My order of preference for dragons I use in my campaigns 1. Silver dragons 2. Gem dragons 3. Fairy dragons 4. Song dragons 5. Dracolich 6. Planar dragons 7. The rest of the Chromatics and Metallics 8. Undead or mutated dragons 9. Linnorms 10. Lung dragons 11. Drakes 12. Wyverns 13. Half dragons. 14. Spellscales
My Ranger/Rogues backstory from Tyranny of Dragons had a relationship (amicably parted ways years ago) w/ a Silver Dragon, though he didn't know that till she revealed her true form to him. That was fun twist my DM put in for me.
I am thinking the druid in my party is going to be a steel dragon. In her last life she was a cultist and found a secret path for Tiamet to come to the world. Her metallic dragon instincts kicked in overriding her personality and driving her crazy. She hid the secret and took on a new personality but the cult is after her. They don't know who she is but if her secret comes to light it could threaten the world. I've been talking with the player about it and she likes it.
I was recently reminded of the regional effect of Ancient Silver Dragons being a regional Feather Fall effect for non-evil creatures. Based on that I came up with a city that had a silver dragon lairing nearby or even in the city for more than a century. This city would have built their entire traversal system around it. I'm talking catapults, zip lines, gliders, anything that makes use of the Feather Fall effect. The city would also be very secure, not only because of the dragon itself, but because the effect wouldn't work on evil creatures. Based on the wording, that might not be exactly how it'd work, but I'm so enamored with the concept that I'd hand wave that as a DM.
that's actually a really cool idea, i believe the.. kerin???basically the celestial dog unicorn thing from volo's guide has the same featherfall effect, so if you wanted to make a celestial city you replace the dragon with the dog-unicorn thing....
@@general.catallion_8054 You're right, Kirin did have that. Completely forgot about that. I guess if a dragon would be too hard, I could go with a Celestial city. Maybe make it an Aasimar kingdom.
The Faerie Dragon has always been my "Avatar of the DM" whenever one is present my players know I'm about to break the 4th wall to make a joke, or drop some key info or trivia
I really love silver dragons too. Definitely my favourite (with green as a close second). I think the reason I love silver ones is because of their social nature and altruistic tendencies to live and work with the humanoid races. They are very much the archetypical "wise king", but as a dragon. Silver is a nice colour too, which doesn't hurt.
I first ran into Faerie Dragons in the 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual in the early 90s, but a little research shows they first appeared in Dragon Magazine #62(1982), they then apparently included it in AD&D Monster Manual II, and they have appeared in every edition since.
Thanks for the content! This begs for a follow-up video of your favorite dragons that haven't appeared yet in 5e. You mentioned several here, as a teaser, but it would be cool to see their art and hear a description of their stats, and how they might differ in 5e.
Another thing to note about the Dragon Turtle vs Dragon Tortoise is that they speak the languages of the elementals associated with their habitat on top of Draconic. Dragon Turtles speak Aquan and Dragon Tortoises speak Terran.
I have a friend who is running a Ghosts of Saltmarch game set in Faerun (Cormyr) but he has sprinkled through his own plot about the other dragons as a follow up to Rise of Tiamat which he ran. He put in references and sightings of a ‘Gold’ dragon that was actually a yellow dragon seen from a distance. The yellow dragon would appear from the water which would then cause it to shimmer in the sunlight causing everyone in the region to confuse it for gold. It’s pretty cool, the players have only just clocked on the it is actually a yellow dragon and not a gold.
I love the faerie dragon. Made a super fun encounter by teaming it up with a dryad. His breath made the party run in different directions and the dryad kept attacking while using treestride. Challenging yet not in the way the group expected.
My sad half-elf necromancer bard in my main campaign of almost two years (currently level 7) has for quite a while been planning to True Polymorph into an Adult Silver Dragon once he's able to cast the spell. I didn't know anything about any particular dragon when I started, and one day I stumbled over the Silver Dragon and realized just how much it has in common with my bard and his interests. Having been raised amongst elves, he was looking for a positive (aka "non-lich") way to extended his own life past the short human lifespan he inherited from his father. Turning himself permanently into a Silver Dragon that can also take humanoid form was the answer he came up with.
