Faerie dragon finds you are not drinking your mead fast enough, so the little lizard helps you out. Then asks for seconds and thirds with a bit of cheese.
This is giving me so many ideas! Faerie dragons seem perfect for a "villain" of a small "arc" (1-3 sessions) in a longer campaign to add a little levity. Or give your party a faerie dragon companion that gets up to hijinks and draw them into it!
Hey, what about if your "villain" actually drags the adventurers to a place in need of some heroes to tackle a very real crisis? Poked over there with pranks.
If a drug den convinced a faerie dragon to give up their breath willingly with large apple pies their loyalty could be a strong motivator against a party of adventurers who were trying to close down the den.
32:40 The epiphany is that he'll never have another epiphany. These videos are great as standalone entertainment - I've never played D&D but these are among my favorite content.
FINALLY NATHIER GETS MENTIONED HAHAHAH I LOVE THIS GOD, I play him so often with my players, they have either loved him or hated/feared him, but eventually grew to begrudgingly trust and even greatly care for him. Several have become warlocks to him or become pacted with him.
I feel Faerie dragons are the best for unusual hords, from a hord of cook books, shiny and unusual shaped numbered rocks, stuffed toy or dolls, musical instruments or jokes. They hord fun and unusual things.
I fully support massive bee hives being used in pen and paper. Particularly if the hive in question is large enough to snuggly encase a character's head. :D
Fun fact in 3rd and 3.5 faerie dragons of the oldest age category could be huge size because dragons had indeterminate growth only limited by the size of their environment.
No dragon would ever wear another dragon’s skull! Unless they were (even for chromatics) deeply fucked up! Like maybe a black dragon or a recently victorious blue or green dragon, but they certainly wouldn’t guild it so they could… g- aughh… wear them.
Fairy dragon dungeon. I was thinking about making a campaign with one of these creatures. The fairy dragon being as evil as it can never be which is more mischievous than anything in the most annoying way possible. Basically I want to start off the dungeon being one room with three treasure chests. A small riddle for the players to solve but the trick is that each one of them have a magic black powder inside that will flood the room. No matter which one you open it's the same result. They're meant to engulf the players and teleport them to one room inside a deeper layer of the dungeon. Depending on which one you open is where you start. Each player become small like Honey I shrunk the kids making any animal or situation much larger than what it normally would be. You take the map that you drawn out and bring out a second layer for that which would be much larger. Now the fairy dragon will mess with the party with illusions which can be dangerous with creatures like rats within the dungeon. Normal hit points apply to them. One of the goals intended is to either kill the fairy dragon or to leave the dungeon alive. Both results will return you to your normal size.
I remember an adventurer from Dungeon Magazine back in 2nd ed about a tribe of goblins who have captured a Faerie dragon and use it as a source of narcotics by harvesting its breath weapon. Naturally the point of the mission is to free the dragon. Edit: I see you posted the cover of said Dungeon Magazine.
6:38 When AJ drops the F bomb, it has some impact. I guess that's how it is when you are usually soft spoken and well mannered (unlike myself, I use curse words for punctuation.)
Thank you AJ for the Feywild subject matter, it's interesting to see how much it's changed throughout the years. The image of it being frivolous and silly is DEFINITELY not the case
Only time I've see fairy dragons have a proper treasure hoard was the old dungeons and dragons cartoon and that was a lot of fairy dragons living together with their queen
Wonderful video! In my current campaign, the characters met a faerie dragon with a tribe of kobolds. The kobolds were, as a result of their worship of the faerie dragon, a tribe of excellent bakers and confectioners. Played the dragon himself a lot like the Cheshire cat. He liked slowly vanishing, leaving nothing but his disembodied smile hanging in the air...
@@its2early4dis dracoliches are a crude method. There are greater ways to achieve a sense of immortality. You just need the imagination, technique, and understanding of magic in its most fundamental sense.
Awesome, man! Encounter idea: The adventures enter a cave and perhaps they enter a small 8x8ft room with nothing but a door at opposite ends. There’s a strange mist in the room, but nothing else. The door opens to a long tunnel that just seems to keep going, until eventually there’s a side passage leading into a massive room. When they wander inside, several huge-sized multi-colored dragons drop down into the room from the ceiling including one immediately behind them. They proceed to bat the adventurers around sending them kareening across the room to smash into walls or each other, but these hits deal only 1 or 2 damage and very little even from their impacts with the walls. Every time they land a hit on the adventures, the dragons will say things like, “Bam!”, or when using what looks like lightning breath, “Bzzzzapp!” Insert other appropriate onomatopoeiasas needed. The dragons laugh with fake maniacal laughter, when the adventurers try to hit them, and spout off with random super villain monologue lines. When they finally get hit, they pretend the wound is fatal even though it’s comparatively tiny and- well you get it. It’s a bunch of faerie dragons who summed up their power to cast a delayed effect reduced size spell on the adventurers, so that when they kept walking down the tunnel which was shrinking, just as the adventurers were, no one noticed. The fae dragons just wanted to pretend at being big dragons for a bit.
