What They Don't Tell You About Dracoliches - D&D
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The cinematic pieces come from 3 different games, the dracolich attacking the city is from the Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG called "Neverwinter". Hence, that video is perfectly canon as to how the dragon looks and behaves; the woman accompanying the dragon is a lich hiding under magic.
The cinematic with the adventurers defeating cultists is (i believe) also from the same MMO, but a particular expansion of the game. It is from the Hoard of the Dragonqueen and Rise of Tiamat storyline.
The cinematic with the ice skeletal dragon is from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King cinematic.
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Dragonborn Undying Warlock, whose patron is a Dracolich that is also their Draconic ancestor.
Well.... on the normal version of D&D dragonbornes hate to depend on others entitys powers. This means that you never see Dragonborne Warlocks or "totally not divine warlocks" AKA clerics
But if the DM wants you can even impregnate a elemental soo nobody cares
Stealing this and anti normal heros are the best kinda heros
Too bad dragonborn arent related to dragon in anyway much like kobolds. Dragon borns were slaves of dragons in a alternate reality then came to our world.
@@thesquish8657 Are you talking about Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms?
@@thesquish8657 depends on the setting, according to the 3.5e book races of the dragon kobald are related to dragons, dragonwrought kobald even more so and dragonborn are created in a ritual by bahumat.
Step 1: DRAGON
Step 2: LICH
Step 3: ???
Step 4: PROFIT
They are cooler liches, perfect for an campaing with a lot of vampire mages, mummy lords, liches, death tyrant beholders for you to fight, or for a party who thinks liches are too lame
@Free Weeb Hentai what inspired you to come up with that name, it's amazing!
Explain the plan one more time.
Giant two headed Cyclops werewolf mummy lich
*GROFIT
Human funeral: He died too young T_T
Dragon funeral: Remember when he got so drunk he went crazy and flattened a mountain, dried up a sea and sired a hundred half-dragons? That was a great decade. ^_^
XD
Remember when he transformed into a cat and got so drunk he burnt the bar down with his breath weapon in cat form?
@@chazmars78 just imagine explaining to the insurance company that your bar was burned by a fire breathing cat.
@@THEOBSERVER-1 Well, I know what I'm doing to my party of Imperial Epic Economic Investigations (IEEI, pronounced like constipation) Agents next time we meet. Thank you internet, you have rescued me from writer's block.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
You know Dracolich's are secretive and badass when not even the Demonprince of Undeath knows how to make them.
I'm pretty sure orcus probably could come up with his own way to make undead dragons, his hole thing is to fuck around with things with death
Its mindblowing that you guys take this fictional stuff way too..LMAO 😂🤣
@@thomasfarmer1730 dnd is literally for roleplaying, it's more fun when you put more into it, otherwise, we get guys like you '-'
Seth Krueger except for the fact That many dragons are already more powerful than he is
"A dragonoid body"
Kobolds have dragon blood and I believe are considered dragonoid so...
and any soul and inhabit a necromantic fueled dragon body so...
I once had a character concept that a full grown dragon was polymorphed/reincarnated into a kobold but since he still had the mind of a dragon he would do things like jump off high places thinking he could fly or announce his totally intimidating presence when he entered a room.
Some Kobolds have dragon blood, who often become sorcerers. They didn't universally or even as a majority descend from dragons.
So make a campaign around a kobold who is on a quest to become a lich and the players must stop him
@@andrewthegeek6522 sounds good to me.
@@Sophia-vk5bq one-shot or full campaign?
"death is inescapable and all forms of longevity will stop working after a while"
*laughs in clone spell*
Except your soul just got yeeted by a greater being :(
Laughs in True Polymorph: Draco Lich.
*Laughs in ascended god/god's champiom*
True Polymorph -> Ancient Gold Dragon -> Relearn Wizardry -> More Clones -> Becoming a 9th level Wizard-Dragon. Build an empire. Fight evil across the cosmos as an unstoppable being of good. Profit.
Priam Neville my groups dm finds that when our characters are Demi gods at high levels so this little chart speaks to me on a spiritual level.
That awkward moment when you find out your wife/husband is actually a pollymorphed dracolich...
