So, an alehouse drake, a pixie, and a ratatoskr walk into a bar. The next day the bar is in ruins, half the town is EXTREMELY hungover, and no one is quite sure what the hell happened.
I became a powerful wizard just to polymorph myself into an Alehouse Drake so I can have an excuse to drink at the Tavern and not be scolded at home from my nagging wife.
This does not work with my wife.... She comes stomping into the bar, saying its after midnight, yada yada yada, I say, "But im an Alehouse Drake", and she just slaps the piss outta me
One of my characters made the mistake of angering an alehouse drake. Now every time he comes into port at Luskin, he gets his tankards taken away and dumped on him until he buys the thing a roast meat. And it's no good trying to come in preemptively with something already, the drake wants to see the elven git with soggy hair before the whole bar sheepishly asking for a roast mutton leg. Ironically, this is also something like a friendship. At this point, he pretends to get all offended, and the drake pretends to contrition his peace offerings.
I love catching videos of creatures like this who aren't just monsters to kill but are actually part of society in their own way. It makes Faerun and other d&d worlds feel like actual other worlds not like some sort of weird video game level.
I gave my players a friendly alehouse drake companion named Grug (tender asked his name, the drake thought he was asking what he wanted, tried to slur out "grog".) Looked and sounded like a draconic Danny Devito, hung around in the party's backpack. Operated a keg golem named Alebraham Drinkin, acted as a mobile bartender. His goal was to travel with this gang of kids from his local town, then laze around surrounded by mates and ale once he become legendary by association. Helped out a ton the first few levels, then served mostly as an occasional scout and a guard for the camp.
@@kingmasterlord Of course, stealing is the lifeblood of any good Dungeon Master! If it's useful, he had a friend, a goblin named Fish. He carried a goldfish in a bowl everywhere, it's name was goblin. Started every conversation by thrusting the bowl in any new person's face yelling "HAVE YOU SEEN MY FISH!?!"
Sidequest or low-level campaign where you find out that Paper Dragons exist, because you meet one of these guys who suspects them of eating his missing enchanted cookbook or book of quasi-magical recipes.
I bought the kobold press books, thought this drake was adorable, and threw it in the game at a tavern in a small town. One of my players convinced it to come with him with a promise of seafaring adventures, and all the beer and frog grog a drake could enjoy.
These are the kinda of vids I need. I would love a source book that was nothing but flora and fauna. Monsters like alehouse drakes, Tresems, Chwingas, just the sort of things you'd find in the world, not specifically monsters to fight. I know, a lot of people are looking for stat blocks to throw at their party, I've got enough of those. I need more stuff to flesh out the world. Make it feel really magical.
I absolutely love the Alehouse Drake! A great source for information for all PCs looking for adventure. Oh the gossip and rumors they have gathered from their perch at the Inn.
The story first, leading into lore, is beautiful... The last few entries have been extremely good. I particularly enjoyed the Alkilith. But mostly because that thing is horrifyingly OP.
I agree completely. This format gives a player or dungeon master fertile ground for new and exciting ideas to grow, before going into the mechanics and capabilities.
i often treat drakes in my setting the same way i would intelligent animals or hatchling dragons, and honestly my players love nothing more than interacting with them. heck they even went out of their way to be goody two-shoes in an evil campaign just to get some extra rp with a gang of different drake types. and i couldnt have played them the way i do without your help AJ ^^ thank you so much for making me a better DM
I feel like there are probably swarms of these flitting around the greatest beerhalls and banquets in Ysgard. Any place where the spirits flow and good times never end is where you find them. I mean what could be better than returning home to the mead hall after a long day of battling epic monsters and legendary foes to chat it up with an Alehouse drake and perhaps an eavesdropping skald or two.
One of the notable things about the outer planes can often be the lack of the sheer diversity of draconic creatures, but... there are always exceptions.
@@AJPickett thank you very much AJ I hope your dental work went well and you don't need anymore in the near future I'm not sure what you had done but I know impacted wisdom teeth are one of the worst
@AJ Pickett Great video, I love the idea of this creature. If I was writing a story, it would have a large tavern with an alehouse drake that is visited by a wizard with a Tressym familiar and a ranger with a blink dog companion. Of course everyone would be playing tricks on each other and stealing snacks while pretending to be well behaved. They would be a great foil for a wererat, a Xvart or some small evil fey.