I know it may not be the most amazing or great dragon, but I really like the Chardalyn Dragon. Not only the design is pretty great for me, but the idea of a concentrated evil dragon that was made to simply destroy everything.
I think it's pretty neat plus its charm ability is a lot of fun and an interesting twist on Dragon Fear and it shoots a freakin laser beam Technically not a dragon though as it's a construct
My favorite dragon out of the metallic and chromatics is the blue dragon. Blue is close to my heart because of how much I've used them, loved to use their storm lair effect in the middle of a dessert and make the players feel really confused but interested, and then out of nowhere have a camel get chomped on mid-travel while they're on the way to somewhere else. Also when I think blue I think of speed, I always make my blue dragons the fastest of any dragon kind because of their storm and flight prowess. One of my players was also a blue dragon sorcerer, so I made a whole custom list based off of not only things that made sense with lightning, storms, wind, and speed, but also some old sorcerous or dragon/half-dragon type spells from older editions I picked up from AJ Pickett's video on dragon magic.
I would love to see Something like the 4e Draconomicon, with individual mapped dragon lairs you could just plop into your world wherever. I have loved the anthology adventures like GoS and CM. They make it really easy to use miscellaneous parts in home games.
My players have befriended a Moonstone dragon in my current campaign. One of the players even took a level of warlock with the dragon as it's patron. I have made Moonstone dragons a tie between a Astral dragon and druidic in nature, it's lair is a grove that is a crossover point to the fey land and it can create an astral projection of itself. It's been fun so far. I also have an Ice dragon which in my worlds lore is the ancient ancestor of the white dragon and much more powerful. Other than that for some reason I just love Black Dragons.
My next character will be a silver dragon playing as another character. The only time it will come up is if that secondary characters dies. Then the dragon will appear, help the party in that situation, say his goodbyes, then leave them to live another life as a different character. I only want the DM to know until it happens. It also may never come up if the secondary character never dies, and that’s what makes it cool.
I recall, I think a 2nd ed. book, the Draconomicon. In it there was chance that the offspring of two chromatic dragons would be a mixed dragon with the best set of stats in each category of the two parents, the special abilities and defenses of both parents; again taking the best if both had it, and their breath weapon was the combined of the two parents. So a blue + red mix would have a fire weapon that had lightning sparks flying out. This breath weapon could take the shape of either parent at the whim of the dragon. It's coloration and appearance was either a mix of both parents (so a white and black would be grey with white dragon and black dragon features mixed) or that of one parent in color but would be fully the other parent in appearance (so a red dragon in appearance but the blue scales of a blue dragon). They could breed with other dragons but were so rare the would never really create a new breed. I can't find that book in my collection any more but it was an interesting way to keep players guessing.
I have a connection to Bronze Dragons. 1) because my first ever character was a Bronze Dragonborn, and 2) because they're seafaring dragons who love looting sunken shipwrecks for treasure and mingling with sailors. I don't know, doing research on them just made me love them because they seem so easygoing, but also will fight for a noble cause. I want to sail and sing shanties with one
You mentioned an extended list that goes beyond dnd 5e official published content. I'd like to see some of this, especially your favorite homebrew content.
MCDM’s Book, *Strongholds and Followers* , is a tremendous tome of content including some of the best monsters I have ever seen in the game. If you want Gem Dragons, even a Gem Dragonborn. I highly recommend it.
I was worried the silver dragon wouldn't make it on the list, But I was hoping regardless because it's my favorite dragon by far. I'm particularly fond of its cloud magic and themes, as well as their unique interactions with humanoids and their generally different behavior from most metallic dragons.
Ah Steel Dragon didn't make the list. Those are my favorite. May have a interesting build using those Ambush Drakes. Gotta roll it around in my head for a bit. Tho. For fun. Dragon Tortoise. Half dragon "template" and a tortle. Presto. A new dragonborn.
