I can already imagine how a dnd campaign with a Copper Dragon would go: - Need strong magical item - Hear a nearby metallic dragon has it - Metallic means nice equals possibility of trade - Meet dragon, gain quest instead - Go on an arduous journey - Near the end meet a dude who researches dragons - Hear him mention about copper dragons' tendency to fuck with people - See as the realization slowly hits the players faces
And then, to make sure the players don't kill you, have the researcher turn out to be the dragon. After all, he's going to want to be able to see their faces.
Double twist: the researcher is actually a silver dragon who uses being a human dragon researcher as super sneaky cover for him actually being a dragon human researcher
Dan N Iemiesse I’m picturing like a museum in the middle of a random cavern or abandoned castle in the mountains where it lives. Since you know...silver dragon. Like it loves the stuff so much it created a museum no one would ever go to because the stuff and the people it belonged to deserve it.
Copper dragons are the best! All their things are hilarious. Look at the text for the area surrounding their lair: "Tiny beasts such as rodents and birds that are normally unable to speak gain the magical ability to speak and understand Draconic while within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair. These creatures speak well of the dragon, but can’t divulge its whereabouts. " also "Intelligent creatures within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair are prone to fits of giggling. Even serious matters suddenly seem amusing." ALSO "Magic carvings of the dragon’s smiling visage can be seen worked into stone terrain and objects within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair." Like what the fuck!!
Essentially, you can sum up every metallic dragon by what they do with message spells: Gold: Want to know if you've found any evil. Silver: Is writing a "biography" about your travels with maybe a bit of artistic license. Bronze: Just making sure you're not doing anything illegal. Brass: No reason, just wants to chat for a few hours. Copper: Yells a meme from 5 years ago and hangs up.
Genome Soldat You'll subscribe to their pranks for the rest of your life. Copper dragons build hardcore rivalry through pranks. So if you prank them first, and got them good, they'll see that as a challenge and you as a worthy opponent.
Silver dragon librarians who always talk about the exact opposite person you want Dragon: "the small child who was born as a farmer-" Adventurer: "for the LAST time, I need to find my partner who walked in here 10 minutes ago!" Dragons: "ah I see, you want to know about the ruler who subjugated his neighbors" Adventurer: "AAAAAGHGGHGGH!!!"
"Ho? You're approaching? Instead of running away from battle you're coming closer?!" "I can't heal your ass for 2d8+10 without getting closer." "*THEN GET AS CLOSE AS YOU LIKE!*"
@CloakofAuron - Don't sweat that, I have a story knocking about my head about a Silver Dragon who marries a paladin too. The paladin is a Steel dragon in disguise, but he's still a human paladin most of the time! Besides! Where else would one get cool half-dragons! Your paladin could raise a brood of devoted Bahamutian warriors!
Just cut your losses, make a new channel with a slightly different name and wear a fake mustache...and consider trying out a slight accent, but nothing too outlandish. In time people will forget that you made a tiny little mistake on the internet, and you'll then be free to reclaim your birthright. Good luck, man.
"Silver dragons are basically the 2nd place of dragons" Hey now, I take umbr- "Nah just kidding, they're the best ones" ...I like this scribe. Speak more, sage, your wisdom clearly approaches even our own.
Silver Dragon stalks you an entire campaign until you finally confront it and he admits to being a hugs fan of your family, ancestors and culture. Then he works up the courage to ask you out for coffee
SAY! I LIKE TO @ YOU I DO! I LIKE TO @ YOU, SAM-I-AM! AND I WOULD TO @ YOU IN A BOAT. AND I WOULD TO @ YOU WITH A GOAT... AND I WILL TO @ YOU, IN THE RAIN. AND IN THE DARK. AND ON A TRAIN. AND IN A CAR. AND IN A TREE. IT IS SO GOOD, SO GOOD, YOU SEE! SO I WILL TO @ YOU IN A BOX. AND I WILL TO @ YOU WITH A FOX. AND I WILL TO @ YOU IN A HOUSE. AND I WILL TO @ YOU WITH A MOUSE. AND I WILL TO @ YOU HERE AND THERE. SAY! I WILL TO @ YOU ANYWHERE! I DO SO LIKE TO @ YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU, SAM I AM. Oh, what were we talking about? Silver dragons? They're okay, I guess.
Brass Dragons like talking so much it’s how they choose their mates. They spend decades courting potential mates by just talking and talking about everything they possibly can.
@@Dudenob123 I always thought silver dragons would be the most likely to procreate with a human, seeing their habit of shapeshifting into one and going about their day in the life of a smallfolk. Gold dragons do this too, but I can see them doing it far less frequently.
My first character's boyfriend was secretly a silver dragon. Later, the DM gave me some magical metal armor with the picture of a dragon on it. Coincidence? I think not!
Obvously, you've never met a cat. They have a few default modes. They are (in no particular order): -Fuck off human, I do not wish to be touched. -Sleeping. -Sleeping, but in a cute way that just makes you fail your WIS save against charm so you want to pet it, but "FUCK OFF HUMANS, I DO NOT WISH TO BE TOUCHED". -Feed Me, Meow, Human! Right Meow! -Pander to me and pet me! I don't care what you're doing. -And the, "What did I do? Seriously. I don't know what you think I did, but I probably didn't do it. I blame the dog. He looks guilty."
@@jackielinde7568 I've had the same cat for 14 years, so I think I know a thing or two about them. I just meant this one was particularly good at not quite looking innocent.
I have this one old cat that's just like... Human = LOVE ME! Any Other Animal = FACK OFF! Trusted Human = I will love you instead! Trusted Animal = Nyehhh... Fine...
Runesmith: *starts talking about high school me* Current Me: "I feel very attacked." Runesmith: "But I was really talking about brass dragons." Current Me: "I was a brass dragon in high school."
I actually ran that as a one shot. The library had been taken over by a powerful mage who trapped the silver dragon who originally collected the texts. The adventurers had to free the dragon and help him defeat the arcanist who I made a polymorphed black dragon because PCs enjoy killing evil dragons. Best bit was that the party failed all their checks to identify the silver dragon until halfway through. When I dropped the bomb that the dragon they had been sent to kill by the librarian was not the white dragon they thought it was, you could hear a pin drop.
