I like the idea that the scroll, even if read, makes no sense as a joke without the proper context of the events thousands of years ago. So the players read, “The long wind bellows through the canyon of the mountainfolk,” and don’t realize until they deliver it to the dragon, who bursts out laughing, that it’s an ancient elven joke about farting Dwarves.
I love the idea that, since Metallic and Chromatic dragons are instinctively against each other, the Pink Dragons initiate prank wars against Copper Dragons, or have joke competitions between each other. While all other dragons of their kinds go for each other’s throats, they instead go for each other’s wits. Sure, Pink Dragons are not evil, but the Chromatic-Metallic rivalry continues. I like to think that some even overcome their base instinct and become witty comedian couples.
I like to imagen it's the dragons anniversury and they celebrate it with a prank war and they'er using the PC to out prank their partner. Feels like it could be a nice side quest.
@@ChucktheSpicyChickenI love the idea that a joke between the two is that they never hint that they’re together to the party. They act like it’s a serious political matter and they’re nemeses trying to shame each other, but the whole time they have been using Sending stones, laughing about it all
Imagin if you will. The parties wizard patron is so flustered at a practical joke that they fly into a peak of rage and storm out of there tower off to confront this pink menace. With great seriousness uses there voice to cast a mighty spell that requires concentration. The pink dragon...... Uses good impression but.... Chants the spell in an accent so funny or disjointed with reality that while it succeeds in casting the spell it also has the effect of ending the party patron's concentration. Because, to they are laughing so hard or they blacked out because they became so angry at being mocked.
It would be even more hillarious, to find this creature in a dark room not knowing what a pink dragon is, because you can't see colours in the dark. So they would see this dragon creature and it would wake up, only to tell some jokes and when they light a torch to see it's bright pink to everyone's confusion.
Reminds me of the singing crocodile from all dogs go to heaven. Charlie thinks he is screwed, but the gator Loves his howling voice so much that he instead reveals that hr just loves to sing, and then saves charlie and his friends while singing
I can see Pink Dragons actually hoarding not only jokes, but comedians. Maybe not even 'hoard' but just sometimes show up to hang out and have a good old fashioned back and forth of material.
joke books, prank toys and objects meant for jokes and pranks, such as magical joy buzzers, glow sticks, party and fun stuff. thats what I'd expect it, because honestly, I feel like it'd be a dragon as well not only of laughs and jokes, but possible good times. I mean, funny shit ALWAYS happens a majority of the time from good times right?
One of the reasons why I love the pink dragon is that even though its a joke monster it doesn't double down on the joke aspect Its like watching a serious movie that has a brief light-hearted moment before getting back to seriousness Imagine a Pink dragon kidnapping people with the promise that if one day they tell a good joke that the dragon didn't know about, they are free
Brass Dragons often kidnap people they meet if they find that they give an interesting enough conversation, stories told, and other similar things. Though that’s usually very temporary(they are chaotic good usually after all). Where as Pink Dragons are a bit more selfish with their wants lol
The party quests to an ancient destroyed city with an undead infestation. After days of fighting and searching they find an ancient scroll in a forgotten language. The wizard curses himself, having chosen to learn them the normal way, as he believed it was both lazy and a waste of power to cast comprehend language. The journey back to the grand wizard is long and arduous, taking weeks. Upon receiving the scroll the wizard opens it with a flourish, reads it, and bursts into laughter. Her elvish form begins to expand, before turning into the form of a great dragon the color of cherry blossoms. The wizard stammers "what does it say?" She replies simply "you wouldn't understand." Before mumbling between chuckles "the dog opens its eyes. How could I have forgotten?"
I like the idea that the pink dragon has come up with a really good but highly specific standup routine. so they’re sending the party on a quest just so they’ll understand all of the jokes when they get back
The endless possibilities of putting a grey jester with the pink dragon are so much fun. The party's could run into a dragon whose goal is to make a grey jester laugh.
But what the Pink Dragon doesn’t know is that the Grey Jester is actually siphoning their happiness, until the party tells the dragon of the true nature of the Jester after most of their happiness is gone leading the dragon to get really mad and scare the Grey Jester away, then the party uses Greater Restoration on the dragon and their returned to their jokester self.
Man... In my campaign there's an ancient copper dragon who posed as Acererak, built a parody of the Tomb of Horrors where the traps are funny instead of deadly, and founded a secret society of bards just to watch adventurers struggle and get frustrated with the tomb like a TV show. How I wish I made Kristen The Buffoon a pink dragon instead... Maybe I could give her a pink dragon friend tho... 👀
You could easily make pink and copper dragons rivals, or turn it into prankception: A notorious blue dragon hires the adventurer party to stop a group of copper dragons who have been foiling his plans and pranking him, but the real prank is on the copper dragons who are being framed by a pink dragon, etc.
Idea for a plotline involving a pink dragon: - The party is in a tavern or other meeting place, asking for a lead on an artifact or something that can defeat the BBEG. - A polymorphed pink dragon approaches them. - The dragon promises to tell them where to find the artifact, but they must first recover a small, 20-sided gemstone from a distant dungeon. - The directions to the dungeon have the party running around in circles for an hour, turns out it was actually just outside the town they were in but on the other side of the town from the gate they left. - The dungeon turns out to be Ruinsmith's "Most Annoying Dungeon Ever". - The gemstone is one of the D20s from the table where the skeletons are playing a TTRPG where only the GM rolls dice. - When the party returns, either covered in dirt (from digging out of the entrance after passing backwards through the wall of force), genderbent (from rolling 20 on another D20 at the table) or covered in scorch marks (from escaping the Nine Hells), the dragon is still in the tavern but is no longer polymorphed and takes up half the space inside the tavern. Everyone in the tavern laughs at the party as they enter the door. - Turns out the dragon told everyone about the huge prank they pulled on you while you were away. - They can honor their promise or not, it's up to you. I feel it would be better if the dragon did honor their promise since that fits more with their whole good-natured comedy thing, but you could make them particularly nasty and not uphold the promise.
@@mathdarven5634 "So you told us you will tell everything about the Staff of Evergloom." "That I did." "..." "..." "So? Where is it? How do we get it?" "Well, I know *nothing* about it!" *Tavern burst out in laughter* "Thank you, thank you, I'll be here next week, same time, different jokes! If you manage to defeat Arcrax the Bloody. It'd be a *bloody* shame if you didn't. My gloom would be *eternal*"
@@balazszsigmond826 an hour later the police respond to sounds of distress reported coming from the house, and find the DM, who was promptly lynched by their players
or perhaps the "artifact" is told to be some stone of great power,but in actuality its just a regular rock that the pink dragon put there themselves....only when the party returns did the pink dragon say they sent them on that "quest" just to screw with them...and was scrying them the whole time as everyone in the tavern was watching(and laughing) at the party going to hell and back for a wild goose chase.
Dragons are old. They would care about their reputation, particularly if they have a human audience. So yes., they would honour their promise - but perhaps in a way that provides an additional opportunity to prank the party
Hmm, perhaps there can be a lore reason why this one is different. Like a mischief or trickster fey stole some Dragon eggs by replacing them with the eggs of another creature, and raised the dragons and they ended up becoming Pink Dragons due to Feywild weirdness and become the Fey's emissaries/vassals.
