Dungeons and Dragons: Dragonnel
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- Lesser, distant cousins of the magical True Dragons, Dragonnel are more like very large Drakes and they can be trained as flying mounts.
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For any would be "dragon Rider" wannabes out there it seems Dragonnel would be the slightly safer choice over actual true Dragons. Plenty of people have "conversations" with their pets, and for more intelligent companions the confidence of cogent communication is a huge boon on and off the battlefield. Problems can arise when mounts have a strong independent streak though. A true dragon, while willing to carry a rider, could easily start giving YOU orders and taking control of every combat situation rather than simply taking commands.
Dragonnel: flying, evil, malicious...
Righteous Paladin: Flies into battle on a Pegasus.
Me, a paladin of Conquest: I too fly into battle... on my hatedrake!
*Lifts visor on scary helm to reveal the shades* Cue music.
Don't worry, she loves people... (when served raw).
What would the music be maybe iron man or drowning pool bodys hit the floor...ohhh slayer raining blood or south of heaven
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"The only one left
Will ride upon the dragon's back"
@@AJPickett great song, great band. Thanks for sharing that.
In DnD the term "apex predator" really gets thrown around a lot and quickly falls apart in the face of magical all consuming monsters like the tarrrasque and kraken. I know there's some parts of our world where foxes are considered apex predators because nothing else is around, but it still feels weird comparing grisly bears as apex predators to dragons as apex predators.
The term really only implies to an environment. For example, a jaguar is very much an apex predator of the area its in, but introduce a tiger, or even a group of humans, and it becomes competition at best.
@@ssfbob456 I know that's what I was talking about with the foxes. But when he said that they where apex predators in their own right just after saying dragons hunted them for challenge, it just felt like a contradiction.
I mean on any one world there just can't be that many krakens, and shouldn't be more than one or two terrasque. But yeah, they would be the apex. Frankly, there's not enough prey to support a world with this many predators of this size, even if they eat each other, and even if we assume pre-industrialization population levels of wildlife, unless the populations of these large predators is quite small (this is in part why they are a problem heroes must deal with, as we expand we bump into territorial zones). In D&D there's always a bigger fish. As Pickett mentions, populations would dwindle (this has to be true of dragons in general as well) and so in areas where the dragonnel are left but dragons are not, these guys would be apex (frankly anywhere you have a large flying predator they would be top tier) but the areas where both exist would be fewer and further between as there cannot be large populations left. This would leave some room for other creatures to become the apex in their areas.
It does beg the question of how you can even have things like bears in worlds with creatures like this, how do they fit into the ecosystem, and do they? Like drakes are pretty super capable compared to many creatures in the animal world, I think they would quickly outpace many of the animals we were used to, and those animals would be unlikely to exist or thrive. Wtf is a hawk gonna do when there's a comparable sized drake that can breath fire at it? Who is going to be more successful long term? As populations dwindle you might see some creatures rise in the ranks so to speak, but would they have come to be at all if things like drakes and dragonnels existed?
@@Lurklen I get what you're saying and I agree, I was just pointing something out. As for what you're saying at the end with how can mundane animals compete, I've given that some thought and have 2 coexisting answers that help shape the world:
1: The world of dnd (or at least in my campaign) is simply, and for lack of a better word, _bigger._ The tallest mountain that the gods live on reaches the stratosphere, there are trees so massive entire towns can be built inside their canopy, the ocean has no bottom it simply enters the plain of water, ect. With all these grandiose spectacles it's pretty easy to say "Yes there are guards the size of corteges growing in the wild, in fact such massive plant life helps support the ecosystem of gargantuan creatures." Besides, just imagine the impact on both the players and the world that a sea monster that grazes on barrier reefs like a cow does grass. It's casually tearing apart an ecosystem by eating razor sharp coral and you have to fight it, or at least drive it off.
