otherwise, they might not figure out what OGAS means. Just a suggestion.
I, like you, was hoping for a reintroduction of other Dragons from 2e, specifically the Quicksilver Dragon. Despite this, I might pick up the tome due to what you detailed here.
As I'm sure many have mentioned. Fizban is a Lore relevant character from the Dragonlance setting. And the info in this book is basically a Dragonlance setting book.
Thank you so much for all you do to help all the GM's out. The videos are jammed-packed with information. Broken down into understandable and inspirational steps.
I am enjoying your take on it so far, from the specific point of view. I'm also glad you like the book. I would really enjoy it if you went over all the stuff you like from the book
I understand that the player options may not be relevant to a GM, but they’re certainly not too powerful, they just don’t suck. I think any GM would do well to glance at Draconic gifts for player engagement.
I personally would consider them relevant because: -what's stopping the GM from using them to spice up the NPC's -wacky races are good fodder for wacky NPC's
@@nicolaezenoaga9756 It’s not even wacky races in this case, it’s just making Dragonborn a viable choice so people aren’t deterred from engaging with it.
Chapter 2 has a few spells that might be useful for a DM too. A dragon that can summon a draconic spirit or a faerie dragon that can cast Nathair's mischief for example.
Please do a thorough review of what you liked/disliked in the book. Most channels focus heavily on the player content and the DM resources, but don't really talk much about how/why a GM would benefit or not benefit from using or not using it. The more D&D-focused channels have told me the gist of what's in the book, but I like your channel because you focus more on the how/why than just the what.
Your videos always inspire me to create, I have this book and though it was fine but you really opened up new perspective on this book for me that showed me how much of a treasure trove it is!
I had written this book off as irrelevant to me, because in my world a major mystery is that the dragons all went missing around 300 years ago. No bodies left behind, just vanished. However, my spouse found out about and wants to play a drakewarden ranger, and the fact that the class is tied to a dragon SPIRIT instead of a physical dragon, it gives my upcoming campaign a hook to pursue that mystery. So now I'm curious what all it includes and we ordered it so that they can reference the physical copy.
I was expecting the Dracolisk, the metal dragon and more different dragons, but the book has proved useful. My campaign revolves around a dragon god (like Tiamat) who if she returns will start a war and will control all those touched by dragons (all dragons, those with dragon blood and ancestry etc) Soo for some extra lore it was perfect. I also like the animated breaths
Something interesting for the dragon hunter idea for high level parties is, what if the ancient dragons metallic and chromatic alike, those even experienced dragon hunters are wary of, are banding together either with others of the same type or even with each other, summon / become a greatwyrm, or summon one of the aspects of Bahamut and Tiamat, which are in the book, so now the dragons do something they usually would have never truly done, convene and beg their gods to help, and now the script is flipped and now a dragon far more powerful than anyone could comprehend is wiping out entire settlements of dragonhunters or really anything that stands on 2 legs and is the size of a Ogre or smaller
Fizban is an avatar of the D&D dragon God Bahamut that helped save the world he was on without doing it himself so the mortals wouldn't need his help again. That's why his name is in the title. Because he's literally part of a dragon diety.
I'm super excited for this book. I've actually been running a homebrew with the gem dragons for over a year at this point with stat blocks I found online, and now having official stat blocks for them is great
As one who has just now started a new group with "Tyranny of Dragons" - is this book and its ideas within a good, possibly late, addition to the narrative?
I haven't got it because I'm more of a "meh" when it comes to dragons (heretical I know). I may get it in a year to two (or not) but at the moment I don't really need it with the two campaigns I'm currently running.
Its great but Kobolds revised and dragon carving tables + some Shadow, Undead, Lich and more templates for dragons would have been nice. Also we have a crazy dragon egg tree and nothing on what happens when a cromatic bones a metalic? Or a blue and a black get together, etc...
