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I love these guys, and I came up with so many story arcs in my head watching your video. But I'd also like to request that you think about doing the adamantine dragon, I mean they were the physically toughest things in dungeons & dragons throughout 1st and 2nd edition. I mean the gods had to approve them becoming a mated pair.
“Villain that preaches Might Makes Right but also is mature enough to acknowledge he’s not the strongest thing in the universe and doesn’t throw a grand mal freak out when he inevitably is overpowered” is a new and rising star on my list of favorite character tropes.
To quote the Super Best Friends LP of Metal Gear Rising: Armstrong(fight bark): "might makes right!" Pat: "no it doesn't, but if I beat you does that mean you'll shut up?"
Honestly, I see them more as a little Narcissist, bossing around lesser creatures and doing the things they tell others not to do, in pure evil fashion
@@xcreepercrafterx8016 that's perfect for a red dragon. A narcissist is EXCLUSIVELY about themselves, and wouldn't listen to anyone superior to them either. Cobalt dragons are logical with a focus in priority on strength.
If you also had steel dragons in your world, I bet cobalt dragons would be extra paranoid about them. Imagine being a young cobalt dragon, bullying a random peasant who then suddenly goes, "fuck it", turns into an older dragon and then kicks ur ass.
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim IRL Kobolds were mining goblins, as OP mentioned - OP also clearly switched from talking about IRL to DnD in the second sentence.
@@Kankan_Mahadi No, but have you heard of making a game outside the settings of dnd? Have you heard of changing things to make more sense within a certain environment? Have you ever heard of changing things to have fun? Have you heard of maybe even letting other people do what they want? Have you heard about the fact that even within dnd lore, there is a ton of inconsistency? I’m all for discussion and discourse, but you appear to be incredibly toxic and stubborn, refusing to accept the opinions of others. I will no longer respond to you, so please go away and take your hate somewhere else.
This dragons feels like the type to be a big fan of constructs, especially golems, for multiple reasons. 1) They're extensions of its power that don't crave freedom or have the flaw of thinking that rebellion, however futile, might be worth it 2) They're E X P E N S I V E to make, and so demonstrate the dragon's absolute hold over their conquered domain by the amount of resources they have available to make the things 3) They're work intensive to make, even before imbuing them with magic and binding them to a master, and vast factories filled with oppressed citizens constructing mechanized weapons of war is basically the definition of Lawful Evil 4) They're strong and durable enough to act as a test for anything which might try to oppose the dragon. If you cannot even handle the golems, you are certainly not worthy of being a distraction and waste of the Wyrm-Emperor's time. 5) They're large enough to be useful servants for a creature the size of an ancient dragon. Sure, reminding the humanoids of their place by having ten of them carry in the oversized whatever that the dragon wants is important, but if it's one of those tasks that needs to be done properly but you can't do yourself just now, a golem might be the next best thing. Also, a cobalt dragon flanked by massive iron golems modified with a shiny blue coating would look REALLY intimidating and cool. OH! And with iron golems specifically you could make their usual gas vent attack become a weaker version of the dragon's breath weapon, too! That would be VERY neat flavor!
A Cobalt wyrmling could be such a compelling character. It's innocent and curious and eager to learn from the heroes. They love it. Yet it grows competitive and eager for challenges and they worry about whether it is normal childhood phases or signs that it is growing into a predestined personality.
A rare opportunity that I like with cobalt dragons is that since they're so calculating, it provides an unusual chance for players to try and out think a monster. If players are able to discern how cobalt dragons react to creatures they consider more/less powerful, they could go on an entire adventure, not to slay the dragon, but to trick it into thinking that someone in the party falls into the "superior" category. Maybe collect enough blasting powder and jam it into boulders so that the wizard can set it off when the paladin punches the rock, making it look like this warrior is strong enough to sunder mountains with his bare hands. Maybe offer a powerful shape changer the party's services in exchange for making a cameo as an ancient iron or gold dragon. (although now if that shape changer decides it wants more tribute, the area is kind of forced to pay the extortion or risk the cobalt dragon learning that they were fooled). Basically any number of paths to get to the moment in Megamind where "metroman" flexes his calves hard enough to cause thunder and scare Tighten into running away.
How about approaching the campaign from the other angle? Your group is lawful evil, they are proud to be part of the Cobalt King's kingdom, and they take upon themselves to become his champions and elevating him to become Cobalt Emperor, thus giving them even more power and influence, along with protection granted by their beloved cobalt sovereign
It may also be fun to see what would happen if the Cobalt King begins to identify the party as 'equals' and what it would do to make sure he remains unchallenged
@@HoodieSpirit maybe if they just remain subservient and clearly enjoying their position as "servants", even as champions, he would not get such idea. I mean, lawful evil characters would prefer just to "carry out orders" that benefit them, because they would not feel responsible.
13:10 Actually it's probably a funny reference to the fact that Cobalt (the element) was actually named after the original 'Kobold' creatures in real life! As per Wikipedia: "The name of the element cobalt comes from the creature's name, because medieval miners blamed the sprite for the poisonous and troublesome nature of the typical arsenical ores of this metal (cobaltite and smaltite) which polluted other mined elements."
Fun fact: As of 4th edition, the Ferrous Dragons are considered a subgroup of Metallic Dragons, which makes sense if you think about it. Not because of their alignment, but because they are literally metal dragons. Also, because the people at WotC at the time wanted metallic dragons that players could fight without being evil.
yeah that makes sense. Was basically my first thought when I heard "Ferrous" "Wait aren't those also just literal metal dragons? Do they count as metallic?" xD
God I love the cobalt dragons they’re so wonky, just the idea of a fully armored paladin getting caught in the breath weapon and just yeeted across the dungeon, meanwhile the unarmored monk takes a little force damage but is otherwise not even budged, just… comedy gold
The element "cobalt" is actually named after kobolds. That's right, they existed in folklore before DnD and scientists used this folklore to name the element (seriously, look it up). So honestly, I'm surprised Cobalt Dragons aren't more involved with kobolds in the lore.
Mythological kobolds are pretty different from D&D ones mind you! They're goblin-like fey creatures from German-speaking parts of the world. Sometimes helpful, but just as often vicious or petty.
The dragon egg plot hook creates another interesting conflict, because a cobalt dragon hatchling might bend to the party’s superior strength at first and be *their* cute bratty minion, but then as it grows…
I've heard (and I don't remember from where, so this could be completely wrong) that the metal Cobalt was named after Kobolds, which were originally mischievous earth spirits that caused trouble in mines.
I think the "being good parents" thing might be a good hint towards a "nature vs nurture" kind of plot hook. In the egg plot. Imagine, players find manuacripts saying how yhey were all reared to take over kingdoms, taught how to crush rebellions, etc.
The other dragons have the lore that says they're good parents are green dragons, who also are the mastermind kinds of baddies. I guess someone in the WotC thought these dragons need some form of schooling to be like that. So there is definitely a nature vs nurture thing played here. I'd imagine an orphan green dragon would lean more towards black dragon kind of personalities, and a cobalt one would more towards red dragon.