2: Magical creatures require magical resources, that's why monsters have hoards. The largest and most powerful mundane animals are basically dinosaurs, threatening and impressive to be sure, but less so than a dragon. However dragons have much more narrow and dangerous living conditions: Dragons must find a layer that's not only in a suitable climate, it must fit their elemental attributes, be close enough to the magical plants and animals that will nourish them, and be fare enough away from another dragon to avoid conflict. _Then_ they need to make a hoard, there is power in belief and even the gods believe gold and jewels to be valuable. But because it's so valuable you've now made your home a target.
In short, larger food chain and non magical animals are easier.
@@Lurklen Your analysis forgets one thing, dragons can consume inorganic material and derive nourishment from it. Dragons can eat just about anything. However, they have cultural and personal preferences that tend towards meat.
If they are smart enough to understand language and have an int score of 8 then how come they haven't made a some kind of society yet or invent methods to not get eaten as often by dragons? Or are the two things unrelated?
Also if they are intelligent then do good dragons also hunt them?
I know, it sucks to be a dragonnel on the face of it, but they have great lives really, what an existence! And dragons can be avoided, just stay out of their way and DON'T HOARD GOLD.
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@@AJPickett Thank you for responding.
Can you talk about the Deep Crow? I think it was put in acquisitions incorporated. It's such an amazingly cool monster but I struggle to think how to use it or tie it into my games lorewise
Sure can Skippy
@@AJPickett awesome!
I genuinely have a homebrew campaign that features the Deep Crow. Love that little weirdo.
Using a gun toting gun witch I've found a nice place using deep crows as mountain born monsters that are great mounts (like wyverns) or as pretty for larger predators without being the bottom of the food chain.
The deep crow was really hard to research but it is one of my favorite monsters!
poor dragonnels, being treated like the black sheep of dragon kind from the sounds of how disliked they are by true dragons
its like a flying horse with all the murdering tendencies of a cat
Thinking about doing a MITHRIL DRAGON video in the future AJ? I just binged a bunch of your videos and loved all of them but im sad my favorite dragon isnt here.
So, basically Dragonels are to actual dragons what chimps are to humans.
Yep
i know its not your style, but a video ranking all the different creatures used as mounts/ trained monsters would be awesome
Thease could be useful if you want something "dragon like" but more manageable for a lower level party.
A bit of a pet peeve of mine but I can't stand dragon (or dragonnel) riders with swords. Kind of like that Warhammer 40k meme with a tank commander swinging a sword on top of a tank while shouting to the driver "drive us closer I want to hit them with my sword".
How do you even get close enough to use a sword when on top of that beast. Even a spear/lance is debatable given the size and type of movement.
Given how these creatures work and what kind of natural weapons they have, it is probably better for the rider to just be a "driver" and have the creature actually do the attacks (maybe with improved "natural weapons" made of metal/enchanted). Or do ranged/magic of course.
It's in case you're fighting something that can fly.
@@dracorex426 Yeah I'm talking about flying too. When you barely reach the lenght of the creature's neck with a spear, what the heck are you using a sword for?
Magic swords shoot lightning bolts and look more intimidating than wands from 1200 feet.
@@marcogenovesi8570 Fending off something with talons coming at you from above. Fighting off small flying foes that are swarming you. Possibly attacking an enemy that has gotten on to your mount. It's point defense.
i'd vote flamethrower/fire bombs to really give it that scary dragon quality
I crave an aberration video agian.
After watching this season of The Boys, so do I! I have just the thing.... a tour of Illythid Lairs.
@@AJPickett wait we watch the same show? nice.
@@burningbronze7555 Karl Urban bro, he is a Kiwi, of course I watch :)
Heck yes! Just in time for my lunch break!
So, basically Toothless.
"What they don't tell you about dragonnels" is that a reference I see?👀
A nod of respect to a fellow sage.
I follow US and UK politics very closely. I'm grateful for you and many other YT creators for distracting me so effectively! You're like a safe Xanax. 🤪
That's a lot of stress, most people can't handle following the insanity of the political scene of a single country (any country, no exceptions) and you follow two?
Happy to help.
