Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Black Dragon
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2020
- The Black, or Skull dragon is a malicious and sadistic killer, from the moment they hatch they are lethal to any other creatures around them.
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01:03 Intro ends
01:03 - 01:53 Black Dragon Wyrmling in AJ Pickett`s Campaign
01:58 Basics of Black dragon
02:44 how dragons adapt to the elements and how dragons souls are tied to the elements
03:10 Black Dragons nature
03:35 Dragons mating
04:30 Black dragon parentage
04:40: Black Dragon eggs and hatching
05:30 Black Dragon birth info
06:00 Black dragons as wyrmlings
06:54 Black dragons nature and hunting
07:20 - 07:40 general info about dragons
07:46 How black dragons react to societies, parallels with green dragons
08:33 "black dragons view other as either mate, bait or food
09:10 Talking with a black dragon
09:52 Dragon reacting to a party while carrying money, what the loot might be and how it can impact the story
12:17 Black Dragons minions
13:06 Only the most sadistic kobolds will eventually remain in a black dragons service
13:50 Black Dragons influence on Lizardfolk
14:30 Oozes
14:50 Black Dragons hatred of other dragons
15:08 Black Dragon hybrids
15:24 Dragon hybrids are rare and hunted
15:40 Black + chromatic hybrids
16:30 Black + metallic hybrid (metallic dragons will hunt them)
17:27 Black half-Dragons and dragonborn
17:48 Black Dragonliches and cult of the dragon
18:13 Rage of the dragons (Dracorange)
19:29 Black Dragons and magic (they are rather sorcerers)
You have a monumental task ahead of you.
My bearded dragon is watching this with pure fascination like, "Someday, I will get big and strong like big dragon friend."
in my homebrew setting a group of players during an evil campaign decided to "just be there when he wants help" after freeing a young black hatchling from a bear trap, years later irl and ingame that black dragon came back and turned a whole bandit camp into a soggy acid pool.
when they genuinely thanked him he shrugged "You proved usefull before." and went back home.
Sounds about right 🧙♂️
Since mimics are immune to acid, i stocked the black dragon lair with mimics, a mere annoyance for the pcs.
After barely surviving the dragon, the dragon’s hoard nearly ate them.
Excellent. How about mimic armor? Like venom's symbiotic alien suit.
Nearly spat out some water when he mentioned a Black Dragon throwing a Gelatinous Cube at players.
Worst pillow fight ever.
Woah, Black Dragon (Bam-da-Lam)
Black Dragon Ate A Child! (Bam-Da-Lam)
Damn Town Went Wild! (Bam-Da-Lam)
Whoa, Black Dragon! (Bam-Da-Lam)
I imagine black and green dragons come into conflict with one another more than they do adventurers/metallic dragons
Khisanth, the death on black wings, is my all time favorite black dragon. When it takes an artifact to kill you, and your death throws sink a city into the sea, you are one bad ass dragon. Thank you Margaret Wells for writing the stories that got me into D&D in the first place, all those years ago.
Margaret Weis* :)
The idea of a black/gold dragon hybrid seems really neat. A nightmare dragon? Give it a bit of shadowfell corruption and you have a truly terrifying foe on your hands.
describe this nightmare dragon, I want to imagine it...
Regional effect: everyone has a doll called Eleanor in their dreams, the doll is always there, watching them. People start to talk about the doll, they don't know what it means, why they all dream of it. No child is allowed to play with dolls in the region, they are totally outlawed.
My brother ran a game where we encountered a black dragon in a vast swamp. This dragon enjoyed stalking interlopers using fording boats or rafts as they poled through the swamp. He would stalk them submerged and release its acid breath underwater so that it would slowly dissolve the bottom of said boats or rafts until they sank. It would then pull them down one by one (aka Jaws) never revealing himself. It would also leave a small pile of treasure on the shore near a Froghemoth that it kept around as a 'pet' as another mode of ambush. I made many characters during that one campaign. Loved my brothers diabolical mind.
If black dragons could play Rust, they'd never need to leave their lair ever again.
So... a tactical monster combination is gelatinous cube and clay golum as they are healed by acid. If a clay golum is in real trouble it can touch or even immerse itself in the cube.
I'm thinking if a black dragon could create or have made clay golums for its lair there might be a real problem as the golums would be practically indescribable.
*indestructible
thanks satan!
A black dragon raids and loots a Red dragon's lair and drops it's haul in the middle of your town.