In my setting my dragon category is expanded somewhat. I dont have metallics but I have more chromatics (dragons in my setting are neutral rather than good or evil since they are only worried about themselves) with thunder, psychic, etc. Then I also have a decent amount of monsters who have draconic heritage but are customized a bit more creatively than the "half dragon" trait. So a manticore rather than being a monstrosity is half dragon and half of a big cat species like a tiger, an inspiration being Teostra from monster hunter since I have a mini for that.
Back in High School, when I first played D&D with my friends; our DM introduced a creature race he called the Drakaines. According to him; they were a race that could read, write and even speak the Dragon tongue. After looking at the races NOW, years later; I discovered that the Dragonborn seem to possibly mate what my friend came up with. Are Drakaines from any edition of D&D
@@Shade400 you do realize what you said agrees with me correct, and the second half doesn't make sense. Better pick out the wheat from the chaff, i.e. better to have less quantity at a high quality "Than not having enough flour to make a load of bread" I.e. than not having enough content to make a campaign. So you're saying it's better to have less content that's higher quality, than to not have content for every campaign imaginable. Again doesn't make sense with the double negatives you've thrown in there.
@@evangregory14 that is literally the opposite of what I was saying, I'm saying it's better to have to look through an acceptable amount of content to find the truely good parts than to have so little content you struggle to use it. 3.5 has enough content that you can pick and choose what you like while 5e has so little you barely have a choice, and even still some of the choices I'm 5e are just bad.
As someone newish to d&d gem dragons and other chromatic and matalic are confusing when I can't remember much of the ones they give that in my home brew the shine of their scales will show how good or evil they are that gem dragons would just be good versions of chromatic dragons (I.e. green = emerald, sapphire = blue, black = obsidian)
Blue dragon: *smart and tactical *lightning is cooler than fire *still evil but not maniacal *only chromatic capable of really giving a red a run for it’s money What’s not to like?
One of last Boss in our campaign was a Shadow Blue Dragon. He was not the BBEG but more like a bonus Boss after the final boss. When he was an adult Blue Dragon he got trapped in Shadowfell and transformed into a Shadow Dragon after who know how long. Then he finally escaped from Shadowfell only to realized that was he already gone for 2000 years and his mate/wife already died due to old age. He then tried to resurrection her via Wish spell for who know how many time but all of them fail miserably and now he can't use Wish anymore. The effect of his failed Wish was the cause of some conflict in our campaign. One of the fail attempt end up resurrect a legendary heroic figure from the past as a baby whose name bear same meaning as his wife, and the baby later end up being our Ranger.
Don't really have a favourite 5e dragon, honestly. For older editions, I miss seeing the topaz and time dragons. I would love to see those brought in. If we're talking about villainous types, I want the brainstealer dragon.
Oof dragon turtle/tortoise both are cr 17? Seems to me smart pcs of lower lvl could easily take one. No fly speed and slow movement. They're walking exp bags lol.
As someone who attends GAMA (the game manufacturers association), I can say there ARE dragons coming, but I am bound by secrecy on their colors. I won't break the NDA because I will not lose my distributor agreements because I made a vendor mad.
I once pc'd in a game where the party went up against a shadow dracolich! It was crazy breath weapon was mixed between the two. Bone shards and anyone who died in it came back as an undead lol😎
Just bring them back using third party and homebrew, invent more as well! Also add spellcasting back onto most of the metallic and chromatic they are WAY too weak and boring as printed for 5e!
Most dragons in lore aren't spellcasters. It makes more sense for the spell casting to be optional. Simply because you think they're boring doesn't mean you just throw stuff into their stats to make them needlessly complicated, and yes if you're playing dragons like idiots that get into melee when they have wings they'll be "weak" but if the dragon plays intelligently then you should have no problem presenting a challenge to the party.