I would love to hear your GM breakdown on more of Fizban's! With your history of dragon-involvement in your own campaigns, I'd be interested on what you're planning on taking away from the book.
Oh friend, you're missing out not knowing about Fizban. Honestly, he's my favorite wizard from any fantasy setting... he's basically the voice of the GM for the game that inspired the Dragonlance series of novels, the group's patron essentially... and I expect he's featured since they recently settled the contracts with the authors for a new series in the setting to come out soon. Fizban is a doddering old fool of a wizard who sometimes breaks the fourth wall and his spells never work as expected, often as some wordplay on the spell's name - like, casting Featherfall, he accidentally conjures a mountain of feathers to soften his landing. I could express some how his character inspires me in campaign design, but I wouldn't wish to spoil the novels for anyone.
Given that I have considered buying draconomicons from previous editions just to get dragon content anywhere I could, I was really excited for the release of this book! Now I'm looking forward to getting into it even more!
Lol, a half elf names Kay'rin appears before the party taking about her great opportunity involving the medicinal nature of dragon scales and how they can become there own boss by going out and bringing her some. But of course the real money lies in getting even more adventurers to bring them scales. How exciting😉😉👍🥞🥞🦆🦆🦆😸💝😇
Fwiw... Fizban is basically you, which happens to be the mortal incarnation of the good dragon god, in the Dragon Lance Chronicles. I think it's interesting WotC got access to that name, but that's a whole other story.
I bought it for everything that it has. Items, classes, new race variants and the gem dragons. I'm planning to use some of the info from this book in my next campaign and possibly might be able to grab a feat from it for my current character.
Hey Guy I watched your video about goals for 2021 and you mentioned something about submitting to you? I was never able to find this. will it be linked in the description for 2022?
I agree that it is a great DM tool for storybuilding, same as Ravnica, Theros, Eberron and a bit Ravenloft. Those storybuilding tables are the ones I am always looking forward to when a new book comes out and it is a huge dissapointment when there are none. Cheers!
My question is how does the over hunting of dragons effect the ecosystem? Maybe other, more common creatures have a population boom and become a threat to the people in the area.
I made my own dragons for my setting, not aligned by scale color. Pink Dragons for example exist, and my players love them even if the Pink ones have a habit of talking too much... way too much. Like, kidnap villagers to listen to them talk. They get their pride hurt by those who ask or demand silence, and are very wrathful by nature. The pink they met talked, but was young so hadn't developed the pride of older dragons over shorter lived beings. Befriending the Pink I rewarded them in an upcoming fight. The dragon kept flying away, but the pink would for it down for a round or two. Eventually the Pink had to flee, but by then the White Dragon they were fighting (More bestial in behavior) was near death.
Thanks for another awesome review Guy! No thanks, Fizban can keeps his nasty dragonses! I am not a big fan of these supplements, IMO they are too often money grabs. What is "Oh'Gas", is this what happens when you eat magic beans? 😋
I own many D&D5e books, all of them for inspiration as I use mainly TDE (3e/4e) rules for my own game worlds. Thus I considered this book too. I have decided against it for one reason. It is basically only useful for worlds where dragons are like D&D dragons. D&D dragons are basically powerful persons with their own culture and lifecycle. They are aliens who are frankly quite close to humans in motivations and values. They are the Smaugs and Dracos sometimes almost demigods but never just an animal. I get it, for a dragon to be useful in D&D games they have to be powerful and intelligent, else the very powerful characters will overcome one easily. But exactly this is what makes D&D dragons fairly boring to me. I like the idea of dragons being very intelligent animals like ravens, crows or collies and dolphins/orcas. And hidden in all those "regular" dragons there might just be the occasional one of human or higher intelligence. Also of course there are the demigod or even god-like ones. So this book is good for a D&D game and for D&D dragons but it is quite restricted, as it should be! After all, it is a D&D product.