I have an old Alehouse Drake in my campaign named Agnes. One of my players tried to draw on her face while she was drunk and ended up with her pranking them instead. My players like her a lot.
Much love from Alaska man! At my local ale house watching this and starting our next session. People seem to love seeing us play dnd at the bar. Always getting people watching and complimenting it.
Dude, you have really kinda perfected these "in-character" vids. Theyre great. Awesome lore drops, and creative storytelling fleshing out a whole character history teensy bit by teensy bit. On a kind of related note, has anyone statted up a dire hin? Do they just use like human stats, or are we in a miniature giant space hamster type situation?
Dire Hin are technically Human, as are half dwarves (there are more than people think, the Mul of Athas are not normal half dwarves by multiverse standards). The full stats for Picaroon the Lorekeeper can be found in the pages of Esper's Emporium of Esoterica.
I have a tavern i like to use in my games called "the dapper lemon" the sign for it looks like if mr. Peanut was a lemon, and it's named after the ale house drake that lives there, Lemon Drop, who is named after his favorite kind of shot lol always is a favorite npc of the party =)
**Cheshire Cat appears** CC says: I beg to differ. We talking cats are a bit more thoughtful and don't ever eat cats. Well, we do sometimes fight to the death. Oh, and we do hate to waste fresh meat. Now that I think about it, never mind. **Cheshire Cat disappears**
Between this, your Alkalith video, and your Elysium video, I'm getting tempted to write you some in character intros for things you haven't covered yet.
They don't get along, no. Clurichauns tend to terrorize pets and treat Alehouse drakes like they were just animals and playthings, the targets for their mean spirited pranks and outright attacks. There are some nice Clurichains (about a third of them, barely), but even they can be nasty when drunk.
These drakes appeared after my time as a DM but what you said here deviates a bit from what I was told... the intoxicating breath weapon (burp). It might have been his homebrew thing, so, either way, enlighten me, my sage friend. Their breath weapon on a failed save (poison resistance bonus applies), you become intoxicated as if two degrees of drunk by booze, one on a successful save. It's not actually being booze-pickled but the effects are the same. It's cumulative with your level of drunkenness too. So, was that DM's drake correctly handled (even in an earlier edition) ot was it his homebrew? And that DM did use a f^ck ton of drakes. I never gamed with him but we shared lotsa' DM stories as old not-quite-actively-playing AD&D guys.
"Why yes I do know of a spell that can make plums grow faster, now for your part of the bargain you will refrain from eating my familiar, no matter how many juicy rats she catches..."
I am unfamiliar with this familiar. This reminds me of a wizards familiar but without the wizard. Almost like the alehouse drake is a drake version of a bard but uses abilities like a sorcerer.
I am really enjoying the new writing format! The Journal thing is super cool, and makes me wonder if there is a cannon between the different 'authors' you are using.
In D&D you used to need a feat to not have a 50/50 chance to poison yourself. I don’t know if they fixed that daft rule in 5th Otherwise, inn keepers would be permanently drunk… Inn keeper class L1: feat use poison L2: appraise L3: familiar (cat) …. … L8: familiar (ale house drake) 😋 Feel free to flesh out the “Inn Keeper” character class. Because let’s face it, all retired hero’s end up with levels in this class 😊
@@benikujaku4567 you’ve never visited Scotland 🏴 Glasgow was murder capital of Europe and we managed that accolade without a single firearms related death! And the most common laceration wounds were inflicted by glassware
Thank you AJ. I love your format going right into content, then introducing yourself once you've given a chance taste. I'm quite frustrated with other content creators that jump right into advertising or promotion before they give even a hint to the content.
Legendary as always. I always love the story intros, they really set the mood. If you ever want to create story style only podcasts, I'd be a listener!!
