@@Dan-Dillon Fantastic to hear. The creative team - especially those responsible for books like Fizban’s and Bigby’s - are tremendous and I hope for many other books like that in the future. (maybe one centered on fey? Eh? Eehhh??? 😘)
I love the bits where he goes "they have kobold friends to help them out" "they can get other creatures to help them carry things" avoiding exposing children to the truth of kobold slavery
I like that as well, but if children are really the ones asking these questions. I do wonder why they're pulling punches with their words. If these kids play D&D then, they already know about stabbing someone to death, or using fireball on a group of people. It seems like maybe this video is meant more for like 5 year olds, than the actual pre-teens/teen kids who already play D&D
But it all depends on what game your running and with who. I've never seen kobolds as straight up slaves, but creatures who worship dragons and seek them out of their own volition. Kobolds are drawn to dragons like moths to a flame and will happily work for them, believing themselves to be helping a greater version of themselves. A kobold can be drawn to any dragon as well, not just the chromatic ones. It depends on their own beliefs, so a bronze dragon is just as likely to have kobolds around them as a black dragon.
@@dragongirl89115 I doubt most Metallic Dragons would enjoy having what are essentially slaves around. I mean Kobolds are willing to do ANYTHING to make their selected dragon like them, and that includes stealing, killing, and sacrificing. A bronze dragon would not like kobolds. A Bronze Dragons alignment, is Lawful Good. A Kobolds alignment is lawful evil. If we're going off 'book information' Metallic Dragons who are aligned good wouldn't have Kobolds around, because Kobolds are evil. Whether or not your DM wants to follow the book is up to them. However, kobolds are evil creatures who are commonly enslaved by dragons. A Red Dragon isn't going to be cool with their little minions up and leaving them because the Kobolds got tired of serving. Once you're there you're stuck. Maybe at first it wasn't slavery, but after a couple generations it became that.
@@dragongirl89115 This. If it's a grittier campaign/game/system I can see kobolds 100% being slaves But depending on the DM/players/NPCs they can just be worshippers, friends, hell maybe even the dragon's children lol
Well its more of being born into a cult with a figurehead who actually does have godlike strength compared to you. A kobold actually could just leave and most evil dragons wouldn't care they'd just assume Meepo #14 wasn't careful and died in a trap or something.
my cousin's kids asked me this question not long ago at a family gathering, and the best answer I could come up with besides, "I don't know," was 'All dragons are born neutral, and as they grow, they become inspired by everyone and everything around them. They develop colored scales and breaths. So what kind of dragon would you be?"
@@TRainbowPittOlder editions of D&D had different colored dragons, like purple, yellow, brown, etc. They were made from mixed dragon parentage and had mixed breath weapons. The purple dragon could spit out super hot plasma.
Maybe it could work like those little elemental-flying-dudes (forgot the name), where they mix their types to something new. Red and Blue (Fire and lightning) would be purple (something that combines both types, I don‘t really know)
On carrying things - 3.5 Dragon Magic had a dragon and sorcerer spell called Hoard Gullet which eseentially gave the dragon a magical stomach that worked like a bag of holding. They could use that if they needed to relocate their hoard by swallowing the whole thing and flying off. That would be a fun one to reintroduce to 5e!
This was very enjoyable to watch. If you do this again, could the questions actually be read by either James or another person. I tend to listen to things while I work. It could also benefit anyone who is visually impaired. Thanks.
There are dragons of different colors that have been included in the canon of previous D&D versions and official publications. Purple, Yellow, Orange, Gray, and Brown are all types of Chromatic Dragons that have appeared before. Some of the lore for these dragons does suggest that they can result from crossbreeding between Chromatic Dragons of different colors.
@@seangill2522 Fizbans in general was just a cash grab. 45e for 2 pages worth of items and the greatwyrm statblock that they didn't even get the lore correct for. And it came with the disrespect to anyone playing any style that isnt the 5 minute adventuring day by nerfing dragonborn breath to long rest recharge and making its damage dice worse so that even with extra attack exchange no player should ever use it down from "decent at low level and vs mooks".
Some dragons don’t horde physical treasure, but rather mental treasures. Like knowledge and stories. While others may horde living things. Like plants, or cute fluffy animals.