You don't know Fizban???? I am surprised. Not that it is neccessary but the first two Dragonlance Series were fun. And that means that you won't know his iteration as Zifnab (higly creative) in the Deathgate Cycle either. Those I really reccomend for some novel setting Ideas. Same old Races (Humans, Dwarfs, Elves) but in a totally different setup.
i do hesitate at some of the ideas in this book, "echoes" being top of the list. i don't especially like the idea of dragons existing on multiple worlds, it ties the DND universe together too tightly. and gets too close to avatars. but there it is ;)
You surprised me with your opinion on the races in the book being over-powered. I have not heard anyone say that; I didn’t think they were OP when I read the book. The fairy in Witchlight? Yes. The Dragonborn? No.
Using Fizban as the lore giver actually detracts from the point of the book. As other people have pointed out, Fizban is the human avatar of Paladine, the Platinum Dragon. As such, he is linked to the Dragonlance campaign setting. Dragonlance dragons are not like Realms dragons or Oerth dragons. Their stats may be the same, but their relationship to the other intelligent races is fundamentally different. And the goals and motivations of a Krynn dragon will be fundamentally different from those in other settings. In the Dragonlance Chronicles, (spoiler alert) dragons are seen as myths until the chromatic dragons reappear. The metallic dragons don't interfere because Takhisis kidnapped all the metallic dragon eggs and was holding them hostage. Then Takhisis teaches her clerics the ritual to corrupt the dragon eggs to form draconians to serve in her armies. Now try to come up with a dragon's motivation that doesn't tie into that somehow.
Volo's guide to monsters, Xanathar's Guide to everything, Mordenkainen's tome of Foes, and Tasha's Cauldron of everything must all bother you too...? Its an legendary and thematically related D&D character who would conceivably write the book for flavor and fun. They've been doing this ALL of 5e odd thing to be bothered by.... Anyways I'm getting this book for Christmas really does seem worth the money according to all of my research. The Dragonborn races and subclasses are still useful to GMs use it for powerful NPCs!
"Nonsense and rubbish for the players." You must be a great DM to play with. But, you already lost me by criticizing the inclusion of Fizban, and then immediately admitting you know nothing of what you are criticizing.
The review of the GM section was great, but I will say, I don't like the insulting of the player sections. Just saying you're not a fan would be fine, just focusing on the part of the book that's really relevant to your channel audience and personal interest is fine, but calling it a waste of space and saying you don't know why the fluff character who ties it to the official lore is in there? I came very close to clicking away before you even got to the real review. Maybe I'm just too used to people coddling producers and never saying a bad word or something, but this goes beyond discarding the work people put into this and into something else entirely. Say it's not your style, propose your alternate ideas if you have them, and move on. Don't call the work worthless and say the fluffy bits shouldn't be there.
Dragons are so overdone and underdeveloped, that this gives me hope that maybe people will put a bit more thought into them than "Powerful thing!!!!!". Please let this be one of the signs of the end of boring ass dragons populating the fantasy genre.
There is a lot of info in it...But there's a LOT of missing information on dragons other then the basic 15. They are missing the other Matalic, Chromatic and Jem dragons for a start let alone the other kinds of dragons. And Kobalds are totally missing from the book, who are of dragon blood. But of course they do have Dragon born... a cheap knockoff of Kobalds IMO.
My group is in the process of transferring back to 3.5. We are getting a little burned out on the politically correct, modern-ideology of wizard of the coast. I think anyone who looks at Orc's and sees them as a racist stereotype that needs to be corrected has missed a key aspect of fantasy escapism. I also really don't understand the point of removing the 'racial ability score adjustments'. There were always rules to adjust those, but they set a good base line expectation, a short hand by which player knew what to expect. It seems odd to me that WotC is moving in the direction of having no baseline awareness if the halfling is going to be stronger than the Orc... My expectations/biases have led to some memorable character interactions. Personally, I was always enamored of the rules for making magic items in 3.5. I do not particularly like the remarkably restricted 'slots' for magic items that is core to 5th edition. I know why it's there, in 3.5 in a high-magic setting, the magical gear your character has is more important than their class abilities. A cunning crafter with time to spend on crafting can quickly become extremely over-geared and over powered... and yet, it feels so much more fitting for D&D. I would be shocked if you could point to any of the iconic characters of popular stories and convince me that they only have 3-meaningful magic items. Plus there were a couple other dynamic elements that i miss... Wizards walking around with dozens of scrolls so they can make good use of some of the niche-spells that no one would ever prepare, or rogues 'tricking' magic items into working (prior to level 13), or any of the mishaps that could come from failing the roll to do so.