What pleasant (seemingly mostly!) if not dangerous little creatures! 😁 (unlike the big green nasties of the last ecology, I'll be in therapy for a while after that one! 😲 ) Most Excellent Presentation Mr AJ Sir - as always! 👏👏👏
Found and saw the "History of The Elves", maybe it should be present in the character races playlist. In that playlisy there isn't an elf video, there's the drow video but I feel there's no deep focus on all other sub species of elf. Don't know what arborea is about tho, guess I'll watch that next.
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headcanon: draconic energy anomalously produces helium gas inside the blood of the dragon and it has to be expelled by breathing
So, an alehouse drake, a pixie, and a ratatoskr walk into a bar.
The next day the bar is in ruins, half the town is EXTREMELY hungover, and no one is quite sure what the hell happened.
Some unexplained pregnancies as well much later.
I became a powerful wizard just to polymorph myself into an Alehouse Drake so I can have an excuse to drink at the Tavern and not be scolded at home from my nagging wife.
Virgin Druid Return to Monke.
Chad Wizard True Polymorph into Alehouse Drake.
This does not work with my wife....
She comes stomping into the bar, saying its after midnight, yada yada yada, I say, "But im an Alehouse Drake", and she just slaps the piss outta me
@@InquisitorThomas Actually I took the dragon wild shape feat
Boomer wizard
One of my characters made the mistake of angering an alehouse drake. Now every time he comes into port at Luskin, he gets his tankards taken away and dumped on him until he buys the thing a roast meat. And it's no good trying to come in preemptively with something already, the drake wants to see the elven git with soggy hair before the whole bar sheepishly asking for a roast mutton leg. Ironically, this is also something like a friendship. At this point, he pretends to get all offended, and the drake pretends to contrition his peace offerings.
what a cool creature...I love your insistence that they don't eat cats...usually...all the time
I've gotta new job as a trucker and these videos are the only thing that keep me sane on the long lonely nerdy night's. that n the moolaa!.
I got you fam.
Truckstop Drake! 🤩👍
Why do I picture a blue dragonborn trucker driving in the desert at night
@@yamatohekatsue9143 there are these people called lot lizards in the truckin world...sooo...
@@DrBananananananananananananana lot lizards are hookers, granted in the case of the dragonborn trucker he only picks up lizardfolk lot lizards
I love catching videos of creatures like this who aren't just monsters to kill but are actually part of society in their own way. It makes Faerun and other d&d worlds feel like actual other worlds not like some sort of weird video game level.
Althouse Drakes sound like the perfect incentive for any storytelling.
I gave my players a friendly alehouse drake companion named Grug (tender asked his name, the drake thought he was asking what he wanted, tried to slur out "grog".) Looked and sounded like a draconic Danny Devito, hung around in the party's backpack. Operated a keg golem named Alebraham Drinkin, acted as a mobile bartender. His goal was to travel with this gang of kids from his local town, then laze around surrounded by mates and ale once he become legendary by association. Helped out a ton the first few levels, then served mostly as an occasional scout and a guard for the camp.
Stealing Alebraham Drinkin
@@kingmasterlord Me too, that is solid gold.
@@kingmasterlord Of course, stealing is the lifeblood of any good Dungeon Master! If it's useful, he had a friend, a goblin named Fish. He carried a goldfish in a bowl everywhere, it's name was goblin. Started every conversation by thrusting the bowl in any new person's face yelling "HAVE YOU SEEN MY FISH!?!"
Sidequest or low-level campaign where you find out that Paper Dragons exist, because you meet one of these guys who suspects them of eating his missing enchanted cookbook or book of quasi-magical recipes.
I like the new in-universe storytelling thing. It really helps set the mood, and gives you more of a sense of place and character.
Now I want a bar run by kobolds because a Alehouse Drake wanted a place to drink in that spot.
Thanks for the location.
I bought the kobold press books, thought this drake was adorable, and threw it in the game at a tavern in a small town.
One of my players convinced it to come with him with a promise of seafaring adventures, and all the beer and frog grog a drake could enjoy.
Jut starting this video. Please tell me that it's breath weapon is just a burp.
EDIT: Somebody better answer the phone BECAUSE I FREAKING CALLED IT.