The people take the wealth happily and share it amongst themselves.
A few days later the Red dragon annihilates that town and the black dragon ambushes the Wounded Red to take the rest of the loot.
there's no way the red dragon wouldn't smell the Black's presence in his lair.. they would thread carefully, they always have contingency plans..
This is a brilliant example of the cunning and sadistic nature of black dragons.
@@joshuacordle1059 bjt it wouldn’t work cos red dragons would not only smell the Blakc dragon the red dragon has a plan for eveything they are tbh e ultimate INTJ
I had a fun trick where two young red dragons used their breath weapons in a volcanic lake to summon draconic steam mephits. I think it was a number equal to half the total damage of the breath weapon, and it summoned a fog cloud
Nice
The barbarian in my group doesn't know this yet, but he's going to need to bring the heart of an adult black dragon to his god soon. 🐉
I'm making a Goliath married barbarian and eldritch knight
Yas pleying 2 characters at once
And ther goule is to kill a adult dragon they want glory and adventure then when Ther know all across the land as hero's Ther gowing to start a famaly
Yeah that doesn’t signal that there’s going to be something horribly evil to do with this ritual I just need the heart of a male black dragon a little bit of orphans blood tears of a virgin and the hymen of a medusa. Standard stuff really
@@charlottewalnut3118 the hymen of a Medusa Bwahahaha
@@charlottewalnut3118 I mean, a lot of Barbarians are just gonna have most of that in their pack...
Deep down I'm sure all barbs know someone somewhere will ask them to retrieve them a dragon heart
I like the idea of Dragon's with particularly odd character traits. Imagine a Black Dragon who is a bit of a food connoisseur. It's absolutely obsessed with collecting different types of "pickled" humanoids, bottling them in swamp water from unique locations. It might stalk an adventuring party to see if it contains a member of a race it hasn't yet encountered, then ambush and kidnap the victim. It might even consider a demon "pickled" in the waters of the River Styx to be the most prized delicacies of all.
dude yeS this is awesome, all dragons should have personality, "rah I am evil" isn't a personality, it's a good general guideline for them duh but they should still have a personality.
A food connoisseur pickling obsessed black dragon sounds a bit silly, but it really can be just as if not scarier than your basic black dragon. The dark chef, salty and savory aromas noticeable even in the rotten acidic bog, pickled people in massive glass containers, just imagine it.
I can never remember what that water tastes like... But yes! Also, halflings have quite a reputation for their delicious flavour.
Love this
Stealing this.
Hannibal lecture
I had a hybrid between a black dragon and bronze dragon. He had four horns and he spat out napalm.
A Black and Gold dragon hybrid would be a absolute terror on the battlefield
...I'm trying to think how that would happen, probably not through mating. Unless the black dragon raped a gold dragon (im not trying to be vulgar) or through some kind of artificial insemination; perhaps some twisted plot by a powerful Litch somehow using spells to get it done.
A black and gold do not get along well. A hybrid would be beautiful though would it not? Black and resplendent with gold. I love the idea. It could be illustrated starting with shades of black then highlighting with gold.
Imagine them bickering lol. Its hysterical. That's why I'm never getting married XD
Good idea thanks!
@@shakescan You don't have to get along well to get pregnant.
The idea of a vampiric dragon fills me with the primordial heebie-jeebies.
When humanoids die and become vampires their soul travels to it's afterlife and what appears to be a personality is just muscles moving and neurons firing. A dragon's soul is quite different, I'm not sure if dragon's spirit would be compatible with the vampiric process.
Would love if someone could confirm. (that said, whatever happens in your game happens, just have fun with it :)
@@Zasek2112 Vampire dragons are a thing in DnD.
@@TheHornedKing Fair enough. I just think out loud alot.
they're probably the most sadistic dragons of them all. White dragons are not far behind them just not as awful. I played in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons campaign (with 4 others) as a silver, the main villains were a cabal of every colorful species and took us 4 years to complete the journey, the worst of them with the most dangerous spells was a black Elder Dragon named dagon. We literally started from hatchlings...Our dungeon master was a man who had an imagination that was Second To None. He could explain things and such a vivid detail, you would see what he was saying if you closed your eyes. Some of the Best times of my life.
It's good to know how dragon cross species hybrids work and they work randomly. I've had this concept for this small pink dragon (like 12 foot) that can breath a gas of what's basically a Love/Hate potion. She could be so small because she's a hybrid of some kind and polymorphs as a small child to hide herself among people in a town or city and makes friends with other child who she sees as like her horde.