@@Ryodraco Because snakes aren't actually evil, and, unless, provoked, are more likely to watch you walk right past them or slither away from you than they are to bite.
Adventurer: *travels through the land defeating dangerous foes and surviving incredible dangers to achive the one magical item he needs to save his hometown* Copper dragon: It was a prank, lol *dabs*
Brass Dragon: wierd cousin ronnie Bronze Dragon: cool Uncle James who smokes Copper Dragon: gossipy Aunt Linda Silver Dragon: Grandma Besty who's secret ingredient to everything is 7-up Gold Dragon: slightly racist Grandpa Jim
I now want to make a campaign where this Silver Dragon has a favorite town that it basically puts in a timeless bubble with magic or some shit so that it’s favorite people don’t die and then the adventurers get to live there forever after they’re done with all the adventuring
I'm so sorry for their family's loss Are graves typically adorned with flowers in your setting? Stones? Something more unusual? I'll send over whatever is customary for them, just tell me more about how they work
Vern cursed some dragons to lose their regal status and two forelimbs, to walk and fly as simple bird-like creatures of prey. They named themselves after the one question everyone had: "Why, Vern?".
I used pen and paper and created my own Zelda Ocarina of Time era Hyrule RPG. Im probably gonna use World Anvil to make it look pretty if it does what people are telling me it does.
@@vutava8292 That sounds awesome. The race list for mine went: Hylian, Goron, Zora Sheikah, Gerudo, and Kokiri. Paladins and Clerics went off the goddesses Din Nayru and Farore. And I took a little liberty when it comes to some of the dungeons to make them more exciting in a D&D campaign but stay loosely the same. I was usually a Zora ranger, if I had a character in the setting to help the characters along, but he ends up leaving.
Been loving watching my players try to figure out how Jeremy the bard has already been singing songs of their adventures for months while they've been in the ass end of nowhere for the entire time and have had no contact with anyone. Little do they know Jeremy the bard is actually Aggamolar the young adult silver dragon whose been celebrity stalking them for ages. One day I will reveal unto them why their underwear always goes missing!!!
That moment when the Dragonborn Sorcerer recognizes the copper dragon that just landed, it being their father, and knows he's just f*cking with the party by sending them two hundred miles away.
I am currently using the opening town of a campaign as a Home for Ancient Metallic Dragons in disguise. It was a normal City State; then the Copper dragon became a Tavern owner and Bar Keep to both protect her hoard and to get adventurers to leave her be about treasures and things. Then a Bronze Dragon removed a tyrant that had led the town under guise as Reguileoldt (read as re-guy old) Endeskaise (read as In Disguise) the first... every 49 years he shifts form to be the next and hires family's to act the part until a certain age is reached then returns them with lots of cash to there homes else where. Any who, An Ancient Silver acts as the black smith and clothes maker/cobbler so he can make set pieces for his hero patrons. An Ancient Brass Dragon is the Port head so he can converse with the most people about business is fine because its still people willing to talk. The Gold dragon is head of security. other races know nothing of this and buy into the disguises. Most other dragons will sense them if they came and if they are willing to play nice they are welcome to live in Ainscrad. The players just found out about the Barkeep... Tonight I see what they do to her.
@@justafan9206 This campaign along with a few others of mine are basically on permanent hiatus due to the plague. But yes I like to do wild things that are convulted in most of my campaigns. More time I am given the more complicated they become. having an off switch for my imagination would be nice at times.
@@justafan9206 Phil "Harmony" Anthropist; is my most unique Bard character. amongst other things he is a Bard, and an Albino Tiefling. The thing is he has cloth wrapped around his face so people can see his mouth and hair; he always wears an elaborate set of Eastern Clothing (Think 1600's Samurai clothes). and a pair of Alabasta spider silk gloves. All people see him playing is a weird 13 string instrument that looks like a wider version of a Guitar as its thickness is to accomodate the extra strings... what people hear though is a full set of instruments and back up singers, yet its just him. He is in fact not a humble Bard, nor a kind hearted traveling priest, nor any other of his many identities he uses... for you see he is a deeply cursed immortal King, having been under his curse for over 10K years; and thanks to this curse he cannot solve any national level or worse threat, or even act against the forces of Evil directly; despite being a level 100 ultra hard core badass of 5 classes maxed at 20 each; he must observe as the world crumbles around him and his ideals of Harmony and peace are robbed from him until an impossible task can occur. He is an NPC I made for a one shot like mini series style campaign. He was cursed by Cronus the God of time because all those years ago plus a few Phil promised to make Cronus a house hold name and a major religon in order to become ultimately powerful and know many things and topal the Tyrant that once ruled this land... Cronus pulled through on his end but Phil lied and said he owed his victory to no God but good old fashioned try hard training. Well Gods would obvious curse you for such blatant disregard of there assistance. Now he is cursed to see every heroes attempt to save his people, and is forgotten by those that look away from him, so until a hero realizes his situation despite the many Earth shattering threats that follow him; and that despite Cronus sicking a Chrosphinx on them every time (An advanced and exceptionally annoying creature I made. Its MO, is to max range spell cast into the parties camp or rooms at the Inn; preventing rest periods from happening, actively trying to kill the party with exaustion... then as a legendary action it loops time up to a week before with a dream lie haze over memorys of that time frame. However the party I used it against lucked out as I rolled a 1 on its stealth check. It may have Greater invisibility at will but it stubbed a toe type of thing and made noise... and well its designed to be weak to direct confrontation since its so stealthy and capable of maintaining long time use of magic for winning battles of Attrition. A favored tactic of theirs is to caste Tsunami on a camp site to wash tents and gear into rivers nearby. Using Delayed Fireball at a point where the campfire hides the budding fireball for 10 rounds to blast burnning shrapnel everywhere to burn peoples things and attack. Or summoning a flock of faeries (quickling's) to harass the party all night or to scatter weapons and gear and other general mayham. It can cast 9+ times a day each spell level except 8th and 9th which is still like 7ish times so it is pretty hard to deal with multi concentration spells as well as all kinds of summons and spells of harassment. On top of that annoying monster I had 6 other plots going on at once to act as distraction for the party so the simple task of seeing whats wrong at a local shrine is low priority and overlooked. Those plots included a Gnoll Super Invasion; Goblins hunting the locals to treat them as livestock and provide food bribes against the Gnolls; Hag Covanents working with Cultists to raise Demon armies; Evil Gods trying to incarnate... you know light work for 16th level characters. Phil was the Bard in the tavern the campaign starts at. He is playing "Yesterday" by the Beetles and everyone starts with a memory roll to see if they remember that they have already woke up or whatever here as Deja Vu hits them; that was my only clue about the looping time monster's pressence. Phil actually has a pretty severe mutation from his demonic heritage... each opening on his body is a mouth and each hand has a mouth also; so 2 eyes/a nose/2 ears/ass/dick/each hand/each breast/belly button=12 mouths total and each mouth can replicate any one sound. I think I might recycle him for another campaign but as far as bards go he was the one I had most fun making.