In my home brew Japanese fantasy setting, i have a Bloom Dragon that's also supposed to be pink in color. Maybe I take some of the characteristics from this. Thanks!
Does the pink dragon count as chromatic? Because if so it can be used as a replacement head for one of Tiamat’s 5 heads… do with that information what you want
The Dragon sends you on an epic journey to retrieve a Bag of Holding that contains endless treasure, when the party finally find the bag it's a Bag of Devouring, discussed as a Bag of Holding. The dragon will either laugh hysterically or be very disappointed depending on how many party members are left when they return with the bag
It’s Mitzune! It’s a pink monster that blows soapy bubbles that make your character slip around, and it uses it to slide around very quickly itself. It can also do a beam attack of soapy water.
I can see infinite potential for the interactions of Pink Dragons and Grey Jesters. Like, would they hate each other? be friendly peers? Do the players get roped into being the judges for a comedy competition and have to fight the losing participant to the death? So many straight AND silly possibilities.
I love the idea of a disguised pink dragon sending the party to 'fix' the problem of a Gray Jester in the dragon's favored town because the dragon doesn't want to risk the wrath of the Unseelie Court personally. Really forces the players to dig deeper to avoid that outcome and still get a reward from the dragon for handling things (by negotiating with the jester or finding a way to remove it without killing it, perhaps).
I love the idea of a character that is a pink dragon but forgot that they were a pink dragon while they were polymorphed.And the only remnant of them being one is occasionally puking out bubbles.
As to the bubble breath I quickly thought of the Mizutsune from Monster Hunter, a pink fox creature that is notably intelligent and quite a fan favorite
I definitely love the idea of a more chaotic, but leans on lighthearted side of dragons especially on the chromatic side. I think Pink Dragons would have an interesting relationship with Copper Dragons in the D&D universe, since they share a similar M.O they would definitely get along but engage in decades long prank wars or get into long roasting sessions, just to name a few interactions. Pinks will definitely be in my games once i get going on DM'ing.
@@DungeonDad Doing some world building and this dragon fits especially if adding in feywild bits to say why it's so different. But the kicker is there are a fair amount of metallic dragons. Even a copper dragon mafia. Add in a wondering rare pink dragon and it being itself and maybe two others.... Perhaps. They have to go over the top to compete with copper dragons. Funny enough some copper dragons are known for being theives ( you weren't doing anything with it). Pinks are known for practical jokes.... Getting into a copper dragons hoard and returning stolen items would be a "prank" for the ages.
If a pink dragon sends the party after a "stolen" item from a copper dragon to give it back.... Or a copper dragon sends the party after a pink because they stole from it's hoard. The thing is either way. They each leave a calling card. A joke page, funny trap, hidden funny message. Usually this is fun among freinds. Perhaps a wealthy patron who knows about the practice even pays the pink dragon to go play pranks on other dragons.
Or maybe "pink" dragons are just copper dragons in disguise, pulling the ultimate prank on the genuine chromatic dragons by making them *think* they're related to a breed of wiseass weirdos. Oh, the humiliation...! ;-)
"A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one!'" ... "No appreciation for good humour. That joke's gold in the Untheric Empire!"
DM: "You've reached the final scroll past the dungeons of doom, the 1000 traps of death, and the hordes of the great monster Melchior. The scroll sits on a pedestal. what do you do?" Players: "I open and read the scroll." DM: "It says..... "10 points to Gryffindor"
One of us! Btw, my idea for this is to have the joke retrieved not understandable even with comprehend languages. The one I'd use is an ancient one. "A dog walked into a bar. It couldn't see. It opened it's eyes." Even though we translated it, it sounds like a shitpost, so no one understands it.
I would LOVE to see a rise in pink dragon popularity! I am planning on rolling up a pink dragonborn for an upcoming pirate campaign. I'm thinking swashbuckler/glamor bard.
I can imagine your party going to a Dragon Lair that they’ve been told about and stumble upon a comedy club, with the dragon on the stage telling jokes to an empty audience or Kobolds.
Bubble breath attack that also has a chance to encase an enemy of large or smaller size if they fail. Can entrap people and tell them jokes or promise to release them till after they are amused.
Just saw the ridgeback at 4:40 looks like it has the Iridescent gene for the wings! I'll be updating with what genes I can spot on the Flight Rising dragons shown throughout! (also hi a Shadowling here) Flight Rising dragons seen throughout: Female Ridgeback Female Imperial x2
Already have a plot hook running through my head. Pink dragon, disguised as a bard of sorts. Traveling from tavern to tavern, doing routines. Party must try to protect her (and anyone who doesn't laugh at her jokes) without her realizing, in order to not hurt her pride. All due to the fact that she's the last of her kind and currently being hunted by some manner of poacher or adventurer.
The April issues gave us so many wonderful treats, like the chocolate golem. Way cheaper and easier to make than any other golem, but, no real utility in combat; they tended to be filed with candy and created to be destroyed at a party as a hollow chocolate pinata filled with candy.
I can imagine a pink dragon as the hybrid between a red dragon and a white dragon An incredibly violent neurotic chromatic dragon with an inferiority complex, steming from its comparatively weaker magic. Also you could make the bubbles a container, drop a bubble in a crowd and have it burst into a long lasting smokescreen. Or fill with flammable gas to make traps.
OH MAN. Imagine it just keeping an entire town "hostage". Like, they hold some kind of ritual and it is heavily eluded to that once a month a bunch of people are sacrificed to a dragon that lives in the mountain for protection, but the "sacrifice" is actually just a bunch of people who have to go sit through a comedy routine and laugh really hard so the dragon stays happy.
My all-time favorite monster is the Susurrus (that's the proper spelling)- it's first appearance (that I know of) was the 1E Fiend Folio. They're big headless ape-like aberrations made out of crystalline honeycomb tunnels (aka a Trypophobia NIGHTMARE). They're so bizarre- they eat air, hate fire, and their bodies produce a droning noise that makes all Undead pacified and immobile, no save. I think they're perfect Aberrations, because they just exist, unapologetically, without adhering to the laws or expectations of our known reality. I hope you'll cover this unappreciated gem!
See, now I’d like a pink dragon to send the party on a dangerous quest to acquire the ancient enchanted scroll of Ricardo Astlani, a powerful bard of old. He could frustrate millions, and his deception was so legendary that even the greatest of foes would be brought to tears by his song.
And on the Scroll it is written: "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling/Gotta make you understand/Never gonna give you up/Never gonna let you down/Never gonna run around and/Desert you/Never gonna make you cry/Never gonna say goodbye/Never gonna tell a lie and/Hurt you" haha I love it!
New to your channel, but I'm loving all the content. This Pink Dragon sounds amazing to have as even just a set piece in some city. Maybe a city with the foremost bardic college in it is home to a Pink Dragon, maybe even a professor of comedy in the college who takes advantage of all the new blood coming in and out to collect new jokes. As for a suggestion, a pathfinder creature (as I've GMed Pathfinder for a while). The Ankou, is a powerful fey assassin that frankly looks more like a demon. And acts more like a demon than most fey. If the party gets one coming after them... Well, it's not going to be a fun time.