@@marcogenovesi8570 I follow 2 closely. I actually follow world politics ever since it started looking quite pre-WW2-y a few years ago. And wouldn't you know it? 🤪😜😝🤪😜🤣😃😦😧😩😫
Do Dragonel have good or bad relationships with Wyverns or are they just rivals for food and resources?🤔
Oh, and Dragonnes as well.
Wyverns don't like anybody, even each other.
I always figured that, much like real life, most of the large carnivores of the D&D worlds only take on a habit of hunting humanoids when injury renders them unfit to hunt other prey. Most maneating lions, for example, take on a diet of humans after sustaining injuries from porcupines that leave them unable to hunt gazelle, buffalo and the like. I can imagine something similar occurs with a lot of D&D monsters.
100% correct, also, when corrupted by the forces of Evile.
Like that shrieking terror beast that's roaming in the woods eating lumberjacks and hunters might in fact just be a griffon that lost its ability to fly (nice encounter to surprise a low-level party).
Unless their lifecycle is dependent on humanoids in some fashion. At this point most monsters know to avoid the dominant species as bad news. Its just adventurers literally are those lone wasps. But if you're starving your more at peace with the thought of dying for the chance of a full belly.
@@Harrowed2TheMind excellent idea! Very easy to mistake for an owlbear.. WAITAMINUIT!?
@@AJPickett Oh no .. " very deep sigh, .." A.J. just got a new ideal to throw at his players' PCs in an adventure encounter.
Their intelligence seems somewhat on par with Wyverns, I wonder how well they'd co-mingle, if nothing else than just to gauge their behaviour as differing Draconic Species.
Wyverns are very grumpy creatures and they do not get along with Dragonnel, also, horses HATE both of them.
That's a solid no. Unless you're dominating the wyvern, the dragonnel or both. Here's your grumpy temperamental cousin. Let's put him right next to the other ill tempered mount surely there will no horrific ramifications whatsoever! Said no stablehand ever.
Can't remember if I commented on this one already, but this has some really spectacular -- and wonderfully curated -- art. This is a great addition to the ever-growing list of draconic being videos!
Their intelligence is similar to what we'd expect to see in orca or other dolphin species. I personally find their intelligence to be much more interesting than other facets of these creatures. There is no universal way to measure intelligence, but the best we have is probably the encephalization quotient or EQ, a comparison of brain size to body size. Behind humans in EQ are orca, a few types of bird like parrots and corvids, and everything else trails quite a bit behind those animals. So for Dragonnels to be as smart as they are, they seem to be somewhat less intelligent than orca (which have unique cultures per pod, including unique languages and learned hunting techniques) but are close to the more intelligent birds.
Yay!
Love all the dragon content would love to see something covering any from of Mongrel esq dragons, or yuanti connections, or some more updated chapters on some of the older videos or even the Cannon builds of dragon esq like tin tin or something since most dragons are almost covered
Thank you!
My favorite part is the rewatchabiliy. The fact that I can keep coming back for extra views says a lot. Thanks AJ!
How in the world is something that small meant to carry a humanoid, let alone an armed and armored one?
Great video though, thank you for putting out this content! This is the kind of thing that I always imagined owning as a pet when I was a kid
I have always wanted to do a dnd campaign set in like a sky world with Neolithic tribes of dragon riders at war with each other
There are wildspaces in Spelljammer that are exactly like that.
That sounds amazing
So, basicly dragonells are the wild-animal version of dragons, as opposed to the inteligent true dragons?
yeah
Loving the dragon videos as always!
A good while back you started to cover elves in great depth, but I don't believe you finished - do you think you'll go back to them anytime soon?
Working on it! The Crown wars are fairly complex and I kind of have to work around Wizards of the Coast trying to literally whitewash the whole thing recently (in a BAD way).
That makes sense!
Whenever you have videos on whitewashed stuff I feel like we're getting secret lore from Elrond... You were there haha
@@AJPickett what is your policy on retconned/ weird lore that doesn't fit with the old stuff, especially with wotc's announcement that they don't care about old lore any more?
@@bleddynwolf8463 I present a cohesive ecology and history within the current rule set. I draw on all available lore to do so.