@@evangregory14 go back to 3.5 and you will find most dragons have spells. As ‘spell like abilities’! Which were the same as spells but harder to counter and didn’t require the components! So for 5e they would translate to... Spells! Particularly ‘true dragons’. And it has always been encouraged to add spellcasting to dragons. Looking at the Draconomicon from 3.5 it is FULL of dragon spells and spells for dragons based on age. As well as MANY additional dragons both ‘true’ and lesser. ALL of the more powerful ones have spells! For one example; howling dragon abilities by age; Wyrmling; immunity to sonic Very young; Shatter and Sound burst (spell like abilities), Young; Damage reduction/5 magic, Juvenile; Gust of wind and Tashas hideous laughter (spell like abilities again!), young adult ; damage reduction; 10/magic, Adult; Confusion, wind wall (2 more spells!), Mature adult age; damage reduction 15/magic, Old;Phantasmal killer and Shout (spells to add to the aging dragons roster!), Very Old; damage reduction 20/magic and 5/Law. Ancient; Insanity and Whirlwind (spells), Wyrm age; damage reduction law increases to 10. And finally the eldest age; Great Wyrm; two final spells added; Symbol of insanity and Weird! And there is also whole rules for adding MORE spellcasting and adventurer Classes onto ANY dragon! And new dragon spells. For players using dragon themed subclasses.... AND for dragons themselves 26 spells added to all the other sourcebook spells including ones that ONLY work for dragons or people who have otherwise gained dragon powers such as (but not limited too) ; Animate Breath; a spell that animated a dragons breath weapon! Ethereal breath; which as it states; modifies your own breath weapon to manifest on the ethereal plane... etc. Even in the 3.5 Monster Manuel before you get to the special ‘book of dragons’ a Great Wyrm Silver dragon has the following Spell like abilities (better than spells as I noted but translating to 5e would become spells simply cast without components) 3/day Fogcloud, and Control winds, 2/day; featherfall. 1/day; Control weather and Reverse Gravity! I could go on and on! What are you talking about!? I was referring to bringing back what was lost from 3.5! Let me be clear using older editions is a fantastic option to spice up 5e! Look into 3.5 it’s full of great stuff! And it’s not ‘needlessly complicated’ it’s making dragons actually epic, powerful and legendary!
"I don't know why I like silver dragons." The phrase you're looking for, sir, is that you have good taste.
My order of preference for dragons I use in my campaigns 1. Silver dragons 2. Gem dragons 3. Fairy dragons 4. Song dragons 5. Dracolich 6. Planar dragons 7. The rest of the Chromatics and Metallics 8. Undead or mutated dragons 9. Linnorms 10. Lung dragons 11. Drakes 12. Wyverns 13. Half dragons. 14. Spellscales
Silver are the best!
I like your videos on dragons
Nice crossover guys
Which one of your video(s) do lung and song dragons appear on ? They are new to me
deep dragons count as chromatic? i cant remember
Lol I love that silver dragons is it's own category while every other thing you listed is a whole category of dragons like gem, wyvern dracolich lol.
Silver dragons and their tendency to be in human form makes them great librarians, and steel dragons are just interesting as hell haha
I love steel dragons.. they're just so weird
My Ranger/Rogues backstory from Tyranny of Dragons had a relationship (amicably parted ways years ago) w/ a Silver Dragon, though he didn't know that till she revealed her true form to him. That was fun twist my DM put in for me.
I am thinking the druid in my party is going to be a steel dragon. In her last life she was a cultist and found a secret path for Tiamet to come to the world. Her metallic dragon instincts kicked in overriding her personality and driving her crazy. She hid the secret and took on a new personality but the cult is after her. They don't know who she is but if her secret comes to light it could threaten the world. I've been talking with the player about it and she likes it.
Ah steel dragons my favs
I was recently reminded of the regional effect of Ancient Silver Dragons being a regional Feather Fall effect for non-evil creatures. Based on that I came up with a city that had a silver dragon lairing nearby or even in the city for more than a century. This city would have built their entire traversal system around it. I'm talking catapults, zip lines, gliders, anything that makes use of the Feather Fall effect. The city would also be very secure, not only because of the dragon itself, but because the effect wouldn't work on evil creatures.