Oh sweet! This is wicked! Love the idea of the party meeting a dragon in a canyon and expecting a fight to pass through, only for the pink dragon to invite them in and show off its comedic routine since it hasnt had visitors in a while! Rad video as always, love the editing!
in my homebrew campaign setting there is a bard known as the prince of sound who is actually just a higher being from a mysterious floating island, but i haven't really thought too much about what kind of higher being he truly is since the players have never even come close to getting to that island. with this next campaign though, a sequel to the last one, i think that they might end up at least learning more about the island so i think i know what kind of higher being he's going to be now xD thanks for the video!
I legit didnt even finished to write my homebrew and this video gave me an idea for a entire quest whithin some lore that i have in mind. Loved it so much!!! hahaha
I think it would make more sense if the bubbles in the breath attack were filled with potent laughing gas that forces people to laugh so hard they suffocate to death
I wanna use a vampire dragon as the ultimate BBEG for my campaign, and this gives me an idea where it has a pink dragon as a captive using it as a form of entertainment
Thank you, Josiah! It could be fun (and potentially deadly) to step into a... "discussion" between a pink dragon and a cooper one,... and be apointed as judge
I'd love to see a pink dragon in a Dragonlance campaign setting, have it Make friends with a Kender, and be fascinated by a rubber chicken, or googly eyes glasses
This dragon would be perfect to use for a dragon who has taken up residence in a travelling circus, who takes up the role of the fool- polymorphed almost constantly, this dragon provides protection to the travelling troupe, in exchange for being allowed to perform, honestly, with just a little bit of reflavouring, this dragon would make a great npc/final boss for a arc.
Neat thing with the Stats, It's "Good Impression"' Ability can be used to counterspell any Spell that's already been used during that particular Encounter, With the Dragon Stating "I've heard that one before, just now! Get some new Material!" EVERY, SINGLE, TIME it uses that ability that way. The reason I thought about this is because in older Editions that's how counterspells worked, you needed to have the specific spell you were tying to counterspell prepared and spend it to cancel out the other Mage's casting of that spell. In this case, the Pink Dragon Can cast any Spell it's Seen in the last hour, so it automatically Knows those spells, and has a slot ready for free each round to cancel out any One spell it's already seen that encounter. My Free Dragon Joke of the day: "Did you hear the one about the Evil Dragon?".....*Pause for Dramatic Effect*..... "You know what, Nevermind, it wasn't Very Good anyway..." *Smirks*
Thanks to this video it help me make my own pink dragon that is like a lust dragon of sorts, the way I made it was its a dragon that loves to socialize with humanoid civilizations to hear and have stories of romance thier hoard is usually trinkets they've gotten from past lovers that they out aged. The pink dragons breath attack is a phenomenon attack that charms those that fail the save, but it doesn't use charm to harm their allies but restraint them so the dragon can get away, for this dragon has the fastest speeds of the dragons. The pink dragon is smaller and weaker than others so they would rather not fight at all.
you could make this thing scary AF too. laughter can be more unsettling than gore in the right context. if you for example make the bubbles it spews into a psychoactive substance similar to the joy stuff in we happy few or something for example. a bit less fucked up bit still spooky would be making the dragon into mad hatter type character where it's jokes are nonsensical and even slightly disturbing but still magically the funniest thing ever
Oh wow it's almost exactly Mizutsune from Monster Hunter just minus the fox spirit business and a over a decade earlier. On a related note: I really need to start mining that series for monster/dragon ideas because slip and slide dragon battle sounds like an A+ encounter. Also, love the addition of the imitation action and the general joke theme. What a wonderful combo all around.
I kinda want to take this and retool it is "the dragon of cuteness", a type of dragon so sweet even chromatic dragons can't bear to fight them. Aura: 'aww-some' presence
I actually have a bit of a darker idea for the pink dragon. What if it breathed radiation or have a radioactive aura? Cause I recently watched HBO's Chernobyl and when people had to much radiation there skin turned pink. Also I think this would be a good idea for why pink dragons are so rare because other dragons will kill them because they are literally walking and joking Chernobyl reactors that could destroy their kingdoms or territorie. You also could use in way that the pink dragon always gets the last laugh.
Radioactivity is more associated with the color blue, due to Cherenkov radiation, a type of blue noise: th-cam.com/video/uYrhWO_ZLYw/w-d-xo.html There is something called pink noise, however. From _Wikipedia:_ "In the past quarter century, pink noise has been discovered in the statistical fluctuations of an extraordinarily diverse number of physical and biological systems [...]. Examples of its occurrence include fluctuations in tide and river heights, quasar light emissions, heart beat, firings of single neurons, resistivity in solid-state electronics and single-molecule conductance signals[10] resulting in flicker noise. Pink noise describes the statistical structure of many natural images.[11] General 1/f α noises occur in many physical, biological and economic systems, and some researchers describe them as being ubiquitous.[12] In physical systems, they are present in some meteorological data series, the electromagnetic radiation output of some astronomical bodies. In biological systems, they are present in, for example, heart beat rhythms, neural activity, and the statistics of DNA sequences, as a generalized pattern.[13] In financial systems, they are often referred to as a long-term memory effect[specify]." You could sell a connection with healing, biology, memory and mental acuity, and druids based on this.
I always love me some weirdo dragons! I would probably make this a fae dragon in my world, give it more gossamer wings, and have it be a bit of a prankster...that lines up with the comedy and soap bubbles quite well! Also, I love the impression effect since it's something like magic mirror.
Okay, this may have been mentioned but I just imagined a Pink Dragon setting up a gauntlet like mentioned but having magical running commentary ala a game show like GUTS or some such. The party can get to the middle and be rewarded with a cash prize or a chunk of magic items. Could run it super dangerous and anyone that dies is just eliminated with 'a parting gift'.
Very interesting. One of my player characters was a pink dragon of my own devising - love of jokes was there, but his breath weapon was a gaseous cone of bubblegum scented healing potion which would render creatures and areas it hit sticky (resulting in slowed or halted movement in addition to the healing). It's intriguing seeing how much overlap there is with someone else's pink dragon design!
I got it! Legendary Action- "Your Mom" the standard LA that can counter a spell, effect, status but with the added flavor of it interrupting your concentration by saying "your mom" right as you act. Talking is a free action however and if players make good puns or jokes during combat or the rounds they can also remove legendary actions from the dragon in turn as it laughs/reacts at the joke and tries to archive/remember it for future use. Up to DM discretion on what the dragon finds funny obv
What if there was a bard or warlock subclass that was inspired by the pink dragon? It would revolve around telling jokes as the verbal component for spells and have a focus on spells that mess with opponents minds. And of course you would have access to Tasha's Hideous Laughter.
This is the best April Fools Day themed video I have seen today. Thank you. I would like to request the carnivorous sheep be added to your Monster of the Week list. I remember them in a version of the Odyssey where the cyclops's sheep were dangerous because they ate meat and attacked Odysseus's crew.
I love the flight rising dragons in here. I think my husband's wizard Biggleborf and his book of infinite wizard jokes might be a half decent match for this dragon.
My immediate thought when you started talking about the players questing for a scroll, is that there's nothing there. The dragon is just playing a practical joke on them, sending them on an incredibly dangerous and difficult mission to find what turns out to be an empty room.
I like pink, I love jokes, and I'm coming around to an appreciation for dragons, so don't be surprised if I wind up making an entire character based around this. Thank you very much!