Sadly i already made my mind and im getting a tunder beast but they are pretty cool for sure
Ever see a flying thunderbeast? Yep, nobody sees that coming.
@@AJPickett So that's how the Spanish Inquisition does it.
the Mr Rhexx reference at 9:12 was apreciated.
and, as usual, AJ's vids are a treasuretrove of fantastic info.
I like that comparison of humans to a hornets nest. I've never thought of it like that before, but I gotta agree. When looked at as groups not individuals, we really do swarm quite easily.
Troupes of Chimps scare the shit out of me, so yeah, humans are so, so much worse.
@@AJPickett Other than .. climate change .. and disease, humans are/were credited with hunting out the mega fauna with little more than flint/antler tip javelins.
" hunting darts"
So how long do you think hill giants let along dragons would last to the Greek phalanx or Roman legion ?
Arrows/crossbow bolts fired off at point blank range cover in waste or some type of render down plant poison would overload a giant's immune system in short order.
As for chimps, since they run at x5 muscle strength of a human per biomass, treat a chimp as a raging barbarian/berserker npc. Also chimp have been show to gang up and flank/trip targets under their attacks so at base level of 3.5e rules I put chimps as barbarain1/rogue1 npcs with the feats Power Attack, improved unarmed strike and rogues' flanking sneak attack. CR:2 creatures that can knee cap your PC with 2d6+3dmg in mob action. As for " chimping out," give them two punches and a bite attack when they get onto something.
The post chimp/ couple of million pre proto-human stone user knife/scraper makers that figure out throw stone range hunting with early fire harden stakes for melee combat will be a terror to deal with. A chimp with a club is a scary thing to watch in a zoo let alone out in the wild in a pack.
You say that people don't like dragonnel riders flying over their houses because it looks like a real dragon in breath weapon range. I think it has more to do with experience with horses and other mounts - while being ridden on a trail, a horse will just drop a turd without breaking stride, imagine if a draconic creature did that while flying over your house.
I’d love to see a full book on the draconic creatures in every niche of the ecosystem. I have been trying to figure out how to approach this for a long time (whenever you mentioned in the drake video what is that 2 years)
Was the 3 Dragonomicons not enough, or are you uninitiated?
@@DaveButtons so I only played 2e while 3rd, 4th, and the first few years of 5th… So I honestly haven’t read any of the draconomicons. Which one would you say has the best variety of these Familia Draconis. Like I had totally forgotten about the Dragonnels from 2e and will be looking through my MCs later this week.
No dragon breath :c not a tiny ember
Dragonnel: the American dragon from the hood.
Deeply nerdy indeed!
Nice MrRhexx Reference
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So, as far as a draconic “mountable” creatures, this seems like its, cheaper less powerful but more agile than a wyvern. That being said are their variants of both these beasts? Or is that more or less homebrew? My party is dying to get draconic mounts (asthetic and utility) and id like to show off the wyvern and dragonels
This is totally random but one of the reasons I love this channel is I can come back to it whenever I need random lore and AJ usually already has a video on it. I have to read up on Yeenoghu? Oh look AJ has a two year old video that's a half an hour long I can listen to during my commute!
I'm constantly amazed that the world of Toril isn't brimming with creatures everywhere. True each game world is individual but taken as a whole doesn't it seem more and more like the world of Toril is like the world of Catachan? The level of predator and pray is nuts. Mapping any kind of definitive ecosystem would be almost impossible. It would be fun to try.
It's a world of microclimates and isolated biomes we call a 'Hex Crawl' 😎
Other than the magic aspect of spells such as Plant Growth and the rumor that hill giants and dragons cause .. giantism .. in plant and animal/insect growth. What keeps the soil becoming mineral depleted ? All of those over size animals eat a lot ..
@@krispalermo8133 Isn't the Prime material connected to the elemental planes somehow? Maybe that's an explanation?
@@leandersearle5094 Drawing from the Earth planes for its mineral use ?
Go call, to bad our own planet doesn't have that benefit with our topsoil loss.
You call them playing with their food evil, I call it cute and funny
We can agree to disagree
I teach my cats how to hunt mice.