Somewhat evil cupid dragon? I'm sold
To me, their personality is so much more the classic dragon than the red. Some of the art can get pretty goofy, unfortunately.
Makes sense as older tales of Dragons had them more as being Poisonous and toxic, often found in swamps, marshes or forests. The firebreathing came much later.
As a reader of D&D and Dragonlance, Khisanth was always one of my favorite Black Dragons and a good template of what they are. Funny if you read the The Annotated Chronicles (Dragonlance Chronicles), the authors played out the meeting with Khisanth and the hero party. The game did not play out like the book and Khisanth killed them all.
Black Dragons until I found out about shadow dragons and then my inner necromancer was like "its beautiful! "
Gold-Black Hybrids? Jesus, that's a horrible Thing to even imagine.
Say what you want, but Black Dragons are beautiful creatures in some kind horrific sense.
'Wound one man. Make him suffer. Make him bleed. Make him call out for help, and set a trap and kill those who come....' - Anonymous Black Dragon
Black Dragons stand fast! Bless The Curse! It's time to purge the Mankind's enemies with Fire nad Bone! Wait, wrong Black Dragons
I could imagine a black dragon stumbling on the group of adventures and trying to take one of them as bait to lure in the rest, as a sort of quick game. Just a thought though, keep up the great videos!
Shit can happen to your PC when the player is absent from the game, I guess? XD
@@Harrowed2TheMind Absolutely!
Aren't clay golems healed by acid? That would make them the best minion for a black dragon, or the best foe if a tinkerer gets a hand on it
Indeed!
Evil dragons are always fun
Our home brew setting is a bit of a mix, but in its lore we had an old black dragon lean more heavily on his chaotic nature and play the wild card in order to come to the aid of several metallic dragons during an invasion of gnolls. As a result, he became a king, a copper dragon won him over as a mate, and now there are a pair of young black and copper dragons in the campaign.
Definitely some of my favorite NPCs.
Carnivorous plants... What Is This,
LITTLE SHOP of HORRORS? 🦠🌵🌴🥀🍃😂😭
I’m a halfling sorceress with black dragon blood, but didn’t do my research about black dragons before our campaign. My DM has been encouraging me to do some research and start to act a little more cranky. Starting to work on my growl and learn a little draconic.
Have you practiced murdering yet? Start off small, you know, a necklace of butterflies...
@@AJPickett no murder, but I did steal a Staff of Power.
@@debramyers9457 baby steps
@@debramyers9457 try a little blackmail
So, here is the update. Miny now has a fish eyeball necklace (I made it myself), and memories from a couple centuries ago. Miny thought she was a “dragon-blood”, but turns out all the black dragons died in the war! And now after years of hiding, our troop is about to walk into The Dragon Empire! Hopefully Miny will get some answers.
FINALLY! My favorite swamp beasty!
Shrek is a very close second.
Black dragons just suck hard if the DM includes equipment destruction due to their acid breath.
In the DMG there are monsters that damage metal armor as part of their acid damage. I believe there is a gelatinous cube that has this effect
I could see a hybrid of a chromatic and metallic dragon being a monstrous abomination like the Gaping Dragon from Dark Souls 1
How dare you speak of Dark Souls most adorable little snoot like that
Wait... Neverwinter Nights 2 is set around the Mere of Deadmen... and you fight two identical black dragons at one point... and it is where an immortal spirit dragon is located. Are they the twins you mentioned I wonder.
Yes
Haven’t even watched it yet but I’ve been loving the content lately!
My warforged fighter tried to choke out a black dragon....so anyway our artificer has me scheduled for an arm replacement next week....
fighters would do that, we tend to be the ones who boarder on brave and insane don't we? :)
@@onemisterfranko somebody has to protect the squishies...er, I mean casters 🙂
@@darkhorse13golfgaming casters get all the glory but we make sure they get the chance to even do their thing someone has to stand against the hoards or the dragon and stand in their way.
I would have assumed black dragons have breeding habits similar to pray mantis, or maybe spiders, only even more vicious. Either the male dies immediately afterward or perhaps the female gets declawed, wingclipped and imprisoned for... reasons.
I really love that you went right into it tho, and hybrids. It does deserve some thought. Love your work :D
Black Dragons are given such an unfair reputation. clearly elven propaganda. They just need a hug =p
you first :)
@@handlebarfox2366 But you're the resident dragon hugging expert =D
I don't mind going last. By all means. I'm a gentleman go first.