Im playing with my grilfriend in a group, i am the DM. Her character has the goal/wish to get to know a dragon and actually get teached by it. She's a young woodelf-druid. Looking forward to plan this out and finishing off with a super hard trial, which she has to bass.
I would like to quote some literature here. I am a alternative education teacher who has to read a lot of books for morning meeting and I know for a fact that all dragons like tacos because of a short-form piece by Adam Rubin called "Dragons Love Tacos", which he states a narrative explanation of the kindness of dragons, and the love for tacos all dragons have, BUT, According to the text, they do NOT like spicy salsa. The book is free on youtube to watch a read aloud, which I have used many times, if you want to fact-check me. Some of you younger users may have already read this literature. Great video, James! This would be a really great book too!
You may want to look into procuring it's similarly-named sequel, which I was not aware existed until the young scholar I'm paid to watch once a week or so all but hit me in the face with the book at bedtime.
These are some great questions and answers about dragons! I loved reading my dad's D&D books and finding out about these things when I was little, really fascinating stuff.😄😄😄
A long time ago my dad ran a campaign where one of the prominent bakers in town was a red headed hobbit. Nobody was quite sure why he was so well respected, I mean, he was real nice and all, but his baking was hard and crunchy and just plain terrible. And people would just come into his shop anyway, and be afraid not to buy at least a small something. Because he was a red dragon who desperately wanted to be a respected baker, and his fear aura was doing all the rest, and he was very pleased at the consistent growth of his hoard. When my character missed the saving throw against the aura to come in, and I realized that really hard cookies that can break a tooth were still round and small, I bought two dozen (um???) Cookies. Dad declared them as +1 sling cookies. After all, they were baked by a magical creature, with great care, and purchased with joy.
Here's a good question In Asian mythology, dragons are capable of shape-shifting into other forms (mostly human.) Are the dragons of D&D ALSO capable of this?
Pretty sure Silvers often live almost their whole lives polymorphed as humanoids Although I don't remember if its just them knowing the actual polymorph spell or if its a natural ability.
I agree. Comparing to a migrating bird, 15mph is the absolute minimum. I assume dragons are perfectly capable of passive flight, so they probably move as fast as cars in the air when moving long distances.
Assuming a Dragon's digestive system is like a nuclear furnace that can burn anything for calories, you can figure the caloric content of anything a dragon eats by converting the energy it releases into the energy needed to boil 1g of water: It takes 100 calories to heat 1 g. water from 0˚, the freezing point of water, to 100˚ C that's calories and not KILOcalories, we usually use kilocalories for food on nutrition labels (IE, an adult human has a 1500-2000 kilocalorie diet) Knowing this, 1kg of coal being burned releases about 7000 kcal, so if a Dragon's internal digestive system can burn anything for energy, gemstones would be very dense and rich sources of calories. As for the dew, maybe those dragons induce hydrogen fusion in the water droplets they consume, meaning they are running off tiny atomic explosions.
I feel the answers that boiled down to oh they're magic are bit of a cop-out but I will say I do like the idea of a brass dragon helping out a pizza bakery
Travel speed and combat speed are different. An ancient red dragon can move and dash for 160 feet every 6 seconds which is about 20 miles an hour in combat but its travel speed is much lower, because you can run around as fast as you can for a few minutes, not 8 hours a day.
The music in this video feels verrry familiar... It's either from the Fietcher Bros, Adrian Von Ziegler, or someone similar... can anyone help me place it?
Many thanks! I have no idea where I've heard it before but it definitely sounded familiar. Glad it's something off Epidemic Sound and not uncredited use of music which is what I originally feared!
im quite confident the kid who asked about purple dragons has an avid old-school D&D player in thier family....since thier canonical origins are...debated. and purples being hybrids of blue and red pairings was actually once a published explenation.
there's also the origin of Cormyr, where an oathsworn Duel against "the purple dragon" was about fighting a black dragon who was so old he was turning dark purple.
When it comes to Fire Breath I like the idea that they are breathing a Gas and something in their mouth Sparks the gas and makes it catch fire, and the reason they can't do it every turn is sometimes the gas just doesn't catch fire.
Canonical side (as seen by Draonomicon of 2nd and 3rd edition) its a combination. They do have a gland that on paper biologically starts the breath, but the main effect of the breath is magical thus why it was explicitly stated in prior editions that had mechanical depth that things like Antimagic Shell protects from the breath weapon (and in 5e it still does if one runs the full statistics RAW as their special abilities are noted to be magical there instead of in each ability on its own much to the confusion of some players a lot like how undead and constructs lack of need for either air food drink or sleep or all of the above wasn't noted in the essential info box).