Why are these not written in more often? A rich kingdom with special “dragon rider” knights?
Knights isn't the best use for a flying mount, imho. It's a pain to engage foes on the ground in melee while it is flying even with a spear, and the beast is a huge target when walking. These things should be treated/used more or less like WWI aircraft
@@marcogenovesi8570 no argument here, but the terror factor would be awesome for those who hadn’t fought them yet.
A barbarian tribe with these too. “The mysterious raiders from the west they swooped in on dragons and destroyed the village”
@@marcogenovesi8570 the root meaning of a knight is mounted infantry so it still applies
@@lordInquisitor I've literally said imho should be treated like aircraft, are aircraft pilots infantry now?
Yes you can still have the knight's prestige and heraldry and nobles and stuff if you want.
(WWI fighter pilots were more or less like this, so it's not strange)
But the role of the rider is not "mounted infantry" or infantry anymore, it's a vehicle operator, he isn't there to deal damage, he is there to control the beast.
For example war elephants in real life. The guy on top of a war elephant wasn't there to take swings at the enemy, the elephant was the weapon.
Plus you had dudes on the back with arrows or other ranged weapons. Those would technically be "mounted infantry" but nobody likes ranged knights for some reason.
Mounted infantry? Don't you mean cavalry?
Shit…. If they’re smart I wonder how dragon breath spell would work for them
80 viewers and only 20 likes?!
Give it time lad
If a dragon defuses its self into the environment as they die could a aspiring druid tap into and absorb that energy into him/herself or store the elemental essence into an item? Perhaps the druid can summon the dragon spirit that was slayed and force it into a item sort of like a magical conduit or a soul stone?
Perhaps
I'm happy for any riding creature that isn't remotely horse shaped. The fact that it has a draconic visage and has loyal manerisms makes it a ton cooler.
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Yes! All hail The Mighty Gluestick!!
If dragons only appear on worlds with enough magic to support them; seeing a dragon blinking in and out of your world is a sign that magic has begun to subfuse the world again?
I was just talking about that with a komodo dragon the other day.... waitaminute!
Adult male dragonnels are gold color, .. ?
So one hunting human herds could spread rumors of a rogue gold dragon hunting human live stock.
Local young adult gold dragon response in front of the local judge, " It was not me."
Prosecutor, " So you are claiming it was one of those rarely seen .. dragonnel .. are you ?"
young gold dragon, " Yes it has to be one of those dragonnels."
2.) I would not put it past the dragonnel mounts going to a stable to pick a challenge over the best stall in the location. They may even regarded such stables to be a form of massage parlors for baths and rub downs. Even alligator parks or places that keep giant lizards have been condition from youth to enjoy belly rubs. So after a trained dragonnel lost its ridder in combat they will return to a stable for .. pampering .. and easy food. Like a dog or cat well trained, as soon as you pick up your hairbrush the .. pet .. thinks it is for them to get some pampering time.
Also such stables would draw other dragon types such as young coppers to grooming dens for .. pampering.
3.) Years ago running an AD&D game, one person PC a dwarf fighter/rogue that went out and club/dragged a live baby red dragon out from the forest and put it in his root cellar brew house for dry aging herbs. The red dragon raised to be more of a chaotic neutral with playful cat like evil intent, it wore a hat of alternation to reduce its size over the years to sleep in his crib. The dwarf wife mothered him to no end.
Depending on the DM, an onery juvenile red dragon or young adult green dragon would try to visit a dragonnel stable for some pampering and a meal. With the spell Alter Self a true dragon could change enough of their appearance and scent not to panic the stable runners or dragonnel stalled there.
With 3.5e rule system, base stable hand would be rogue2/expert1, n/pcs .. treat the rogue's Evasion ability to avoid bites/claw swipes and have Animal handling ( exotic/dragonnel):6ranks. and
diplomacy or bluff at 7 ranks to sweet talk the beasts. Use skill synergy rules for bluff at 5ranks to give a +2 bonus to Animal Handling checks to calm the beast, raising A.H.to +8 modifier.