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The fun thing about ttrpgs is the versatile storytelling nature of them. Like in that wizard wanting dragon's blood, for example, you don't technically have to slay the dragon. You could negotiate a deal with it where it will just give you a vial or two of its blood in exchange for, say, 250 gold per vial. Keeps the dragon alive for a near limitless supply of blood for the wizard, dragon gets gold to start building a hoard, and no one has to put their lives in danger.
Fizban is a kindly old wizard from Dragonlance who likes fireballs.
That's only part of who he is. He really is Paladine the Dragon God of good Dragons.
@@seangere9698 isn’t the god of good dragons Bahamut?
@@NathanHydra Yes in most D&D he is but in Dragonlance he is called Paladine. And his human form is Fizban.
@@seangere9698 ah ok, I’m not *that* familiar with all d&d settings lore as I rather dm in my own
@@NathanHydra not a problem. I've been playing and DMing for over 30 years and grew up starting out playing the old D&D "board" style game that had a few minis and player cards before moving on to AD&D. I've player in most of the different setting in D&D through the years. Though I do have to admit I stopped following after 3.5. I had no interest in 4.0 or 5.0 editions. Things changed way too much between 3.5 and 4.0 for my liking and 5.0 just became worse for me.
"Yes, but why?"
DRAGONS, need I say more?
No!
Yes.
@@nicolaezenoaga9756yes
Great review, Guy! As a GM, i absolutely adore this book. What an amazing resource for D&Ds most iconic monster. The tables for each dragons personality/traits, the roleplaying and the maps of their lairs is top notch, inspiring. A+ book. Glad to have it on my shelf.
Speaking about the Dragon moving into an area and "terraforming" it too it's preferred conditions. I actually had this sort of "problem" going on in part of my campaign. An ancient white dragon moved into this area and the surroundings started freezing over. So much that 1/2 of a town was affected by the creeping freeze. On top of that, some comets were flying overhead and triggered a panic in the citizens. It's a shame that campaign didn't last long (real life got in the way).
I feel ya, I live with 5/6 six of my players and we still never have time
In my experience, yes, I agree. It’s great for new DMs/GMs, especially if you’re the kind of person to make your own campaign instead of run a module. It gives good guidance on making/running adventures, lowering the effort to run the game, and plenty of prompts and information to make something YOU and your your party would like.
I am biased against modules, but this one book feels like it is way more useful over a Dungeon Master’s career.
(2:14) - OGAS : For those whom don't follow you, or have not seen your other videos, or found you for the first time, it might be nice to explain what 'OGAS' is. Either a quick reminder/explanation within the video, or a point to a card where that 'term' is explained / described, or even a short text explanation in the description. Otherwise, they might not figure out what OGAS means.
Just a suggestion.
Here's the video where I believe OGAS is explained:
ua-cam.com/video/RzWXuy8QWgI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HowtobeaGreatGM
I agree, I had no idea what OGAS was. Thank you for the link to the video.
I, like you, was hoping for a reintroduction of other Dragons from 2e, specifically the Quicksilver Dragon. Despite this, I might pick up the tome due to what you detailed here.
As I'm sure many have mentioned. Fizban is a Lore relevant character from the Dragonlance setting. And the info in this book is basically a Dragonlance setting book.