Jack Linde You win 10,000 gold in Three-Dragon Ante, then give it all to a copper dragon the next day who wordplays you into it because you won with a copper flight. Don’t really know why that was the example that came to mind.
So DnD Dragons are basically Fire Emblem dragons? -Ancient race that existed way before humans and might have orchestated/guided their existence -Near immortal -Magical and powerful asf -Can assume human form -Some are good, others are bad, some are lesser, some are greater -Some became or are revered as gods -Have close cousins that are basically glorified pets
I had a warlock tortle who's patron was a Dragon Turtle they'd managed to convince was a draconic patron. He was very embarrassed when he was discovered. But my boy was happy to help him because everyone needs a friend.
1:56 “At some point in the 12,000s, which feels like a weird date to say…” Meanwhile I’m still here in 2022 wondering about his witchcraft time travel from ~10,000 years in the future.
I'll never forget one of the monster descriptions that (mostly) stuck in my mind while reading my first monster manual was the Brass ( or maybe it was the Copper?) being known to shove problematic adventurers into the sand and demand people listen to their jokes or riddles to amuse themselves.
in the campaign i'm running, there's a silver dragon who shapeshifted into an elf and was given the title of baroness. she has a deal with the empire's archmage, protecting dangerous artifacts beneath her mansion (and occasionally sending out treasure hunters to collect goodies, which she displays in her mansion)
Speaking of dragon squirrels, I once befriended a talking squirrel in one campaign I was in, turned out to be a gold dragon that just came along to see how shit went down. Will never forget the moment we discovered his secret.
You should throw in the "not in 5th edition but totally part of other editions of d&d" dragons. My personal favorite is the steel dragon. They literally acclimate themselves into mortal societies and live as the mortal races. Having families, and careers, and all that stuff. Then when people realize how weird it is that this person hasn't aged in 50 years, they move on and shed that life like a snake sheds it's skin. Literally, they shed the memories from their minds so they don't get all their past lives confused with each other.
I just want to say how Frigg'n HELPFUL these videos have been to me. I'm currently DMing a Homebrew Tabletop where NOBODY in the group has played or even Read a DND rulebook in their lives, myself Included, So having something like this to Help me fill out the big ol' Bestiary my group is making me make so we have some Variety to the Monsters while still having things Loosely based enough on DnD that I cant yell at them when they call it DnD has been a huge Relief. Thank you Runesmith. Thank you.
My goblin: hey dragon can you help me track down this staff Copper dragon: oh ya its in that pit in litteral hell My goblin: *crawls thru all 9 hells just to end up back where i started* Copper dragon: you just got vectored
Would you please do 'Basically Lizardfolk'? I'm doing a Lizardfolk ice mage who gained an ironic sense of humor and basic emotions by way of an 'Awaken' spell gone wrong. His name is Izard Gizzard the Blizzard Wizard Lizard.
I am loving all these Basically Videos and I would totally support your patreon if I wasn't broke... But you should totally make one on the Fey and Feywild since you love hags so much!
In the United States, Pepsi is made with carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, sugar, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid, and natural flavors.
And remember, "natural flavors" does not need to be specified if it is below a certain percentage of the ingredients, by volume. And it may include a (by law defined, based on the product) maximum amount of insects. - Spider Cola.
Fun Fact: the phosphoric acid content on drinks like pepsi and specially coca cola is high enouth to make them effective at cleaning rust and polishing crome I once saw my mom unclog a greasy sink with a can of cola
Ah yes the “pseudodragon”.... they’re small, cute, basically a good pocket-sized friend, and I want one... also yes I said “friend” because they’re not pets; they are friends! (Also they’ll abandon you if you even think of them as a pet)
I once made a brass dragon that traveled the world as a merchant who would run into the party from time to time but interestingly he lacked the level of greed of most dragons so he was always happy to retrieve items the party asked for so when they ran into him again he would and sell it to them at a discount.
Not gonna lie. The video feels incomplete without the whole “that’s basically good dragons” at the end. I’m sure it’s coming at the end of the third video, but in the meantime it’s so cold.
I think I heard once that gold dragons can also move their tendril beard, the tendrils aren't strong but they can use them to hold things and if I remember correctly they can also use them to make the motions when casting a spell. So basically if one wanted to make you really uncomfortable they could touch your face with the tentacle beard.
I love that basically the only things that differentiate chromatics are " *why* am I the best" And the thing that differentiates metallics is, what, "Why do I like the tiny people" ?
Because tiny harless apes make crazy machine that scares/intrigues even the gods so they are both a threat (evil dragon) and a amazing guessing game of what the ever living fuck are they gonna do next (good dragons)
4e may get a lot of flak, but the dracomonicons were some excellent source books. From the metallic one we got my favorite dragon: Mercury Dragons. They're basically like a chaotic neutral PC who easily gets board and starts doing weird shit to see what will happen, but if that person also lived in a volcano and could turn into Large or smaller creatures whenever they wanted. They also basically get Sneak Attack damage and their breath weapon makes them invisible to anyone hit by it for a short time. And of course they can just melt into a puddle and peace out down the drain if their latest "social experiment" didn't exactly go as planned. Because mercury. They look pretty cool, too. Runner-up is Orium dragons, because they breathe snakes.
I love your videos so much. It is difficult for something to make me die laughing, plus teach me something PLUS give me ideas to do in my own DnD times.