Dragon complimenting the skill of the stable hand working the scrub brush behind the dragon's ears for a good rub/scratching. Describe the dragon's delight like a cat/dog when you get that spot behind their ear .. just .. right.
Base on the mage caster level of Cantrip they could make a boar taste like chicken, or a wheel barrel of sewer rats taste like ribbie steak cuts.
Cat playing with a mouse, a dragon playing with a giant rat and rubbing it around in Bar-B-Q sauce or sweet & sour.
I heard of types of dragons from msytara campgain setting called void and comet dragons
From what I heard they even make prismatic, time and force dragons look like ants.
Maybe they would be fun addition to the dragon series?
I like how humans are making even the fantasy animals extinct.
Hey, its not a fault, it's a feature. (species die off all the time, and lets face it, Panda's are just begging for it)
@@AJPickett they were fine before we cut down the bamboo
Thanks for the lesson master sage!
First!
__I hear the song of the celestial heavens, and the music is cacophonous. It is strange but I find comfort in its dissonance. Righting the discord of the universal opus is what’s given my people purpose when, by all rights we as a race should have collapsed in upon ourselves. It is in such moments when species find their greatness or settle back into the muck that spawned them... For myself I have purpose if only to correct one particular stray note in a symphony ran amok. Win or lose, this battle is already my victory, my triumph. It is now fate which decides whether I am there to celebrate that fact or not. __ *Farseer Taldeer, Craftworld Ulthwé* Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
@@AJPickett Thanks!
Are there mutare aowlbers theat have Wings?
Chunky Griffons! Ownbears lurk in proximity to the feywild fairly often, so, mutations are inevitable.
Thats just a Winged Grizzly
And now Pali's and Bards can get them with Find Greater Steed, getting a flying dragon before the Drakewarden, lol.
Palladins yes, I can see that, but bards? hmmmm.... well.... yeah ok I can see that also.
🦙
I haven’t been able to find it so I don’t think you’ve done one, can you do a video on Shifters and how the player character shifter differs from lycanthropes? I personally feel the lycanthropes with silver vulnerability are just shifters subjected to a dark spell and player character shifters are just average unaltered shifters (similar to how doppelgängers are just advanced changelings)
4:20 That one looks downright demonic.
Shou Lung breed of Dragonnel.
They're a blazin', though. ;)
What about the loudest Dragons of all: The Karegons? They've been having public freak outs and calling managers since before men and elf kind existed.
Would you say that the "drake" a Drakewarden Ranger "adopts" is merely a Dragonnel whelp? The "drake" develops wings and grows significantly for a "drake", thus the question.
Thanoi 5e pls? i was sure you did a vid about thanoi on your channel
walrus folks! coming soon
Out of these three which one would you like to ride? Dragonnel, Drake, or True Dragon?
Plot twist, a wyvern.
ur mom
Dracolich, best buddies FOREVER.
can't wait for the pink dragon.
Delicious Pink Dragon?
So they're cats with wings then?
No, that would be the Tressym
This would be a great mout for a ranger or druid I could also see a assassin rogue using one.
In the video you mentioned the Dragonward Mythal that protects the city of Waterdeep, which reminded me of a question I had concerning Steel Dragons as they are so many in the city that they were nicknamed Waterdeep Dragons. Surely they weren't all given permission to enter and touched the Dragonstaff
Not all, but then, they are very secretive.
Mythal doesn't prevent shapeshifting into a humanoid the dragon was just effectively trapped in said form while in waterdeep. During the last artificial rage of dragons. The main way to find dragons in waterdeep was noted to be tracking down large shipments of food. You could touch the dragonstaff provided you weren't a threat to the city.
Are cats a form of livestock in the Forgotten Realms?
No, but drakes do eat cats, so do Dragonnels
@@AJPickett I would think they would actually be quite easy to function as feed livestock. They breed quickly, with a considerable size litter, that grows up quickly. Though they are maybe hard to keep/contain, because they are good climbers and you wouldn't want them to become feral as that would make them hard to handle, which would be one of their more appealing traits.