Thats why she is so cold in bed
@@gufosufo337 *this*
So you laid them so hard their soul left their body?
If the husband gets an erection is it a Boner
That would just make me love her more cuz tht means wifey is a bad ass ...never mind the ego boost tht so powerful a being chose to keep me lol
"Sounds like a terrible idea." -Klauth, Ancient Red Dragon
Was this in Neverwinter Nights?
dracoliches are so much more interesting in their creation than they are in actual gameplay.
Unless you make them a good guy
@@thatsnotgonewellatall5517 why would anyone do that?, There should be no nice liches
@@zacharyrodriguez4348 think about it. Good dragon born forced to contain the soul. They come back. Still good but with that craving and not knowing what happened to them
This comment can be applied to all lore.
Use the lore and the creation to build it up over the course of a campaign. Than when your players finally face it all that lore and build up makes it super interesting to encounter. Just droping a Dracolich into your game and saying here fight this is going to make it boring. But same can be said for anything really.
You'll hear that? Pick your own God now and start praying! Ain't nobody want to end up on the wall of shame!
My Rogue keeps almost dying, so maybe I should.
Well if they have something similar to a machine god, I'll pray the fuck out of machines to please the omnisiah! Though I wonder what you can do in that afterlife with said machine god?
@@krimverse5903 There's Primus, but I'm not sure he is 100% a deity or just has the power level of one
@@krimverse5903 Go with Primus. But I don't think he listens to prayer. And if he does, then good luck not to upset him, because he is the most picky God of them all.
There's Primus but he wouldn't want anything to do with the will full and fickle souls of humanoids. He rules the plane of time I think and his minions are increadibly specific in form and function, each serving a particular role or task with a strict hierarchy of who can command who or perform specific jobs. Our souls wouldn't fit into that in 99.999% of cases, I don't think.
But fuck it, this is d&d. Do w.e.
I've been searching for info and stats for Draco-liches all day because I have plans on introducing one in the campaign I'm running. This was perfectly timed!
Some adventurers are about to get a hurt REAL bad.
I was actually thinking of using one in my campaign, but after hearing this it won't fit very well. Unless I give my necromancer an item designed to control it. May just have to go with an undead dragon though.
Could you just do a bulk episode of undead in D&D for October.They are one of the most intersting aspects of D&D to me
Possibly Orcus too!
Yes.
Bulk vids consume multiple vids of content though, might be inefficient for him
That Tiefling in that cinematic is the real mvp, what a power move
What is that from? I want to watch it
@@kaiandresrussomunne5319 its from a game intro, just search after neverwinter mmo
@@kaiandresrussomunne5319 From Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG called "Neverwinter" his got them in the description if you want to know the other ones :)
We should have a *Video of Every Known Werecreature* for Halloween.
Were Rats, Were Bear, & Were Ravens have cool lore.
Where are the stats for wereravens? They sound AWESOME and could be extremely fun to play. ;)
Yes, but only if there's a screenshot of the talking mudcrab of Morrowind talking about weresharks. Because comic relief.
@@youtubingjaguar5082 Curse of Strahd
@@youtubingjaguar5082 the original was Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts (AD&D 2nd Edition, Ravenloft Accessory). they had wereravens listed there
@@youtubingjaguar5082 like the guy above said, curse of strahd
MrRhexx, every one of you videos fuels a new D&D plot point in my campaign. Your research is astounding and much appreciated. Please continue with these histories and expound upon us more secret knowledge.
(I just hope my players don't start watching your videos :P)
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Liches are some of my favorite monsters in D&D. It’s great to know how different yet alike Liches and Dracoliches are in terms of rituals
But since his video on mummies, is there such thing as dragon mumies or dracomumy lords?
Luiz Henrique Alves
dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Centaur_Mummy_(5e)
So apparently Tales from the Yawning Portal had a centaur mummy...
So yeah perhaps a dragon *could* be possible? As long as draconic magic doesn’t interfere or a new process has to be done like with dracolichdom rituals. You’d also have to have literal metric tons of salt and herbs for the embalming process though...
AD&D2e lick was at lest a 18th-level wizard or cleric.
In 3.5e they are 11th-level spell caster, and it does not say what spells are needed. They just need something to hold their Soul in.