I’m sure every Black Dragon will tell you it agrees with you.....
Ah my favorite of the chromatic dragons. You can keep your red dragons, thank you very much.
Yes, I will. I would prefer my death to be done with versus the prolonged imaginative torture of an Ancient Black Dragon.
@@Arius_Astronomy XD
I had a Black Dragon born try and become a monk led by copper/ brass dragon born. He had rage issues but tried to separate himself from Tiamat.
Black dragon born can be of any alignment since they are a player character race. That's the way I run it.
@@AJPickett Yes, this is true in my game as well, but his people had long embraced Tiamat. Another player was a High Elf who didn't like magic so much as combat and channeled her powers into becoming the elemental monk. The class wasn't well balanced and needed buffing, which I provided by giving her chi points relative to spell slots attained as a mage.
My PCs found a dragon and now it’s basically making them bring it human sacrifices
I wonder if baking soda might be toxic to black dragon, an idea so very basic :)
Wokka wokka
This coment should be the first
I have two groups playing sharing a village as their base of operations. One group is fostering a pair of copper dragon eggs / wormlings and the other found a black dragon egg and it recently hatched. They put the three dragons together and hoped the copper dragons would smooth out the black dragon and teach it to be nice (and so it appeared). It waited until the parties were away. It tricked and locked and restrained the copper dragon worms and make them watch as he systematically killed nearly all the villagers. Why? Because it was fun, and it horrified the copper dragons. Now the party has to explain why the wormlings have been mentally scarred while under their care. Can't catch a break. Good times.
They actually tried to tame a black... LOL!
wormling black is strong enough to kill an entire village?
@@lollakasfamilianimi3246 without even trying probably.
Oh also if you do a hybrid Dragon video could you mention pink dragons from dragon magazine 156 please! Oh and fantastic video! I can't believe there's only one chromatic Dragon to go!🧙♂️👍
Would you be willing to do a video solely on various hybrid dragons?
Yes
That sounds neat
Black dragons actually tend to favor necromancy? Makes sense. All that rot, disease and filth lends itself perfectly for the dark arts. As someone who favors necromancy, they speak to me.
And speaking of black dragons and necromancy, shouldn't the black dracolich Daurgothoth have gotten a mention?
That would be a Dracolich.
@@AJPickett Fair enough.
Black dragons are my favorite monster in 5e!
Another great AJ Pickett lore video. I had a moderately (relative to the species) powerful Black Dragon meddler in one of my campaigns. Intelligent and cruel were understatements. He was meddling for game years before the party even knew he was a dragon. His magic was a mastery of the Transmuter school of magic, so he was often in a non-dragon form. When they finally did kill him, they collectively gave a sigh of relief... and they did not have that reaction to much tougher foes. Poxx (his name) was one of my most sadistic antagonists I ever made. My players did not care that his horde sucked relative to how much of a pain in the butt he was. They were just glad he was dead. One confessed to me that if he was not there when the party finally killed Poxx, he'd quit my group. I think I overdid that Black Dragon's cruelty, my players just loved hating him. Oh, and the end of Poxx was 2 rounds after he died... my players kept attacking is corpse until he did not look much like a dragon husk anymore.
kill it, burn it, throw the ashes in the sea... you never know.
I’m imagining an adult black dragon that carries slimes within it that it spews forth atop an unsuspecting party from the safety of a flyby
When it doesn't even find someone worthy of being breathed on and it just unblocks a nostral at them?
DEATH BOOGER!!!!
@@bigd7861 Murder mucus.
I had not considered that!
vore
It may be lethal but boy are baby dragons adorable. "Awww its spitting acid..."
Said the Xenomorph tending the baby Black Dragon.
So basically, a human baby, just without all the diaper changes....
Tiamat put to much edge into the making of these dragons.
Yay, 30 minutes of AJ Pickett!!!!!!