A dragon that exhales euphoric gas ? I know many people who would pay to have a dragon do that to them. Give that Dragon a job at the brothel they won't even think about women after repeated inhalation.
...and now my world has an underground Faerie Dragon breath trade and "Breath Dens" were people huff the bottled breaths of different Faerie Dragons to get high. Thanks AJ!
i have a faerie dragon caracter and i have 3 tipes of gas, one for laugh one for poison and one for sleep. In my party there is a thiefler who sell my gas at the underground and make himself some arrowhead lubricant outof it.
Now that I know Faerie Dragons have a Patron Deity, all I can think of is what the perfect cleric or paladin would look like. It would have to be some super jovial fey (that's half of them anyway) with an overwhelming sense of joy and love of pranks. Perhaps a Copper half-dragon bard, or a celestial gnome illusionist? Or better yet epic level Atomie sorcerer!!!
As I said before I don’t even play D&D but I love this channel, whenever I’m doing something or just relaxing i put one of your videos on to hear some of your stories
apparently Nathair Sgiathach is claimed after the second sundering to quote "not a real deity, and that his extraordinary powers were a result of his highly developed dragonsight." wonder what AJ's pseudodragon companion thinks of this theory, assuming he is anywhere near as scholarly as AJ when not being the more typical playful and mischievous nature?
@@thehillz726 or imagine your party encounters a particularly clever Faerie Dragon in their lair, and during the encounter, time runs 2x slow for the party and 2x fast for the dragon. We would have 4 turns for every 1 turn you have.
Also fun concept: Local clinic has deal with a baker and small group of Faerie Dragons - baker makes the group apple pies ine exchange for services as the clinic as living painkiller generators - or just there to be civil and help improve mood like therapy animals.
Something I've considered; do you think if there was a scenario like "Honey I shrunk the kids" in a fey setting, you could implement a Faerie Dragon in the same way as a standard dragon? I think it would be an interesting encounter.
Certain Trees in the forest have a pollen that can reduce the size of traveller's subtly as the trees and mushrooms seem to get larger as you get closer to a very particular portion of the woods
Oh absolutely! One of my favorite feywild tropes is a forest where the direction you walk determines wether you grow taller, shorter, and back or forward in time.
D&D needs to do a Oblivion clone with Skyrim controls, and use their hard mature stories from the 80s. That would definitely bring their boot down heavy and let everybody know who is the daddy of Skyrim, Warhammer, Elden Ring, etc. They need to leave the modern romance ya stuff alone and just get HBO Sopranos level mature.
@@rachdarastrix5251 PG-75? Is that the one where you are made to ponder on impossible moral dilemmas, such as whether to burn along with the rest of the encampment the presumably innocent children, possibly females, sickly and ederly from the goblinoid/orcish tribe that you just slaughtered without a second thought?
I had a campaign where an elaborate prank of Nathair Sgiathach that got out of hand accidentally led to his sister, Tiamat(yes, they are technically related), getting an avatar on the prime material. Also had him pronounce his name differently everytime he greeted someone. Edit: Tiny dragons with crossbows are not what I expected. Love it.
Faerie dragons are all one giant psychedelic euphemism, it's quite funny. As much as I like Faerie Dragons, I wouldn't want one to be a party companion for too long. Psudodragons are the way to go instead I think. Faerie dragons just seem a bit too extreme for my tastes, like having too much of a good thing starts to spoil it.
Man I love this video! I've always really gotten a kick out of fairy dragons. I was pleased to learn some lore I didn't know, really liked the artwork, and this video went great with my morning coffee. It put me in a good, light-hearted mood. Great way to start my day 🙂
I feel tempted of making a game with the players all being a weak homebrewed kind of goblins, experiencing low level adventures (in hunt for low value baubles, a new home or something of that non-grand nature) dealing with Faerie dragons and similar interesting but low level creatures. With the best solution rarely being combat. It creates a kind of intimate appeal where get you time to experience the world building in a calm yet fun way, without being thrust away from it by world-shattering events or the fury of gods.
WotC 3rdE D&D around 15 to 20 years ago, I set up a Fairy Tell game of a forest with a copper dragon leading a gnome druid/wizard illusionist vs a green dragon goblin druid/sorcerer 4th having 2nd-level spell wand battles hurtling insults at each other. Which turn into a larp battle of 12 &13 year old having rubber band fights inside the house casting insults at each other. My 70 year old grandmother used to be a bar tender, so her playful insults were legendary. The gnomes & goblins would have a contest on who could prank human merchants traveling through their forest road. I still had AD&D2ndE " Complete Humanoid Hand book," which covers pixies, mites, and atomie beings only standing 1 and a half foot tall/ 45cm.