I am already imagining a Cobalt Dragon emperor, Utilizing the party to remove other dragon rivals before expanding his nation… Maybe even throw in a few dragons that try to reason with the players. Starting with dragons that aren’t normal to be trusted, but are still likely telling the truth (Like a obscure dragon subspecies or maybe a gem dragon) Then eventually it’s dragons that probably should be believed (like metallics) Might even include some moral gray areas where some of the emperors actions might be for the greater good even if they come from a malign intentions..
Anyone else waiting in growing anticipation for the next Legend Lore video? Not that I don't greatly appreciate these videos, I'm just hooked after the 2 already out.
From a worldbuilding standpoint, this kind of dragon can be interesting to create "Dragonic Kingdoms". For example: -There were an "End of the World" event in the past, maybe it was part of a previous campaign. Althought the heroes achieved victory, the world ended in pieces: death and destruction everywhere, fallen empires, maybe even gods died during the event. -The heroes and "forces of good" where asisted by metallic dragons and the fight depleted their ranks. -Without metallic dragons acting as a balancing force in the world, chromatic dragons and ferrous dragons decided it was time to conquer the world (for different reasons). -Now the world is divided in the Tiamat Dominion (a confederation of countries ruled or controlled by chromatic dragons), the Iron Empire (collection of kingdoms ruled by ferrous dragons, following its traditions), the Independent Territories (countries that have resisted the dragons, maybe with help of the metallic family and shaped by them), the Wastelands (all the territories destroyed during the "End of the World" event that haven't recovered, plagued with ruins, monsters and things worse than death) and the Frontier (the unconquered lands, maybe wild and/or newly discovered territories, untouched by civilization). In this kind of world there could be a strange "Cold War" at play, where adventurers are hired to adquire artifacts of great power in the Wasteland, sabotage expansion efforts in the Frontier or act as merchant/ambassadors/spies in other kingdoms. Maybe the most powerful dragons are treated as gods, or they have their own pantheon that have replaced most of the fallen gods, with the surviving members of past pantheons supporting the independent countries or acting as rebel cells inside the dragons' lairs.
Here’s an idea: a cobalt dragon has been in a stalemate with a reef giant and the reef giant offers the party there pick of their collection in return for figuring out how to get the upper hand.
I LOVE a calculated villain, and this layer of shrewd paranoia from a dragon honestly sounds perfect for an upcoming enemy in the campaign I just started. I haven't commented much, but I just wanted to say that this is honestly one of my favorite series on TH-cam. Keep up the great work!
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13:02 It’s not only that! The name of the metal, cobalt, comes from the word kobold/kobald, which are rogue spirits in German folklore, the origin of the creature we know in D&D
I think it'd be pretty neat to have a cobalt dragon be a good ruler, the best way to have a strong army is to have a healthy, well trained populace after all. Can't have strong weapons without experienced blacksmiths after all.
I actually had a character like this!! He's not Good by any means but he's a good boss. He figured out how to get his subordinates to be as productive as possible, realized that overworked subordinates don't work as well and stopped overworking them! They have HUGE benefits packages because people will work hard to earn those things. Maybe I'll make him a Cobalt Dragon!
@@myheartismadeofstarsEspecially if the neighboring regions are shitty... Imagine serfs fleeing the land they're bound to, risking life and limb for a better life, even if its under a monster. It would be a fascinating twist if the cobalt dragon intentionally destabilized and exploited the adjacent realms to keep their situation ideal, as a one-man, medieval fantasy version of an IRL world superpower.
I want to see a campaign where a cobalt dragon rules a kingdom, and the party hires a Gray Dragon to go fight it. "Hey Mr Gray dragon, the cobalt dragon in the North said everyone else is a bitch, and you're apart of everyone"
My god that’s very good idea I am probably gonna use that for a future campaign maybe it’s to good not use it. I just imagine the party at the end watching the fight and having popcorn XD
@@warriorkater2407 if the great dragon takes the bait and decides to go after it. Maybe the cobalt dragon is now on the run as you assist the gray dragon hunt it down
I can imagine how wild a turf war between a clan of purple dragons and one, larger cobalt dragon would be, and ive mever thought i'd ever want dragon gang wars in dnd but i want dragon gang wars in dnd
I would definitely love it if you made Dragonborn for all of the rarer dragons with sympathetic lore for each! I want to play an Orange Dragonborn Barbarian.
I've definitely been missing the regular uploads BUT Im ecstatic to hear its due to something positive like moving your partner in, instead of health problems or some other shit like that Also once again mentioning for not particular reason that a 5e conversion of a Warhammer 40K Space Marine would be dope
It'd definitely be a fun campaign where the plot is a tungsten dragon and a cobalt dragon waring for dominion over a land and putting their ideologies against each other
I love the idea of an arena city ruled by a cobalt dragon. It's minions run the enormous world-famous colloseum that draws in warriors, the crowds filled with mercenary crews that the dragon hires out to surrounding lands to extend their influence. Having a visible hoard being the arena and its guards feels like a very cool motif. Maybe even a dominated dragon as a ringmaster as a little cherry on the cake. Players have a chance to fight their way through champions for the chance to face the city ruler in glorious trap-laden combat in front of a thundering mass of warriors in the stands.
Make a kingdom where so long as the magicaly ritually affirmed ruler exists the bad thing doesn't happen. Put the Cobalt Dragon in charge as ordered by an Iron dragon, 'Sit on that throne and make sure the bad thing doesn't happen'. The Cobalt dragon has been on the throne so long people forgot about the ritual for passing rullership and the 'bad thing'. Queue the players and their ambitions to kill the dragon. What is the 'bad thing'? Whatever mcguffin you want, a curse over the kingdom, a portal to the abyss, or an even worse imprisioned monster/civilization/race.
I imagine some variation of the Cobalt dragon is radioactive and usually sleeps underwater it's layer, imagine a Lake inside a cave when you look into it you see a haunting blue glow slowly start to get bigger as the temperature rises as it gets closer you somehow start to feel unwell . Best for hi level or you want them to sufer certain Doom acid slowly sap away their strength by its presence alone
when I first heard about the idea of cobalt dragon I imagine a bunch of nearby kingdoms who are all ruled by different cobalt dragons who are roughly equal in power. And their different kingdoms are always trying to undermined each other all the time. thanks for the video.
I looked for a video of you covering the faerie dragons but couldn't find it. Could you do one of your next videos about them? Thanks for your awesome content!!
Love all these dragon vids! I'm so thankful for you bringing these older monsters back to life its so nice to have some variety to spook all my players with ;) I'd love if you could have a look at the "Lodestone Marauder" its an older 3.5 monster that uses magnetic stuff, maybe you could fit it into a vid all about "older monsters for abandoned mines"?