@@ANDELE3025I think you mean LAW. RAW 5e, it's not magical unless it's explixitly stated in the statblock or is something like a spell. You are correct that their lore entry on dragons state they are magical.
@@dizzydoom4230 RAW. It is explicitly stated in the statblock for the entire feature entry of the dragons is part of the statblock even if its not part of the "essentials to run" list as stated in the opening chapter of the monster manual. Or are you going to unironically claim that lack of need to breathe, drink, eat and sleep isnt a feature of constructed nature/undead nature/etc of constructs/undead/etc. that the lycanthropic curses and golem's obeying masters commands arent features because they have the same notation as dragons age categories, magical nature of their breath, presence, lair and regional influence, etc?
@@ANDELE3025 I'm going strictly off what the statblock of a dragon in the MM says. A beholder's eye rays ARE stated to be magical for mechanical purposes. A red dragon's fire breath states nothing. It's all well and good to go by what their LAW states, but in plain text, nothing inidcates dragon breath weapons like this as magic. Simple as. A drsgon can be a magical creature with magic-made organs that still produces mundane fire.
@@dizzydoom4230 Except thats wrong. RAW it states "Dragons are also magical creatures whose innate power fuels their dreaded breath weapons and other preternatural abilities." - thus describing the dragons breath weapon as magical twice, both in the first part and by saying "and other preternatural" in their statblock, same way how it describes when the dragons age cateogry changes, their lair actions, their regional effects and how on other creatures effects such as the curse of lycanthropy, the nature of a creature that doesnt need air/food/drink/sleep, the obedience and deactivation of golems, the token size of most gargantuan creatures when playing on grid, cult benefits from devout minions of demons and devils, etc. You can homebrew all you want to let players suffocate skeletons and vampires by denying them air in a campaign that doesnt have lairs nor regional effects, but RAW statblock states dragon breath is magical, skeletons and vampires dont need air thus per rules cant be suffocated and lair and regional effects are a thing.
... I might have to spec out a pizza dragon for one of my campaigns... There's a section where I'm having my players fight through the kitchens of a mad kings tower where all the enemies are food based.
lmao, the idea of a dragon flying at only 8 mph is silly. Not only does this imply a decently in shape person can outrun a dragon but it means bees (which travel at around 12-20 mph) can absolutely leave them in the dust. That's right, in a race between a dragon and a bee, the bee absolutely LAPS the dragon.
@@jerryworshiper1587 Not how it works, if you release something, if it doesnt follow existing lore that within its own work wasn't subject to subjectivity (ala volo books that from the start intentionally had quotes from him stating incorrect things then corrected in the monster statistics or via non-narrative text) and especially if it contradicts it, then that new thing is the one de-canonized.
I had some high school kids that were newish player stumble onto a green dragon once. I made it sick. Stuffy nose, sneezing, drinking tea and really in no mood for adventurers. They got off with a warning. It was fun as hell to play. I love when things don't follow the playbook. Asthma would be really fun to play.
another reason they horde treasure is that when they finally die of old age 1200+ years they go to dragon heaven if they have enough, its oblivion if they don't.
Im very entertained how of the few deeper lore questions half of them are completely wrong. Then again, nothing (not even Volos writing) is as incorrect as the Fizbans claim that the notable draconic gods beyond Tiamom and Bahamut (especially their superiors: Io, Null and Task) arent deities or that great wyrm isnt the effective final age category, but interdimensional soul-hivemind merging.
Hmm Dragons have there own magic in them.. like a mage or sorcerer...so I don't need to have a dragon wizard. Cause they have magic in them .good to know
Really I think it's because people really like doing the "person from evil society overcomes their programming and becomes good" stories, and people (both players and official book writers) keep doing that to more and more evil groups, because as soon as you write one good aligned orc you've already established "Yeah good orcs can happen they're not strictly evil by nature" and any further examples are just repeating yourself, so they move on to the next evil group and go "Oh hey turns out there are good *goblins* too!" and so forth, and so the intrinsicly evil humanoid groups keep on shrinking. Now it's down to what? Gnolls, hags, and things that are directly from Hell (excluding Teiflings)?