Be sure to look up the Dragon Compendium vol. 1 pdf for Orange, Purple, and Yellow dragons. Everything published through Dragon magazine is still owned by WotC, so those are still canon (as are the Song, Steel, and Fang dragons from FR).
I can already imagine how a dnd campaign with a Copper Dragon would go:
- Need strong magical item
- Hear a nearby metallic dragon has it
- Metallic means nice equals possibility of trade
- Meet dragon, gain quest instead
- Go on an arduous journey
- Near the end meet a dude who researches dragons
- Hear him mention about copper dragons' tendency to fuck with people
- See as the realization slowly hits the players faces
And then, to make sure the players don't kill you, have the researcher turn out to be the dragon. After all, he's going to want to be able to see their faces.
Im using this
This is amazing
Double twist: the researcher is actually a silver dragon who uses being a human dragon researcher as super sneaky cover for him actually being a dragon human researcher
Holy f*ck what a great idea!
Encounter idea: A silver dragon runs a museum and you just get to sit there for an hour and listen to it geek out about the things it loves.
That sounds more like a brass dragon.
Holy shit I'm absolutely going to use this
Not that the party I herd will ever actually visit a museum but
@@danniemiesse4643 they will if you subtly tell the players but not the characters that its run by a silver dragon lol
Dan N Iemiesse I’m picturing like a museum in the middle of a random cavern or abandoned castle in the mountains where it lives. Since you know...silver dragon. Like it loves the stuff so much it created a museum no one would ever go to because the stuff and the people it belonged to deserve it.
Thank you for a idea in my campain
Copper dragons are the best! All their things are hilarious. Look at the text for the area surrounding their lair:
"Tiny beasts such as rodents and birds that are normally unable to speak gain the magical ability to speak and understand Draconic while within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair. These creatures speak well of the dragon, but can’t divulge its whereabouts.
"
also
"Intelligent creatures within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair are prone to fits of giggling. Even serious matters suddenly seem amusing."
ALSO
"Magic carvings of the dragon’s smiling visage can be seen worked into stone terrain and objects within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair."
Like what the fuck!!
Essentially, you can sum up every metallic dragon by what they do with message spells:
Gold: Want to know if you've found any evil.
Silver: Is writing a "biography" about your travels with maybe a bit of artistic license.
Bronze: Just making sure you're not doing anything illegal.
Brass: No reason, just wants to chat for a few hours.
Copper: Yells a meme from 5 years ago and hangs up.
Well apparently the world in MY session must've done everything illegal because Bronze Dragons are trying to take over everything.
Me:* Doing a serious quest and asking a copper dragon for directions*
Copper Dragon: *HAB U SEEN A PRANK PLS*
See, you ask them for directions with the promise to help them on their next prank at a much later date.
@@jackielinde7568 then, later on, they tell you that you can help them by being the victim for their next prank
What happens if you prank the Copper dragon?
Genome Soldat
You'll subscribe to their pranks for the rest of your life. Copper dragons build hardcore rivalry through pranks. So if you prank them first, and got them good, they'll see that as a challenge and you as a worthy opponent.
@I like turtles, Sounds extreme.
What happens if you prank them but then die cause you know, mortal lifespans and all?
Great, now I am imagining Silver Dragon obsessed with JoJo references.
Silver dragon librarians who always talk about the exact opposite person you want
Dragon: "the small child who was born as a farmer-"
Adventurer: "for the LAST time, I need to find my partner who walked in here 10 minutes ago!"
Dragons: "ah I see, you want to know about the ruler who subjugated his neighbors"
Adventurer: "AAAAAGHGGHGGH!!!"
@@jeffreysian-salas1689 Barbarian finally gets tired of it and rages: DAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMU!
That would be absolutly stup- nope gonna use that for my campaign. Thank you for that steal.
I mean, they do love art, so it works 👍
"Ho? You're approaching? Instead of running away from battle you're coming closer?!"
"I can't heal your ass for 2d8+10 without getting closer."
"*THEN GET AS CLOSE AS YOU LIKE!*"
>Greek
>Italian
>German
>European listed as a separate area
Its our thing you wont understond
If you look closely, you actually notice that I'm an idiot
@@Runesmith smartest barbarian on the myTube.bing
What do you mean, i thought europe is england, france, and half of germany? Oh yeah, and that colony of mexico nobody cares about.
I mean to be fair that type of dragon *is* called European so...not rly wrong..?
Wow, a German dragon, a Greek dragon, an Italian dragon and even a E U R O P E A N dragon oh wow
geographical history is shifty
UN dragon
Bentan why is the Italian dragon a chonker
Asian dragons
MR. WORLDWIDE!
A good DM must always include a silver dragon in their dating sim--I MEAN, _campaign_
*sweats nervously, having married my paladin to a silver dragon*
Let it be known that yes, I do enjoy Ms. Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
I adopted a silver dragon as an egg very early on in an old campaign and the party grew around raising her. qX
Basically Fire Emblem.
@CloakofAuron - Don't sweat that, I have a story knocking about my head about a Silver Dragon who marries a paladin too. The paladin is a Steel dragon in disguise, but he's still a human paladin most of the time! Besides! Where else would one get cool half-dragons! Your paladin could raise a brood of devoted Bahamutian warriors!
hmmh.... But Kobayashi has a green dragon...
Which uhh... Isn't important.
So... What do you get if you crossbreed a dragon with catfolk, anyway? XD
As a Gnome bard, I can confirm that Copper Dragons are indeed fellow chaotic bastards.
1:55 "At some point in the twelve thousands" Dragons will exist in the future
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@@Runesmith That's why it felt like a weird thing to say, I bet!
Just cut your losses, make a new channel with a slightly different name and wear a fake mustache...and consider trying out a slight accent, but nothing too outlandish. In time people will forget that you made a tiny little mistake on the internet, and you'll then be free to reclaim your birthright. Good luck, man.
@@alias588 the internet never forgets, he will be a pariah from now until the end times, which should be next week, if my calculations are correct.
We would probably have extremely advanced genetic modification and extremely bored populations in the 12000's. Seems like a reasonable predictions.
"Silver dragons are basically the 2nd place of dragons"
Hey now, I take umbr-
"Nah just kidding, they're the best ones"
...I like this scribe. Speak more, sage, your wisdom clearly approaches even our own.
as a black dragon i apolagise for my kind i like brass dragons and my homebrew noble dragons
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What about steel dragons tho
@@_Tzer Ugh what _about_ them
They don't even make our usual lists.