Hi deeply appreciate the idea you just gave me. Im now planning on using a cobalt dragon as a main antagonist for my campaign and their subordinates will be a mix of white and blue dragonborn that are trying conquer the kingdom of the adventurer party
Cobalt dragons are also known as some of the most obnoxious personalities in the draconic hierarchy of the Ferrous Wheel. They typically manipulate the ride operators to stop it when they are at the top, heckling the other dragons beneath them about always having a superior view.
I love this series on dragons! Gives me a lot of ideas for a campaign I’m prepping. Thanks for all of your hard work! Any way you could make some other types? Like, what would a tin dragon look like/behave?
Alright i got an idea for them: Your party comes across a town/city/village with a thin fog, people are dying and the healer(s) are overwhelmed and bandits can be spotted in the tree line. The party is tasked with finding what's behind the fog and stopping it, perhaps there's a great lake nearby and a strange abominable thing is spotted coming out of it sometimes, perhaps a cave with strange floating rocks have been seen when someone was out hunting, maybe a local tribe could tell you. Maybe this plight is a trap for the reletively famous adventuing party
I know you occasionally do custom monsters, I think it would be super neat if a channel as big as yours could get the word out to more people that the Giffyglyph Monster Maker exists. It uses a lot of 4e encounter design mechanics like monster roles (supporter, defender, striker, etc.) but applies 5e math to them and I LOVE it. Could do something interesting where you make a homebrew monster type with it and have variants of it, one for each role, to sorta show how it can be used. I'm sad more people don't know about it because it is 100x more balanced than official monster making methods and it opens the floor for coming up with creative ideas that aren't restricted by what's in the DMG and various Monster Manuals.
I remember the Chia Golem. It was part of an old April Fool's Day issue of Dragon Magazine. It had a number of funny monsters, including a Chocolate Golem and sanity-destroying Barney the Dinosaur monster. Damn good stuff!
I love the breath weapon being magnetism! There's so much you can do with that too, like if an older Cobalt Dragon learned to use its breath weapon in unique ways. For example, the party challenges the dragon just to watch it swallow a bunch of iron and then fire it back at them like a railgun! Or it could use induction heating to cast heat metal on its opponents
Speaking of magical creatures that could potentially be leveraged by Cobalt dragons, consider the Coatl as a potential. Both exist in the jungle areas, and I can easily see a subverted Coatl acting as the benevolent 'face' for a Cobalt's machinations.
I could see a cobalt dragon turning out to be a Vetinari type of character. Evil, power hungry, and self-interested, but also extremely shrewd and capable of maintaining order. The end result is that no matter how bad it may be, it'll topple the corrupt nobility, clean things up, and make life safe and prosperous for the common folk, all entirely incidentally, in the course of seizing power and improving its own station.
An ide of what else this dragon could have is that if thinks with certainty it is your supperior then it subconsciously gains a charm aura. Kinda like the charm of a vampire.
I wrote a PDF for the Dungeon Master's Guild where I converted a ton of dragons, including Ferrous Dragons. The Cobalt was one of the only ones from 4e that I couldn't harmonize with its previous counterpart. Nothing matched; it's description, it's behavior, it's habitat, it's breath weapon, it's preferred treasure, etc. Fang, Deep, Iron, Brown, Mercury, and a bunch of others have had differences across the editions, but there were points of contact I could use to merge them into a single stat block. But the Cobalt Dragon from 4e was so drastically different that I just had to add a sidebar saying that the "Northern" Cobalt Dragon was an entirely different species that just happened to have the same name - just like there's a dozen different snakes that are called "Copperheads." I did the same thing with the Adamantine Dragon, which is another dragon from 4e that shares a name with a previous edition dragon that is totally and completely different.
Fun idea would be, relating to cobalt, that it would change its color depending on whether it's wet or dry. CoCl2 is blue when dry, but it becomes reddish pink when bound with water molecules.
Interesting note: The Cobalt's deafening effect on its breath weapon would render Bardic Inspiration useless (since Bard Inspiration relies on the target creature hearing you.)
I wish the DnD media world had more ads for projects that were already completed. Like every ad is like "look at all this incredible, amazing shit you can't buy or have for two years." I just want to buy the cool books, man.
I know this goes a bit against the "evil" part of this dragon, but my first thought after hearing its lore is that of a Juvenile Cobalt dragon who was hatched and raised by the Lawful/neutral good princess of a large kingdom. The Cobalt dragon would be a bit of a dork and surprisingly weak but would constantly boast about how the kingdom and all of its citizens are theirs and if anyone tried to harm them they would make the perpetrators beg for death. The princess would go along with the dragons shenanigans but she is secretly a high level cleric and the dragon knows she could kick their ass if they step too out of line. Kind of like: Dragon: "You lowly adventures think you can speak to the princess that way!? Know that it is only of my mercy that you were even allowed to set foot in my castle." Princess: "Dragon, would you kindly shut up? This is an important meeting." Dragon: "Oh, uh, um... Yes princess."
The word Cobalt actually comes from Kobold! In Germanic Folk Tales, Kobolds were originally a sort of Fae or Goblin Trickster Nature Spirit who could either be helpful or mischievous and one of the pranks they would play was poisoning Metal Ore which as you mentioned, Cobalt is Poisonous. It was D&D that turned Kobolds into mini Dragon-kin and the association just stuck.
So, regarding Kobolds and Cobalt Dragons, moving past the linguistic angle, I would be interested to hear people’s ideas for distinctive things about Kobolds in the service of Cobalt Dragons. Behaviours, social organization, special tasks, plot hooks, anything! Off the top of my head, I imagine that Kobolds’ worship of dragons as inherently superior beings would dovetail smoothly with Cobalt Dragon strength-gauging behaviours.
0:29 That screamed "my mom thinks I'm handsome" energy 😂...thanks for the pick-me-up, Dad 💜 These dudes are pretty neat! I like the deafness addition to their breath weapon; cobalt poisoning is no joke. Personally, I might also add a different status or condition depending on how the PCs take in the breath attack: for example, if they end up swallowing some of the stuff, they might knocked prone for 1-2 turns turns from retching violently. Sprinkling story hints to the PCs about how to protect themselves from that type of poisoning would probably be in order in that situation. (also, that vampire dragon looked sick...I have to check that out) Anyway, I'm glad to hear you and Mallory wrapped up that move! Hopefully that was the last of her stuff...? 🤞🏼 Take care!
I run an art supply store and was doing some research into cobalt as pigment a few months ago 💙 I was super entertained to learn that the word Kobold comes from Germany, where the cobalt mines were so deadly that they assumed they must be filled with horrible little creatures bent on setting traps and killing trespassers. How these Kobolds ended up being associated as servents to dragons? I don't know yet
Idk if anyone has pointed this out to you, but 'kobalt' actually comes from the Germanic word mashup for 'goblin metal'- kobolds being the word for goblin in Germanic folklore. The words aren't similar, they're directly related! Shows up immediately on the wiki page for cobalt.
For future videos I would like to see more of your own creations and a suggestion I have is Elemental Dragons, Dragons that have been born in or tainted with the power of the Elemental Planes. I think it's a fun concept and I was thinking about throwing an Earth Dragon at my party in a story arc, but I would like to see your take on it.