I'll have to tell my DM that my dragonborn can have a tail..I want my tail to use a small knife or short sword .to guard my back or dual wield two weapons with my giant shield in my other hand. .. my other hand is long sword. .I wish dragonborns could have real wings, (since gem dragonborns have temporary wings, if I got that info right.)
@@dan_mnght I think them lacking permanent wings helps Draconians and Abishai stand out. But there are certainly gifts in some classes, magic items, spells, and boons that could allow a Dragonborn to soar with their wings if flavored that way.
Show him the D&D 3e Dragons of Faerun page, its right there that both tail and for the ones blessed enough (to in 5e pick up the D&D beyond Volos racial feats expanded pdf Dragon Wings option, which since the acquisition are technically official content due to not being category moved). You wont be able to wield anything in it, but still cool.
I'm sorry but 8mph is WAY too slow for a dragon to be flying. A peregrine falcon can maintain average speeds of between 25-34mph while flying normally and can go up to 240 while diving. 8mph is a snail's pace by comparison.
The kid who wants Tiamat as their best friend is going places
He learned what Gith (or Vlaakith the 1st) and Asmodeus managed through bargains and went for the "i can do better!".
Quick Warlock material
Tiamat getting the silent treatment would be devastating
Please keep having James on projects. He’s an absolute delight.
Seconded.
And incredible to work with! We're so lucky to have him helping create D&D
@@Dan-Dillon Fantastic to hear. The creative team - especially those responsible for books like Fizban’s and Bigby’s - are tremendous and I hope for many other books like that in the future. (maybe one centered on fey? Eh? Eehhh??? 😘)
I wish to hear more about his Pizza Dragon theories.
@@Birthday_Shark I'm really thrilled to hear you enjoy them! I'm looking forward to seeing what else we put together moving forward! ☺
I love the bits where he goes "they have kobold friends to help them out" "they can get other creatures to help them carry things" avoiding exposing children to the truth of kobold slavery
I like that as well, but if children are really the ones asking these questions. I do wonder why they're pulling punches with their words. If these kids play D&D then, they already know about stabbing someone to death, or using fireball on a group of people. It seems like maybe this video is meant more for like 5 year olds, than the actual pre-teens/teen kids who already play D&D
But it all depends on what game your running and with who. I've never seen kobolds as straight up slaves, but creatures who worship dragons and seek them out of their own volition. Kobolds are drawn to dragons like moths to a flame and will happily work for them, believing themselves to be helping a greater version of themselves. A kobold can be drawn to any dragon as well, not just the chromatic ones. It depends on their own beliefs, so a bronze dragon is just as likely to have kobolds around them as a black dragon.
@@dragongirl89115 I doubt most Metallic Dragons would enjoy having what are essentially slaves around. I mean Kobolds are willing to do ANYTHING to make their selected dragon like them, and that includes stealing, killing, and sacrificing.
A bronze dragon would not like kobolds. A Bronze Dragons alignment, is Lawful Good. A Kobolds alignment is lawful evil. If we're going off 'book information' Metallic Dragons who are aligned good wouldn't have Kobolds around, because Kobolds are evil.
Whether or not your DM wants to follow the book is up to them. However, kobolds are evil creatures who are commonly enslaved by dragons. A Red Dragon isn't going to be cool with their little minions up and leaving them because the Kobolds got tired of serving. Once you're there you're stuck. Maybe at first it wasn't slavery, but after a couple generations it became that.
@@dragongirl89115 This.
If it's a grittier campaign/game/system I can see kobolds 100% being slaves
But depending on the DM/players/NPCs they can just be worshippers, friends, hell maybe even the dragon's children lol
Well its more of being born into a cult with a figurehead who actually does have godlike strength compared to you. A kobold actually could just leave and most evil dragons wouldn't care they'd just assume Meepo #14 wasn't careful and died in a trap or something.
Refreshingly light hearted video 😁
Bob!
YO!
I've learned about dragons more in this video then all of D&D books so far
Tiamat casts Pizza Breath x5 and gains ten thousand followers. She proceeds to look very smug for the next week.
Bahamut is muttering curses under his breath looking at Tiamat's smug, stupid faces.