1:50 in and I'm hooked. Well done sir, the next half hour is yours... These videos are the best investment I've made all year
A Black Dragon video! It really is October! *Bone Xylophone starts jamming*
I love it. Now we know why a swamp area is lousy with orcworts, yellow musk creeper zombies, greenvises, fern blights, assassin vines, shambling mounds, giant red sundews, and horrifying giant vermin (ticks, leeches, mosquitoes, giant water bugs)! Darn skull dragon has moved in. X3
The most overpowered metamagic for breath weapons is animate breath
Especially for metallic dragons just imagine an animated cloud of knockout gas or paralytic or imagine if a force dragon used animate breath you're basically being attacked by a colossal size invisible stalker
What a brilliant idea
@@angrygardengnome8383 it's from the 3.5 E Dragonomicon
There's also specific dragon only prestige classes
Like
The Bloodscaled Fury
The Disciple of Ashardalon
(The Dispassionate Watcher of Chronepsis) tide for my favorite Dragon Prestige class
The Dragon Ascendant
The Elemental Master
(The Hidecarved Dragon) the other one
The Sacred Warder of Bahamut
The Unholy Ravager of Tiamat
For player characters
There are races and classes that synergize well with dragons
or against them
THE DRAGONBLOOD SUBTYPE which applies to all the Draconic races
Dragonborn of Bahamut
Spellscales
Kobolds
Dragon-Descended
Half-Dragon /The Half-Dragon Paragon
Things like
the Platinum knight /Talon of Tiamat
(Draconic paladins)
Disciple of the Eye
Dracolexi
Dragon Devotee
Dragonheart Mage
Singer of Concordance
Diamond Soul Adept
The Dracolyte
The Dragonkith
The Dragonrider
The Dragonsong Lyrist
The Dragonslayer
The Dragonstalker
The Hoardstealer
The Initiate of the Draconic Mysteries
When I started using Dragons back in my last DnD days in 2014 or 2016, I made them a fusion of the D&D Forgotten Realms & WarHammer fantasy, and one of the rules I came up with was the Draconic Tame power if you had a Dragon Horn, buuuut there a special cases, while you use it on a Green & White Dragon, a Red or Blue Dragon you would to have undertaken a quest to prove your strength, in the case of Black Dragon they would trie to trick you, since they could read your thoughts, like all Dragons,
AJ may I recommend you check out all things d&d "how to raise your dragon"? It is a good story and pertinent to this video.
Great timing here! I just DMed a campaign (2nd Edition) where they killed a young adult black dragon! My first dragon battle (other than on computer of course) in about 30 years!
You run 2nd edition?!? I thought we were a myth. Legends told in taverns over tankards of ale and a dying fire by old, bearded adventurers who's best days are behind them that have a flair for exaggeration and theatrics. It's good to know that there are 2nd edition heroes still out there.
@@cliffcampbell8827 BEST XP system in ANY version! That's the main reason why I play it. I also never liked the level limits of 1st edition. And thank you!
@@cliffcampbell8827 We still exist. We are also kings of the homebrew that 2nd Ed opened up for us, especially for fixes. 3rd Ed and after makes me want to take all my stuff and make it into its own game system, an AD&D parallel universe.
@Al Kirk Whoa, hold ALL the way up. Did I read that correctly? You play 2nd...ONLINE?!? You're messing with me aren't you? Come clean, the truth will make you feel better, you'll be a better person for it. Deep down, inside you know I'm right.
@Al Kirk When I read "play online" my first thought was: "there is a D&D computer game that has 2nd edition." Knowing better about getting my Hope's up from a brief smattering of dialog, I enquired further...my Hope's were dashed against the rocks like a silver medal cliff diver. *sigh* I know it's not your fault but I gotta blame somebody. Thanks for clarifying for me.
It's a shame there's so little out there about the crossbreed dragons. There's so much potential, so much awesome, awesome potential.
Agreed. Guess it's up to me.
Sweet. Love black dragons.
My introduction to DnD dragons was a black dragon.
6:18
"Charming... to the last..."
~ Grand Moff Tarkin
HAGS, HAGS, HAGS, Annis, and HAGS love to act as matchmakers for skull dragons, encouraging metaliccross breeding and draconic conquests.
Hags would also make for great tutors in the dark arts and can act as a middle man in the soul market.
Black-Red Hybrid ... two words ... Acidic Napalm.
Also, the mass of the eggs (assuming 12" length and slightly more snake-ish oblong proportions) should be in the neighborhood of seven pounds. Based on a 6-inch long Ostrich egg weighing roughly three.
The thing is, though, that doubling the length would increase the volume 8 fold, so if a 6 inch egg weights 3 lbs, then a 12 inch egg should weigh 24 lbs!