"Just like a monthly subscription to Worl-"
Physically had me laughing out loud! You sneaky, sneaky, bastard.
Silver Dragon stalks you an entire campaign until you finally confront it and he admits to being a hugs fan of your family, ancestors and culture. Then he works up the courage to ask you out for coffee
It sounds weird to say the "twelve thousands" because it was the twelve hundreds...
Lol
I didnt catch that
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It was the one thousand two hundreds, obviously
I like to imagine that Silver Dragons created television and are literally the only creatures that use it as it's a jealously-guarded secret.
Shadowrun crossover
somebody call the god anansi
a copper dragon should be used for every "that guy" as a deterrent.
Ah yes, 800 years ago in the year of our lord *_TWELVE THOUSAND A.D._*
Indeed, I like to slay dragons with my mech suit too.
@@censorduck thanks for the game idea
Tui. T. Sutherland theories be like
That 12000 date makes my mind blue screen every time I watch this playlist.
Silver Dragons are the best of the Metallic Dragons don’t @ me.
Edit: I’m so happy Logan agrees with me.
Lukemander I edited once he said in the video that they are the best.
SAY! I LIKE TO @ YOU
I DO! I LIKE TO @ YOU, SAM-I-AM!
AND I WOULD TO @ YOU IN A BOAT.
AND I WOULD TO @ YOU WITH A GOAT...
AND I WILL TO @ YOU, IN THE RAIN.
AND IN THE DARK. AND ON A TRAIN.
AND IN A CAR. AND IN A TREE.
IT IS SO GOOD, SO GOOD, YOU SEE!
SO I WILL TO @ YOU IN A BOX.
AND I WILL TO @ YOU WITH A FOX.
AND I WILL TO @ YOU IN A HOUSE.
AND I WILL TO @ YOU WITH A MOUSE.
AND I WILL TO @ YOU HERE AND THERE.
SAY! I WILL TO @ YOU ANYWHERE!
I DO SO LIKE TO @ YOU!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU, SAM I AM.
Oh, what were we talking about? Silver dragons? They're okay, I guess.
@@LukasaskeJokes on you he liked it again.
I prefer Bronze Dragons, but Silver ones are cool as hell too.
Actually the best dragon is Steel Dragon, thank you and bye
9:26
Cat: So that's how it's going to be huh?
**Starts plotting world domination**
Brass Dragons like talking so much it’s how they choose their mates.
They spend decades courting potential mates by just talking and talking about everything they possibly can.
and they like to have ons wiht humans. They are basicly bards.
@@Dudenob123 I always thought silver dragons would be the most likely to procreate with a human, seeing their habit of shapeshifting into one and going about their day in the life of a smallfolk. Gold dragons do this too, but I can see them doing it far less frequently.
@@kylestanley7843 It's true, we're randy bastards. If you ever need proof, just look up 'silverbrow humans'
My first character's boyfriend was secretly a silver dragon. Later, the DM gave me some magical metal armor with the picture of a dragon on it. Coincidence? I think not!
The cat's just sitting there like "what did *I* do?... Recently, I mean?"
Obvously, you've never met a cat. They have a few default modes. They are (in no particular order):
-Fuck off human, I do not wish to be touched.
-Sleeping.
-Sleeping, but in a cute way that just makes you fail your WIS save against charm so you want to pet it, but "FUCK OFF HUMANS, I DO NOT WISH TO BE TOUCHED".
-Feed Me, Meow, Human! Right Meow!
-Pander to me and pet me! I don't care what you're doing.
-And the, "What did I do? Seriously. I don't know what you think I did, but I probably didn't do it. I blame the dog. He looks guilty."
@@jackielinde7568 and that is why we love them. sass levels are off the chart
@@jackielinde7568 I've had the same cat for 14 years, so I think I know a thing or two about them. I just meant this one was particularly good at not quite looking innocent.
No, that cat looks like a complete dick. Just look at him. You can tell.
I have this one old cat that's just like...
Human = LOVE ME!
Any Other Animal = FACK OFF!
Trusted Human = I will love you instead!
Trusted Animal = Nyehhh... Fine...
Runesmith: *starts talking about high school me*
Current Me: "I feel very attacked."
Runesmith: "But I was really talking about brass dragons."
Current Me: "I was a brass dragon in high school."
"I was a brass dragon in high school" Mood.
Your cat looked visibly upset by being flipped off.
Not pictured - the cat jumps at the hand, rips the finger off and shoves it up his ass.
He looked honestly affronted.
@@MyVanir kinky?
i noticed the eye flip lower then back up and all i thought was "So you don't like your ankles then? OK, I'll get rid of them for you"
it was very uncalled for.
Concept:
A library run by a silver dragons
You just described my clanmate Qualinthropis. Fine lad, but I've never seen more of a bookwyrm in my life
@@Darasilverdragon
_Bookwyrm. . ._
I actually ran that as a one shot. The library had been taken over by a powerful mage who trapped the silver dragon who originally collected the texts. The adventurers had to free the dragon and help him defeat the arcanist who I made a polymorphed black dragon because PCs enjoy killing evil dragons.
Best bit was that the party failed all their checks to identify the silver dragon until halfway through. When I dropped the bomb that the dragon they had been sent to kill by the librarian was not the white dragon they thought it was, you could hear a pin drop.
Dragons are cool, inside DnD.
Outside of DnD and on the internet however.
Mindflayers be damned.
Mindflayer probably beg someone to "flay" his mind after he see some sh..t about dragon on internet.
...should we tell him we breed illithid/dragons? ...nah.
Tfw human imagination is actually the strongest cosmic horror
@@OhitsONnow That we know of. And honestly, we don't want to know if there is something more horrific than that.
@@OhitsONnow Are you sure they're human...?
Apparently, the reason that dragons are so common in so many cultures is because they're rooted in humanity's universal fear of snakes
Then why are they positive/benevolent in quite a few cultures?
@@Ryodraco because humans are weird
@@RyodracoThat could make a lot of sense to me think of all the storys in modern times about big friendly beasts of sorts.