All of this are great questions, Blue and Red dragons having purple babies is a great question!!
my cousin's kids asked me this question not long ago at a family gathering, and the best answer I could come up with besides, "I don't know," was 'All dragons are born neutral, and as they grow, they become inspired by everyone and everything around them. They develop colored scales and breaths. So what kind of dragon would you be?"
@@nephicus339 ohhh that's also a great response! Great way to world build dragons too
@@TRainbowPittOlder editions of D&D had different colored dragons, like purple, yellow, brown, etc. They were made from mixed dragon parentage and had mixed breath weapons. The purple dragon could spit out super hot plasma.
Maybe it could work like those little elemental-flying-dudes (forgot the name), where they mix their types to something new. Red and Blue (Fire and lightning) would be purple (something that combines both types, I don‘t really know)
Also the answer is absolutely yes :)
I love kids' questions. Something about a child's perspective gets lost when you're older, and you miss it.
On carrying things - 3.5 Dragon Magic had a dragon and sorcerer spell called Hoard Gullet which eseentially gave the dragon a magical stomach that worked like a bag of holding. They could use that if they needed to relocate their hoard by swallowing the whole thing and flying off. That would be a fun one to reintroduce to 5e!
This was very enjoyable to watch. If you do this again, could the questions actually be read by either James or another person. I tend to listen to things while I work. It could also benefit anyone who is visually impaired. Thanks.
I thought it'd be great if they actually got a kid to read them out.
After all the BG3 content, it's nice to get some family-friendly content.
So wholesome!
BG3 is very family friendly, just depends on your family
@@alaskaaa684 No.
@@StriderZessei bg3 seemed to have a bad effect on you
There are dragons of different colors that have been included in the canon of previous D&D versions and official publications. Purple, Yellow, Orange, Gray, and Brown are all types of Chromatic Dragons that have appeared before. Some of the lore for these dragons does suggest that they can result from crossbreeding between Chromatic Dragons of different colors.
I was so sad they didn't include the secondary chromatic dragons in fizbans. The purple dragon is so cool.
@@seangill2522 Fizbans in general was just a cash grab. 45e for 2 pages worth of items and the greatwyrm statblock that they didn't even get the lore correct for. And it came with the disrespect to anyone playing any style that isnt the 5 minute adventuring day by nerfing dragonborn breath to long rest recharge and making its damage dice worse so that even with extra attack exchange no player should ever use it down from "decent at low level and vs mooks".
Some dragons don’t horde physical treasure, but rather mental treasures. Like knowledge and stories. While others may horde living things. Like plants, or cute fluffy animals.
I find the dragon fart part hilarious! XD We need those canonical fart abilities in a movie, TV show, or game now!
I like how the answerer answers the questions simply for the kids, but doesn’t sugarcoat too many things. I hope the kids like the answers!
Definitely adding an inn to my world called The Brass Dragon with a young brass dragon heating the ovens now.
At the dragon farts question, my first thought was, "You thought dog farts were bad...."
Im playing with my grilfriend in a group, i am the DM. Her character has the goal/wish to get to know a dragon and actually get teached by it. She's a young woodelf-druid. Looking forward to plan this out and finishing off with a super hard trial, which she has to bass.
Fun fact about dragon hoards: they also exist as an indication when they die that they are worthy for dragon heaven if it is big enough when they die.
7:47 I think another reason why dragons like castles is because castles usually have a lot of shiny things in them like gold. More money for them~
You can't keep dragons as pets, but some may keep you as their pet.
I would like to quote some literature here. I am a alternative education teacher who has to read a lot of books for morning meeting and I know for a fact that all dragons like tacos because of a short-form piece by Adam Rubin called "Dragons Love Tacos", which he states a narrative explanation of the kindness of dragons, and the love for tacos all dragons have, BUT, According to the text, they do NOT like spicy salsa. The book is free on youtube to watch a read aloud, which I have used many times, if you want to fact-check me. Some of you younger users may have already read this literature.
Great video, James! This would be a really great book too!
You may want to look into procuring it's similarly-named sequel, which I was not aware existed until the young scholar I'm paid to watch once a week or so all but hit me in the face with the book at bedtime.
Ah, the mind of a child. Some good questions here.
All 3 pizza dragon options were perfect, I couldn’t care less which one existed as long as 1 exists haha
LMFAO "Can Tiamat be my best friend?"
But what about the dragons from dragon magazine? Are orange dragons still cannon?