@@brianroberts783 It would, but I'm assuming a more snake like elongate egg, not one of ostrich proportions. My model was something more like two ostrich eggs laid end to end, and the gaps filled in so probably 2-3 times the volume of an actual ostrich egg, 7 to 9 lbs.
so they're basically cats?
All dragons are enormous elemental reptilian cats with a fly speed when you get down to it
@@agustinvenegas5238 nah blue dragons are too nice, green dragons are too smart and red dragons are too honorable,
cats are truly evil
@@renarddubois940 Too nice? Perhaps a it more nicer than the rest, ok. Too smart? Oh, very smart. Too HONERSBLE? HOW COULD THE RED DRAGON BE TOO HKNERABLEbvb!??!??
@@Brxwn9 cats are a very low bar
Please do Red Dragons next! Perfect time of the year for it. 👍
Thank you.
Bronze dragons next?
I’m pretty fresh into a DND campaign and I have plans to use a female ancient black dragon with nercomantic powers as a major antagonist serving as the cheif enforcer of the BBEG. I have plans to have her eviscerate a major city and lead the group of undead wyverns. I have hopes that she’ll be the Vader to by BBEGs Emperor
Love using Black Dragons as second-in-commands. I always give them a free shapeshift to use them as a Jafar or Maleficent character if the story needs it.
Megatron2826 I’ve been eager to use a Black Dragon in a campaign. Next to Reds they come across to me as the best Chromatic dragons to serve as a grand evil villain that just revels in death and destruction. I’ve got a pretty good motivation for mine to serve as the underling for the BBEG as well. I think she’ll serve as one of the more memorable villains of the game
I'm using a black dracolich as the lieutenant of the BBEG in my campaign.
skull dragons have always been my favorite
Yeah they have that extra evil look.
I so enjoy your dragon videos! Will you be doing a video or set of videos on the Council of Wryms setting? I did like that concept TSR had of finally letting players actually play as dragons, but do not see it being rereleased for updated editions as dragons are so OP. It has been so many years since I read or had that supplement that I have forgotten most of what I read.
I'm tempted.
How Nerdy? DEEPLY.......
Have any you guys seen the opening to the Baulders gate 3? STARTS with MIND FLAYERS....
Indeed, and a plane hopping jump drive on a spelljamming ship.
Oh helll yeee. Favourite dragon.
One of my few favorite characters in a general high fantasy setting is a hybrid silver gold. Would love to see a video on hybrids some day.
I don't think hybrids exist in D&D outside of homebrew.
@@jasonroberts9788 they do, purple dragons are one exemple, and some people also consider the green, black, and white to be hybrids
A Dragon who lives in swamp and has a nasty attitude towards other creatures, I feel like the Black Dragon needs a makeup because of its face.
A demon has quested my party with killing a black dragon, and we're only level three. Is my DM trying to kill us all?
Possibly.
He has to feed the demon's pet dragon something...
@@aubreyackermann8432 oh sorry I never gave anybody an update. We all died. Not from the Dragon, but from a giant bomb one of our party set off. Really more of a Kamehameha blast. Surprised the DM allowed it, we are now currently in hell, and the next campaign will be trying to get out. Fun times had by all
@@rayneweber7942 Nice. Good luck!
@@rayneweber7942 do me a favor. Leave a soul for my lady Tiamat
I hope there's a bg3 expansion with a black dragon as the big bad, with Astarion's charisma
Unfortunately, there's only one notable black dragon that comes to mind in a published D&D campaign:
Nightscale, a young black dragon that serves as the final boss of the adventure _The Forge of Fury_ - players that slay her or drive her away can claim her considerable hoard, the greatest prizes being a +2 greataxe and a +1 shield.
What about Voaraghamanthar aka the only twin Black Dragons that work together?
So badass. I still think they're cute though.
They think of you as a garnish.
What type of chromatic dragon get along the best with each other? Also is the only reason black dragons are still prominent is because of the Dracorage mythal keeping other Lester chromatics teaming up and killing them and taking their place in the big five?
Blue and Green get along a tiny bit better. As for the Dracorage... its my theory.
the cross breed dragon's are interesting to me. Especially the metallic chromatic mixing.
Pretty sure our DM is trying to set us up to track down , face a black dragon as part of a (what I assume to be) copper dragons game of Xorvintaal.
"Oh look, a side quest...let's do that instead."