These are the kinda of vids I need. I would love a source book that was nothing but flora and fauna. Monsters like alehouse drakes, Tresems, Chwingas, just the sort of things you'd find in the world, not specifically monsters to fight. I know, a lot of people are looking for stat blocks to throw at their party, I've got enough of those. I need more stuff to flesh out the world. Make it feel really magical.
Probably my favorite race for an npc
Can't wait for the sequel: Jailhouse Roc!
There are no guards at this jail. Just a giant bird named Elvis.
@@typhodthediseased6383 If that jailbird catches you misbehaving, he'll polymorph you into a hound dog.
@@atlas_of_prescottia that sucks, then my blue suede shoes wouldn't fit anymore.
Thank you very much
I absolutely love the Alehouse Drake! A great source for information for all PCs looking for adventure.
Oh the gossip and rumors they have gathered from their perch at the Inn.
The intros lately are simply a thing of deeply nerdy beauty.
Keep up the great work AJ.
I love this style of creature introduction!
Ten billion likes! I love it when you do stuff from the tomb of beasts. The alehouse drake was one of my favorite the moment I first saw it.
The story first, leading into lore, is beautiful... The last few entries have been extremely good. I particularly enjoyed the Alkilith. But mostly because that thing is horrifyingly OP.
I agree completely. This format gives a player or dungeon master fertile ground for new and exciting ideas to grow, before going into the mechanics and capabilities.
They don’t eat cats… but, they eat cats.
I don't care what anyone says. I like the little lore snippets you put in your vids! Thanks AJ!
Anyone says tbey dont like the lore snippets needs to spend some time in The Box.
Wait, so that halfling wizard's never hard of _Plant Growth?_
Unfortunately wizards can't learn it. He may have to multiclass into druid.
What a fun little creature. Im definitely adding on to my campaign.
Never heard of these creatures. Interesting and fun.
Great story. I feel immersed.
Thats the pet of my legendary tavern!
A very well written and compelling tale!
I'm so glad you're covering Tome of Beasts stuff. Kobold Press's stuff is one of the cornerstones of my games, and their lore is always so amazing.
i often treat drakes in my setting the same way i would intelligent animals or hatchling dragons, and honestly my players love nothing more than interacting with them.
heck they even went out of their way to be goody two-shoes in an evil campaign just to get some extra rp with a gang of different drake types.
and i couldnt have played them the way i do without your help AJ ^^ thank you so much for making me a better DM
My pleasure!
"That's just a nasty rumor that.....they are largely responsible for."
🤣
I love the way you are writing these videos from a first person pov it awesome and that much more inspiring/captivating
Literally PERFECT TIMING, AJ!
Let's Go!
I feel like there are probably swarms of these flitting around the greatest beerhalls and banquets in Ysgard. Any place where the spirits flow and good times never end is where you find them. I mean what could be better than returning home to the mead hall after a long day of battling epic monsters and legendary foes to chat it up with an Alehouse drake and perhaps an eavesdropping skald or two.
One of the notable things about the outer planes can often be the lack of the sheer diversity of draconic creatures, but... there are always exceptions.
Thanks for this video AJ it's basically a 3 hour early birthday present
Happy birthday Thomas!
@@AJPickett thank you very much AJ I hope your dental work went well and you don't need anymore in the near future I'm not sure what you had done but I know impacted wisdom teeth are one of the worst
I want a ale house great worm
Nice I’ll watch this as I wind down from work. Thanks AJ!
What a way to spice up a tavern scene. X3
An amusing little creature for certain. I'd love to put one of these in my D&D game, perhaps as a barkeep or even tavern owner!
My Irish heritage has gifted me a storytellers mind, but you my friend have the mind of a scholar and the tongue of a bard! Well done!
Thanks 🙂
@AJ Pickett Great video, I love the idea of this creature. If I was writing a story, it would have a large tavern with an alehouse drake that is visited by a wizard with a Tressym familiar and a ranger with a blink dog companion. Of course everyone would be playing tricks on each other and stealing snacks while pretending to be well behaved. They would be a great foil for a wererat, a Xvart or some small evil fey.
Yes! That is exactly what I would do 🙂
Very adorable monster.
Did you write all the dialogue yourself? You have an ear for Tolkien-esque banter. Very good stuff
Yessss! More Kobold Press monster videos!!!!