@@Ryodraco Because snakes aren't actually evil, and, unless, provoked, are more likely to watch you walk right past them or slither away from you than they are to bite.
@@CM-hx5dp in other words humanity's fear of snakes is not universal. That was my point in asking the question.
You forgot to mention that gold dragons really love art.
It’s their preferred treasure, and they’re lairs are often half-vault half-gallery
Adventurer: *travels through the land defeating dangerous foes and surviving incredible dangers to achive the one magical item he needs to save his hometown*
Copper dragon: It was a prank, lol *dabs*
My canine dragon: *starts emmiting a strong radiance*
I'm telling you that dragons are so widespread because they're real. They're just really good at hiding.
Brass Dragon: wierd cousin ronnie
Bronze Dragon: cool Uncle James who smokes
Copper Dragon: gossipy Aunt Linda
Silver Dragon: Grandma Besty who's secret ingredient to everything is 7-up
Gold Dragon: slightly racist Grandpa Jim
Pseudodragon: Mr. Whiskers the family housecat
I now want to make a campaign where this Silver Dragon has a favorite town that it basically puts in a timeless bubble with magic or some shit so that it’s favorite people don’t die and then the adventurers get to live there forever after they’re done with all the adventuring
YOU HAD TO WAIT UNTIL THE DAY AFTER MY PARTY DECIDED TO ATTACK AN ADULT GOLD DRAGON!?!?!?
I'm so sorry for their family's loss
Are graves typically adorned with flowers in your setting? Stones? Something more unusual?
I'll send over whatever is customary for them, just tell me more about how they work
F
If I were in said party, I would betray them to fight with the dragon
Vern cursed some dragons to lose their regal status and two forelimbs, to walk and fly as simple bird-like creatures of prey. They named themselves after the one question everyone had: "Why, Vern?".
I've started using World Anvil to make a campaign setting based on the lore of the different Kamen Rider Series.
I used pen and paper and created my own Zelda Ocarina of Time era Hyrule RPG. Im probably gonna use World Anvil to make it look pretty if it does what people are telling me it does.
What system did you use?
@@dreamer3328 D&D 5.0. I tried to do 4.0 but that was a bit more complicated.
@@crowmoon9556 I was in a homebrewed Microlite Zelda game. I was the big dumb goron tank. I miss playing Strake.
@@vutava8292 That sounds awesome. The race list for mine went: Hylian, Goron, Zora Sheikah, Gerudo, and Kokiri. Paladins and Clerics went off the goddesses Din Nayru and Farore. And I took a little liberty when it comes to some of the dungeons to make them more exciting in a D&D campaign but stay loosely the same. I was usually a Zora ranger, if I had a character in the setting to help the characters along, but he ends up leaving.
The cat at the end is like "yeah, your paws are weird, slave. Get over it. Stop showing me"
Been loving watching my players try to figure out how Jeremy the bard has already been singing songs of their adventures for months while they've been in the ass end of nowhere for the entire time and have had no contact with anyone. Little do they know Jeremy the bard is actually Aggamolar the young adult silver dragon whose been celebrity stalking them for ages. One day I will reveal unto them why their underwear always goes missing!!!
Three years later and I’m dying to know what else Jeremy the Bard has done with those underpants.
@@AredelI ain't
"The good guys"
The ones who use humans for entertainment instead of killing humans for entertainment (except for my silver bois I love yall)
That moment when the Dragonborn Sorcerer recognizes the copper dragon that just landed, it being their father, and knows he's just f*cking with the party by sending them two hundred miles away.
8:22 That imitation of the copper dragon has had me rolling and coming back to this video just to hear it for weeks.
Bro, D&D is pretty cool.
You're damn right it is!
It is, just not Wizards of the Coast there's such a terrible company and they don't deserve Dungeons & Dragons
@@kamikuru5398 I feel wizards of the coast is a fine company
@@kamikuru5398 Lol wut? They're doing just fine.
@@kamikuru5398 Eh, NO.
This is great. I never actually knew what the silver dragons were like. That's adorable!
I am currently using the opening town of a campaign as a Home for Ancient Metallic Dragons in disguise.
It was a normal City State; then the Copper dragon became a Tavern owner and Bar Keep to both protect her hoard and to get adventurers to leave her be about treasures and things. Then a Bronze Dragon removed a tyrant that had led the town under guise as Reguileoldt (read as re-guy old) Endeskaise (read as In Disguise) the first... every 49 years he shifts form to be the next and hires family's to act the part until a certain age is reached then returns them with lots of cash to there homes else where.
Any who, An Ancient Silver acts as the black smith and clothes maker/cobbler so he can make set pieces for his hero patrons. An Ancient Brass Dragon is the Port head so he can converse with the most people about business is fine because its still people willing to talk. The Gold dragon is head of security. other races know nothing of this and buy into the disguises. Most other dragons will sense them if they came and if they are willing to play nice they are welcome to live in Ainscrad.
The players just found out about the Barkeep... Tonight I see what they do to her.
...
@@justafan9206 This campaign along with a few others of mine are basically on permanent hiatus due to the plague.
But yes I like to do wild things that are convulted in most of my campaigns.
More time I am given the more complicated they become.
having an off switch for my imagination would be nice at times.
@@kodytiffany5686 wait, is there a bard?
@@justafan9206 Phil "Harmony" Anthropist; is my most unique Bard character.
amongst other things he is a Bard, and an Albino Tiefling. The thing is he has cloth wrapped around his face so people can see his mouth and hair; he always wears an elaborate set of Eastern Clothing (Think 1600's Samurai clothes). and a pair of Alabasta spider silk gloves.
All people see him playing is a weird 13 string instrument that looks like a wider version of a Guitar as its thickness is to accomodate the extra strings... what people hear though is a full set of instruments and back up singers, yet its just him.
He is in fact not a humble Bard, nor a kind hearted traveling priest, nor any other of his many identities he uses... for you see he is a deeply cursed immortal King, having been under his curse for over 10K years; and thanks to this curse he cannot solve any national level or worse threat, or even act against the forces of Evil directly; despite being a level 100 ultra hard core badass of 5 classes maxed at 20 each; he must observe as the world crumbles around him and his ideals of Harmony and peace are robbed from him until an impossible task can occur.