I love it, be very easy to play. This dragon is very swingy or Eddie, but anime feeling is exactly the vibe you want. If you play it like that it's perfect
This would actually be a really interesting way to subvert the trope of princesses being offered to dragons as food or worse. I can imagine a cobalt dragon having a large section of its lair being set up as living quarters for humanoids, with various young royals, nobles, and even a young tribesperson or two in the mix. They're allowed to live as they please so long as they follow the dragon's rules (like don't leave and don't hurt each other) because they're hostages that the dragon keeps just to remind the various groups living under it of who's in charge.
'Cobalt' is actually named after 'Koboulds' from older mythology IRL, so having Cobalt Dragons be the ones who first got Kobold minions as a thing, and also is a big time mastermind dragon lord or loyal second in command is very, very fitting.
Yo as always a great video. And as always i respectfully request that once you move on from the metallic dragons and start the gem dragons please, please i would love to see an Obsidian Dragon first! Thanks in advance if this happens, if not, no biggie suppose and keep up the awesome work as always.
Instead of magnetism, radiation would be a neat breath weapon… look up Cobalt-60 Great videos, haven’t played since 3rd, but find your content very interesting!
Thanks for the video! Always love dragons. It's funny that the artist who made the wyrmlings for Cobalt Dragons also made the one for the Platinum Dragons, because I kept thinking that, ironically, a Cobalt Dragon could arguably be a type of dragon over-represented amongst Platinum Dragons. At least as far as evil-aligned dragons go. They already have nurturing instincts/culture for their own young, fierce protection of their "subjects" as parts of its hoard, and a very logical/lawful mind. All that's required is a relatively minor shift in perspective as far as how to maximize hoard-value and you go from the typical Cobalt Dragon tyrant, to one genuinely trying to build a Utopian kingdom. After all, between two kingdoms of the same geographical size, with similar natural resources and populations, which kingdom is more valuable, a better hoard? One built out of slaves that take every chance they can to run away from this miserable existence? Or one with, for the times, an extremely well-educated, highly skilled and prosperous population? Loyalty has its own value when it comes to hoards that in part consists of living beings. Especially since it lets the martial might of the hoard go far higher without as big a risk of mutiny and the sort. If this is in a region with a draconic population, it's even better for the Cobalt Dragon to keep a loyal kingdom, as that means the army elites can be quite high-levelled without risk. An opponent the Cobalt Dragon can't take on one-on-one can just be dealt with by a high-levelled party led by said dragon. Thus letting the kingdom grow bigger than what the Cobalt Dragon alone can defend. Sure, it'll be far more dogmatic and strict than the average Utopia, and with the borders restricted, you need to go through a lot of paperwork to be given a passport and permission to leave, but you're happy knowing that the ruler has a vested interest in allowing you to grow into your best self, and the reachable region outside of the kingdom's borders is a total shithole ruled by egomaniacal tyrants anyways, so why should you ever want to leave anyways? Just believe in the Glorious Ruler who believes in the you who can do your part in perpetuating this bliss, and expanding it to encompass more and more of the sordid world beyond its CURRENT borders..!
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ANYTHING that fits into a jungle setting! Or even a swamp.
Would it be fun to convert a call of Cthulhu creature? Like a deep one or something
I love these guys, and I came up with so many story arcs in my head watching your video. But I'd also like to request that you think about doing the adamantine dragon, I mean they were the physically toughest things in dungeons & dragons throughout 1st and 2nd edition. I mean the gods had to approve them becoming a mated pair.
Speaking of dragons, the Hollow Dragon! I’ve only seen it in 4th edition, but it’s such an awesome concept that almost no one know about.
I would suggest the LeShay or the maedar.
“Villain that preaches Might Makes Right but also is mature enough to acknowledge he’s not the strongest thing in the universe and doesn’t throw a grand mal freak out when he inevitably is overpowered” is a new and rising star on my list of favorite character tropes.
To quote the Super Best Friends LP of Metal Gear Rising:
Armstrong(fight bark): "might makes right!"
Pat: "no it doesn't, but if I beat you does that mean you'll shut up?"
You should read/listen to the darth bane trilogy then you would love Dessel/Bane
I can only imagine a maxed out Paladin decking a cobalt dragon and being like “do I have your attention?”
Honestly, I see them more as a little Narcissist, bossing around lesser creatures and doing the things they tell others not to do, in pure evil fashion
Is this a reference to something?
I played a paladin who liked talking things out but would turn to violence if talking doesn’t work. So I can totally imagine Boris doing this
@@xcreepercrafterx8016 that's perfect for a red dragon. A narcissist is EXCLUSIVELY about themselves, and wouldn't listen to anyone superior to them either. Cobalt dragons are logical with a focus in priority on strength.
"...Yes."
* Claw attack, claw attack, bite attack, spell, breath weapon *
If you also had steel dragons in your world, I bet cobalt dragons would be extra paranoid about them. Imagine being a young cobalt dragon, bullying a random peasant who then suddenly goes, "fuck it", turns into an older dragon and then kicks ur ass.
They probably would be wary but not paranoid of that. Unless it happened to them when they were young and now they have trauma, lol.
"Hey, I heard your party is pretty strong. Let me fight you."
Turns out Goku is just a cobalt dragon.
@@shawnrehm2394 nah goku would be a tungsten dragon pre bulma vegeta on the other hand definitely a cobalt dragon
Isn't that more of a fang dragon thing?
Cobalt is named for Kobold, a mining goblin of germanic/celtic lore. So the metal of this dragon was named for the tiny lizardmen minions.
@@Kankan_MahadiThey're not talking about D&D, mate. They're talking about IRL, Germanic/Celtic mythology.
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim IRL Kobolds were mining goblins, as OP mentioned - OP also clearly switched from talking about IRL to DnD in the second sentence.
@@Kankan_MahadiI think they just meant lizard like, since in dnd they do have scales and act kinda like lizards
@@Kankan_Mahadi I’m going by how everyone I’ve ever met and played with runs kobolds. Lore doesn’t always make for the most fun game, you know
@@Kankan_Mahadi No, but have you heard of making a game outside the settings of dnd? Have you heard of changing things to make more sense within a certain environment? Have you ever heard of changing things to have fun? Have you heard of maybe even letting other people do what they want? Have you heard about the fact that even within dnd lore, there is a ton of inconsistency? I’m all for discussion and discourse, but you appear to be incredibly toxic and stubborn, refusing to accept the opinions of others. I will no longer respond to you, so please go away and take your hate somewhere else.
Cobalt dragons being the first to use kobolds is probably based on the fact that cobalt was named after the kobold of folklore.
This dragons feels like the type to be a big fan of constructs, especially golems, for multiple reasons.