Faerie Dragons are going my list of worst dragons simple because they a mess with time just by being near. They can be the source of the worst natural disaster of every kind. Seasons are twice along. just that alone will have a big impacts . you would have a massive increase in wild life.
Vengeful faerie dragon, Mexelstrazznack. "They killed or captured them... The whole village. The wizard blasted the town with flashbang spells and his companions threw gas canisters into my peoples home. The gas was new too us. It made anyone effected by it cry and ooze body fluids, nausea was an additional symptom of the gas. With the village in chaos, the hoomies roamed the village, plucking and collecting wings, encasing some in jars that were likely magical. It all took but a few minutes. When done the wizard cast a portal spell and they raiders simply left. My innate magic allowed me too trace them. I will find my friends and the hoomies?? They will die a happy and excruciating death..." An unlikely event, but not impossible. And would make for one helluva campaign....
I would love it if you would at some point comver the actual relationship between Psudo-dragons and fairy dragons. If it has been covered in lore of cores. 🙂
In so far as I can tell, most of the archfey (including Nathair Sgathac) have at least pseudo Irish/Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic names and pronunciations; Rhiannon being a notable exception of being Welsh. Sgathac is also a name found in Irish mythos, iirc. The other issue for pronunciations of Gaelic come down to dialects and accents, which, as someone who mostly just has to contend with Southern US English, can be a nightmare to sort through.
Thanks for making these AJ! Thought of branching out to Pathfinder? I mean, creatures and most stuff is your standard 3.5, but history / geography etc is completely different.
This made me envision a large cave, resounding with hissing, gnarling, generally just "dangerous" sounds, fitting for an ancient Red, thundering throughout the entire cave, only for a tiny faerie Dragon to angrily stomping (think the Way small parrots stomp around) towards the Party. Think of the scene where the Terrible Terror is revealed in How to train your Dragon, or the scene where Mushu introduces himself to Mulan (giant Shadow, tiny Dragon). The whole Setup suggests a way bigger creature, the faerie Dragon uses the cave to amplify the sounds it makes to sound bigger and scarier, to hopefully scare potential attackers away. And when it finally reveals itself, it puffs itself up to look bigger. It'd be just too cute!
Deep booming voice commands them to leave a few coins and depart, all the coins in the lair are illusive and it uses the coins to get treats for itself
Now I see why I love Faerie dragons so much. I once got pretty much ignored by police we'd called because we witnessed an altercation and car accident because I kept trying to point out a double rainbow. They probably thought I was high. (Spoiler: I wasn't. That's just how I am.)
Now here's a question - If a fun lil prank goes horribly wrong, toes the fairy dragon, being inherently feel bad? Like... The person who bothers an illusion'd beehive starts having an allergic reaction and starts to suffocate. Will the feydragon try to help, or just 'lol so random' and take off not realizing the extent of what it has done..?
from that specific example, the illusion shouldn't cause an actual reaction, perhaps just a psychosomatic reaction to the bees and yeah, the Faerie dragon will find it hilarious.
i play a fairy dragon caracter and i play a caotic good caracter but my party usually says its more like a caotic caotic caracter. Farie dragns dont whant to destroy or harm otthers for seriously, but if somebody dies by accident we became a little sad, for a minute, but dont forget we are dragons. Fairy dragons are like a 4 years old child with terrific super power.
If we were to get caught up in the capabilities or problems of others, we'd be too distracted from actually getting our ploys to work. And that's boring.
My god they get cuter and cuter with every word. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video, fairy dragons are my absolute favorite creature in all of dnd and I would give anything to befriend one. The amount of violent hatred and malicious vengeance I would bring down upon whoever I would find that would dare imprison and harm one of these precious creatures would be enough to poison the very earth with necrotic energy and taint the land for years to come.
So, in my setting, the “True Dragons(Chromatic and Ferrous fascist IoM dragons)” purged the Faerie dragons across my settings multiverse. I deserved to be stoned to death for writing such grimderp.
@@frankalphonso268 My only regret is that I don’t have the skills to DM all that well. If I could, I’d let you pull a Frieza on the scaly war criminals in my WIP setting.
@@RedSunUnderParadise perhaps we shall re-infest your multiverse with countless vengeful faerie dragons. And they might then show you an alternate way to be 'stoned to death'
Pseudodragons are the ancestors or fae dragons, a group of pseudodragons were imbued with fae magic and eventually became the fae dragons that we know now
My man said, "there's no fucking way..." and had to rewind to make sure I heard that correct. Might have just missed it in the past but I've never heard you swear 😅
@@VigilanteMike This campaign of mine is to end every pantheon in DnD. It is logistically wise to farm more than one faerie dragon for their breath weapon.