Much nicer than the other option of it just being the offspring of a Red & White Dragon with the breath weapons of both, or some kind of Hellish Freezing Flame that deals BOTH Fire & Ice Damage simultaneously. Like a Hot Pocket if you will, half freezing & half inferno. If you did want to make it more EVIL the Table Top RPG In Nomine has a great vision of how a Humor can be made to be truly a Dark thing with their Demon Prince Kobal Price of Dark Humor. The kind of jokes that kickdown and mock the weak, & make their miseries worse, the kind of "Just a prank bro!" shenanigans that cause major property damage or ruin career opportunities. The Chromatic thus GOOD equivalent would be the Rose Gold Dragon.
Thank you so much. Just made a campaign with an elder dragon as the BBEG , now going to send them to a pink dragon for aid but they'll first have to get a joke scroll forhis horde with a D&D version of "whos on 1st base?" On it.
was not expecting Flight Rising dragons used as examples for Pink Dragons lol Anyway the fact that these dragons are pink and spit bubbles reminds me of Mizutsune from Monster Hunter. Definitely could be deceptively formidable. An alternative to the comedic aura could also be a sort of manic aura maybe? Creatures of revelry are sometimes known for taking things... violently far. Like the Maenads.
I don't see how this pink dragon is any more or less silly than the Brass dragon, who have a reputation for putting people to sleep with their breath weapon for the sin of not holding a conversation with them.
I'm new to your channel, but I've been greatly enjoying your content so far! If it's not already on your suggestion list, I'd like to suggest one of my favorite monsters from 3.5's Liber Mortis book: the Forsaken Shell.
Welcome to the channel! I’m glad you’re liking it! I love the forsaken shell! I actually did a video about it on monster of the week awhile back! The video itself is pretty old, but the stat block holds up I think! Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/sBw5YeFqF0Q/w-d-xo.html
I usually like making my own ideas with these monsters but dear lord I’m using that first plot idea you gave where the party is sent on a quest to find a joke. That shit is next level hilarious and can serve as a comedic relief arc in a story that’s been quite grim and dark (my campaigns are usually crazy horror stories)
Hoping that you’d take a look into Dream Vestage, it’s a monster from 3.5e, but I don’t think it is used much since then, I wanted to do a home brew campaign with it being the main focus but couldn’t find anything :( THX
something that no one seems to mention is that a pink dragon would be a hybrid of red and white, and what do you get when you mix fire and ice? boiling water, maybe? aka bubbles!
My dude, have you considered doing monsters from OSR systems/modules? Flame Princess and Dungeon Crawl Classics have some really cool monsters that I loved so much I put them in my 5e games. Things like the AntiPhoenix and the Niveous Dream Axolotl are damn creepy.
there was a dragon source book for ad&d that talked about dragon hybrids, that book had rules for pink dragons that were half white and half red dragon.
One of my players is an Trickery domain cleric elf. Hes background is (im not joking): hes on a quest to find a way to learn Tasha Hideous Latughter. Not vengeance, no dead parents, not a command from the goddess hes worshiping. Im totally going to use this pink dragon as a friendly NPC to help him to find the scroll. Thanks for this man. New sub.
I like the idea that the scroll, even if read, makes no sense as a joke without the proper context of the events thousands of years ago. So the players read, “The long wind bellows through the canyon of the mountainfolk,” and don’t realize until they deliver it to the dragon, who bursts out laughing, that it’s an ancient elven joke about farting Dwarves.
This is excellent. I love it
a dog walks into a bar. he says "I can't see. Let's open this one"
@@juliamavroidi8601 NO NO NO NO NOT AGAIN
@@juliamavroidi8601 I don't get it.
@@veryangryduckpl2122 That's the point. (It's an extremely old sumeran joke that I'm prezzy sure noone gets anymore)
I love the idea that, since Metallic and Chromatic dragons are instinctively against each other, the Pink Dragons initiate prank wars against Copper Dragons, or have joke competitions between each other. While all other dragons of their kinds go for each other’s throats, they instead go for each other’s wits. Sure, Pink Dragons are not evil, but the Chromatic-Metallic rivalry continues. I like to think that some even overcome their base instinct and become witty comedian couples.
I actually love this idea
That's adorable
I like to imagen it's the dragons anniversury and they celebrate it with a prank war and they'er using the PC to out prank their partner. Feels like it could be a nice side quest.
@@ChucktheSpicyChickenI love the idea that a joke between the two is that they never hint that they’re together to the party. They act like it’s a serious political matter and they’re nemeses trying to shame each other, but the whole time they have been using Sending stones, laughing about it all
The pink dragon could also claim to be a red that recently overcame a sickness.
My immediate reaction to hearing about Good Impression is that they start the move with "Stop me if you've heard this one before..."
Imagin if you will.
The parties wizard patron is so flustered at a practical joke that they fly into a peak of rage and storm out of there tower off to confront this pink menace.
With great seriousness uses there voice to cast a mighty spell that requires concentration.
The pink dragon...... Uses good impression but.... Chants the spell in an accent so funny or disjointed with reality that while it succeeds in casting the spell it also has the effect of ending the party patron's concentration.
Because, to they are laughing so hard or they blacked out because they became so angry at being mocked.
This is brilliant
@@gmanbo The mocking voice to break concentration is a stroke of genius
It would be even more hillarious, to find this creature in a dark room not knowing what a pink dragon is, because you can't see colours in the dark.
So they would see this dragon creature and it would wake up, only to tell some jokes and when they light a torch to see it's bright pink to everyone's confusion.
I love that
"I would crack a joke, but I'm not a fan of... 'dark' humor."
@@smangle7328 You just put the dumbest smile on my face with that one xD Thank you
@@smangle7328 You. You understood the assignment
Reminds me of the singing crocodile from all dogs go to heaven. Charlie thinks he is screwed, but the gator
Loves his howling voice so much that he instead reveals that hr just loves to sing, and then saves charlie and his friends while singing
I can see Pink Dragons actually hoarding not only jokes, but comedians. Maybe not even 'hoard' but just sometimes show up to hang out and have a good old fashioned back and forth of material.
Nah they hoard those dad joke books or bathroom humor books
Or the especially old ones COULD hoard comedians by creating bard colleges, circuses, or even entire Las Vegas style cities.
@@arcanineryu Ooo, that's a good one. I like that.
joke books, prank toys and objects meant for jokes and pranks, such as magical joy buzzers, glow sticks, party and fun stuff. thats what I'd expect it, because honestly, I feel like it'd be a dragon as well not only of laughs and jokes, but possible good times.
I mean, funny shit ALWAYS happens a majority of the time from good times right?
A dragon run comedy club! every month they have a competition, first place gets a prize!
One of the reasons why I love the pink dragon is that even though its a joke monster it doesn't double down on the joke aspect
Its like watching a serious movie that has a brief light-hearted moment before getting back to seriousness
Imagine a Pink dragon kidnapping people with the promise that if one day they tell a good joke that the dragon didn't know about, they are free
So they got kidnapped by King Kai?
Yeah I'd fucking nail that
Brass Dragons often kidnap people they meet if they find that they give an interesting enough conversation, stories told, and other similar things. Though that’s usually very temporary(they are chaotic good usually after all). Where as Pink Dragons are a bit more selfish with their wants lol
The party quests to an ancient destroyed city with an undead infestation. After days of fighting and searching they find an ancient scroll in a forgotten language. The wizard curses himself, having chosen to learn them the normal way, as he believed it was both lazy and a waste of power to cast comprehend language. The journey back to the grand wizard is long and arduous, taking weeks. Upon receiving the scroll the wizard opens it with a flourish, reads it, and bursts into laughter. Her elvish form begins to expand, before turning into the form of a great dragon the color of cherry blossoms. The wizard stammers "what does it say?"