Yeah undead monsters burn up very nicely.
7:30 "Seduce the dragons"
*Dragonborn Bard Joins the chat*
I don't want to see his browser history.
17:58
Ahh, I see you are a man of culture as well...
ALL HAIL THE SURPEME ONE! ALL HAIL THE GREAT TOMB OF NAZARICK!
I would love to hear about a normal lich too. Ive wondered what the manual left out about them
Until then maybe Dawnforgecast can satiate your lust for knowledge of the forbidden arcane?
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Manannan anam slavic mythology has this concept. Koshi or something like that its called. Its a dark mage that tied his soul into the needle and hidden it in some mythical place and is technically immortal because of that.
@Manannan anam Koschei the Deathless is who he's talking about
@@mauriceanderson5413 He had baba yaga put his soul inside a needle, put the needle in an egg , the egg in a duck , the duck in a hare , the hare in a locked iron chest and the chest on a magical island that changed location.
@Manannan anam LotR did it first :D and that is mostly based on mythology.
17:09 that’s a really good adventure time lich fan art
That lich it's one of the most cool cartoons (not anime) villans
I know one thing if I lived in D&D's world I'd be a true church goin' boi.
Especially when you're fully able to bitch slap people with the power of your god.
As a moral nihilist and egotistic hedonist I would probably be the only human servant of Lolth.
You know, I love how the music is calming, peaceful, and melodious.
Mean while you are describing what is literally the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to me.
This is a huge coincidence- in one of my most recent campaigns, the main antagonist was titled _"The Draconian Necrobear."_
It was just as terrifying as it sounds. I loved every minute of it.
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Yes! I simply love this series of yours. They way you describe the lore always makes it so interesting :)
Personally i love the idea of someone like Strahd having a black market deal with the Cult, sending out bottles of his blood with the vistani to trade for things like spell tomes(He IS a wizard after all.), magic idems, and assorted other things to pass the eons in Barovia. Sudoku maybe. :P
also the dragon could just use a legendary action and a legendary success to make the process work. they did give ancient dragons those abilities in 5th ed.
MrRhexx
actually watch Overlord!!!
In the case of overlord those dragons were skeletal dragons, not dracoliches, would skeletal dragons have the same resistance to magic?
@@heitorpimenta6504 Yes, they have the same magic resistance.
@@heitorpimenta6504 it's funny, because in Overlord people can only cast spells up to level 5
What if the old body of the dragon was in a different plane?
Example: The protodracolich is on the material plane while the draconic body is in the plane of water?
The same as if the dragon's body was disintegrated, they would have to seek out powerful magic to get it back, and would feel an overwhelming urge to do so.
What if the body was completely consumed by magic or transformed into something that can't be eaten?
@@andresmarrero8666 treat the body the same as if disintegrated. PDL would be driven to bring the body back someway, luke a wish spell.
@@eugenehoitt3250 now that brings to mind a somewhat devious setup.
Better find a portal.
Yo imagine being a little peasant child and seeing an undead T-Rex sprint up to a dead dragon and devour its body and then start using magic. Protodracolich.
One weird trick to live forever that deities don't want you to know about!
Tiamat is a deity... that's actually her shown in the scenes where he's talking about The Well of Dragons, the 5-headed dragon
The dozens of gods of undeath would say otherwise. The draconic pantheon has a god of undeath, after all.
What was the part at 20:00 from? It's always neat to see those big dragons fully animated.
It's from the Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG "Neverwinter". It is a cinematic representing the climactic end moment of the 5th edition adventure Rise of Tiamat.
So theoretically if a Spiritgorger, a humanoid lich stuck in it's Phylactery, was placed near a Dragon Skeleton for long enough it could become a Dracolich? So my question becomes: Does it keep the powers that a Lich has, other than reconstitution, that a Dracolich doesn't? The same question for if a willing living dragon lets the Lich possess them? What would happen if a Vampire, Mummy, or other powerful Undead(including a full Dracolich) are thrown into the mix? Is it possible for a Dracolich to become a Demi-lich? So many questions.
Why would a full dracolich want to become a lich?