The preferred way is to make it worth our while. If you're willing to share lots of tasty treats and let us have fun 'playing' with your, erm, 'victims', then we might just hang out naturally with you. There's a cat analogy around somewhere.
@@FaerieDragonZook That sounds good but if I see one playing the role of tooth fairy dragon then you'll have to understand my hesitation. I don't trust the fae with deals, see. Never heard a good story from it.
@@AJPickett I can see it now After a Fierce fight with a band of bugbears The party open a treasure chest fill with only lemon drops The stolen hoard of a elder fairy dragon
Hey AJ, great video and loved the artwork! The picture of Banana Slug Faerie Dragon that one was epic. I like these friendlier dragons you have been introducing to us, more game play options. Thanks AJ you have a wonderful day!
As usual, great collection of art. Thanks for the effort. Makes me want to dive back into my Dragon magazine collection just to flip actual paper pages again. ;)
Can a Faerie Dragon's anima be interacted with under the right circumstances? Since it normally can't interact with the material world, maybe pulling a prank for one might be a funny side quest to get information or something.
Wanted to say thanks for all the hard work and research you do for these videos. Im playing an int based warlock occult researcher and all of my prep came from studying your videos like college courses lol
You find the best images for your videos. I kept stopping your oration to admire the pictures. I took several screenshots to put into my rotating background. Great job!
cant wait for more videos about the various outer planes.. i know you made a few on the heavens and such.. but i've yet to see any of the dnd lore youtubers cover every single outer plane.. hoping for more from you! yours are great :D
I really think I unconsciously schedule my gigs around my favorite creators lol several times lately I set up on a job site and there's a new video from one of the many fantastic D&D talkabouters for me to have a listen.
@AJPickett - I defend Fizban's Treasury in three ways: 1. I believe the updates to chromatic, metallic, and gem dragonborn racial features puts them in the S-tier of all PC races. An aarakocra all of a sudden doesn't seem quite so mechanically gifted vis-à-vis a gem dragon at 5th level (flight? Yessir). Aarakocra can fly, but do the have breath weapons that will do damage types as strong as radiant, force, and psychic, to narrative-rich necrotic and thunder (say, a sapphire gem dragonborn who flies around the stage, punctuating their performance with a Freddie Mercury boom in the finale). And those resistances. Oh those resistances. Resistant to psychic damage? Radiant? Force? Astonishing. 2. The notes written by fizban himself are a direct flight back to my 11 year old self taking a chance of a big fat book at the local Warrenbooks--Dragonlance Chronicles 3. It's a last stand for those like me who love dragons. The 5e designers could not have made a more concerted, tone-deaf attempt at diminishing all things draconic.
@@AJPickett The stories are grey there. Some say the red was in their hair, making them gingers. The Irish did eons of fighting over even the details of their myths. These opposing things are also true: Leprechauns coveted god for various reasons. Leprechauns only collected gold because humans valued that silly metal. What Leprechauns drink, can drink, and want to drink is also a never-agreed-upon thing in all of Irish culture. The passionate debates are often shouted about over pints of spirits and stronger smaller cups and glasses. From my various folklore research, they generally follow Leprechaun folklore but the details always seem to be in the ID of those who are "totally sure" of that very detail. So, because of that, for AD&D Leprechauns, I default to the AD&D version with the "open for local homebrew" card on the table. The most commonly accepted version is the Saint Patrick version, I won't go into my gripes about that "totally really real story about a saint" story. It's a green-clad little person with pointed ears that dresses very much like a Puritan in general style with a shillelagh (battle stick with which St. Patrick chased all the snakes out of Ireland). I mean, buckles everywhere and the stupid pipe, really? Oh, a short green-clad shillelagh donning guy smoking a pipe who covets gold that he hides at the end of a rainbow whose clothes are Puritan-themed is not at all suspect, right? That offends every non-Catholic Irishman who is well-read... and Irish Catholics who see that Leprechauns are linked to their stories and imagery. **Insert drunken people on both sides screaming about the other making this the opposite side's version** Leprechauns are just Irish Fey, Irish Fae, Irish Fairies, Irish Faeries, etc. From what I looked into and got to understand on who and what they are as faeries... they are pranksters who make Irish people fight about the details about them. Whenever a community gets comes to a good consensus as to who and what they are, they use their magic to "prove" that wrong and stir the pot. Sorry about this rant... I have a *LOT* of Irish ancestors, my 2nd biggest bloodline, and my 1st biggest word-of-mouth story source. When I even think of adding Celtic fey into AD&D, it almost feels like I am blaspheming against just about everything because of the grey areas and the pop-culture (even centuries-old) misinterpreted tropes. This post I just posted will make everyone who has a "totally solid" "well-researched" and "absolutely clear totally accurate" account of Leprechauns go red-faced screaming of how I know nothing, I am stupid, etc etc etc... all the way to questioning my sanity, bringing in religion, quoting "scientific" research of these mythical (fictional) beings, and going even Fox News on me. So, did they wear red? Yes. Did they not? Yes. Was the read because they are all Gingers? Yes. Is the red because they are Gingers who wear red? Yes. Is the red nothing to do with them? Yes. So, could the red be because they don't wear red? Yes. Could the red be because they are not Gingers? Yes. Could the red actually be a red herring? Yes. Literally, every question is "Yes"... on the details level. Leprechauns were hard to find, always were, but seemed to challenge Humans to find and chase them. So, they liked to play hide-and-seek with random people by enticing them with what they saw as valuable... but wore crap that would make it easy? Or... wore that crap at the challenge, and like Humans, can change their clothes. It's like people think mythical creatures that (if they exist) can remain in the realm of mythology while being stupidly predictable... as if they are projecting their issues upon such mythological creatures. Personally, I'd rather not deal with a Leprechaun. If I ever caught one and he gave me wishes, I'd ask him to live his best life and make me forget I caught him. That would all be for the best.