Based on the wording, that might not be exactly how it'd work, but I'm so enamored with the concept that I'd hand wave that as a DM.
that's actually a really cool idea, i believe the.. kerin???basically the celestial dog unicorn thing from volo's guide has the same featherfall effect, so if you wanted to make a celestial city you replace the dragon with the dog-unicorn thing....
@@general.catallion_8054 You're right, Kirin did have that. Completely forgot about that. I guess if a dragon would be too hard, I could go with a Celestial city. Maybe make it an Aasimar kingdom.
The Faerie Dragon has always been my "Avatar of the DM" whenever one is present my players know I'm about to break the 4th wall to make a joke, or drop some key info or trivia
I really love silver dragons too. Definitely my favourite (with green as a close second). I think the reason I love silver ones is because of their social nature and altruistic tendencies to live and work with the humanoid races. They are very much the archetypical "wise king", but as a dragon. Silver is a nice colour too, which doesn't hurt.
Actually a top 10 list of the named dragons would be pretty neat
I first ran into Faerie Dragons in the 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual in the early 90s, but a little research shows they first appeared in Dragon Magazine #62(1982), they then apparently included it in AD&D Monster Manual II, and they have appeared in every edition since.
You are correct sir or madam.
Thanks for the content! This begs for a follow-up video of your favorite dragons that haven't appeared yet in 5e. You mentioned several here, as a teaser, but it would be cool to see their art and hear a description of their stats, and how they might differ in 5e.
Another thing to note about the Dragon Turtle vs Dragon Tortoise is that they speak the languages of the elementals associated with their habitat on top of Draconic. Dragon Turtles speak Aquan and Dragon Tortoises speak Terran.
I hope they bring back other dragons from older editions like yellow, orange and grey for chromatic and iron and steel or metallic
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I have a friend who is running a Ghosts of Saltmarch game set in Faerun (Cormyr) but he has sprinkled through his own plot about the other dragons as a follow up to Rise of Tiamat which he ran. He put in references and sightings of a ‘Gold’ dragon that was actually a yellow dragon seen from a distance. The yellow dragon would appear from the water which would then cause it to shimmer in the sunlight causing everyone in the region to confuse it for gold. It’s pretty cool, the players have only just clocked on the it is actually a yellow dragon and not a gold.
I really miss the Gem Dragons .... and psionics for that matter
@@albertomalavassiviales3452 me too
Silver Dragons have been my favorite since 2e was still publishing new books.
I love the faerie dragon.
Made a super fun encounter by teaming it up with a dryad.
His breath made the party run in different directions and the dryad kept attacking while using treestride.
Challenging yet not in the way the group expected.
My sad half-elf necromancer bard in my main campaign of almost two years (currently level 7) has for quite a while been planning to True Polymorph into an Adult Silver Dragon once he's able to cast the spell. I didn't know anything about any particular dragon when I started, and one day I stumbled over the Silver Dragon and realized just how much it has in common with my bard and his interests. Having been raised amongst elves, he was looking for a positive (aka "non-lich") way to extended his own life past the short human lifespan he inherited from his father. Turning himself permanently into a Silver Dragon that can also take humanoid form was the answer he came up with.
I also like silver dragons in 5e, but from older editions, I liked the Ferrous dragons.
I'd like to see a part 2 and include the dragons from Tome of Beasts..
Silver dragons are definitely my favourite. I've also read about Steel dragons and they sound awesome as well!
I know it may not be the most amazing or great dragon, but I really like the Chardalyn Dragon. Not only the design is pretty great for me, but the idea of a concentrated evil dragon that was made to simply destroy everything.