Fizban is such a great character, one of my all time faves.
Thank you so much for all you do to help all the GM's out. The videos are jammed-packed with information. Broken down into understandable and inspirational steps.
I am enjoying your take on it so far, from the specific point of view. I'm also glad you like the book. I would really enjoy it if you went over all the stuff you like from the book
“Trees are attacking the planes”
“Centaurs are driven off of planes”
???
Oooooh plains! This is a fantasy setting! I remember that now!
I understand that the player options may not be relevant to a GM, but they’re certainly not too powerful, they just don’t suck. I think any GM would do well to glance at Draconic gifts for player engagement.
I personally would consider them relevant because:
-what's stopping the GM from using them to spice up the NPC's
-wacky races are good fodder for wacky NPC's
@@nicolaezenoaga9756 It’s not even wacky races in this case, it’s just making Dragonborn a viable choice so people aren’t deterred from engaging with it.
Chapter 2 has a few spells that might be useful for a DM too. A dragon that can summon a draconic spirit or a faerie dragon that can cast Nathair's mischief for example.
@@joefollo4891 Good point, I didn't consider it!
Well my point still applise to the magic items and the gifts.
Please do a thorough review of what you liked/disliked in the book. Most channels focus heavily on the player content and the DM resources, but don't really talk much about how/why a GM would benefit or not benefit from using or not using it. The more D&D-focused channels have told me the gist of what's in the book, but I like your channel because you focus more on the how/why than just the what.
Your videos always inspire me to create, I have this book and though it was fine but you really opened up new perspective on this book for me that showed me how much of a treasure trove it is!
I had written this book off as irrelevant to me, because in my world a major mystery is that the dragons all went missing around 300 years ago. No bodies left behind, just vanished. However, my spouse found out about and wants to play a drakewarden ranger, and the fact that the class is tied to a dragon SPIRIT instead of a physical dragon, it gives my upcoming campaign a hook to pursue that mystery. So now I'm curious what all it includes and we ordered it so that they can reference the physical copy.
I was expecting the Dracolisk, the metal dragon and more different dragons, but the book has proved useful. My campaign revolves around a dragon god (like Tiamat) who if she returns will start a war and will control all those touched by dragons (all dragons, those with dragon blood and ancestry etc)
Soo for some extra lore it was perfect. I also like the animated breaths
that dragon blood idea alone is prolly gonna be used in my newest campaign. genius!
I loved the monsters in this book.
Something interesting for the dragon hunter idea for high level parties is, what if the ancient dragons metallic and chromatic alike, those even experienced dragon hunters are wary of, are banding together either with others of the same type or even with each other, summon / become a greatwyrm, or summon one of the aspects of Bahamut and Tiamat, which are in the book, so now the dragons do something they usually would have never truly done, convene and beg their gods to help, and now the script is flipped and now a dragon far more powerful than anyone could comprehend is wiping out entire settlements of dragonhunters or really anything that stands on 2 legs and is the size of a Ogre or smaller
Another good video and thank you for making it. I would be interested in hearing more about your kits. Whenever you have time.
Fizban is an avatar of the D&D dragon God Bahamut that helped save the world he was on without doing it himself so the mortals wouldn't need his help again. That's why his name is in the title. Because he's literally part of a dragon diety.
I'm super excited for this book. I've actually been running a homebrew with the gem dragons for over a year at this point with stat blocks I found online, and now having official stat blocks for them is great
short answer: YES. great. I picked it up today, can’t wait to flip through and delve more into it!
As I'm starting to run the tyranny of Dragons, I'm pretty sure Fizban's treasury of Dragons is a must have.
Always look forward to your videos.
As one who has just now started a new group with "Tyranny of Dragons" - is this book and its ideas within a good, possibly late, addition to the narrative?
Please cover the concept of "Kits". It really hit a mark I was thinking about.
It has given me so many new ideas about dragons and how to integrate them into my campaigns and my world.