I always found fairy dragons facinating. I know it would be bit broken, but would same time be realy fun, ability similar to what fairy dragons had in heroes III... Random spelcasting (maybe as legendary action or something?). In HoMM 3, it was few spels it might randomly cast, but it would be more intresting if they can cast (atleast once per battle) a random spell that can literaly be any spell in exsistance (and afcourse, they themselfs have no idea what spell will be cast :). It could be something very usefully, something that is completly useless (atleast in this situatsion) or even harmfully for party/itself if realy unlucky. HoMM3 fairy dragons had fair change to cast chain lightning at worst moments, lol
We can grow larger, if we find reason to do so, but growing requires spending more time on hunting for more protein-rich foods like rats and squirrels, and many of us don't feel the need to when sweets are available.
Love the video. I have been listening to your dragon lore playlist and noticed you had the Cobra Dragon but not the Rattelyr Dragon. Have you ever heard of it? It's an interesting one from the Forgotten Realms Shining South sourcebook, could make a good video
It's a myth that we don't eat meat. I for one like catching rodents and birds. I'm a bit larger than most other Faerie Dragons though, so I can't complain if others prefer crickets and moths.
@@RedSunUnderParadise Not only is your Administratum's knowledge and coverage of the multiverse inherently limited, but even the sheer concept or knowledge of the existence of us is sufficient to allow us to return. We are the creatures of dreams and nightmares, and we infest the consciousness of those who ever dared to slight us, twisting and warping it in ways unimaginable.
Faerie dragon finds you are not drinking your mead fast enough, so the little lizard helps you out.
Then asks for seconds and thirds with a bit of cheese.
This is giving me so many ideas! Faerie dragons seem perfect for a "villain" of a small "arc" (1-3 sessions) in a longer campaign to add a little levity. Or give your party a faerie dragon companion that gets up to hijinks and draw them into it!
Remember, Faerie dragons who dwell for too long within the Shadowfell can become Shadow Faerie Dragons.... (oh the possibilities)
Hey, what about if your "villain" actually drags the adventurers to a place in need of some heroes to tackle a very real crisis? Poked over there with pranks.
@@AJPickett Whould that turn them into evil pranksters fully into inflict actual harm?
@@michaelpettersson4919 Yes.
If a drug den convinced a faerie dragon to give up their breath willingly with large apple pies their loyalty could be a strong motivator against a party of adventurers who were trying to close down the den.
32:40
The epiphany is that he'll never have another epiphany.
These videos are great as standalone entertainment - I've never played D&D but these are among my favorite content.
That indeed a possibility that may result in suicide and by that making that true.
Hearing AJ drop an F bomb is like hearing a teacher cuss
FINALLY NATHIER GETS MENTIONED HAHAHAH I LOVE THIS GOD, I play him so often with my players, they have either loved him or hated/feared him, but eventually grew to begrudgingly trust and even greatly care for him. Several have become warlocks to him or become pacted with him.
I feel Faerie dragons are the best for unusual hords, from a hord of cook books, shiny and unusual shaped numbered rocks, stuffed toy or dolls, musical instruments or jokes. They hord fun and unusual things.
I can’t help but chuckle at the idea that there’s a dragon with drug breath.
It's quite convenient, isn't it? Need to ward off a Tarrasque? Hire a pack of Faerie Dragons!
I fully support massive bee hives being used in pen and paper. Particularly if the hive in question is large enough to snuggly encase a character's head. :D
Fun fact in 3rd and 3.5 faerie dragons of the oldest age category could be huge size because dragons had indeterminate growth only limited by the size of their environment.
teeeeechnically true.
@@chakatBombshell I certainly have chosen to not stay the size of a cat. I more resemble an adult croc monitor lizard in size and shape.