Unfortunately no. But homebrew is a magical thing my friend
These are some great questions and answers about dragons! I loved reading my dad's D&D books and finding out about these things when I was little, really fascinating stuff.😄😄😄
Where was this video last weekend when I was driving with my friend's kid who is currently MAD for D&D?
Children ask the best questions
This video is an absolute joy to watch. Keep up the great work! Thanks Mr Wyatt.
A long time ago my dad ran a campaign where one of the prominent bakers in town was a red headed hobbit.
Nobody was quite sure why he was so well respected, I mean, he was real nice and all, but his baking was hard and crunchy and just plain terrible. And people would just come into his shop anyway, and be afraid not to buy at least a small something.
Because he was a red dragon who desperately wanted to be a respected baker, and his fear aura was doing all the rest, and he was very pleased at the consistent growth of his hoard.
When my character missed the saving throw against the aura to come in, and I realized that really hard cookies that can break a tooth were still round and small, I bought two dozen (um???) Cookies.
Dad declared them as +1 sling cookies. After all, they were baked by a magical creature, with great care, and purchased with joy.
Man I'd absolutely kill for an adventure or supplement intended for young kids
Here's a good question
In Asian mythology, dragons are capable of shape-shifting into other forms (mostly human.) Are the dragons of D&D ALSO capable of this?
Pretty sure Silvers often live almost their whole lives polymorphed as humanoids
Although I don't remember if its just them knowing the actual polymorph spell or if its a natural ability.
I know that in 5e ancient brass dragons can shapeshift, so I assume that it's an ability that other dragons eventually learn too.
@@AlicentaurBrony yeah probably just a natural ability then that dragons can learn
Oh my god they’re bringing back the practical guide books. Holy crap I remember reading the 3e versions when I was kid,
Universal answer to most questions: some do, some don't.
Wait, if dragons can teach magic to humans then does that mean they can be a warlock patron?
8 miles an hour seems ridiculously slow for a dragons flight speed
Maybe he is just out for a Sunday fly or carrying along a coconut though I guess it would depend if it was an African or European dragon 🤔
Sounds about right if you do the math
@@chrisd5169 ohhh as in DnD movement maths?
@@antnuge90 yeah
I agree. Comparing to a migrating bird, 15mph is the absolute minimum. I assume dragons are perfectly capable of passive flight, so they probably move as fast as cars in the air when moving long distances.
You should read the questions aloud. That way audio only (and blind!) Audience members can follow along.
That was so cute! I love this kind of content. Thank you!
Assuming a Dragon's digestive system is like a nuclear furnace that can burn anything for calories, you can figure the caloric content of anything a dragon eats by converting the energy it releases into the energy needed to boil 1g of water:
It takes 100 calories to heat 1 g. water from 0˚, the freezing point of water, to 100˚ C
that's calories and not KILOcalories, we usually use kilocalories for food on nutrition labels (IE, an adult human has a 1500-2000 kilocalorie diet)
Knowing this, 1kg of coal being burned releases about 7000 kcal, so if a Dragon's internal digestive system can burn anything for energy, gemstones would be very dense and rich sources of calories.
As for the dew, maybe those dragons induce hydrogen fusion in the water droplets they consume, meaning they are running off tiny atomic explosions.
I feel the answers that boiled down to oh they're magic are bit of a cop-out but I will say I do like the idea of a brass dragon helping out a pizza bakery
Fantastic! Good job!
This is the best content ever
The copper dragon sisters are very _friendly_ with Jarlaxle...
Oh, they meant something else!
I know he said dragon's fly at 8 miles per hour, but if humans can run faster than 8 miles per hour, why does dragon have more speed?
Travel speed and combat speed are different. An ancient red dragon can move and dash for 160 feet every 6 seconds which is about 20 miles an hour in combat but its travel speed is much lower, because you can run around as fast as you can for a few minutes, not 8 hours a day.
Is this book available on D&D beyond?
This was straight up awesome.
The music in this video feels verrry familiar... It's either from the Fietcher Bros, Adrian Von Ziegler, or someone similar... can anyone help me place it?
Many thanks! I have no idea where I've heard it before but it definitely sounded familiar. Glad it's something off Epidemic Sound and not uncredited use of music which is what I originally feared!