To answer you actual question. ( Yhisbis mostly what I take away from spiritgorgers) I’d say that that as long as the creature has an intelligence of at least 1 (Don’t know how it would offer it’s body to the lich if it had 1 Int) it would have the process of becoming a lich (the effects the ritual has, not the ritual) happen to its body. This would result in the offerer’s body replacing the lich’s in the whole “body gets recreated” thing, linking its body and soul to the lichs phylactery. And when regenerated having the offerers and the lichs soul in the body.
@@madmichael7250 The concept that the souls could exist cooperatively means that a Dracolich, who can't automatically reform their body, would see an advantage to gaining that power by working with a normal Lich. Mechanically they would act as one unit and any spellcasting ability or power the Lich has that the Dracolich doesn't would be applied, though I understand that this is only an advantage for physically focused Dragons like the Fang Dragon.
originalShorai in that situation the lich would have to to offer its body. In the end it would depend on which is offering to who. The lich offering to the dragon, would just have the dracolich knowledge. But the deacolich offering to the lich... a multitude of things could happen; the lich could be compelled to eat the dragons body and wish its back if it’s gone, or it could be the same as dracolich offering to lich, if the race isn’t draconic in nature it could... make one thing bad happen? Or good depending if it destroys the body’s. In this case it would be likely the dragon would return to the phylactry, but if the lichs body still regenerates it would most likely severe the connection and regenerate its body with a mind of its own. Also while they COULD cooperate, he does say that it almost always drives the host mad
@@madmichael7250 I've always liked playing with the idea of character clones so I was just curious about making a merged Lich/Dracolich. To be fair though I think crazy is a given to begin with.
has to eat to refuel its spell breath, Now im wondering if the DK starter quest in WoW when you ride a "dracolich" was smart or just dumb luck as you had to eat mobs when you ran out of its fire breath.
"The falactory will provide a new body"
So its a falactory factory?
I wonder if they make phylactaid, I'm phylactose intolerant
Puns...you gotta love em.
@@germangamer7377 bad enough there are ppl plotting to make REGULAR armies of undead, now we have to deal with an army of liches? undead mages? there will be some major paranoia in that army, if the world isn't destroyed by it they'll destroy each other and maybe the world in the process
Phylactory*
Honestly you should turn these into podcasts, I love using your videos to chill or to sleep since I've watched almost all of them already, your voice is super calming and all the podcasts I can find are super aggressive or high energy
That darned puppy,
always up to mischief,
digging holes,
chewing on fingers,
Gaining the vengeful ire of a DRACOLICH
Almost like holcruxes . Voldermot did the same thing by binding his soul into seven or more pieces so he can be immortal
i hope those spelling errors were on purpose
@@reverie5760 i know. I miss spelled
WOAH SPOILERS BRO
@@JoshKnoxChinnery The final movie has been out for more than 5 years now
Not almost like Horcruxes. JKRowling completely poached that entire part of the HP mythology from D&D. Voldemort is a pseudo or semilich with 7 phylacteries depending on the edition.
Important question: can a dracolich become a demi-lich? That would be truly epic.
Normal demi-lich or Acererak type of Demi-Lich?
Yes.
@hien le don't click that link, it's to some kind of porn site as I just found out. time to run a virus scan now, instead of learning about demi-draco liches
@@empoleonmaster6709 I'm glad I don't see that comment anymore
Technically nothing prevents it.
@MrRhexx I'm certain I've watched all your DnD vids, I don't think I could get tired of learning from you. Something about how you make everything so easy to understand is just satisfying. Thnx.
I don’t play D&D but I love watching these videos because I have always found mythical creatures interesting. Watching the video made me wonder is there a way to turn a dracolich back into a normal dragon or is it a permanent change.
I’m loving these videos everyone I see one I watch it as soon as possible and it makes my games so much better! Thanks for all the work you do and keep up the awesome content!
Every time *
that Overlord reference XD
they have a lot of d&d references in there, i love it.
@@MrRhexx you have good taste my friend ;)
@@MrRhexx ya the entire mechanics of ygdrassil is based on dnd
This went over the afterlife, linked to your other video with info I may need when running a dracolich. You have yet again exceeded expectations. I learned even about the afterlife which I did not expect! Seriously love your work, it pushes my DMing and lore knowledge to the next level :)
Thank you, you are my favorite lore master.