I think it's pretty neat plus its charm ability is a lot of fun and an interesting twist on Dragon Fear and it shoots a freakin laser beam
Technically not a dragon though as it's a construct
@@1faraday That's true. Sometime I forget that it's a construct. xD
Maybe it will appear on the Top X Constructs. :P
My favorite dragon out of the metallic and chromatics is the blue dragon. Blue is close to my heart because of how much I've used them, loved to use their storm lair effect in the middle of a dessert and make the players feel really confused but interested, and then out of nowhere have a camel get chomped on mid-travel while they're on the way to somewhere else. Also when I think blue I think of speed, I always make my blue dragons the fastest of any dragon kind because of their storm and flight prowess. One of my players was also a blue dragon sorcerer, so I made a whole custom list based off of not only things that made sense with lightning, storms, wind, and speed, but also some old sorcerous or dragon/half-dragon type spells from older editions I picked up from AJ Pickett's video on dragon magic.
Ted you should definitely do a video on older dragons. Give us home brewers some ideas for how to stretch our dragons fangs.
Niv Mizzet is my favourite dragon, it's been fun to play with him in my Ravnica campaign but it's fair that named dragons aren't on this list
I would love to see Something like the 4e Draconomicon, with individual mapped dragon lairs you could just plop into your world wherever. I have loved the anthology adventures like GoS and CM. They make it really easy to use miscellaneous parts in home games.
My players have befriended a Moonstone dragon in my current campaign. One of the players even took a level of warlock with the dragon as it's patron. I have made Moonstone dragons a tie between a Astral dragon and druidic in nature, it's lair is a grove that is a crossover point to the fey land and it can create an astral projection of itself. It's been fun so far. I also have an Ice dragon which in my worlds lore is the ancient ancestor of the white dragon and much more powerful. Other than that for some reason I just love Black Dragons.
My next character will be a silver dragon playing as another character. The only time it will come up is if that secondary characters dies. Then the dragon will appear, help the party in that situation, say his goodbyes, then leave them to live another life as a different character. I only want the DM to know until it happens. It also may never come up if the secondary character never dies, and that’s what makes it cool.
I recall, I think a 2nd ed. book, the Draconomicon. In it there was chance that the offspring of two chromatic dragons would be a mixed dragon with the best set of stats in each category of the two parents, the special abilities and defenses of both parents; again taking the best if both had it, and their breath weapon was the combined of the two parents. So a blue + red mix would have a fire weapon that had lightning sparks flying out. This breath weapon could take the shape of either parent at the whim of the dragon.
It's coloration and appearance was either a mix of both parents (so a white and black would be grey with white dragon and black dragon features mixed) or that of one parent in color but would be fully the other parent in appearance (so a red dragon in appearance but the blue scales of a blue dragon). They could breed with other dragons but were so rare the would never really create a new breed.
I can't find that book in my collection any more but it was an interesting way to keep players guessing.
I have a connection to Bronze Dragons. 1) because my first ever character was a Bronze Dragonborn, and 2) because they're seafaring dragons who love looting sunken shipwrecks for treasure and mingling with sailors. I don't know, doing research on them just made me love them because they seem so easygoing, but also will fight for a noble cause. I want to sail and sing shanties with one
What about the fang dragon, from 3.5? Would so love a update for it
You mentioned an extended list that goes beyond dnd 5e official published content. I'd like to see some of this, especially your favorite homebrew content.
MCDM’s Book, *Strongholds and Followers* , is a tremendous tome of content including some of the best monsters I have ever seen in the game.
If you want Gem Dragons, even a Gem Dragonborn. I highly recommend it.
I was worried the silver dragon wouldn't make it on the list, But I was hoping regardless because it's my favorite dragon by far. I'm particularly fond of its cloud magic and themes, as well as their unique interactions with humanoids and their generally different behavior from most metallic dragons.
Ah Steel Dragon didn't make the list. Those are my favorite.
May have a interesting build using those Ambush Drakes. Gotta roll it around in my head for a bit.
Tho. For fun. Dragon Tortoise.
Half dragon "template" and a tortle. Presto. A new dragonborn.