1) They're extensions of its power that don't crave freedom or have the flaw of thinking that rebellion, however futile, might be worth it
2) They're E X P E N S I V E to make, and so demonstrate the dragon's absolute hold over their conquered domain by the amount of resources they have available to make the things
3) They're work intensive to make, even before imbuing them with magic and binding them to a master, and vast factories filled with oppressed citizens constructing mechanized weapons of war is basically the definition of Lawful Evil
4) They're strong and durable enough to act as a test for anything which might try to oppose the dragon. If you cannot even handle the golems, you are certainly not worthy of being a distraction and waste of the Wyrm-Emperor's time.
5) They're large enough to be useful servants for a creature the size of an ancient dragon. Sure, reminding the humanoids of their place by having ten of them carry in the oversized whatever that the dragon wants is important, but if it's one of those tasks that needs to be done properly but you can't do yourself just now, a golem might be the next best thing.
Also, a cobalt dragon flanked by massive iron golems modified with a shiny blue coating would look REALLY intimidating and cool. OH! And with iron golems specifically you could make their usual gas vent attack become a weaker version of the dragon's breath weapon, too! That would be VERY neat flavor!
A Cobalt wyrmling could be such a compelling character. It's innocent and curious and eager to learn from the heroes. They love it. Yet it grows competitive and eager for challenges and they worry about whether it is normal childhood phases or signs that it is growing into a predestined personality.
"Oh? You're approaching me?" -Every Cobalt Dragon after watching Jojo, probably
"I can't beat the shit out of you without coming close!" A Totem Warrior probably
My brain instead went 'The Iron Dragon is down! Now I'M the one in charge!"
”iron dragon has fallen, I cobolt dragon am now your leader”
A rare opportunity that I like with cobalt dragons is that since they're so calculating, it provides an unusual chance for players to try and out think a monster. If players are able to discern how cobalt dragons react to creatures they consider more/less powerful, they could go on an entire adventure, not to slay the dragon, but to trick it into thinking that someone in the party falls into the "superior" category.
Maybe collect enough blasting powder and jam it into boulders so that the wizard can set it off when the paladin punches the rock, making it look like this warrior is strong enough to sunder mountains with his bare hands.
Maybe offer a powerful shape changer the party's services in exchange for making a cameo as an ancient iron or gold dragon. (although now if that shape changer decides it wants more tribute, the area is kind of forced to pay the extortion or risk the cobalt dragon learning that they were fooled).
Basically any number of paths to get to the moment in Megamind where "metroman" flexes his calves hard enough to cause thunder and scare Tighten into running away.
I love that. The idea of a wizard using tnt to blow up a mountain as a means of tricking a dragon is so funny to me.
How about approaching the campaign from the other angle? Your group is lawful evil, they are proud to be part of the Cobalt King's kingdom, and they take upon themselves to become his champions and elevating him to become Cobalt Emperor, thus giving them even more power and influence, along with protection granted by their beloved cobalt sovereign
Done this with blue dragon it's fun campaign
It may also be fun to see what would happen if the Cobalt King begins to identify the party as 'equals' and what it would do to make sure he remains unchallenged
@@HoodieSpirit maybe if they just remain subservient and clearly enjoying their position as "servants", even as champions, he would not get such idea. I mean, lawful evil characters would prefer just to "carry out orders" that benefit them, because they would not feel responsible.
and make the whole group Kobolds. the Cobalt Kobolds!
13:10
Actually it's probably a funny reference to the fact that Cobalt (the element) was actually named after the original 'Kobold' creatures in real life!
As per Wikipedia: "The name of the element cobalt comes from the creature's name, because medieval miners blamed the sprite for the poisonous and troublesome nature of the typical arsenical ores of this metal (cobaltite and smaltite) which polluted other mined elements."
Fun fact: As of 4th edition, the Ferrous Dragons are considered a subgroup of Metallic Dragons, which makes sense if you think about it. Not because of their alignment, but because they are literally metal dragons. Also, because the people at WotC at the time wanted metallic dragons that players could fight without being evil.
yeah that makes sense. Was basically my first thought when I heard "Ferrous"
"Wait aren't those also just literal metal dragons? Do they count as metallic?" xD
big reason why 4e is stupid with it
@@gliscaradu1424 4e has a lot of issues, applying logic to the ferrous dragons was not one of them.
God I love the cobalt dragons they’re so wonky, just the idea of a fully armored paladin getting caught in the breath weapon and just yeeted across the dungeon, meanwhile the unarmored monk takes a little force damage but is otherwise not even budged, just… comedy gold
Then said paladin storming back like a freight train on legs and knocking the holiness into the dragon
One of my VIllains in my campaign is based of Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revengence and now I have his secret identity.
HELL yeah that's awesome.
You’re really making the mother of all omelettes here
*"DRAGON SCALES, SON!"*
Played bard college ball.
@@greenhydra10
In some wimpy aristocrat district.
Cobalt Dragon: "stand proud, adventurer, you're strong."
Adventurer: "What is this feeling?"
Cobalt Dragon: "I wouldn't know."
The element "cobalt" is actually named after kobolds. That's right, they existed in folklore before DnD and scientists used this folklore to name the element (seriously, look it up). So honestly, I'm surprised Cobalt Dragons aren't more involved with kobolds in the lore.
Mythological kobolds are pretty different from D&D ones mind you! They're goblin-like fey creatures from German-speaking parts of the world. Sometimes helpful, but just as often vicious or petty.
"You were expecting Chia Golems, but it was I, Cobalt Dragons!"
The dragon egg plot hook creates another interesting conflict, because a cobalt dragon hatchling might bend to the party’s superior strength at first and be *their* cute bratty minion, but then as it grows…
I've heard (and I don't remember from where, so this could be completely wrong) that the metal Cobalt was named after Kobolds, which were originally mischievous earth spirits that caused trouble in mines.
I think the "being good parents" thing might be a good hint towards a "nature vs nurture" kind of plot hook. In the egg plot.
Imagine, players find manuacripts saying how yhey were all reared to take over kingdoms, taught how to crush rebellions, etc.
The other dragons have the lore that says they're good parents are green dragons, who also are the mastermind kinds of baddies. I guess someone in the WotC thought these dragons need some form of schooling to be like that. So there is definitely a nature vs nurture thing played here. I'd imagine an orphan green dragon would lean more towards black dragon kind of personalities, and a cobalt one would more towards red dragon.
This could also apply to blue dragons and their whole aristocracy shtick.
I am already imagining a Cobalt Dragon emperor, Utilizing the party to remove other dragon rivals before expanding his nation…
Maybe even throw in a few dragons that try to reason with the players. Starting with dragons that aren’t normal to be trusted, but are still likely telling the truth (Like a obscure dragon subspecies or maybe a gem dragon)
Then eventually it’s dragons that probably should be believed (like metallics)
Might even include some moral gray areas where some of the emperors actions might be for the greater good even if they come from a malign intentions..
Anyone else waiting in growing anticipation for the next Legend Lore video? Not that I don't greatly appreciate these videos, I'm just hooked after the 2 already out.
I've got 3 in the works! There are definitely more on the way!