He is an NPC I made for a one shot like mini series style campaign. He was cursed by Cronus the God of time because all those years ago plus a few Phil promised to make Cronus a house hold name and a major religon in order to become ultimately powerful and know many things and topal the Tyrant that once ruled this land... Cronus pulled through on his end but Phil lied and said he owed his victory to no God but good old fashioned try hard training. Well Gods would obvious curse you for such blatant disregard of there assistance.
Now he is cursed to see every heroes attempt to save his people, and is forgotten by those that look away from him, so until a hero realizes his situation despite the many Earth shattering threats that follow him; and that despite Cronus sicking a Chrosphinx on them every time (An advanced and exceptionally annoying creature I made. Its MO, is to max range spell cast into the parties camp or rooms at the Inn; preventing rest periods from happening, actively trying to kill the party with exaustion... then as a legendary action it loops time up to a week before with a dream lie haze over memorys of that time frame.
However the party I used it against lucked out as I rolled a 1 on its stealth check. It may have Greater invisibility at will but it stubbed a toe type of thing and made noise... and well its designed to be weak to direct confrontation since its so stealthy and capable of maintaining long time use of magic for winning battles of Attrition.
A favored tactic of theirs is to caste Tsunami on a camp site to wash tents and gear into rivers nearby. Using Delayed Fireball at a point where the campfire hides the budding fireball for 10 rounds to blast burnning shrapnel everywhere to burn peoples things and attack. Or summoning a flock of faeries (quickling's) to harass the party all night or to scatter weapons and gear and other general mayham.
It can cast 9+ times a day each spell level except 8th and 9th which is still like 7ish times so it is pretty hard to deal with multi concentration spells as well as all kinds of summons and spells of harassment.
On top of that annoying monster I had 6 other plots going on at once to act as distraction for the party so the simple task of seeing whats wrong at a local shrine is low priority and overlooked.
Those plots included a Gnoll Super Invasion; Goblins hunting the locals to treat them as livestock and provide food bribes against the Gnolls; Hag Covanents working with Cultists to raise Demon armies; Evil Gods trying to incarnate... you know light work for 16th level characters.
Phil was the Bard in the tavern the campaign starts at. He is playing "Yesterday" by the Beetles and everyone starts with a memory roll to see if they remember that they have already woke up or whatever here as Deja Vu hits them; that was my only clue about the looping time monster's pressence.
Phil actually has a pretty severe mutation from his demonic heritage... each opening on his body is a mouth and each hand has a mouth also; so 2 eyes/a nose/2 ears/ass/dick/each hand/each breast/belly button=12 mouths total and each mouth can replicate any one sound.
I think I might recycle him for another campaign but as far as bards go he was the one I had most fun making.
@@kodytiffany5686 oooooooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkk... What's his charisma? And what would happen if you rolled to charm tamet?
No one ever talks about the one Neutral variety of dragons. The evolutionary off-shot from Black Dragons, Deep Dragons.
0:57 | Hey! He featured my comment! It's always so mind-bending when that happens.
Jack Linde You win 10,000 gold in Three-Dragon Ante, then give it all to a copper dragon the next day who wordplays you into it because you won with a copper flight.
Don’t really know why that was the example that came to mind.
“Do you wanna subscribe yet?”
Actually that pushed me over the edge of the fence. Congrats on the +1!
7:03 I didn’t expect to get called out so brutally on a video about dragons
Same..
Try getting a DNA test or ask your parents about your family tree. You might be a brass dragon.
Preach. Though replace school with dnd
"Why are there 3? Put a couple back, thats too many" His voice there cracks me up every god damn time
So DnD Dragons are basically Fire Emblem dragons?
-Ancient race that existed way before humans and might have orchestated/guided their existence
-Near immortal
-Magical and powerful asf
-Can assume human form
-Some are good, others are bad, some are lesser, some are greater
-Some became or are revered as gods
-Have close cousins that are basically glorified pets
Stay with me here: Draconic Sorcerer, Tortel who had dragon turtle ancestry.....
I had a warlock tortle who's patron was a Dragon Turtle they'd managed to convince was a draconic patron. He was very embarrassed when he was discovered. But my boy was happy to help him because everyone needs a friend.
Mr Gilgamesh that’s fantastic!
Oh my god-
It might
Just
Work
I would call Silver Dragons neutral good, despite knowing they're "officialy" lawful.
1:56
“At some point in the 12,000s, which feels like a weird date to say…”
Meanwhile I’m still here in 2022 wondering about his witchcraft time travel from ~10,000 years in the future.
I'll never forget one of the monster descriptions that (mostly) stuck in my mind while reading my first monster manual was the Brass ( or maybe it was the Copper?) being known to shove problematic adventurers into the sand and demand people listen to their jokes or riddles to amuse themselves.
in the campaign i'm running, there's a silver dragon who shapeshifted into an elf and was given the title of baroness.
she has a deal with the empire's archmage, protecting dangerous artifacts beneath her mansion (and occasionally sending out treasure hunters to collect goodies, which she displays in her mansion)
Speaking of dragon squirrels, I once befriended a talking squirrel in one campaign I was in, turned out to be a gold dragon that just came along to see how shit went down. Will never forget the moment we discovered his secret.
Your opening for the Brass Dragon sums up my high school experience perfectly.
You should throw in the "not in 5th edition but totally part of other editions of d&d" dragons. My personal favorite is the steel dragon. They literally acclimate themselves into mortal societies and live as the mortal races. Having families, and careers, and all that stuff. Then when people realize how weird it is that this person hasn't aged in 50 years, they move on and shed that life like a snake sheds it's skin. Literally, they shed the memories from their minds so they don't get all their past lives confused with each other.
I just want to say how Frigg'n HELPFUL these videos have been to me. I'm currently DMing a Homebrew Tabletop where NOBODY in the group has played or even Read a DND rulebook in their lives, myself Included, So having something like this to Help me fill out the big ol' Bestiary my group is making me make so we have some Variety to the Monsters while still having things Loosely based enough on DnD that I cant yell at them when they call it DnD has been a huge Relief. Thank you Runesmith. Thank you.
My goblin: hey dragon can you help me track down this staff
Copper dragon: oh ya its in that pit in litteral hell
My goblin: *crawls thru all 9 hells just to end up back where i started*
Copper dragon: you just got vectored
Great video. The silver dragon in the campaign I'm running has their own knights, the "order of the silver scale". It's a super fun quest giver to DM.