Do you think novice adventurers ever get sent on snipe-dragon hunts?
9:12 I see what you did there lol.
what video do you reference the game of strategy the ancient dragons or great worms scheme against one another but do not attack each other one on one?
I have not made a video dedicated completely to Xorvintaal yet, but its on my list of things to do. Meanwhile, check this out... forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Xorvintaal
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I normally allow party members to ride these cool lil fellas as mounts, so long as they can afford them, paladins get the spectral version ofc but sometimes ya just need a real dragonel to fill that need
Uh, fish are not red meat.
Sorry I meant BABY SEALS.
some things like salmon and tuna are practially red meat. as well as the legendary burgerfish of course.
@@bitterzombie Ah yes, can't forget the burgerfish.
@@-SRM- my favorite american dish
This is pretty cool is there a more safer option to this one and can carry more weight on it
If there are no Sky Whales, I will have to invent them.
Want an idea for a juicy fricking vid? Adamantite dragons.
Bytopia video features them
Any chance we might see a video about the Fugue Plane, Purgatory and Reapers/Psychopomps in the future?
Yes
I love all things dragon. Well done as always.
Another fresh stick of glue - and a good one it is, too! Compliments to the chef!
Fantastic timing, one of my players is wanting to play a mounted combat fighter. Only problem is they're in the underdark...
Giant bats are pretty Metal.
Thank you for the idea, the only underdark mounts I could think of were carrion crawlers and giant spider, neither interested my players
You can also use giant bugs (moths?)
@@marcogenovesi8570 moth bats, or bat moths
Giant aurumvorax would be metal too. But the problem is that it eats gold. Might be a problem if the party hates being poor all the time.
I love the videos AJ.
May as what microphone you use, as I frequently have a hard time hearing you. Would you consider re uploading your older videos, but with a new 🎤?
I use a YetiX mic with the Blue voice software and record/edit using Audacity.
based on their appearance and their behavior in general, would dragonnels count as mammals or birds?
They are Dragon-kin, they are not mammals or birds, saurian or reptiles.
Or wait for DragonLance
So I don’t know how any of the TH-cam content creation culture works so I hope I’m not out of line with my crazy Canadian ideas. We are pretty easygoing, optimistic, and open, yet hyper polite and apologetic as a natural form of bonding or com. Quite similar to people from NZ based on the folks I’ve met and worked with (ski hill). Rambling intro aside. Somehow I only just discovered a group who does live action videos that you might be familiar with. Viva La Dirt League. It think it would be immensely entertaining if you collaborated on a video. Maybe you narrating one of their adventure segments OR them acting out a monster ecology video as you “David Attenborough” (yes that is a verb) the scene.
Anyhow. Just an AJP superfan tossing out an idea.
Hopefully I’m not out of line.
Love your stuff.
~Ash
Hey AJ, great video! They reminded me of thoroughbred horses. In the Blackmoor campaign, it has a huge desert area, Spine of the Dragon, these dragons would work perfectly in that area.
Thanks AJ you have a wonderful day!
Man I'm behind on your videos AJ, I have this and 2 others to watch, looking forward to it👍
Man how did I not know about these... Another grate vid my dude. Thanks for your hard work bro
Is this module playable? If not ok dragconic pack mule
Thanks for going back to your original "matter of fact" format! I prefer it
It’s like a less cool but much more attainable mount than a wyvern.
I'd definitely have one of these if I was in this world. I love it🤩
Would a Behir ever hunt Dragonells, do you think?
Probably but only in ambush I assume.
Oh ABSOLUTELY! Thankfully, Behir are quite rare.
I've been planning a Behir encounter for my party, but was looking for a food source for it. Thank you for your insights as always AJ
elminster video would be cool 😎
Please do a collap with MrRhexx. Lore bros unite
We had a panel discussion, you can find it on his channel (I think). Always happy to work with MrRhex
Amazing video!
Thank you!
thank you!
Awesome video AJ
Thanks Chris 🙂
@@AJPickett no problem your last five or six videos have been right up my alley
Cool these dragon are better than horses.