I haven't got it because I'm more of a "meh" when it comes to dragons (heretical I know). I may get it in a year to two (or not) but at the moment I don't really need it with the two campaigns I'm currently running.
Yes please share your thoughts about the rest of the book as well
Its great but Kobolds revised and dragon carving tables + some Shadow, Undead, Lich and more templates for dragons would have been nice. Also we have a crazy dragon egg tree and nothing on what happens when a cromatic bones a metalic? Or a blue and a black get together, etc...
I would love to hear your GM breakdown on more of Fizban's! With your history of dragon-involvement in your own campaigns, I'd be interested on what you're planning on taking away from the book.
Oh friend, you're missing out not knowing about Fizban. Honestly, he's my favorite wizard from any fantasy setting... he's basically the voice of the GM for the game that inspired the Dragonlance series of novels, the group's patron essentially... and I expect he's featured since they recently settled the contracts with the authors for a new series in the setting to come out soon. Fizban is a doddering old fool of a wizard who sometimes breaks the fourth wall and his spells never work as expected, often as some wordplay on the spell's name - like, casting Featherfall, he accidentally conjures a mountain of feathers to soften his landing. I could express some how his character inspires me in campaign design, but I wouldn't wish to spoil the novels for anyone.
Hagrid is the best wizard in fantasy, EVERYONE knows that! ;)
Great Video! Thank You!
Yes, more videos about dragons please! Everything could use more DRAGONS!
Given that I have considered buying draconomicons from previous editions just to get dragon content anywhere I could, I was really excited for the release of this book! Now I'm looking forward to getting into it even more!
Lol, a half elf names Kay'rin appears before the party taking about her great opportunity involving the medicinal nature of dragon scales and how they can become there own boss by going out and bringing her some. But of course the real money lies in getting even more adventurers to bring them scales. How exciting😉😉👍🥞🥞🦆🦆🦆😸💝😇
Cool
I may have to pick this book up
Thanks for the review, I did a review as well on this and wholeheartedly agree!
Fwiw... Fizban is basically you, which happens to be the mortal incarnation of the good dragon god, in the Dragon Lance Chronicles. I think it's interesting WotC got access to that name, but that's a whole other story.
Well you have to tell the story now
Like the decor!
I am very fond of this book, for pretty much the same reasons.
Bought it and love it! I’m already incorporating it into my current campaign :)
Agree, Chapter 3 blown my mind! best thing since Volo's imho
I bought it for everything that it has. Items, classes, new race variants and the gem dragons. I'm planning to use some of the info from this book in my next campaign and possibly might be able to grab a feat from it for my current character.
2:53 I actually searched the word "occuptation" to make sure it's a typo and not a word with a specific meaning.
My goodness, the folks on Amazon can't hate on this book any harder.
As a new DM whose been consuming your content and just picked up this book. Would love a deep dive
I love all of these ideas!!
I'm running a dragon Centric campaign right now so I might pick this up
Added bonus, as someone who can't stop making dragonborn PCs, I have devoured every part of this book (with a pinch of spicy mustard)
Hey Guy I watched your video about goals for 2021 and you mentioned something about submitting to you? I was never able to find this. will it be linked in the description for 2022?
Fizban is one of the human forms Bahamut takes, most notably in the Dragonlance setting.
Getting ready to run Westeros campaign, anything else in there that would help?
May I recommend jetpack7's legendary dragons. Great book for dm's
I agree that it is a great DM tool for storybuilding, same as Ravnica, Theros, Eberron and a bit Ravenloft. Those storybuilding tables are the ones I am always looking forward to when a new book comes out and it is a huge dissapointment when there are none.
Cheers!
I see dragons, I click
Well, of course... We always need more Fizban.
I was disappointed that there wasn't a draconic warlock patron option
My question is how does the over hunting of dragons effect the ecosystem? Maybe other, more common creatures have a population boom and become a threat to the people in the area.
stealing this!