Wow... so this is what it feels like to have my faith rewarded. I thought this day would never come!🥳😂
I’ve only watched the Evening Glory one, but that one video was really good. I’m glad there’s more on the way!
From a worldbuilding standpoint, this kind of dragon can be interesting to create "Dragonic Kingdoms". For example:
-There were an "End of the World" event in the past, maybe it was part of a previous campaign. Althought the heroes achieved victory, the world ended in pieces: death and destruction everywhere, fallen empires, maybe even gods died during the event.
-The heroes and "forces of good" where asisted by metallic dragons and the fight depleted their ranks.
-Without metallic dragons acting as a balancing force in the world, chromatic dragons and ferrous dragons decided it was time to conquer the world (for different reasons).
-Now the world is divided in the Tiamat Dominion (a confederation of countries ruled or controlled by chromatic dragons), the Iron Empire (collection of kingdoms ruled by ferrous dragons, following its traditions), the Independent Territories (countries that have resisted the dragons, maybe with help of the metallic family and shaped by them), the Wastelands (all the territories destroyed during the "End of the World" event that haven't recovered, plagued with ruins, monsters and things worse than death) and the Frontier (the unconquered lands, maybe wild and/or newly discovered territories, untouched by civilization).
In this kind of world there could be a strange "Cold War" at play, where adventurers are hired to adquire artifacts of great power in the Wasteland, sabotage expansion efforts in the Frontier or act as merchant/ambassadors/spies in other kingdoms. Maybe the most powerful dragons are treated as gods, or they have their own pantheon that have replaced most of the fallen gods, with the surviving members of past pantheons supporting the independent countries or acting as rebel cells inside the dragons' lairs.
Here’s an idea: a cobalt dragon has been in a stalemate with a reef giant and the reef giant offers the party there pick of their collection in return for figuring out how to get the upper hand.
Good Metalics, Evil Chroatics, Neutral Gems, and Lawful Ferrous where's the family of chaotic dragons?
Yeah we lack one of those
Fey floral dragons
@@Z3nSh1nz0 I'd love to see a video on the floral dragons from that book he did an ad for!
I'd imagine Chaotic Dragons to be fey/spiritish dragons
But what material group would they be named after?
Non-metallic dragon - Neon, Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Chlorium
I LOVE a calculated villain, and this layer of shrewd paranoia from a dragon honestly sounds perfect for an upcoming enemy in the campaign I just started. I haven't commented much, but I just wanted to say that this is honestly one of my favorite series on TH-cam. Keep up the great work!
Who releases a video at 4:30 am?
Dungeon dad: ooooh, boy. 430 AM.
Yes, I know it's likely different time zones.
Lol yeah I know I was thinking the same thing. But it’s 2:30am for me
Only by two hours! lol. Also, why are you awake!
@@DungeonDad ITS REAL DRAGON HOURS BABYY 🐉. Jk I work overnights 😅
6:30 am over here, lovely to start the day with this
@DungeonDad month end inventory, and I need to be in for 6 am. Also takes almost an hour to get to work. This video gives me something to listen to during
13:02 It’s not only that! The name of the metal, cobalt, comes from the word kobold/kobald, which are rogue spirits in German folklore, the origin of the creature we know in D&D
The word and creature have their roots in Greece; _cobalos_ meaning 'rogue', and came to Germany with the Romans.
So in other words, cobalt dragons are the starscream of DnD.
So a Cobalt dragon Monarch is basically Dr. Doom as a dragon, complete with their own Latveria?
Appreciate the brief reference to trogdor the burninator
-- sees thumbnail
my brain: "...would."
*sigh* roll initiative
@@DungeonDad i rolled a 4 :(
@@vilelucaRoll for anal circumference
@@vileluca Roll fortitude
Ma get the camera! I've finally arrived
The Cobolt Dragon took over dungeon dad's house and he had to talk about how great they are since he is now under the dragon's rule
I think it'd be pretty neat to have a cobalt dragon be a good ruler, the best way to have a strong army is to have a healthy, well trained populace after all. Can't have strong weapons without experienced blacksmiths after all.
Nothing like investing in education and public health to be a more efficient war monger
I actually had a character like this!! He's not Good by any means but he's a good boss. He figured out how to get his subordinates to be as productive as possible, realized that overworked subordinates don't work as well and stopped overworking them! They have HUGE benefits packages because people will work hard to earn those things.
Maybe I'll make him a Cobalt Dragon!
@@myheartismadeofstarsEspecially if the neighboring regions are shitty...
Imagine serfs fleeing the land they're bound to, risking life and limb for a better life, even if its under a monster.
It would be a fascinating twist if the cobalt dragon intentionally destabilized and exploited the adjacent realms to keep their situation ideal, as a one-man, medieval fantasy version of an IRL world superpower.
@@Bird-wz7nx I could see him doing that! He is such a manipulative bastard.
I want to see a campaign where a cobalt dragon rules a kingdom, and the party hires a Gray Dragon to go fight it.
"Hey Mr Gray dragon, the cobalt dragon in the North said everyone else is a bitch, and you're apart of everyone"
My god that’s very good idea I am probably gonna use that for a future campaign maybe it’s to good not use it. I just imagine the party at the end watching the fight and having popcorn XD
@@warriorkater2407 if the great dragon takes the bait and decides to go after it. Maybe the cobalt dragon is now on the run as you assist the gray dragon hunt it down
@@robertsampson537 thats sound fun and awseome well i will see when i will use this
I can imagine how wild a turf war between a clan of purple dragons and one, larger cobalt dragon would be, and ive mever thought i'd ever want dragon gang wars in dnd but i want dragon gang wars in dnd
I would definitely love it if you made Dragonborn for all of the rarer dragons with sympathetic lore for each! I want to play an Orange Dragonborn Barbarian.
I've definitely been missing the regular uploads BUT Im ecstatic to hear its due to something positive like moving your partner in, instead of health problems or some other shit like that
Also once again mentioning for not particular reason that a 5e conversion of a Warhammer 40K Space Marine would be dope
It'd definitely be a fun campaign where the plot is a tungsten dragon and a cobalt dragon waring for dominion over a land and putting their ideologies against each other
Joy of joys to make these bois. Always love a chance to make some monsters with spice. Thank you so much for the project man!
Sincerely my pleasure man. Your art is always so awesome! You really captured the vibes of this monster perfectly
I love the idea of an arena city ruled by a cobalt dragon. It's minions run the enormous world-famous colloseum that draws in warriors, the crowds filled with mercenary crews that the dragon hires out to surrounding lands to extend their influence. Having a visible hoard being the arena and its guards feels like a very cool motif.
Maybe even a dominated dragon as a ringmaster as a little cherry on the cake. Players have a chance to fight their way through champions for the chance to face the city ruler in glorious trap-laden combat in front of a thundering mass of warriors in the stands.