Like a lot of other evil creatures of intelligence, I imagine some black dragons might have the idea to exclusively turn their plots against creatures the dominant force in its territory already hate. Goblins, when humans are stronger nearby. Humans when orcs are stronger. It could cultivate reputations of alliance and trustworthiness, so that it can use those allies to probe, torture, and dominate rivals for mates, territory, and treasure. All while having powerful Kings and adventurers to call favors from when foes arise.
@Al Kirk let me know how it goes!
ngl, I thought it said Black Lagoon at first.
Now I want to know Robertas stats😂
I just got an adult black dragon miniature. This video is fantastic for getting acquainted with the beast!
YAAAY!!!!! I've been waiting for this one, AJ!!!! Your original Red Dragon video, was the one that made me an instant fan of your work! It was also the first among your videos, that I watched!
Please do Red Dragons next!!! Although I'm still not playing, it's not stopping me from creating new Dark Lords, for Ravenloft. One of whom, is a Gold Dragon. He is also a former Chosen og Bahamut, and thus, he has paladin levels, as well as Blackguard, and Sorcerer levels too!!!
Yo, hes got many videos on all the dragons. Check out his channel.
@@BigBadDevilDaddy666 I'm not sure who's channel that your suggesting that I check out? I've been a huge fan of AJ's videos, for the last few years!! He's awesome! And I'm very happy to have been here earlier than many others, as to have the joy of seeing his growth! Ironically, his first Red Dragon video, is the one that lead to me becoming one of his biggest fans!!! When it comes to D&D videos, he and MrRhexx, are tops!!! There are other great channels on here, that cover D&D!! However, those AJ, and MrRhexx, have been my two favorites, since I began watching them, back in 2016-2017!!! :)
Can you do a video explaining the new updated rules?
I could, but I am not going to.
Two things I want to say. First: my D.M scenario idea would involve adventurers give up the stolen Black dragons treasure, throw it into the river leading out of the swamp, past a Greens forest domain where a Green pick up some of it, the rest flows past an Orange dragons jungle domain and gathers the rest ALL while the adventurers try to flee from a pissed off Blacks wrath, by the rivers end destination to a coastal town. Adventurers gets to coastal city while a three way battle of stolen treasure occures between a Green, Orange and Black dragon. The Black might either ignore the Orange and Green for now until exacting destruction upon the adventurers hiding in the coastal town and to defend it against the eneaged Black. 2: Hmm Grey fang dragons do would make sense to be a cross breed of Whites and Blacks. And/ or just Tiamat ( which contain all colors, she just prefer to use the ones we know her of, maybe an upg Empress form could gain her 5 more different chromatic heads ) spawned them into existance without any colir mixing/ cross breed explanation.
I love these evil nonsensical packs of awesomeness!
Got my team assaulting an adult black dragon, Saskrion in his Yellowstone-meets-PinkWhiteTerraces lair. Got a big old adventure day planned as they're lvl 9. Shambling mounds, a kobold zoo, young black dragons, a kobold dmpc party encounter and the big bad himself, followed by a surprise encounter with a gunslinger mastermind villain. Geysers, pools of acid, pickling bodies in hot springs and breakable limestone everywhere.
Pink and white terraces? You have to be a kiwi :)
Reds are cool. Are you reading the comic Slack Wyrm? It's contemporary and free online (archives) i think its about 670 full strips now. Its positively Brilliant about a completely lazy red dragon and friends. Theres even a gelatinous cube XD
Named Paul XD
I am now, thanks. I still wish Wormy never ended, that was such a great comic.
DAT was the author of Wormy. I grew up with DRAGON magazine and 1st edition D&D (I'm born in 1968). His illustrations permeated the covers and pages of the guides.
There are even more illustrations of his that didn't make it onto the pages. His work is totally worth viewing.
He got in some kind of fight with TSR. They took the rights of Wormy. He disagreed and left. He lived out the rest of his life in anonymity. Sadly he has since passed away.
I can easily say no artist has captured my imagination more. Brilliant.
It's also one of the saddest stories I know. Why when we create something to share do others try to take it away? We made it to share, they could not even have conceived it, yet they want to take it away and own it for profit.
Black dragon wyrmlings can cast raise dead?
What happens in my personal campaigns may not conform to generally accepted lore. The wyrmling used a spell book.
Fair enough! I appreciate the insight :)
Not raise dead, I thought it was animate dead...
@@johnsikking4891 I believe you are correct as I often confuse the two. Still, I was surprised by the spellcasing :3
Probably pickled hydras around! Highly addicted baron or outlaw might be willing to give it a try
This is awesome! I was looking for a villain for my story. Have you heard of vampire dragons? They are so cool as well.