Honestly metallic dragons always make interesting NPC’s. Still find it weird there’s not a counterpart to every chromatic dragons.
well, not in 5e at least.
@@android19willpwn hi sans.
7:03 I’m fucking crying at that description
Time to watch a new Runesmith video, I've already got my face in my palms.
Of course the first video I find on your channel is by far the best. Subscribed for good dragon content. 10/10.
7:01 That is literally me right now. Now I'm sad. Thanks
These sorts of videos are great for listening to while doing other things as a kind of podcast. Loving the content!
I've been waiting for this episode ever since I subscribed to your channel bring on the big flying 🦎 jokes
You deserve so many more subs, your humor is fantastic. This vid made my day.
7:00
Rune smith: Do you know the person....?
Me: Well of corse I do. He's me.
"do you wanna subscribe yet" as a matter of fact, that turtle pun DID get me to subscribe, so jokes on you.
Would you please do 'Basically Lizardfolk'? I'm doing a Lizardfolk ice mage who gained an ironic sense of humor and basic emotions by way of an 'Awaken' spell gone wrong.
His name is Izard Gizzard the Blizzard Wizard Lizard.
There’s now one available
@@LightRoomRJU I saw.
That's a lot of “z”s.
Dang, I laughed so hard! So far I loved all of your basically videos a lot, but this one is superb!
*That feeling when Runesmith muscles in on your culture territory but don't care cause you love his vids.*
I am loving all these Basically Videos and I would totally support your patreon if I wasn't broke...
But you should totally make one on the Fey and Feywild since you love hags so much!
In the United States, Pepsi is made with carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, sugar, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid, and natural flavors.
Never knew I needed a Pepsi ad in my dragon video
And remember, "natural flavors" does not need to be specified if it is below a certain percentage of the ingredients, by volume. And it may include a (by law defined, based on the product) maximum amount of insects. - Spider Cola.
Fun Fact: the phosphoric acid content on drinks like pepsi and specially coca cola is high enouth to make them effective at cleaning rust and polishing crome
I once saw my mom unclog a greasy sink with a can of cola
Sounds like Pepsi lies to me
4:51 only the truest of true remember Old Man Neked from Adventure Time
*I salute you*
Ah yes the “pseudodragon”.... they’re small, cute, basically a good pocket-sized friend, and I want one... also yes I said “friend” because they’re not pets; they are friends! (Also they’ll abandon you if you even think of them as a pet)
I want a faerie dragon.
Already waiting for the next one, glad you decided to make it a multiple part one!
8:28 the legendary copper dragon is Shaun Connery’s spirit animal.
I once made a brass dragon that traveled the world as a merchant who would run into the party from time to time but interestingly he lacked the level of greed of most dragons so he was always happy to retrieve items the party asked for so when they ran into him again he would and sell it to them at a discount.
I love using brass or copper dragons as tavern owners/bartenders.
Not gonna lie. The video feels incomplete without the whole “that’s basically good dragons” at the end. I’m sure it’s coming at the end of the third video, but in the meantime it’s so cold.
I think I heard once that gold dragons can also move their tendril beard, the tendrils aren't strong but they can use them to hold things and if I remember correctly they can also use them to make the motions when casting a spell.
So basically if one wanted to make you really uncomfortable they could touch your face with the tentacle beard.
My mind: BACK MASSAGES
I love that basically the only things that differentiate chromatics are " *why* am I the best"
And the thing that differentiates metallics is, what, "Why do I like the tiny people" ?
Because tiny harless apes make crazy machine that scares/intrigues even the gods so they are both a threat (evil dragon) and a amazing guessing game of what the ever living fuck are they gonna do next (good dragons)
4e may get a lot of flak, but the dracomonicons were some excellent source books. From the metallic one we got my favorite dragon: Mercury Dragons. They're basically like a chaotic neutral PC who easily gets board and starts doing weird shit to see what will happen, but if that person also lived in a volcano and could turn into Large or smaller creatures whenever they wanted. They also basically get Sneak Attack damage and their breath weapon makes them invisible to anyone hit by it for a short time. And of course they can just melt into a puddle and peace out down the drain if their latest "social experiment" didn't exactly go as planned. Because mercury. They look pretty cool, too.
Runner-up is Orium dragons, because they breathe snakes.
Everyone has a secret Silver Dragon stalker, they just don't know it
Somebody actually finds me interesting? Shit
@@kylestanley7843 If people waste their life watching anime girls do every day stuff everything is possible.
accurat- wait, shit
...you saw nothing.
@@Darasilverdragon AHA saw you
I love your videos so much. It is difficult for something to make me die laughing, plus teach me something PLUS give me ideas to do in my own DnD times.
That's an NPC concept for the ages, Filthy Frank as a Copper Dragon.
Be sure to look up the Dragon Compendium vol. 1 pdf for Orange, Purple, and Yellow dragons. Everything published through Dragon magazine is still owned by WotC, so those are still canon (as are the Song, Steel, and Fang dragons from FR).
Lol I've been running a guild style game and now I really want to introduce a fan boy that's just a silver dragon
7:25
Can we just acknowledge how ripped the brass dragon is
2:52 Proof of a Hero intensifies.
I’m excited to see the rest of the dragons! (Not very well versed in DnD lore so I love these videos)
1:58 “Thousand"?
Thank you!!!
I was lurking the comments for someone else that noticed that huge mathematical hiccup.
The description of the bronze dragon struck a personal cord for me
The Scepter of the Sphincter Fixer
Ummm... Why does party need such a staff?
Actually I think it's better to not know
steve cooper they failed their roll for anal circumference
The DM expanded the table for what happens when you fail a fear roll.
Roll for anal circumference.
The Bard tried to seduce a dragon.
They need to fix a sphincter. Basically, A racist party attacked a gold dragon's sphincter, so the gold dragon hired some humans to find that scepter.
This is one of the funniest DND videos i've ever seen, please keep making more!
7:02 so what your telling me is... I'm a brass dragon
May I request a sound file of the way you said “The Shinies” at 6:31 ??
Jeez didn’t need the personal attack with the bronze dragons