That nearly invisible transition from fullscreen thumbnail to the actual video was clean and I respect it
Love how dungeon dad is jinxing himself with hopefully having a normal schedule
That intro was so smooth, from thumbnail to video. Beautiful
Make a kingdom where so long as the magicaly ritually affirmed ruler exists the bad thing doesn't happen. Put the Cobalt Dragon in charge as ordered by an Iron dragon, 'Sit on that throne and make sure the bad thing doesn't happen'. The Cobalt dragon has been on the throne so long people forgot about the ritual for passing rullership and the 'bad thing'.
Queue the players and their ambitions to kill the dragon. What is the 'bad thing'? Whatever mcguffin you want, a curse over the kingdom, a portal to the abyss, or an even worse imprisioned monster/civilization/race.
I appreciate the half-tuck and your editor's overall enthusiasm. Nice episode, my guy.
I imagine some variation of the Cobalt dragon is radioactive and usually sleeps underwater it's layer, imagine a Lake inside a cave when you look into it you see a haunting blue glow slowly start to get bigger as the temperature rises as it gets closer you somehow start to feel unwell . Best for hi level or you want them to sufer certain Doom acid slowly sap away their strength by its presence alone
when I first heard about the idea of cobalt dragon I imagine a bunch of nearby kingdoms who are all ruled by different cobalt dragons who are roughly equal in power. And their different kingdoms are always trying to undermined each other all the time.
thanks for the video.
I looked for a video of you covering the faerie dragons but couldn't find it. Could you do one of your next videos about them? Thanks for your awesome content!!
Love all these dragon vids! I'm so thankful for you bringing these older monsters back to life its so nice to have some variety to spook all my players with ;)
I'd love if you could have a look at the "Lodestone Marauder" its an older 3.5 monster that uses magnetic stuff, maybe you could fit it into a vid all about "older monsters for abandoned mines"?
Hi deeply appreciate the idea you just gave me. Im now planning on using a cobalt dragon as a main antagonist for my campaign and their subordinates will be a mix of white and blue dragonborn that are trying conquer the kingdom of the adventurer party
Cobalt dragons are also known as some of the most obnoxious personalities in the draconic hierarchy of the Ferrous Wheel. They typically manipulate the ride operators to stop it when they are at the top, heckling the other dragons beneath them about always having a superior view.
Found the Pink Dragon.
I love this series on dragons! Gives me a lot of ideas for a campaign I’m prepping. Thanks for all of your hard work!
Any way you could make some other types? Like, what would a tin dragon look like/behave?
Alright i got an idea for them:
Your party comes across a town/city/village with a thin fog, people are dying and the healer(s) are overwhelmed and bandits can be spotted in the tree line. The party is tasked with finding what's behind the fog and stopping it, perhaps there's a great lake nearby and a strange abominable thing is spotted coming out of it sometimes, perhaps a cave with strange floating rocks have been seen when someone was out hunting, maybe a local tribe could tell you. Maybe this plight is a trap for the reletively famous adventuing party
I know you occasionally do custom monsters, I think it would be super neat if a channel as big as yours could get the word out to more people that the Giffyglyph Monster Maker exists. It uses a lot of 4e encounter design mechanics like monster roles (supporter, defender, striker, etc.) but applies 5e math to them and I LOVE it.
Could do something interesting where you make a homebrew monster type with it and have variants of it, one for each role, to sorta show how it can be used. I'm sad more people don't know about it because it is 100x more balanced than official monster making methods and it opens the floor for coming up with creative ideas that aren't restricted by what's in the DMG and various Monster Manuals.
Yes, our dragon compendium is almost complete! Kinda hoping for someone to release a "dragon book" designed around the periodic table or something.
I love your videos sir, you give such great info to use every time.
Hey, thanks!
I for one cannot wait for the Bueller Ferrous dragon episode.
Also neat, new really cool looking 5E resource to back.
I remember the Chia Golem. It was part of an old April Fool's Day issue of Dragon Magazine. It had a number of funny monsters, including a Chocolate Golem and sanity-destroying Barney the Dinosaur monster. Damn good stuff!
I love the breath weapon being magnetism! There's so much you can do with that too, like if an older Cobalt Dragon learned to use its breath weapon in unique ways. For example, the party challenges the dragon just to watch it swallow a bunch of iron and then fire it back at them like a railgun! Or it could use induction heating to cast heat metal on its opponents
Speaking of magical creatures that could potentially be leveraged by Cobalt dragons, consider the Coatl as a potential. Both exist in the jungle areas, and I can easily see a subverted Coatl acting as the benevolent 'face' for a Cobalt's machinations.
The wololo at the beginning is just *chefs kiss*
Now I have the perfect villain for my JoJo's bizarre adventure themed campaign.
love your videos man, keep it up.
Thanks for watching!
I could see a cobalt dragon turning out to be a Vetinari type of character. Evil, power hungry, and self-interested, but also extremely shrewd and capable of maintaining order. The end result is that no matter how bad it may be, it'll topple the corrupt nobility, clean things up, and make life safe and prosperous for the common folk, all entirely incidentally, in the course of seizing power and improving its own station.
Definitely am enjoying these dragons. I plan to incorporate them into my next campaign.
Don't you mean the: Kobalt Dragon?.... I'll see myself out.
I think you meant Koboldragon!
@@Muriuki34 you're right. Was in a rush to type that comment.
Ah yes. From the same family as the Stanley, DeWalt, and Makita Dragons.
An ide of what else this dragon could have is that if thinks with certainty it is your supperior then it subconsciously gains a charm aura. Kinda like the charm of a vampire.
I wrote a PDF for the Dungeon Master's Guild where I converted a ton of dragons, including Ferrous Dragons. The Cobalt was one of the only ones from 4e that I couldn't harmonize with its previous counterpart. Nothing matched; it's description, it's behavior, it's habitat, it's breath weapon, it's preferred treasure, etc.
Fang, Deep, Iron, Brown, Mercury, and a bunch of others have had differences across the editions, but there were points of contact I could use to merge them into a single stat block.
But the Cobalt Dragon from 4e was so drastically different that I just had to add a sidebar saying that the "Northern" Cobalt Dragon was an entirely different species that just happened to have the same name - just like there's a dozen different snakes that are called "Copperheads."
I did the same thing with the Adamantine Dragon, which is another dragon from 4e that shares a name with a previous edition dragon that is totally and completely different.
Love it! Thanks for what you do, Dad! I've used several several several creatures you've covered in my campaigns and they're always a hit. ❤️
Thank you for your videos! I have loved using these forgotten monsters in my campaign! I really appreciate your hard work.
Fun idea would be, relating to cobalt, that it would change its color depending on whether it's wet or dry. CoCl2 is blue when dry, but it becomes reddish pink when bound with water molecules.
Interesting note: The Cobalt's deafening effect on its breath weapon would render Bardic Inspiration useless (since Bard Inspiration relies on the target creature hearing you.)
Wake up babe new dungeon dad video just dropped (yes she was asleep from the last one)
Get the airhorns out
I get the feeling that these dragons have read the Evil Overlord list, and maybe even added to some of its entries.
Also, I love them.
I wish the DnD media world had more ads for projects that were already completed.