I think this is my favorite drake now.
Another good vid as always. Alehouse Drakes sound insufferable, but a good way to throw off a party looking to take advantage of a bar
I have an old Alehouse Drake in my campaign named Agnes. One of my players tried to draw on her face while she was drunk and ended up with her pranking them instead. My players like her a lot.
What do you get when you mix an Alehouse Drake with nostolgia?
Homebrew.
So it's all just homebrew?
@@sextwister Always has been.
Would I break the game if I want my warlock familiar to be an alehouse drake?
Nope!
I'm playing in a campaign where I just acquired an Alehouse Drake as a familiar. So this video couldn't have come at a better time. Thanks AJ
Much love from Alaska man! At my local ale house watching this and starting our next session. People seem to love seeing us play dnd at the bar. Always getting people watching and complimenting it.
I sure would frequent the only bar in town with an active D&D game going on.
I could imagine some good interactions with silver dragens. 🤣
I love these little alcoholic iguanas. More bros for the psododragon and fairy dragons, and paper dragon
Well that just sounds like a Pseudodragon with extra steps.
Dude, you have really kinda perfected these "in-character" vids. Theyre great. Awesome lore drops, and creative storytelling fleshing out a whole character history teensy bit by teensy bit. On a kind of related note, has anyone statted up a dire hin? Do they just use like human stats, or are we in a miniature giant space hamster type situation?
Dire Hin are technically Human, as are half dwarves (there are more than people think, the Mul of Athas are not normal half dwarves by multiverse standards). The full stats for Picaroon the Lorekeeper can be found in the pages of Esper's Emporium of Esoterica.
@@AJPickett wait there's half dwarves? I don't usually ask but when you have the time could you do a video on the "hybrid" playable races
Love it
I have a tavern i like to use in my games called "the dapper lemon" the sign for it looks like if mr. Peanut was a lemon, and it's named after the ale house drake that lives there, Lemon Drop, who is named after his favorite kind of shot lol always is a favorite npc of the party =)
Now look into cask imps
i bet the rumor about them hunting cats is a nasty rumor that tressyms perpetuate
I loved this video. Thank you AJ.
Love your dragon videos keep them coming
The only known predator of the mini-sphinx
Always interesting - I'm always happy and intrigued when one of your videos is in my feed.
This is pretty much just a scaly talking cat.
**Cheshire Cat appears**
CC says: I beg to differ. We talking cats are a bit more thoughtful and don't ever eat cats. Well, we do sometimes fight to the death. Oh, and we do hate to waste fresh meat. Now that I think about it, never mind.
**Cheshire Cat disappears**
This... This is why I love this channel. Keep up the great work sage!
I basically live to make videos. 😎
Between this, your Alkalith video, and your Elysium video, I'm getting tempted to write you some in character intros for things you haven't covered yet.
These are my favorite monsters in the game
Marvelous! How do they get on with clurichauns? Camaraderie, friendly rivalry, or something a little more... contentious?
They don't get along, no. Clurichauns tend to terrorize pets and treat Alehouse drakes like they were just animals and playthings, the targets for their mean spirited pranks and outright attacks. There are some nice Clurichains (about a third of them, barely), but even they can be nasty when drunk.
@@AJPickett Gotcha. Thank you for the answer! I was ignorant of the lore about them.
Great addition to the drake series!
I needed me one of these
These drakes appeared after my time as a DM but what you said here deviates a bit from what I was told... the intoxicating breath weapon (burp). It might have been his homebrew thing, so, either way, enlighten me, my sage friend. Their breath weapon on a failed save (poison resistance bonus applies), you become intoxicated as if two degrees of drunk by booze, one on a successful save. It's not actually being booze-pickled but the effects are the same. It's cumulative with your level of drunkenness too. So, was that DM's drake correctly handled (even in an earlier edition) ot was it his homebrew? And that DM did use a f^ck ton of drakes. I never gamed with him but we shared lotsa' DM stories as old not-quite-actively-playing AD&D guys.
Yep, he was right on the money there
@@AJPickett My campaigns' reoccurring Pan (eternally underrated god in all my campaigns) would have them among his favored mortals then. Thanks!