I hope brainstealer dragons show up in 5e sometime
In my setting my dragon category is expanded somewhat. I dont have metallics but I have more chromatics (dragons in my setting are neutral rather than good or evil since they are only worried about themselves) with thunder, psychic, etc. Then I also have a decent amount of monsters who have draconic heritage but are customized a bit more creatively than the "half dragon" trait. So a manticore rather than being a monstrosity is half dragon and half of a big cat species like a tiger, an inspiration being Teostra from monster hunter since I have a mini for that.
I miss the old Planar Dragons from earlier editions. I have fond memories of running a Fang Dragon encounter in 3.5 that caught my players off guard.
I have always been a fan of Copper Dragons.
Thanks Ted
My 5 favorite Dragons (not 5e specific)
Deep (purple) Dragons
Shadow Dragons (not Dragon Shadows)
Green Dragons
Copper Dragons
Hellfire Wyrms
Back in High School, when I first played D&D with my friends; our DM introduced a creature race he called the Drakaines. According to him; they were a race that could read, write and even speak the Dragon tongue.
After looking at the races NOW, years later; I discovered that the Dragonborn seem to possibly mate what my friend came up with. Are Drakaines from any edition of D&D
I really want an ancient silver dragon mini
I absolutely adore silver dragons
Steele dragons. I love Steele dragons.
Nice list
I like the idea of steel from 3.5(?)
Oh yes, more dragons \o/ Maybe named dragons next?
So you mean that in a game were dragon's take half of the name there aren't enough dragons to make a top ten? Wizaaaaaards....
This is why I don't like 5e. It's had half a decade but I can get more content from the 3.5 core books than everything ever published I'm 5e
@@Shade400 sure but half the content given in 3.5 is unplayable trash
@@evangregory14 better picking out the weat from the chaff than not having enough flour to make a loaf of bread
@@Shade400 you do realize what you said agrees with me correct, and the second half doesn't make sense. Better pick out the wheat from the chaff, i.e. better to have less quantity at a high quality
"Than not having enough flour to make a load of bread"
I.e. than not having enough content to make a campaign.
So you're saying it's better to have less content that's higher quality, than to not have content for every campaign imaginable. Again doesn't make sense with the double negatives you've thrown in there.
@@evangregory14 that is literally the opposite of what I was saying, I'm saying it's better to have to look through an acceptable amount of content to find the truely good parts than to have so little content you struggle to use it. 3.5 has enough content that you can pick and choose what you like while 5e has so little you barely have a choice, and even still some of the choices I'm 5e are just bad.
As someone newish to d&d gem dragons and other chromatic and matalic are confusing when I can't remember much of the ones they give that in my home brew the shine of their scales will show how good or evil they are that gem dragons would just be good versions of chromatic dragons (I.e. green = emerald, sapphire = blue, black = obsidian)
Silver dragons will always be my fav because they are huge weebs
blue Dragons all the way
Blue dragon:
*smart and tactical
*lightning is cooler than fire
*still evil but not maniacal
*only chromatic capable of really giving a red a run for it’s money
What’s not to like?
One of last Boss in our campaign was a Shadow Blue Dragon. He was not the BBEG but more like a bonus Boss after the final boss. When he was an adult Blue Dragon he got trapped in Shadowfell and transformed into a Shadow Dragon after who know how long. Then he finally escaped from Shadowfell only to realized that was he already gone for 2000 years and his mate/wife already died due to old age. He then tried to resurrection her via Wish spell for who know how many time but all of them fail miserably and now he can't use Wish anymore. The effect of his failed Wish was the cause of some conflict in our campaign. One of the fail attempt end up resurrect a legendary heroic figure from the past as a baby whose name bear same meaning as his wife, and the baby later end up being our Ranger.
I do like brass dragons as the gossip so I made one have a library (even made a subreddit where I organize d&d video playlists r/BrassDragonsLibrary)
you know, for whatever reason i keep on thinking that fairy dragons can be familiars, probably cause it's similarities to psuedodragons but still...
The Drake is good.
Don't really have a favourite 5e dragon, honestly. For older editions, I miss seeing the topaz and time dragons. I would love to see those brought in. If we're talking about villainous types, I want the brainstealer dragon.