She replies simply "you wouldn't understand." Before mumbling between chuckles "the dog opens its eyes. How could I have forgotten?"
I like the idea that the pink dragon has come up with a really good but highly specific standup routine. so they’re sending the party on a quest just so they’ll understand all of the jokes when they get back
The endless possibilities of putting a grey jester with the pink dragon are so much fun. The party's could run into a dragon whose goal is to make a grey jester laugh.
I love that idea!
Bro what are you doing with that apostrophe
But what the Pink Dragon doesn’t know is that the Grey Jester is actually siphoning their happiness, until the party tells the dragon of the true nature of the Jester after most of their happiness is gone leading the dragon to get really mad and scare the Grey Jester away, then the party uses Greater Restoration on the dragon and their returned to their jokester self.
@@Funxboxrox27 sound cool but i refuse to believe a being as powerful as a dragon wouldnt catch on that
The pink dragon sounds like it would fit just fine in the feywild, alongside the Faerie dragon and other mischievous fay creatures.
*Same!!*
Absolutely! We'd love to play with Pinkies!
Man... In my campaign there's an ancient copper dragon who posed as Acererak, built a parody of the Tomb of Horrors where the traps are funny instead of deadly, and founded a secret society of bards just to watch adventurers struggle and get frustrated with the tomb like a TV show. How I wish I made Kristen The Buffoon a pink dragon instead... Maybe I could give her a pink dragon friend tho... 👀
Oh my god that sounds incredible hahaha
You could easily make pink and copper dragons rivals, or turn it into prankception: A notorious blue dragon hires the adventurer party to stop a group of copper dragons who have been foiling his plans and pranking him, but the real prank is on the copper dragons who are being framed by a pink dragon, etc.
Maybe Kristen *is* a pink dragon, disguised as a copper dragon. Perhaps as some joke or trick.
Friend... *_And mentor._*
Idea for a plotline involving a pink dragon:
- The party is in a tavern or other meeting place, asking for a lead on an artifact or something that can defeat the BBEG.
- A polymorphed pink dragon approaches them.
- The dragon promises to tell them where to find the artifact, but they must first recover a small, 20-sided gemstone from a distant dungeon.
- The directions to the dungeon have the party running around in circles for an hour, turns out it was actually just outside the town they were in but on the other side of the town from the gate they left.
- The dungeon turns out to be Ruinsmith's "Most Annoying Dungeon Ever".
- The gemstone is one of the D20s from the table where the skeletons are playing a TTRPG where only the GM rolls dice.
- When the party returns, either covered in dirt (from digging out of the entrance after passing backwards through the wall of force), genderbent (from rolling 20 on another D20 at the table) or covered in scorch marks (from escaping the Nine Hells), the dragon is still in the tavern but is no longer polymorphed and takes up half the space inside the tavern. Everyone in the tavern laughs at the party as they enter the door.
- Turns out the dragon told everyone about the huge prank they pulled on you while you were away.
- They can honor their promise or not, it's up to you. I feel it would be better if the dragon did honor their promise since that fits more with their whole good-natured comedy thing, but you could make them particularly nasty and not uphold the promise.
Or third possibility, the pink dragon had its fun with the party, and when they ask where is the artifact, he just answers "I don't know!"
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"So you told us you will tell everything about the Staff of Evergloom."
"That I did."
"..."
"..."
"So? Where is it? How do we get it?"
"Well, I know *nothing* about it!"
*Tavern burst out in laughter*
"Thank you, thank you, I'll be here next week, same time, different jokes! If you manage to defeat Arcrax the Bloody. It'd be a *bloody* shame if you didn't. My gloom would be *eternal*"
@@balazszsigmond826 an hour later the police respond to sounds of distress reported coming from the house, and find the DM, who was promptly lynched by their players
or perhaps the "artifact" is told to be some stone of great power,but in actuality its just a regular rock that the pink dragon put there themselves....only when the party returns did the pink dragon say they sent them on that "quest" just to screw with them...and was scrying them the whole time as everyone in the tavern was watching(and laughing) at the party going to hell and back for a wild goose chase.
Dragons are old. They would care about their reputation, particularly if they have a human audience. So yes., they would honour their promise - but perhaps in a way that provides an additional opportunity to prank the party
Hmm, perhaps there can be a lore reason why this one is different. Like a mischief or trickster fey stole some Dragon eggs by replacing them with the eggs of another creature, and raised the dragons and they ended up becoming Pink Dragons due to Feywild weirdness and become the Fey's emissaries/vassals.
A Red Dragon and a Faerie Dragon flew into a bar.
...
... a year later, a Pink Dragon is born!
In my home brew Japanese fantasy setting, i have a Bloom Dragon that's also supposed to be pink in color. Maybe I take some of the characteristics from this. Thanks!
Happy to be of service!
Omg sounds amazing
Suggestion: a two-headed dragon that does manzai.
@@NXTangl haha, that may be interesting too.
@@NXTangl なんでやねん！（dragon manzai slaps self）
Does the pink dragon count as chromatic? Because if so it can be used as a replacement head for one of Tiamat’s 5 heads… do with that information what you want
Oh my god you’re right
@@DungeonDad most despicable curve ball to throw at your players have Tiamat show up with her head colors being purple, pink, grey, orange and yellow
@@cfakatsuki17 care to whip up a stat block for us?
@@marthachampagne316 I believe dungeon dad would be better suited to the task
Because it's a pink head, Tiamat would just hurt characters with "Yo Mama" jokes and general insult comedy (vicious mockery).
The Dragon sends you on an epic journey to retrieve a Bag of Holding that contains endless treasure, when the party finally find the bag it's a Bag of Devouring, discussed as a Bag of Holding. The dragon will either laugh hysterically or be very disappointed depending on how many party members are left when they return with the bag
Or it turns out the "Endless treasures" are something jokey, like clown horns and rubber chickens....
Or the bag of holding is a bag with a fart in it.
DM: Roll insight (to know what holding means there)
@@chiribitosardina6052 Becomes a bag of relief after use.
The Bag of Holding has an infinite length of tied handkerchiefs!
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The farting butt chest from The Most Annoying Dungeon, maybe?
Player: casts Wish to heal the party
Pink Dragon: "Now this is how you do it." blows up the party
It’s Mitzune! It’s a pink monster that blows soapy bubbles that make your character slip around, and it uses it to slide around very quickly itself. It can also do a beam attack of soapy water.
I was thinking the same but it’s way more cranked up in power haha
I can see infinite potential for the interactions of Pink Dragons and Grey Jesters. Like, would they hate each other? be friendly peers?
Do the players get roped into being the judges for a comedy competition and have to fight the losing participant to the death?
So many straight AND silly possibilities.
That's a good call! I never even considered these dragons interacting with a gray jester. You could make a whole campaign out of that!