Thats actually oretty much how it works irl too if your talking about the intro
The next time I start a campaign it won't be in a tavern.
It'll be at a great dragon's funeral. That kinda party sounds dope as hell and rich in opportunities for story hooks.
Nabe vs Khajit
If you have coin, he has wares!
Man, you have the BEST Lore videos, but. Have you think on make Pathfinder ones. Thanks for tour wonderfull work
Don Uni Cornio Yes please!
another way to achieve this, since so much of Pathfinder is based on D&D3/3.5, is to simply comment on additional Pathfinder sources for your lore. “Alternatively, if you include Pathfinder lore, X & Y can happen.”
I’m a firm believer in using lore & abilities from all sources, & mixing them together to throw off my stats-memorizing players. “Hey, that’s not what X is supposed to do!”... “I never said it was X; you assumed that from my description.” They generally learn quick!
That story about the museum , I am definitely using that in my campaign.
Man, it boggles my mind how well informed you are... Even my best googling doesnt turn up 1/10th of the info you have on these subjects... Doesnt matter how many words you mispronounce, you amaze me!
I just started D&D with a Paladin and can’t wait to play next week 😍
*_[Insert Joey Wheeler's creepy chin ad-modum.]_*
Now I just got an epic vision of a Death Knight riding a Dracolitch into battle!
What they don't tell you about dracoliches.... is the legend of Marook the half orc rogue that saved his adventuring comrades. The dracolich had surprised the group and opened with his breath weapon bringing several of the party to their knees. Thankfully Marook was climbing upon the ceiling being a stealthy half-orc rogue. Upon seeing his group almost die to the surprise round of the dracolich.... Marook knew that he needed to taunt the dracolich to draw it's attention. (since taunting is not really a skill of a rogue) Marook did the only thing he could think of... He lowered his pants and gave out the most fierce battle cry, "You're about to wish you had eye lids!" as he grabbed onto the skull of the dracolich. It was in this moment Marook saved his group valiantly as they escaped to live on to tell the legend of Marook.
15:47 "Настойка" means "tincture"... So, does this mean I can make boose out of dead drakoliches? This sounds quite in a russian style.
I just got the thought of giving your player's a dracolich's phylactery and treating it like the stone of golorr but instead of wanting to be released it could be wanting to make a pact with the one that is attuned to it at the time.
"Why evil? Because they say that you have to be insane (chaotic neutral) to want to go through this process."
so most player groups?
Rise of the Nekrons (Warhammer 40k)
Bruh, no alingnment is a measurement of sanity.
@@wasteoftime5848 The only people who choose chatic neutral are insane lmfao
Perfect Ad placement after the introduction. 10/10
Anyone else hear him say LICHerally rather than literally
So happy to see another video in this serie. you do an amazing job catching my interest and delivering the information in such an entertaining way.
Is it just me or haven't you done a video on pixies?
I really like the idea of a party wandering past a zombie dinosaur eating a pile of dirt and not wanting to mess with it. And as their adventures went on the field it was eating gets bigger and bigger, people start talking about it and eventually it turns into a dracolich.
In our horror campaign, the PCs just helped slay a dragon that has prepared in advance for his first death. This video was very helpful.
So, a ettin is wondering some ruins of a cave/fortress looking for food. unknown to them as they find a "pretty rock" inside a "metal box" ……. One gets the rock and rubs it fondly. "Petty Roc....." After a few days and not finding a lot of food anywhere. "Roc... Why you talkin" to me?" after a couple more days of unable to find food. "Roc?? If me agree to help you, you can help stop our belly pains?" after a few moments "Don't tell the other guy, but me agree."
the poor Ettin found and made the deal with a Soulgorger.
Would the lich only be able to possess one of the two heads, I wonder?
@@senorali I would say the one that agreed to the term. the other is basically along for the undead ride. but be a lich himself.
double your lichdom, double your DM fun.
@@senorali or at least comes back a death knight. lol a death knight that's connected to a dracolich. lmao
The wall of souls sounds cool. Imagine a campaign where an extremely powerful Lich and it’s undead army rip through the planes in an attempt to raid the city of judgement to eternally fuel it’s phylactery with the souls the city is built from.