Oof dragon turtle/tortoise both are cr 17? Seems to me smart pcs of lower lvl could easily take one.
No fly speed and slow movement. They're walking exp bags lol.
Favorite Dragon? That's easy! Platinum Dragon.
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For a game called Dungeons and Dragons, there sure aren't that many Dragons
Right?
Paper dragons!
Dude, steel dragons from older editions but in 5e silver dragons
As someone who attends GAMA (the game manufacturers association), I can say there ARE dragons coming, but I am bound by secrecy on their colors. I won't break the NDA because I will not lose my distributor agreements because I made a vendor mad.
Chainlock is fine with the investment of the Chain Master
Dragon Tortoise is silly. Just use Dragon Turtle! 🙄
One's land based, hence the difference between their languages and breath weapons.
I once pc'd in a game where the party went up against a shadow dracolich! It was crazy breath weapon was mixed between the two. Bone shards and anyone who died in it came back as an undead lol😎
Human Bard: Silver dragons really like humans? Do tell...
Blue is best. Enough said.
No wyvern.
Riot.
Surprised to see nothing from Tome of Beasts I & II, or Creature Codex…
Well they're not 1st party, that's a whole separate qualifier
Just bring them back using third party and homebrew, invent more as well! Also add spellcasting back onto most of the metallic and chromatic they are WAY too weak and boring as printed for 5e!
Most dragons in lore aren't spellcasters. It makes more sense for the spell casting to be optional. Simply because you think they're boring doesn't mean you just throw stuff into their stats to make them needlessly complicated, and yes if you're playing dragons like idiots that get into melee when they have wings they'll be "weak" but if the dragon plays intelligently then you should have no problem presenting a challenge to the party.
@@evangregory14 go back to 3.5 and you will find most dragons have spells. As ‘spell like abilities’! Which were the same as spells but harder to counter and didn’t require the components! So for 5e they would translate to... Spells! Particularly ‘true dragons’. And it has always been encouraged to add spellcasting to dragons. Looking at the Draconomicon from 3.5 it is FULL of dragon spells and spells for dragons based on age. As well as MANY additional dragons both ‘true’ and lesser. ALL of the more powerful ones have spells! For one example; howling dragon abilities by age; Wyrmling; immunity to sonic Very young; Shatter and Sound burst (spell like abilities), Young; Damage reduction/5 magic, Juvenile; Gust of wind and Tashas hideous laughter (spell like abilities again!), young adult ; damage reduction; 10/magic, Adult; Confusion, wind wall (2 more spells!), Mature adult age; damage reduction 15/magic, Old;Phantasmal killer and Shout (spells to add to the aging dragons roster!), Very Old; damage reduction 20/magic and 5/Law. Ancient; Insanity and Whirlwind (spells), Wyrm age; damage reduction law increases to 10. And finally the eldest age; Great Wyrm; two final spells added; Symbol of insanity and Weird!
And there is also whole rules for adding MORE spellcasting and adventurer Classes onto ANY dragon!
And new dragon spells. For players using dragon themed subclasses.... AND for dragons themselves 26 spells added to all the other sourcebook spells including ones that ONLY work for dragons or people who have otherwise gained dragon powers such as (but not limited too) ; Animate Breath; a spell that animated a dragons breath weapon! Ethereal breath; which as it states; modifies your own breath weapon to manifest on the ethereal plane... etc.
Even in the 3.5 Monster Manuel before you get to the special ‘book of dragons’ a Great Wyrm Silver dragon has the following Spell like abilities (better than spells as I noted but translating to 5e would become spells simply cast without components) 3/day Fogcloud, and Control winds, 2/day; featherfall. 1/day; Control weather and Reverse Gravity!
I could go on and on!
What are you talking about!? I was referring to bringing back what was lost from 3.5!
Let me be clear using older editions is a fantastic option to spice up 5e!
Look into 3.5 it’s full of great stuff!
And it’s not ‘needlessly complicated’ it’s making dragons actually epic, powerful and legendary!