I love the idea of a disguised pink dragon sending the party to 'fix' the problem of a Gray Jester in the dragon's favored town because the dragon doesn't want to risk the wrath of the Unseelie Court personally. Really forces the players to dig deeper to avoid that outcome and still get a reward from the dragon for handling things (by negotiating with the jester or finding a way to remove it without killing it, perhaps).
I love the idea of a character that is a pink dragon but forgot that they were a pink dragon while they were polymorphed.And the only remnant of them being one is occasionally puking out bubbles.
They also find they have a strange obsession with pink.
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There's also pink dragons in The Spyro Series like Ember one of my favorite Spyro characters.
As to the bubble breath I quickly thought of the Mizutsune from Monster Hunter, a pink fox creature that is notably intelligent and quite a fan favorite
I was looking for this comment xd
I definitely love the idea of a more chaotic, but leans on lighthearted side of dragons especially on the chromatic side.
I think Pink Dragons would have an interesting relationship with Copper Dragons in the D&D universe, since they share a similar M.O
they would definitely get along but engage in decades long prank wars or get into long roasting sessions, just to name a few interactions.
Pinks will definitely be in my games once i get going on DM'ing.
Interesting! I would love to see a cooper/pink prank war. That sounds really fun.
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Doing some world building and this dragon fits especially if adding in feywild bits to say why it's so different.
But the kicker is there are a fair amount of metallic dragons. Even a copper dragon mafia.
Add in a wondering rare pink dragon and it being itself and maybe two others.... Perhaps. They have to go over the top to compete with copper dragons.
Funny enough some copper dragons are known for being theives ( you weren't doing anything with it). Pinks are known for practical jokes.... Getting into a copper dragons hoard and returning stolen items would be a "prank" for the ages.
If a pink dragon sends the party after a "stolen" item from a copper dragon to give it back....
Or a copper dragon sends the party after a pink because they stole from it's hoard.
The thing is either way. They each leave a calling card. A joke page, funny trap, hidden funny message.
Usually this is fun among freinds.
Perhaps a wealthy patron who knows about the practice even pays the pink dragon to go play pranks on other dragons.
Or maybe "pink" dragons are just copper dragons in disguise, pulling the ultimate prank on the genuine chromatic dragons by making them *think* they're related to a breed of wiseass weirdos. Oh, the humiliation...! ;-)
Don't forget throwing in a few Faerie Dragons for extra prank. We love to be where the 'action' is!
I had an idea for a all bards battle of the bands one shot thank you for finally filling in what the end-game monster should be
Amazing!
"A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one!'"
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"No appreciation for good humour. That joke's gold in the Untheric Empire!"
This joke came to mind when I Was making this hahaha. 100% what might be on that ancient scroll.
DM: "You've reached the final scroll past the dungeons of doom, the 1000 traps of death, and the hordes of the great monster Melchior. The scroll sits on a pedestal. what do you do?"
Players: "I open and read the scroll."
DM: "It says.....
"10 points to Gryffindor"
Did ya see that big hungry goblin that raided the corn farm
After he was a Cob Gobbling
You're hired
Note to self: When I finally play D&D and inevitably become a forever DM, this thing will be perfect
One of us! One of us!
Jump on in. Get it wrong enough times that the only ways left are right!
One of us! Btw, my idea for this is to have the joke retrieved not understandable even with comprehend languages. The one I'd use is an ancient one. "A dog walked into a bar. It couldn't see. It opened it's eyes."
Even though we translated it, it sounds like a shitpost, so no one understands it.
it's official...I love this and this needs to be in the spot light and gain traction in the DnD community
I would LOVE to see a rise in pink dragon popularity! I am planning on rolling up a pink dragonborn for an upcoming pirate campaign. I'm thinking swashbuckler/glamor bard.
Pink dragon sounds like some kind of illness. Like "Tom can't come in today he's got a pink dragon"
I can imagine your party going to a Dragon Lair that they’ve been told about and stumble upon a comedy club, with the dragon on the stage telling jokes to an empty audience or Kobolds.
I want to know more about monsters that are too goofy for the creators of the Flumph
also still awesome contents, hope to see more !
Bubble breath attack that also has a chance to encase an enemy of large or smaller size if they fail. Can entrap people and tell them jokes or promise to release them till after they are amused.
I'm loving all of the random Flight Rising dragons throughout. Such a good detail
Just saw the ridgeback at 4:40 looks like it has the Iridescent gene for the wings! I'll be updating with what genes I can spot on the Flight Rising dragons shown throughout!
(also hi a Shadowling here)
Flight Rising dragons seen throughout:
Female Ridgeback
Female Imperial x2
I noticed that too! I was wondering if someone on the editing team was into FR or they just googled "pink dragons" and went with what they found, lol.
Already have a plot hook running through my head. Pink dragon, disguised as a bard of sorts. Traveling from tavern to tavern, doing routines. Party must try to protect her (and anyone who doesn't laugh at her jokes) without her realizing, in order to not hurt her pride. All due to the fact that she's the last of her kind and currently being hunted by some manner of poacher or adventurer.
The April issues gave us so many wonderful treats, like the chocolate golem. Way cheaper and easier to make than any other golem, but, no real utility in combat; they tended to be filed with candy and created to be destroyed at a party as a hollow chocolate pinata filled with candy.
You might enjoy the episode coming up next week ;)
@@DungeonDad Woo-hoo!
I can imagine a pink dragon as the hybrid between a red dragon and a white dragon
An incredibly violent neurotic chromatic dragon with an inferiority complex, steming from its comparatively weaker magic.
Also you could make the bubbles a container, drop a bubble in a crowd and have it burst into a long lasting smokescreen. Or fill with flammable gas to make traps.
Had a really dark thought… What is some thing that every comedian needs? An audience! What if that is what a pink dragon hoards?
So? I do that too.
OH MAN. Imagine it just keeping an entire town "hostage". Like, they hold some kind of ritual and it is heavily eluded to that once a month a bunch of people are sacrificed to a dragon that lives in the mountain for protection, but the "sacrifice" is actually just a bunch of people who have to go sit through a comedy routine and laugh really hard so the dragon stays happy.
I love the idea that you have to tell the pink dragon a joke it's never heard, it's very reminiscent of old legends of dragons and their riddles.
My all-time favorite monster is the Susurrus (that's the proper spelling)- it's first appearance (that I know of) was the 1E Fiend Folio. They're big headless ape-like aberrations made out of crystalline honeycomb tunnels (aka a Trypophobia NIGHTMARE). They're so bizarre- they eat air, hate fire, and their bodies produce a droning noise that makes all Undead pacified and immobile, no save. I think they're perfect Aberrations, because they just exist, unapologetically, without adhering to the laws or expectations of our known reality. I hope you'll cover this unappreciated gem!
Oh the death sheep! Those are one of my favorite things to encounter. I love them!
See, now I’d like a pink dragon to send the party on a dangerous quest to acquire the ancient enchanted scroll of Ricardo Astlani, a powerful bard of old.
He could frustrate millions, and his deception was so legendary that even the greatest of foes would be brought to tears by his song.
And on the Scroll it is written: "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling/Gotta make you understand/Never gonna give you up/Never gonna let you down/Never gonna run around and/Desert you/Never gonna make you cry/Never gonna say goodbye/Never gonna tell a lie and/Hurt you" haha I love it!
@@HistorianOfVaelris You beat me to it. A dragon Rickrolling an entire party is such a gloriously silly idea, and I hope someone does it someday.