Kelemvor, Jergal, and Myrkul would destroy them before they even get close.
Kelemvor changed the rules of death so that the Faithless and False no longer had to fear going to the wall or being tortured in the afterlife. They just existed in the City of the Death, grouped together with others of similar beliefs/alignments.
Love your recent D&D videos @MrRhexx!! Please keep it up! I sense that you have a strong calling for this! You have my blade!!
Good inspiration and content as always! Thanks man! :)
21:35 um, exCuse you?
It's called archeology when their grandkids are dead too
It would depend on when it was removed.
Undocumented profitable archeology. 😏👍
Thank you so much for making this, man! Appreciated.
Been waiting for this too long. Finally some insight on these dragon liches.
my dude can u do one on false hydras? love ur content btw
You can bind your own soul into a golem or somekind armor, or with this you count lich to?
Most dietys of good alignment view such actions similar to lichdom. But the ones who dislike this the most are the ones asociated with death and the act of dying.
@@nes819 Aaaaahh... I see
But then you can do it
@@detektivespooder4609 Indeed. A state of semi imortality can be achived in manny whays. The important question is if one is willing to suffer the conseqwences.
sem semmi Similar but not the same. The difference being that you become something different in the end, one is an undead and the other a construct.
Alphonse?
Great video. I love Lich, Necromancer, and any undead lore.
Nice video clip on Sindragosa man!
I am curious as to where you get your sources. I know you directly reffer to some articles, and not others. I want to know what you see as still "cannon."
this, I also want to know what you consider cannon
great video as always but I'm still curious about the other kinds of true giants other than the hill giant of course, will we get those too just like we got all the true dragons?
1: die in battle with dracolich
2: party kills dracolich
3: dracolich enters your body
4: oops the dm has your character sheet now.
_The Rise of Rammakhet_ needs to be a module now... It'd be awesome.
I love your lore videos do much! When do you think that you'll do another video on Giants?
11:54-12:10 Could a necromancer reverse engineer that magic to extend his life? Instead of becoming a lich, imbibe himself with the souls of others?
I'm currently starting a campaign at level 3 for a couple of friends
Their first 'quest' of sorts involves *kobolds* being led by a cursed elf with gangrene who has fooled them through multiple displays as being draconic. His goal as he tells these kobolds is that he wishes to resurrect the ancient wyrm that lay long dead in their cave system. What they don't realize is that he's trying to assimilate his soul into this dragon's body via intermixing method 1 and method 3 in this video, while also imbibing a mix of the Lich potion and the Dracolich brew.
A certain dragonwrought kobold all-watcher has seemingly caught on, and has decided to instruct the ritualists of the clan to direct the dragon's soul into an unusually large gemstone that they have found very recently.
The nearby town is being raided for materials, as well as some people to use as sacrifice.
The idea is that the elf is a high enough wizard as to basically restrain the players once they show up via spells and many kobolds and the sort. Then, he eludes to his plans very briefly, and tells the players that they will be his first meal. How glad they should be to bear witness to this newfound way to acquire lichdom and become the greatest conqueror to live
The Dracolich portion of the rituals is incomplete, however. The wizard casts Magic Jar on the skeleton of the creature, and ends up succeeding - if only briefly - in possessing the corpse of this dragon. What he doesn't seem to realize is that the kobolds chanting their rituals were also strengthening the bond of the dragon's still lingering soul with the gemstone. This normally wouldn't allow the dragon to come back as a lich, you see. However, the foolish wizard that casted magic jar while imbibing these lichdom potions linked his very soul with the dragons. The dragon ends up easily overpowering the soul of this wizard and engulfs it into his own. The dracolich is a pseudo-dragon without the full portion of its soul. So it immediately animates in front of the party, looks at them without speaking, and eats the elf wizard that just fell unconscious in front of them. Then, while trying to figure things out ends up simply fleeing with the gem and kills most of the kobolds via the mass collapse of the cave system not being able to sustain that kind of movement. The players must escape - but I'll make it easyish for them to do that
So they now have an idea for an endgame boss that could possibly pop up if they get to epic levels. They probably won't go that long, but yeah. I figured it would be cool to make an overly complicated homebrew process for dracolichdom. Hope it works out
well done, sir! love your videos! as to the current monster manual not mentioning the dracolich's immunity to level 5 spells or lower, its just another example of the current writers "pussing down" many of the more dangerous monsters.