Like every ad is like "look at all this incredible, amazing shit you can't buy or have for two years."
I just want to buy the cool books, man.
I know this goes a bit against the "evil" part of this dragon, but my first thought after hearing its lore is that of a Juvenile Cobalt dragon who was hatched and raised by the Lawful/neutral good princess of a large kingdom. The Cobalt dragon would be a bit of a dork and surprisingly weak but would constantly boast about how the kingdom and all of its citizens are theirs and if anyone tried to harm them they would make the perpetrators beg for death. The princess would go along with the dragons shenanigans but she is secretly a high level cleric and the dragon knows she could kick their ass if they step too out of line.
Kind of like:
Dragon: "You lowly adventures think you can speak to the princess that way!? Know that it is only of my mercy that you were even allowed to set foot in my castle."
Princess: "Dragon, would you kindly shut up? This is an important meeting."
Dragon: "Oh, uh, um... Yes princess."
(Was the quick music in "plothooks" bit from the Firefly game? Shiny!)
Intro stills blows me away every time
The word Cobalt actually comes from Kobold! In Germanic Folk Tales, Kobolds were originally a sort of Fae or Goblin Trickster Nature Spirit who could either be helpful or mischievous and one of the pranks they would play was poisoning Metal Ore which as you mentioned, Cobalt is Poisonous.
It was D&D that turned Kobolds into mini Dragon-kin and the association just stuck.
So, regarding Kobolds and Cobalt Dragons, moving past the linguistic angle, I would be interested to hear people’s ideas for distinctive things about Kobolds in the service of Cobalt Dragons. Behaviours, social organization, special tasks, plot hooks, anything!
Off the top of my head, I imagine that Kobolds’ worship of dragons as inherently superior beings would dovetail smoothly with Cobalt Dragon strength-gauging behaviours.
0:29 That screamed "my mom thinks I'm handsome" energy 😂...thanks for the pick-me-up, Dad 💜
These dudes are pretty neat! I like the deafness addition to their breath weapon; cobalt poisoning is no joke. Personally, I might also add a different status or condition depending on how the PCs take in the breath attack: for example, if they end up swallowing some of the stuff, they might knocked prone for 1-2 turns turns from retching violently. Sprinkling story hints to the PCs about how to protect themselves from that type of poisoning would probably be in order in that situation.
(also, that vampire dragon looked sick...I have to check that out)
Anyway, I'm glad to hear you and Mallory wrapped up that move! Hopefully that was the last of her stuff...? 🤞🏼 Take care!
I run an art supply store and was doing some research into cobalt as pigment a few months ago 💙 I was super entertained to learn that the word Kobold comes from Germany, where the cobalt mines were so deadly that they assumed they must be filled with horrible little creatures bent on setting traps and killing trespassers. How these Kobolds ended up being associated as servents to dragons? I don't know yet
Intro was fire very cool change of pace
Idk if anyone has pointed this out to you, but 'kobalt' actually comes from the Germanic word mashup for 'goblin metal'- kobolds being the word for goblin in Germanic folklore. The words aren't similar, they're directly related! Shows up immediately on the wiki page for cobalt.
For future videos I would like to see more of your own creations and a suggestion I have is Elemental Dragons, Dragons that have been born in or tainted with the power of the Elemental Planes. I think it's a fun concept and I was thinking about throwing an Earth Dragon at my party in a story arc, but I would like to see your take on it.
I love it, be very easy to play. This dragon is very swingy or Eddie, but anime feeling is exactly the vibe you want. If you play it like that it's perfect
Man I cant even begin to say how much I appreciate the Trogdor reference lol
I love that you are doing this. Have you though about matching it with the lost dragons of the forgotten relmes?
love the way he does his monster intros
I gotta ask, will you be writing up a ferrous dragonborne features and traits?
Once they’re all done, my plan is to go through and add the Dragonborn variants with their own lore and new art!
Oh awesome!!
This would actually be a really interesting way to subvert the trope of princesses being offered to dragons as food or worse. I can imagine a cobalt dragon having a large section of its lair being set up as living quarters for humanoids, with various young royals, nobles, and even a young tribesperson or two in the mix. They're allowed to live as they please so long as they follow the dragon's rules (like don't leave and don't hurt each other) because they're hostages that the dragon keeps just to remind the various groups living under it of who's in charge.
'Cobalt' is actually named after 'Koboulds' from older mythology IRL, so having Cobalt Dragons be the ones who first got Kobold minions as a thing, and also is a big time mastermind dragon lord or loyal second in command is very, very fitting.
12:03 That also means that an intelligent enslaved monster is likely to help the adventurers take the dragon down in exchange for it's freedom.
16:39 BEST CHARACTER SPOTTED
Yo as always a great video. And as always i respectfully request that once you move on from the metallic dragons and start the gem dragons please, please i would love to see an Obsidian Dragon first! Thanks in advance if this happens, if not, no biggie suppose and keep up the awesome work as always.
Instead of magnetism, radiation would be a neat breath weapon… look up Cobalt-60
Great videos, haven’t played since 3rd, but find your content very interesting!
Thanks for the video! Always love dragons.
It's funny that the artist who made the wyrmlings for Cobalt Dragons also made the one for the Platinum Dragons, because I kept thinking that, ironically, a Cobalt Dragon could arguably be a type of dragon over-represented amongst Platinum Dragons. At least as far as evil-aligned dragons go. They already have nurturing instincts/culture for their own young, fierce protection of their "subjects" as parts of its hoard, and a very logical/lawful mind. All that's required is a relatively minor shift in perspective as far as how to maximize hoard-value and you go from the typical Cobalt Dragon tyrant, to one genuinely trying to build a Utopian kingdom.
After all, between two kingdoms of the same geographical size, with similar natural resources and populations, which kingdom is more valuable, a better hoard? One built out of slaves that take every chance they can to run away from this miserable existence? Or one with, for the times, an extremely well-educated, highly skilled and prosperous population? Loyalty has its own value when it comes to hoards that in part consists of living beings. Especially since it lets the martial might of the hoard go far higher without as big a risk of mutiny and the sort. If this is in a region with a draconic population, it's even better for the Cobalt Dragon to keep a loyal kingdom, as that means the army elites can be quite high-levelled without risk. An opponent the Cobalt Dragon can't take on one-on-one can just be dealt with by a high-levelled party led by said dragon. Thus letting the kingdom grow bigger than what the Cobalt Dragon alone can defend.
Sure, it'll be far more dogmatic and strict than the average Utopia, and with the borders restricted, you need to go through a lot of paperwork to be given a passport and permission to leave, but you're happy knowing that the ruler has a vested interest in allowing you to grow into your best self, and the reachable region outside of the kingdom's borders is a total shithole ruled by egomaniacal tyrants anyways, so why should you ever want to leave anyways? Just believe in the Glorious Ruler who believes in the you who can do your part in perpetuating this bliss, and expanding it to encompass more and more of the sordid world beyond its CURRENT borders..!