New to your channel, but I'm loving all the content. This Pink Dragon sounds amazing to have as even just a set piece in some city. Maybe a city with the foremost bardic college in it is home to a Pink Dragon, maybe even a professor of comedy in the college who takes advantage of all the new blood coming in and out to collect new jokes.
As for a suggestion, a pathfinder creature (as I've GMed Pathfinder for a while). The Ankou, is a powerful fey assassin that frankly looks more like a demon. And acts more like a demon than most fey. If the party gets one coming after them... Well, it's not going to be a fun time.
I love the idea of it being a comedic teacher or head of a bardic institution. I'll definitely check out the ankou!
Oh sweet! This is wicked! Love the idea of the party meeting a dragon in a canyon and expecting a fight to pass through, only for the pink dragon to invite them in and show off its comedic routine since it hasnt had visitors in a while! Rad video as always, love the editing!
For a split second, I thought this was a prank
Reverse prank.
I like the idea of pink dragons being friends with Sphix exchanging higher brow jokes its collected for funny riddles the sphinx has.
in my homebrew campaign setting there is a bard known as the prince of sound who is actually just a higher being from a mysterious floating island, but i haven't really thought too much about what kind of higher being he truly is since the players have never even come close to getting to that island. with this next campaign though, a sequel to the last one, i think that they might end up at least learning more about the island so i think i know what kind of higher being he's going to be now xD thanks for the video!
Honestly I can imagine pink dragons just trolling some beginner adventurers or amassing a small army of bards
Send them into a "dungeon" that's actually just pranks and mostly harmless slapstick traps.
I legit didnt even finished to write my homebrew and this video gave me an idea for a entire quest whithin some lore that i have in mind.
Loved it so much!!! hahaha
I think it would make more sense if the bubbles in the breath attack were filled with potent laughing gas that forces people to laugh so hard they suffocate to death
I wanna use a vampire dragon as the ultimate BBEG for my campaign, and this gives me an idea where it has a pink dragon as a captive using it as a form of entertainment
Thank you, Josiah! It could be fun (and potentially deadly) to step into a... "discussion" between a pink dragon and a cooper one,... and be apointed as judge
Something about this dragon feels very relatable.
Odd, a character on screen I can relate to? That doesn't happen often.
It might be an interesting idea having a Player play as a humanoid pink dragon draconic race and being a bard
Thanks for watching everyone!!
Could you add Behemoth from Lankhmar setting to your list? I just have soft spot for owl-bear style randomness
This was intressting. Cloud dragon from dnd 2e is to intresting
Funny thing, that dragon you used in the intro is a Pern dragon. :P Except they don't come in pink.
I was expecting the pink dragon to get slapped lol
why is hare a censor at 10:01
I'd love to see a pink dragon in a Dragonlance campaign setting, have it Make friends with a Kender, and be fascinated by a rubber chicken, or googly eyes glasses
This dragon would be perfect to use for a dragon who has taken up residence in a travelling circus, who takes up the role of the fool- polymorphed almost constantly, this dragon provides protection to the travelling troupe, in exchange for being allowed to perform, honestly, with just a little bit of reflavouring, this dragon would make a great npc/final boss for a arc.
I could see these dragons hoisting a comedy competition in a major town somewhere or being the Master of Ceremonies in a traveling Circus.
Imagine fighting this giant joke of a dragon, but as soon as you cast a really strong spell, he hits you with the “nuh-uh”
Neat thing with the Stats, It's "Good Impression"' Ability can be used to counterspell any Spell that's already been used during that particular Encounter, With the Dragon Stating "I've heard that one before, just now! Get some new Material!" EVERY, SINGLE, TIME it uses that ability that way.
The reason I thought about this is because in older Editions that's how counterspells worked, you needed to have the specific spell you were tying to counterspell prepared and spend it to cancel out the other Mage's casting of that spell. In this case, the Pink Dragon Can cast any Spell it's Seen in the last hour, so it automatically Knows those spells, and has a slot ready for free each round to cancel out any One spell it's already seen that encounter.
My Free Dragon Joke of the day:
"Did you hear the one about the Evil Dragon?".....*Pause for Dramatic Effect*..... "You know what, Nevermind, it wasn't Very Good anyway..." *Smirks*
Honestly, the sight of a pink dragon alone would probably inspire some amount of laughter and amazement.
When Lisa Frank is put on Wizards of the Coast's design team.
Thanks to this video it help me make my own pink dragon that is like a lust dragon of sorts, the way I made it was its a dragon that loves to socialize with humanoid civilizations to hear and have stories of romance thier hoard is usually trinkets they've gotten from past lovers that they out aged. The pink dragons breath attack is a phenomenon attack that charms those that fail the save, but it doesn't use charm to harm their allies but restraint them so the dragon can get away, for this dragon has the fastest speeds of the dragons. The pink dragon is smaller and weaker than others so they would rather not fight at all.
you could make this thing scary AF too. laughter can be more unsettling than gore in the right context. if you for example make the bubbles it spews into a psychoactive substance similar to the joy stuff in we happy few or something for example. a bit less fucked up bit still spooky would be making the dragon into mad hatter type character where it's jokes are nonsensical and even slightly disturbing but still magically the funniest thing ever
That is a really cool direction to take this monster in!
Oh wow it's almost exactly Mizutsune from Monster Hunter just minus the fox spirit business and a over a decade earlier. On a related note: I really need to start mining that series for monster/dragon ideas because slip and slide dragon battle sounds like an A+ encounter.
Also, love the addition of the imitation action and the general joke theme. What a wonderful combo all around.
I kinda want to take this and retool it is "the dragon of cuteness", a type of dragon so sweet even chromatic dragons can't bear to fight them. Aura: 'aww-some' presence
7:35 Okay, this is just a great legendary action period!
I actually have a bit of a darker idea for the pink dragon. What if it breathed radiation or have a radioactive aura? Cause I recently watched HBO's Chernobyl and when people had to much radiation there skin turned pink. Also I think this would be a good idea for why pink dragons are so rare because other dragons will kill them because they are literally walking and joking Chernobyl reactors that could destroy their kingdoms or territorie.
You also could use in way that the pink dragon always gets the last laugh.
This is definitely way darker and I am a big fan. Great idea~!
Radioactivity is more associated with the color blue, due to Cherenkov radiation, a type of blue noise: th-cam.com/video/uYrhWO_ZLYw/w-d-xo.html
There is something called pink noise, however. From _Wikipedia:_
"In the past quarter century, pink noise has been discovered in the statistical fluctuations of an extraordinarily diverse number of physical and biological systems [...]. Examples of its occurrence include fluctuations in tide and river heights, quasar light emissions, heart beat, firings of single neurons, resistivity in solid-state electronics and single-molecule conductance signals[10] resulting in flicker noise. Pink noise describes the statistical structure of many natural images.[11]
General 1/f α noises occur in many physical, biological and economic systems, and some researchers describe them as being ubiquitous.[12] In physical systems, they are present in some meteorological data series, the electromagnetic radiation output of some astronomical bodies. In biological systems, they are present in, for example, heart beat rhythms, neural activity, and the statistics of DNA sequences, as a generalized pattern.[13] In financial systems, they are often referred to as a long-term memory effect[specify]."