Got any art credit for the Devil with the red chalice? I've been looking for it but can't find the artist.
Where are those clips from? I love the tiamat rising from the well
I too want to know
They're from Neverwinter and World of Warcraft :)
@@mercedes6153 Shame Blizzard sold its soul to the Chinese government.
Love your lore videos from skyrim to dnd, make the sessions i play with my friends alot more fun when I know all the ins and outs of lore. I was also wondering if you're planning on doing a goliath video anytime in the future, as they're a race with little explored on them and lots of interesting lore. But that aside i hope you continue making videos for a long time and thank you for doing it
Came on autoplay. Took me a minute to realize this was D&D and not the new version of flat earthers
Just go write the runes in the stomach of a dragon then you’ll really be immortal...until the dragon dies that is but they live for thousands of year so you should be fine
Edit: and you could make the dragon a dracolich and then they would be immortal as well
First time Dm trying to make a dragon lich my BBEG and I need those other ingredients or cool ideas for ingredients to have adventures be made around any tips?
Every single dragon has a treasury. So probably the most valuable object in treasury would nice. Buckets of dragon blood. It has to come from the same type of dragon that the one who wants to be a dracolich. Powdered dragon eggshell.
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nice unexpected nod to Overlord at 17:53
3:18 What about boneclaws? Just curious.
We need more dragon's !
Having flashbacks to one DnD campaign, the final boss (we didn't know he was the final boss yet, and my character befriended him over time) made me a potion that bound my soul to the bottle, like how he had done to himself thousands of years ago. I needed red dragon scales, pheonix feathers, and shrooms from his long lost kingdom... Was hard as hell to do as a level 6 rogue, but got em done. Basically if I died my soul was cast into the bottle and I could possess anyone who smelled or inhaled my soul, the bottle itself had ruins on it making it artifact level durability.
The phylactery deal just really reminded me of the process, except I didn't die. My afterlife just became a bottle until I yoinked some other guy's meat suite. Basically his kingdom was built off necromancy and he was the royalties chief alchemist, so in that regard it makes sense now that I know all of this.
Eyeballing a Copper Dragonborn who is a mix of Conquest Paladin and Undead Warlock. His patron is a Dracolich and conquest is in a dragon's nature. I call him a Dread Knight and they have a wide mix of abilities that intimidate and inspire fear.
Given how awful so much of the afterlife is in DND, I suddenly got a lot more sympathy for villains seeking eternal life.
Hell, when you know that the obliteration of your eternal soul or eternal torture possibly awaits you, then all bets are off!
hi I'm a big fan and I was hoping if you could do some video's about gem dragon
I believe Spellfire was a Forgotten Realms novel and that was the first time I ever heard about Dracoliches. It was in the 90's, so I've never heard this story of creation.
Im very glad someone clarified that these dracolich's were not produced to be worshipped. Sammaster designed this process to weaponize only the most powerful specimens who after the process the potion of dragon control (ingredient of the potion for the process), and the amulet of the dragon were implemented. The dragon could later figure out it was under control, but helpless to do anything about it. Cult of the Dragon handbook original text supplies this info. Thank you for clarifying this.
10:55 Is that Durnehviir, the second best dragon in skyrim?
Yes it is
A proto-dracolitch sounds like a fun mentally insane PC to run.
I can just see a dragonborn or lizardfolk PC dying durimg an adventure with the party in a dungeon and by the time the rest of the party has finished the dungeon the dead PC is alive again and possessed by a dracolich soul from nearby, the PC keeps the gem on them at all times and is secretly going slowly yet surely insane by fighting the urge to eat the dragon's original body.
22:22 "it's only a matter of time until the soul has attacked sufficient control of it's new body" well I think you've just given me a long term underlying plot for my campaign that I can sprinkle in small hints that dont really anything until its basically too late
I had a situation once where i had a necromancer fighter-wizard who used magic Jar to possess a living body in order to free his sealed undead body and phylatery