If you want to have dungeons and metroids , my recent idea of a beholder dreaming of being the head on a dragons body gives you mother brain from super metroid with a black or a red dragon body...idk which would fit better but i am certain it would be one of those two out of the "common" chromatic species. Sorry to blab so much A.J. , long ago i spent alot of time making concepts for games. Concepts are kind of my thing as im sure everyone can tell. ( i never said they are good concepts, lol) .
Wizard vs sorceror. Merlin of camelot vs." Some who call him Tim" the enchanter!
Another great video , sir.
This is a very plyable idea . while it can work wirh any creature,and there for could be a routine if not semi common monster at higher levels. i like making the presentation of the idea special if i can. I am having alot of fun lately mentally exploring differant combinations of the "beholder dream mutaions". A turasque is my latest. Start it off in the dream, with the players meeting. In a town that has a huge celebration happening . once there a person runs up and asks of you all want flyers outlining celebration scheduels and ceremonies and you all accept. the activities and games and fair are everything from standard games that have been deranged in various ways to the highly grotesque activities. The canned presevers are showcased in one area, im sure i dont need to say more than a big bamner over one booth says "canned jams and jellies and puddings." ...lawn gnome darts and the halfling toss are at midday and quarter past.
A few pages later and the words "main events " take up one full sheet...is..that cured humanoid skin sith gold inlay?..." Come all and and spare yourselves the lasting torment of me hunting you down. I have slain the mighty and unstoppable beast known as the turasque and come for my pennance and rightly deserved rewards . celebrate...well, me , the one who is perfection and all seeing and all knowing. Who has no equal and many , many lesser failed attempts...they don't even have the right eye color....
Suddenly the huge central eye snaps open...oh what a horrible dream with all those ugly awfull creatures ...no self respecting eyetyrant would let those wretches into their minds... The beholder thinks to itself as it slowly wakes ." why does it feel like i have been sleeping for 20 years straight?" It also thinks...
I need to stretch my....legs?...it stands up slowly with this gigantic body and gets used to its "archaic" way of momentum...
A huge rumble is felt from the mountians and landslides start in rapid succession. A large mountain face explodes with rubble and launches stone shrapnel for miles perforating most anything it collides with. The beast emerges with a standard turasque body, thickened at the shoulders . in place of a neck and head are a massive eye over a massive toothy maw. 8 shell Plated eyestocks protrude from its carapacelike armored back...it starts lumbering into the valley leading to a huge capital city, insert your favorite super cool creature to attack the beh-rasque in the cities view...have your creature be vaporized in dbz esque fight. It looks like the beh-rasque is getting beaten to a pulp, but iit was just testing its new found durability , glared at the atacker with its central eye canceling all magic ,and hits it with a cone of cold, fireball,sunburst, prismatic ray,and two desintigrates and two meteorite spells . immediatly killing it if possible or followed by physical attacks .
It heasbto the city and thats when you have your players wake up in a suitable location like an inn, half way around the world .
A black and orange hybrid seems plausible and exceptionally nasty.
In a daydream the dragon comes up with the idea of having skeletons ambushing the party, only to drag them into pools of acid, the dragon chuckling as a few get dissolved or maimed. The goal isn’t to kill them all, just to have a bit of fun and entertainment. To throw them off their game and maybe piss them off enough to act stupidly. The next game involves a room with cages mounted up on the walls. Kidnapped villagers screaming and crying.. a large impenetrable sphere of darkness in the centre of the room and a swarm of insects buzzing off to the side. The dragon’s big reveal is spoiled by the party hearing the sounds of crying victims from within the sphere. Guess they’ll have to be gagged or silenced temporarily. Looks like the dragon is going to offer them a choice. Of course, it is a no win situation unless they have done their research and have something to bargain with... hmm... maybe they can be sent on a quest... then it wonders if they have anything interesting. A few hours of entertainment slowly tearing them apart or slowish dissolving them. Or is there a way to make their visit and subsequent mystery and pain last.... it’s a good day dream for a black dragon.
Just want to point out a small piece of lore that was wrong. Sammaster didnt end the mythal (unless there was a rewrite that im not aware of) it was a massive coalition of the races around the sea of stars that killed sammaster and a cleric of lathander that destroyed the mythal
You're quite correct. The cleric's name was Pavel Shemov. 🙂