You could sell a connection with healing, biology, memory and mental acuity, and druids based on this.
A Chernobyl Reactor that makes puns. Now that's what I call toxic enough to make other Dragons have a meltdown!
What if it blew radioactive bubbles
I always love me some weirdo dragons! I would probably make this a fae dragon in my world, give it more gossamer wings, and have it be a bit of a prankster...that lines up with the comedy and soap bubbles quite well! Also, I love the impression effect since it's something like magic mirror.
These videos are lovely additions to any DM’s quiver of monsters.
The pink dragon casting fireball is a real Barbienheim moment
Imagining it's hoard is gag gifts, hot pink pony doll, fashion dolls and a jester
Okay, this may have been mentioned but I just imagined a Pink Dragon setting up a gauntlet like mentioned but having magical running commentary ala a game show like GUTS or some such. The party can get to the middle and be rewarded with a cash prize or a chunk of magic items. Could run it super dangerous and anyone that dies is just eliminated with 'a parting gift'.
Very interesting. One of my player characters was a pink dragon of my own devising - love of jokes was there, but his breath weapon was a gaseous cone of bubblegum scented healing potion which would render creatures and areas it hit sticky (resulting in slowed or halted movement in addition to the healing). It's intriguing seeing how much overlap there is with someone else's pink dragon design!
wait u were actually allowed to be a dragon?
I got it! Legendary Action- "Your Mom" the standard LA that can counter a spell, effect, status but with the added flavor of it interrupting your concentration by saying "your mom" right as you act. Talking is a free action however and if players make good puns or jokes during combat or the rounds they can also remove legendary actions from the dragon in turn as it laughs/reacts at the joke and tries to archive/remember it for future use. Up to DM discretion on what the dragon finds funny obv
What if there was a bard or warlock subclass that was inspired by the pink dragon? It would revolve around telling jokes as the verbal component for spells and have a focus on spells that mess with opponents minds. And of course you would have access to Tasha's Hideous Laughter.
If you've ever faught a Mizutsune you know big pink bubble blowing creatures are no joke.
Gosh damn, my friend. Holy shit. This is glorious.
Gotta find an excuse to bust this out next time we play! Haha
This is the best April Fools Day themed video I have seen today. Thank you.
I would like to request the carnivorous sheep be added to your Monster of the Week list. I remember them in a version of the Odyssey where the cyclops's sheep were dangerous because they ate meat and attacked Odysseus's crew.
I love the flight rising dragons in here. I think my husband's wizard Biggleborf and his book of infinite wizard jokes might be a half decent match for this dragon.
My immediate thought when you started talking about the players questing for a scroll, is that there's nothing there. The dragon is just playing a practical joke on them, sending them on an incredibly dangerous and difficult mission to find what turns out to be an empty room.
I have this planned now for April 2nd next session is going to be wild
Hell yeah!
I like pink, I love jokes, and I'm coming around to an appreciation for dragons, so don't be surprised if I wind up making an entire character based around this. Thank you very much!
Much nicer than the other option of it just being the offspring of a Red & White Dragon with the breath weapons of both, or some kind of Hellish Freezing Flame that deals BOTH Fire & Ice Damage simultaneously. Like a Hot Pocket if you will, half freezing & half inferno.
If you did want to make it more EVIL the Table Top RPG In Nomine has a great vision of how a Humor can be made to be truly a Dark thing with their Demon Prince Kobal Price of Dark Humor. The kind of jokes that kickdown and mock the weak, & make their miseries worse, the kind of "Just a prank bro!" shenanigans that cause major property damage or ruin career opportunities. The Chromatic thus GOOD equivalent would be the Rose Gold Dragon.
I like that take a lot. Imagine having a pink dragon who is, as you described, just a bad guy, and the rose gold dragon is just Robin Williams.
I had need of a dungeon. And here. Here we have it. I have been inspired. Thankyou sir. This was a gem. I hope it works out.
Best of luck!
What? No Award from the pink dragon for the gem/work out pun??😭 Welp, I'm still alive, must have been worth something.🤷
I think the bigger question is why didn't the pink dragon get included in Fizban's.
Thank you so much. Just made a campaign with an elder dragon as the BBEG , now going to send them to a pink dragon for aid but they'll first have to get a joke scroll forhis horde with a D&D version of "whos on 1st base?" On it.
was not expecting Flight Rising dragons used as examples for Pink Dragons lol
Anyway the fact that these dragons are pink and spit bubbles reminds me of Mizutsune from Monster Hunter. Definitely could be deceptively formidable.
An alternative to the comedic aura could also be a sort of manic aura maybe? Creatures of revelry are sometimes known for taking things... violently far. Like the Maenads.
I wish you'd given it the full treatment like you did the yellows. I'd love a pink wyrmling statblock
Yeah I want to put this into my campain but a young dragon would be so much more apropriate.
I don't see how this pink dragon is any more or less silly than the Brass dragon, who have a reputation for putting people to sleep with their breath weapon for the sin of not holding a conversation with them.
You're not wrong.
Production on these videos seems to get better every week. Good stuff buddy.
Much appreciated!
I'm new to your channel, but I've been greatly enjoying your content so far!
If it's not already on your suggestion list, I'd like to suggest one of my favorite monsters from 3.5's Liber Mortis book: the Forsaken Shell.
Welcome to the channel! I’m glad you’re liking it!
I love the forsaken shell! I actually did a video about it on monster of the week awhile back! The video itself is pretty old, but the stat block holds up I think! Here’s the link: th-cam.com/video/sBw5YeFqF0Q/w-d-xo.html
Ahhh, you rock! Gonna give it a watch, thanks so much!
Pranking the youtube algorithm by watching your entire series over the course of two months
My psychiatry: pink dragon is not real
Dungeon dad:
I usually like making my own ideas with these monsters but dear lord I’m using that first plot idea you gave where the party is sent on a quest to find a joke. That shit is next level hilarious and can serve as a comedic relief arc in a story that’s been quite grim and dark (my campaigns are usually crazy horror stories)
Hoping that you’d take a look into Dream Vestage, it’s a monster from 3.5e, but I don’t think it is used much since then, I wanted to do a home brew campaign with it being the main focus but couldn’t find anything :( THX
I'll check it out!
something that no one seems to mention is that a pink dragon would be a hybrid of red and white, and what do you get when you mix fire and ice? boiling water, maybe? aka bubbles!
My dude, have you considered doing monsters from OSR systems/modules? Flame Princess and Dungeon Crawl Classics have some really cool monsters that I loved so much I put them in my 5e games. Things like the AntiPhoenix and the Niveous Dream Axolotl are damn creepy.
there was a dragon source book for ad&d that talked about dragon hybrids, that book had rules for pink dragons that were half white and half red dragon.
i imagine they would also hoard gizmos that are used for pranks or jokes or props for jokes
"Ah yes, this is my horde of joy buzzers and squirting flowers"
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One of my players is an Trickery domain cleric elf. Hes background is (im not joking): hes on a quest to find a way to learn Tasha Hideous Latughter. Not vengeance, no dead parents, not a command from the goddess hes worshiping. Im totally going to use this pink dragon as a friendly NPC to help him to find the scroll. Thanks for this man. New sub.
Now I hope they will actually relese this dragon. The possibilities are both infinte and hilarious.
Who says they have to? Just ask the DM to put one in front of you.