Magic is tied to dragons.
No dragons = No magic
What's OGAS? Did i miss the definition?
I made my own dragons for my setting, not aligned by scale color. Pink Dragons for example exist, and my players love them even if the Pink ones have a habit of talking too much... way too much. Like, kidnap villagers to listen to them talk. They get their pride hurt by those who ask or demand silence, and are very wrathful by nature. The pink they met talked, but was young so hadn't developed the pride of older dragons over shorter lived beings. Befriending the Pink I rewarded them in an upcoming fight. The dragon kept flying away, but the pink would for it down for a round or two. Eventually the Pink had to flee, but by then the White Dragon they were fighting (More bestial in behavior) was near death.
For me well it's not really a negative it didn't really make me go wow Had I been younger gm I might have said a different thing
Sorry less experience gm not younger
If the dragons in your world are being hunted by goblins. You need to re-write your dragons.
i bought it.
Thanks for another awesome review Guy! No thanks, Fizban can keeps his nasty dragonses! I am not a big fan of these supplements, IMO they are too often money grabs. What is "Oh'Gas", is this what happens when you eat magic beans? 😋
I'd love this book. IF THEY WOULD STOP DELAYING IT IN AUSTRALIA. ITS BAD ENOUGH I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA
For anyone not knowing what OGAS is: Occupation, Goal, Attitude and Stacks.
It is explained on this video ua-cam.com/video/RzWXuy8QWgI/v-deo.html
Elder dragon hiring the party to stop the hunting. That would be fun.
I don't play 5e, and I don't really have disposable income, but I find this video's suggestions helpful for my Pathfinder GMing :)
I own many D&D5e books, all of them for inspiration as I use mainly TDE (3e/4e) rules for my own game worlds. Thus I considered this book too. I have decided against it for one reason. It is basically only useful for worlds where dragons are like D&D dragons. D&D dragons are basically powerful persons with their own culture and lifecycle. They are aliens who are frankly quite close to humans in motivations and values. They are the Smaugs and Dracos sometimes almost demigods but never just an animal. I get it, for a dragon to be useful in D&D games they have to be powerful and intelligent, else the very powerful characters will overcome one easily. But exactly this is what makes D&D dragons fairly boring to me. I like the idea of dragons being very intelligent animals like ravens, crows or collies and dolphins/orcas. And hidden in all those "regular" dragons there might just be the occasional one of human or higher intelligence. Also of course there are the demigod or even god-like ones.
So this book is good for a D&D game and for D&D dragons but it is quite restricted, as it should be! After all, it is a D&D product.
You don't know Fizban???? I am surprised. Not that it is neccessary but the first two Dragonlance Series were fun. And that means that you won't know his iteration as Zifnab (higly creative) in the Deathgate Cycle either. Those I really reccomend for some novel setting Ideas. Same old Races (Humans, Dwarfs, Elves) but in a totally different setup.
Fizban is the god of light in dragonlance who is basically bahamute
More reviews like this, where you take a product and give examples from it on how it will help a GM, not just "here's what it's got" kind of review.
i do hesitate at some of the ideas in this book, "echoes" being top of the list. i don't especially like the idea of dragons existing on multiple worlds, it ties the DND universe together too tightly. and gets too close to avatars. but there it is ;)
You surprised me with your opinion on the races in the book being over-powered. I have not heard anyone say that; I didn’t think they were OP when I read the book. The fairy in Witchlight? Yes. The Dragonborn? No.
Ok Lucy, 'splain to me this OGAS of which you speak.
Me having to google what OGAS is.
Using Fizban as the lore giver actually detracts from the point of the book.
As other people have pointed out, Fizban is the human avatar of Paladine, the Platinum Dragon. As such, he is linked to the Dragonlance campaign setting.
Dragonlance dragons are not like Realms dragons or Oerth dragons. Their stats may be the same, but their relationship to the other intelligent races is fundamentally different. And the goals and motivations of a Krynn dragon will be fundamentally different from those in other settings.