No dragon would ever wear another dragon’s skull! Unless they were (even for chromatics) deeply fucked up! Like maybe a black dragon or a recently victorious blue or green dragon, but they certainly wouldn’t guild it so they could… g- aughh… wear them.
@@rachdarastrix5251 maybe if they were one who angered Tiamat or Bahamut to prove themselves
Fairy dragon dungeon. I was thinking about making a campaign with one of these creatures. The fairy dragon being as evil as it can never be which is more mischievous than anything in the most annoying way possible. Basically I want to start off the dungeon being one room with three treasure chests. A small riddle for the players to solve but the trick is that each one of them have a magic black powder inside that will flood the room. No matter which one you open it's the same result. They're meant to engulf the players and teleport them to one room inside a deeper layer of the dungeon. Depending on which one you open is where you start. Each player become small like Honey I shrunk the kids making any animal or situation much larger than what it normally would be. You take the map that you drawn out and bring out a second layer for that which would be much larger. Now the fairy dragon will mess with the party with illusions which can be dangerous with creatures like rats within the dungeon. Normal hit points apply to them. One of the goals intended is to either kill the fairy dragon or to leave the dungeon alive. Both results will return you to your normal size.
"Enchanted fairy foods" is a video I'd like to see. I can't even **begin** to imagine the potential mischief that could ensue.
more like guaranteed mischief
@@marcogenovesi8570 Agreed. But what kind, I wonder?
I remember an adventurer from Dungeon Magazine back in 2nd ed about a tribe of goblins who have captured a Faerie dragon and use it as a source of narcotics by harvesting its breath weapon. Naturally the point of the mission is to free the dragon. Edit: I see you posted the cover of said Dungeon Magazine.
6:38 When AJ drops the F bomb, it has some impact. I guess that's how it is when you are usually soft spoken and well mannered (unlike myself, I use curse words for punctuation.)
I am a New Zealander, so, off the mic, I do swear more often.
@@AJPickett Fair enough.
Thank you AJ for the Feywild subject matter, it's interesting to see how much it's changed throughout the years. The image of it being frivolous and silly is DEFINITELY not the case
It's been awhile since I've been on this channel and it's still pumping out glorious content.
Only time I've see fairy dragons have a proper treasure hoard was the old dungeons and dragons cartoon and that was a lot of fairy dragons living together with their queen
Wonderful video! In my current campaign, the characters met a faerie dragon with a tribe of kobolds. The kobolds were, as a result of their worship of the faerie dragon, a tribe of excellent bakers and confectioners.
Played the dragon himself a lot like the Cheshire cat. He liked slowly vanishing, leaving nothing but his disembodied smile hanging in the air...
Brilliant, I am going to use that slowly vanishing idea, thank you.
Hear me out, Faerie Dragon Dracolitch
Yesssss
@@its2early4dis dracoliches are a crude method. There are greater ways to achieve a sense of immortality. You just need the imagination, technique, and understanding of magic in its most fundamental sense.
I'm going to use one in my next game, a secret silver dragon meeting foiled by a pesky Faerie Dragon.
Awesome, man!
Encounter idea:
The adventures enter a cave and perhaps they enter a small 8x8ft room with nothing but a door at opposite ends. There’s a strange mist in the room, but nothing else.
The door opens to a long tunnel that just seems to keep going, until eventually there’s a side passage leading into a massive room.
When they wander inside, several huge-sized multi-colored dragons drop down into the room from the ceiling including one immediately behind them.
They proceed to bat the adventurers around sending them kareening across the room to smash into walls or each other, but these hits deal only 1 or 2 damage and very little even from their impacts with the walls. Every time they land a hit on the adventures, the dragons will say things like, “Bam!”, or when using what looks like lightning breath, “Bzzzzapp!” Insert other appropriate onomatopoeiasas needed.
The dragons laugh with fake maniacal laughter, when the adventurers try to hit them, and spout off with random super villain monologue lines.
When they finally get hit, they pretend the wound is fatal even though it’s comparatively tiny and- well you get it.
It’s a bunch of faerie dragons who summed up their power to cast a delayed effect reduced size spell on the adventurers, so that when they kept walking down the tunnel which was shrinking, just as the adventurers were, no one noticed.
The fae dragons just wanted to pretend at being big dragons for a bit.
Ah "...It's as welcome as a fart in an elevator.." there is a quote I enjoy and wish never forgotten
This is one my favourite episodes. The dedication to detail, the lyricism of the imagery, the game stat recommendations.
👌🏼
Thank you!
Ooh, I'm gonna sneak one of these into my kids' strixhaven game.
One of my favourite dragons.
I Always keep a spare pie for them on hand.
A dragon that exhales euphoric gas ? I know many people who would pay to have a dragon do that to them. Give that Dragon a job at the brothel they won't even think about women after repeated inhalation.