Thoughts on making a video on the dragonic language?? I’d be highly interested in that
Imagine a drunk welsh speaking with German accent
"Why yes I do know of a spell that can make plums grow faster, now for your part of the bargain you will refrain from eating my familiar, no matter how many juicy rats she catches..."
I love thsese wholesome monster ecologies.
Yay storytime!
LOVED the narrating style you adopted in this video - very evocative, bravo! :-)
I am unfamiliar with this familiar. This reminds me of a wizards familiar but without the wizard. Almost like the alehouse drake is a drake version of a bard but uses abilities like a sorcerer.
One of your best written and best voice acted presentations. Bravo
Ah yes, alcoholism dergon.
Your superb choices of illustrations especially in this video captivated me. Wonderful presentation
I am really enjoying the new writing format! The Journal thing is super cool, and makes me wonder if there is a cannon between the different 'authors' you are using.
I read the title as Alee-house Drake like 500 times before I realized I was a dumby.
Ayy hobbit dragons. Thanks for making this video. As a fat, lizard brained wino, this type of Drake is really relatable to me.
Drunk dragon is a happy dragon! I bet they hussle players out of coin for a drink! 🍺
Drake video?? Count me in!
AJ as an Aussie i hope you've seen the Big Lez show, cause your alehouse drake sounds just like the nugget man
Awesome as usual
In D&D you used to need a feat to not have a 50/50 chance to poison yourself.
I don’t know if they fixed that daft rule in 5th
Otherwise, inn keepers would be permanently drunk…
Inn keeper class
L1: feat use poison
L2: appraise
L3: familiar (cat)
….
…
L8: familiar (ale house drake)
😋
Feel free to flesh out the “Inn Keeper” character class. Because let’s face it, all retired hero’s end up with levels in this class 😊
It was 5%, and only when applying poison to a weapon. I'm pretty sure a glass is not a weapon
@@benikujaku4567 Improvised weapon feat :P
@@benikujaku4567 you’ve never visited Scotland 🏴
Glasgow was murder capital of Europe and we managed that accolade without a single firearms related death!
And the most common laceration wounds were inflicted by glassware
So, as long as you don't take improvised weapon proficiency to turn your mug into a weapon, you are safe from getting drunk while pouring the drink.
Thank you AJ. I love your format going right into content, then introducing yourself once you've given a chance taste.
I'm quite frustrated with other content creators that jump right into advertising or promotion before they give even a hint to the content.
Purely thanks to viewer feedback :)
Yep.
Legendary as always. I always love the story intros, they really set the mood.
If you ever want to create story style only podcasts, I'd be a listener!!
What pleasant (seemingly
mostly!) if not dangerous
little creatures! 😁
(unlike the big green nasties
of the last ecology, I'll be in
therapy for a while after
that one! 😲 )
Most Excellent Presentation
Mr AJ Sir - as always! 👏👏👏
Loved this video... This one was just lovely. Went extremely well with a heavy chocolate stout and a spot by the fire. 🔥
Please do more Midgard content 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Make a kickstarter book of indepth monster lore for custom monsters
monster-nomicon
That sounds like a decent name for a cook book that uses monsters as ingredients
@@Nildread Alchemist making elixirs and wizards brewing potions.
Hey AJ, great video! These little Dragons are cool. You know everyone is going to want these as bar pets.
Thanks AJ you have a wonderful day!
Great video
I love a good story, thank you
AJ!!
Is it me or are there no elf character race lore vids other than the drow?
And there's so much to cover, all the sub races and such!!!
Aside from the History of the Elves videos?
@@AJPickett You should have added a link to that video for him, my friend.
Link to that video: th-cam.com/video/LtB7wS0O_n4/w-d-xo.html
Found and saw the "History of The Elves", maybe it should be present in the character races playlist.
In that playlisy there isn't an elf video, there's the drow video but I feel there's no deep focus on all other sub species of elf.
Don't know what arborea is about tho, guess I'll watch that next.
alehouse drake is my new band name
Power metal or pirate metal?
@@Mastodonald power
More of a celtic punk band name, from Wales of course.