In the Dragonlance Chronicles, (spoiler alert) dragons are seen as myths until the chromatic dragons reappear. The metallic dragons don't interfere because Takhisis kidnapped all the metallic dragon eggs and was holding them hostage. Then Takhisis teaches her clerics the ritual to corrupt the dragon eggs to form draconians to serve in her armies.
Now try to come up with a dragon's motivation that doesn't tie into that somehow.
Volo's guide to monsters, Xanathar's Guide to everything, Mordenkainen's tome of Foes, and Tasha's Cauldron of everything must all bother you too...?
Its an legendary and thematically related D&D character who would conceivably write the book for flavor and fun.
They've been doing this ALL of 5e odd thing to be bothered by....
Anyways I'm getting this book for Christmas really does seem worth the money according to all of my research.
The Dragonborn races and subclasses are still useful to GMs use it for powerful NPCs!
Lol Fizban is literally Bahamut so he might be kinda relevant.
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Lore books? Get them all. It's all about stories and inspiration. Rule books? Nobody cares
You have created monster hunter lmao
Fuck yes!!
"Nonsense and rubbish for the players." You must be a great DM to play with. But, you already lost me by criticizing the inclusion of Fizban, and then immediately admitting you know nothing of what you are criticizing.
Aka - The Dragonborn Handbook.
The review of the GM section was great, but I will say, I don't like the insulting of the player sections. Just saying you're not a fan would be fine, just focusing on the part of the book that's really relevant to your channel audience and personal interest is fine, but calling it a waste of space and saying you don't know why the fluff character who ties it to the official lore is in there? I came very close to clicking away before you even got to the real review.
Maybe I'm just too used to people coddling producers and never saying a bad word or something, but this goes beyond discarding the work people put into this and into something else entirely. Say it's not your style, propose your alternate ideas if you have them, and move on. Don't call the work worthless and say the fluffy bits shouldn't be there.
Don't know or care about Fizban?! Heresy!
Dragons are so overdone and underdeveloped, that this gives me hope that maybe people will put a bit more thought into them than "Powerful thing!!!!!". Please let this be one of the signs of the end of boring ass dragons populating the fantasy genre.
There is a lot of info in it...But there's a LOT of missing information on dragons other then the basic 15. They are missing the other Matalic, Chromatic and Jem dragons for a start let alone the other kinds of dragons. And Kobalds are totally missing from the book, who are of dragon blood. But of course they do have Dragon born... a cheap knockoff of Kobalds IMO.
My group is in the process of transferring back to 3.5. We are getting a little burned out on the politically correct, modern-ideology of wizard of the coast. I think anyone who looks at Orc's and sees them as a racist stereotype that needs to be corrected has missed a key aspect of fantasy escapism. I also really don't understand the point of removing the 'racial ability score adjustments'. There were always rules to adjust those, but they set a good base line expectation, a short hand by which player knew what to expect. It seems odd to me that WotC is moving in the direction of having no baseline awareness if the halfling is going to be stronger than the Orc... My expectations/biases have led to some memorable character interactions.
Personally, I was always enamored of the rules for making magic items in 3.5. I do not particularly like the remarkably restricted 'slots' for magic items that is core to 5th edition. I know why it's there, in 3.5 in a high-magic setting, the magical gear your character has is more important than their class abilities. A cunning crafter with time to spend on crafting can quickly become extremely over-geared and over powered... and yet, it feels so much more fitting for D&D. I would be shocked if you could point to any of the iconic characters of popular stories and convince me that they only have 3-meaningful magic items. Plus there were a couple other dynamic elements that i miss... Wizards walking around with dozens of scrolls so they can make good use of some of the niche-spells that no one would ever prepare, or rogues 'tricking' magic items into working (prior to level 13), or any of the mishaps that could come from failing the roll to do so.