...and now my world has an underground Faerie Dragon breath trade and "Breath Dens" were people huff the bottled breaths of different Faerie Dragons to get high. Thanks AJ!
i have a faerie dragon caracter and i have 3 tipes of gas, one for laugh one for poison and one for sleep. In my party there is a thiefler who sell my gas at the underground and make himself some arrowhead lubricant outof it.
You know things have gotten real when AJ drops the F bomb.
I get Epiphany highs every time i watch AJ's videos.
Safe, legal, cheap and best of all, no known medical complications or side effects.
@@AJPickett **nods**
Facts.
Now that I know Faerie Dragons have a Patron Deity, all I can think of is what the perfect cleric or paladin would look like. It would have to be some super jovial fey (that's half of them anyway) with an overwhelming sense of joy and love of pranks. Perhaps a Copper half-dragon bard, or a celestial gnome illusionist? Or better yet epic level Atomie sorcerer!!!
Atomie Sorcerer!
@@Greenscyth22 or we could *be* a patron or guide for an Archfey Warlock or a Fey Wanderer Ranger.
Yes!!!! I'm so glad u finally covered these trixy little dragons
As I said before I don’t even play D&D but I love this channel, whenever I’m doing something or just relaxing i put one of your videos on to hear some of your stories
apparently Nathair Sgiathach is claimed after the second sundering to quote "not a real deity, and that his extraordinary powers were a result of his highly developed dragonsight." wonder what AJ's pseudodragon companion thinks of this theory, assuming he is anywhere near as scholarly as AJ when not being the more typical playful and mischievous nature?
He says "That is news to me".
Tied with Pseudo Dragons and Pixies as my favorite D&D creatures.
Dragon lore is always my favorite!
So I could put dragonfly wings on a bearded dragon and make my own faerie dragon?
Some lizards do in fact have wings, like the Draco lizards. I most resemble a monitor lizard, however.
I don't remember if it carries over from previous versions, but can a faerie dragon answer the 'find familiar spell'?
Yes
I would consider answering a call to become a familiar, if the perks are good enough, but I would recommend talking about it with your DM.
The implication of a time chamber like dbz being made by the Fairy dragons is... Awesome
@@thehillz726 or imagine your party encounters a particularly clever Faerie Dragon in their lair, and during the encounter, time runs 2x slow for the party and 2x fast for the dragon. We would have 4 turns for every 1 turn you have.
Equip fairy dragons with +1 sharpie pens?
Ooh, good idea! Thanks, this should be fun!
Also fun concept: Local clinic has deal with a baker and small group of Faerie Dragons - baker makes the group apple pies ine exchange for services as the clinic as living painkiller generators - or just there to be civil and help improve mood like therapy animals.
Faerie dragon gas + Elysian thrush song
Something I've considered; do you think if there was a scenario like "Honey I shrunk the kids" in a fey setting, you could implement a Faerie Dragon in the same way as a standard dragon?
I think it would be an interesting encounter.
Love that idea! 💡 Fun on a bun!
Certain Trees in the forest have a pollen that can reduce the size of traveller's subtly as the trees and mushrooms seem to get larger as you get closer to a very particular portion of the woods
Bonus fun if the pollen doesn't shrink equipment with iron components
Oh absolutely! One of my favorite feywild tropes is a forest where the direction you walk determines wether you grow taller, shorter, and back or forward in time.
D&D needs to do a Oblivion clone with Skyrim controls, and use their hard mature stories from the 80s. That would definitely bring their boot down heavy and let everybody know who is the daddy of Skyrim, Warhammer, Elden Ring, etc. They need to leave the modern romance ya stuff alone and just get HBO Sopranos level mature.
@@rachdarastrix5251 PG-75? Is that the one where you are made to ponder on impossible moral dilemmas, such as whether to burn along with the rest of the encampment the presumably innocent children, possibly females, sickly and ederly from the goblinoid/orcish tribe that you just slaughtered without a second thought?
Try PG Grown Assed Adults with Good Tastes. Breaking Bad audience too.
I had a campaign where an elaborate prank of Nathair Sgiathach that got out of hand accidentally led to his sister, Tiamat(yes, they are technically related), getting an avatar on the prime material. Also had him pronounce his name differently everytime he greeted someone.
Edit: Tiny dragons with crossbows are not what I expected. Love it.
Faerie dragons are all one giant psychedelic euphemism, it's quite funny. As much as I like Faerie Dragons, I wouldn't want one to be a party companion for too long. Psudodragons are the way to go instead I think. Faerie dragons just seem a bit too extreme for my tastes, like having too much of a good thing starts to spoil it.
Exactly so, they are, after all, ALIEN beings from another dimension.
Aww, we can make great party members! It's not our fault that *you're* aliens from another realm that just don't understand us.