That thumbnail is so adorable.
im quite confident the kid who asked about purple dragons has an avid old-school D&D player in thier family....since thier canonical origins are...debated.
and purples being hybrids of blue and red pairings was actually once a published explenation.
there's also the origin of Cormyr, where an oathsworn Duel against "the purple dragon" was about fighting a black dragon who was so old he was turning dark purple.
When will this book be added to D&D Beyond?
When it comes to Fire Breath I like the idea that they are breathing a Gas and something in their mouth Sparks the gas and makes it catch fire, and the reason they can't do it every turn is sometimes the gas just doesn't catch fire.
Canonical side (as seen by Draonomicon of 2nd and 3rd edition) its a combination.
They do have a gland that on paper biologically starts the breath, but the main effect of the breath is magical thus why it was explicitly stated in prior editions that had mechanical depth that things like Antimagic Shell protects from the breath weapon (and in 5e it still does if one runs the full statistics RAW as their special abilities are noted to be magical there instead of in each ability on its own much to the confusion of some players a lot like how undead and constructs lack of need for either air food drink or sleep or all of the above wasn't noted in the essential info box).
@@ANDELE3025I think you mean LAW. RAW 5e, it's not magical unless it's explixitly stated in the statblock or is something like a spell. You are correct that their lore entry on dragons state they are magical.
@@dizzydoom4230 RAW.
It is explicitly stated in the statblock for the entire feature entry of the dragons is part of the statblock even if its not part of the "essentials to run" list as stated in the opening chapter of the monster manual.
Or are you going to unironically claim that lack of need to breathe, drink, eat and sleep isnt a feature of constructed nature/undead nature/etc of constructs/undead/etc. that the lycanthropic curses and golem's obeying masters commands arent features because they have the same notation as dragons age categories, magical nature of their breath, presence, lair and regional influence, etc?
@@ANDELE3025 I'm going strictly off what the statblock of a dragon in the MM says. A beholder's eye rays ARE stated to be magical for mechanical purposes. A red dragon's fire breath states nothing. It's all well and good to go by what their LAW states, but in plain text, nothing inidcates dragon breath weapons like this as magic. Simple as. A drsgon can be a magical creature with magic-made organs that still produces mundane fire.
@@dizzydoom4230 Except thats wrong. RAW it states "Dragons are also magical creatures whose innate power fuels their dreaded breath weapons and other preternatural abilities." - thus describing the dragons breath weapon as magical twice, both in the first part and by saying "and other preternatural" in their statblock, same way how it describes when the dragons age cateogry changes, their lair actions, their regional effects and how on other creatures effects such as the curse of lycanthropy, the nature of a creature that doesnt need air/food/drink/sleep, the obedience and deactivation of golems, the token size of most gargantuan creatures when playing on grid, cult benefits from devout minions of demons and devils, etc.
You can homebrew all you want to let players suffocate skeletons and vampires by denying them air in a campaign that doesnt have lairs nor regional effects, but RAW statblock states dragon breath is magical, skeletons and vampires dont need air thus per rules cant be suffocated and lair and regional effects are a thing.
... I might have to spec out a pizza dragon for one of my campaigns... There's a section where I'm having my players fight through the kitchens of a mad kings tower where all the enemies are food based.
What is the Pizza dragon was like a pizza man, making and delivering giant pizzas to other dragons for a price.
Excellent video! So much fun!
I loved this video. Do dragons fart? Lol.
Wholesome. 👍
lmao, the idea of a dragon flying at only 8 mph is silly. Not only does this imply a decently in shape person can outrun a dragon but it means bees (which travel at around 12-20 mph) can absolutely leave them in the dust. That's right, in a race between a dragon and a bee, the bee absolutely LAPS the dragon.
I need the stats for dragon farts like yesterday.
What about the purple orange and yellow dragons from the old dragon magazine from tiamats decist sister
i believe this exclusively refers to 5e
@@jerryworshiper1587 still is the same cannon and worlds
@@azazelashbight9849 a lot of things from early editions have been de-canonised.
@@jerryworshiper1587 fair enough just a shame because they were mechanicaly very cool still hold out hope for brown dragons tho
@@jerryworshiper1587 Not how it works, if you release something, if it doesnt follow existing lore that within its own work wasn't subject to subjectivity (ala volo books that from the start intentionally had quotes from him stating incorrect things then corrected in the monster statistics or via non-narrative text) and especially if it contradicts it, then that new thing is the one de-canonized.
This was just wonderful
this is pretty great.
This was very wholesome 🤗
A dragon flies at 8mph? Bro what? Don’t most birds fly faster than that?
Now I want to have an asthmatic dragons in a game
I had some high school kids that were newish player stumble onto a green dragon once. I made it sick. Stuffy nose, sneezing, drinking tea and really in no mood for adventurers. They got off with a warning. It was fun as hell to play. I love when things don't follow the playbook. Asthma would be really fun to play.
“Most dragons fly in about 8 miles per hour”
Ladies and gentlemen, we have the tortoises of the sky
This made my day. Thanks James!🐉
pizza breath weapon is amazing and I hope someone homebrews it
another reason they horde treasure is that when they finally die of old age 1200+ years they go to dragon heaven if they have enough, its oblivion if they don't.
... Reaper Miniatures has a miniature of a dragon serving pizza. :D
9:55
If I ask the dragon not to eat me, he/she would at least consider it.
Really enjoyed this.
Riddle me this, since dragons have eyes on the side of their head are they prey animals? If so, what would be their predator?!
Particularly... adventurous bards.
*Purple dragons have entered the chat
Loved this one! Gonna show the kids ^_^
Dragon fart weapons are canon now
Okay i need to look up the lore on purple dragon knights now.
Tell me you've never eaten a taco without telling me you've never eaten a taco
so what I'm hearing is a group of wyrmlings are canonically called a litter
They forgot about the purple dragons they *had* in older editions that *were* the results of blue and red dragons mating.
7:14 Ah, so if dragons can fly from birth because they're magical, this clearly means megapode birds are magical too. Time catch some birds
0:36 “basically evil dragons have slaves” 😂
Wait is that toothless at 1:18?
this was a fun video!
are all dragons sorcerers?
This is such a cute video, I loved it!
Im very entertained how of the few deeper lore questions half of them are completely wrong.
Then again, nothing (not even Volos writing) is as incorrect as the Fizbans claim that the notable draconic gods beyond Tiamom and Bahamut (especially their superiors: Io, Null and Task) arent deities or that great wyrm isnt the effective final age category, but interdimensional soul-hivemind merging.
Gold dragon farts smell like flowers.....well, that's what THEY say anyway.
Lore you should know
Hmm Dragons have there own magic in them.. like a mage or sorcerer...so I don't need to have a dragon wizard. Cause they have magic in them .good to know
I have a question: Why aren't orcs and drow evil by nature anymore?
Really I think it's because people really like doing the "person from evil society overcomes their programming and becomes good" stories, and people (both players and official book writers) keep doing that to more and more evil groups, because as soon as you write one good aligned orc you've already established "Yeah good orcs can happen they're not strictly evil by nature" and any further examples are just repeating yourself, so they move on to the next evil group and go "Oh hey turns out there are good *goblins* too!" and so forth, and so the intrinsicly evil humanoid groups keep on shrinking. Now it's down to what? Gnolls, hags, and things that are directly from Hell (excluding Teiflings)?
I wonder if there are any east asian dragon inspirations.
good video
This is a fun video
8 miles per hour?! what? that's omega slow! it's like 2 times faster a human walking!!
how are they so slow!!
I'll have to tell my DM that my dragonborn can have a tail..I want my tail to use a small knife or short sword .to guard my back or dual wield two weapons with my giant shield in my other hand. .. my other hand is long sword.
.I wish dragonborns could have real wings, (since gem dragonborns have temporary wings, if I got that info right.)
@@dan_mnght I think them lacking permanent wings helps Draconians and Abishai stand out. But there are certainly gifts in some classes, magic items, spells, and boons that could allow a Dragonborn to soar with their wings if flavored that way.
@@dan_mnght my bad!
Show him the D&D 3e Dragons of Faerun page, its right there that both tail and for the ones blessed enough (to in 5e pick up the D&D beyond Volos racial feats expanded pdf Dragon Wings option, which since the acquisition are technically official content due to not being category moved).
You wont be able to wield anything in it, but still cool.
I wish I could of asked a question
200 miles a day = 8.3 MPH
I'm sorry but 8mph is WAY too slow for a dragon to be flying. A peregrine falcon can maintain average speeds of between 25-34mph while flying normally and can go up to 240 while diving. 8mph is a snail's pace by comparison.
A dragon breathing pizza? would someone eat that? =/