Man I love this video! I've always really gotten a kick out of fairy dragons. I was pleased to learn some lore I didn't know, really liked the artwork, and this video went great with my morning coffee. It put me in a good, light-hearted mood. Great way to start my day 🙂
Glad I could help!
@@AJPickett Me too! Lol
My Campaign has a faerie dragon named Meadowbright who is about to become a lot more interesting... thank you
My pleasure!
I feel tempted of making a game with the players all being a weak homebrewed kind of goblins, experiencing low level adventures (in hunt for low value baubles, a new home or something of that non-grand nature) dealing with Faerie dragons and similar interesting but low level creatures. With the best solution rarely being combat.
It creates a kind of intimate appeal where get you time to experience the world building in a calm yet fun way, without being thrust away from it by world-shattering events or the fury of gods.
WotC 3rdE D&D around 15 to 20 years ago, I set up a Fairy Tell game of a forest with a copper dragon leading a gnome druid/wizard illusionist vs a green dragon goblin druid/sorcerer 4th having 2nd-level spell wand battles hurtling insults at each other. Which turn into a larp battle of 12 &13 year old having rubber band fights inside the house casting insults at each other. My 70 year old grandmother used to be a bar tender, so her playful insults were legendary.
The gnomes & goblins would have a contest on who could prank human merchants traveling through their forest road.
I still had AD&D2ndE " Complete Humanoid Hand book," which covers pixies, mites, and atomie beings only standing 1 and a half foot tall/ 45cm.
@@krispalermo8133 Interesting and unique. I like it!
@@torbjornlekberg7756 Thank you and I hope you had a good weekend.
@@krispalermo8133 You too.
Faerie Dragons are going my list of worst dragons simple because they a mess with time just by being near.
They can be the source of the worst natural disaster of every kind. Seasons are twice along. just that alone will have a big impacts . you would have a massive increase in wild life.
Yep. Its ridiculously overpowered.
Vengeful faerie dragon, Mexelstrazznack. "They killed or captured them... The whole village. The wizard blasted the town with flashbang spells and his companions threw gas canisters into my peoples home. The gas was new too us. It made anyone effected by it cry and ooze body fluids, nausea was an additional symptom of the gas. With the village in chaos, the hoomies roamed the village, plucking and collecting wings, encasing some in jars that were likely magical. It all took but a few minutes. When done the wizard cast a portal spell and they raiders simply left. My innate magic allowed me too trace them. I will find my friends and the hoomies?? They will die a happy and excruciating death..." An unlikely event, but not impossible. And would make for one helluva campaign....
I would love it if you would at some point comver the actual relationship between Psudo-dragons and fairy dragons. If it has been covered in lore of cores. 🙂
Bless the Mighty GlueStick
Out of curiosity, are there any changes to the lore made in 5th edition that you are a fan of or make sense from your perspective?
Yes. LOADS. Even in this case I mention the new lair and regional effects.
@@AJPickett
Care to give a few examples?
Ahh, one of my favorites.
And of course a new stick of glue for the munching! :9
In so far as I can tell, most of the archfey (including Nathair Sgathac) have at least pseudo Irish/Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic names and pronunciations; Rhiannon being a notable exception of being Welsh. Sgathac is also a name found in Irish mythos, iirc.
The other issue for pronunciations of Gaelic come down to dialects and accents, which, as someone who mostly just has to contend with Southern US English, can be a nightmare to sort through.
A pleasant way to start the morning.
My DM has allowed me to play a fairy dragon, His name is honey and is an archfay warlock.
my caracter is also a fairy dragon her name is Ariel and she is a sorcerer
Lovely artwork you selected for this one.
Thanks for making these AJ! Thought of branching out to Pathfinder? I mean, creatures and most stuff is your standard 3.5, but history / geography etc is completely different.
This made me envision a large cave, resounding with hissing, gnarling, generally just "dangerous" sounds, fitting for an ancient Red, thundering throughout the entire cave, only for a tiny faerie Dragon to angrily stomping (think the Way small parrots stomp around) towards the Party.
Think of the scene where the Terrible Terror is revealed in How to train your Dragon, or the scene where Mushu introduces himself to Mulan (giant Shadow, tiny Dragon).
The whole Setup suggests a way bigger creature, the faerie Dragon uses the cave to amplify the sounds it makes to sound bigger and scarier, to hopefully scare potential attackers away. And when it finally reveals itself, it puffs itself up to look bigger.
It'd be just too cute!
Deep booming voice commands them to leave a few coins and depart, all the coins in the lair are illusive and it uses the coins to get treats for itself
@@edendemarlo
Exactly
Oh, you'll still see a big, strong, vicious Red Dragon, demanding tributes of gems and pastries.
I always say this, and this is always true I love videos about dragons. Thanx for another great video
Always glad to learn more about dnd. Thanks for the amazing videos!
Now I see why I love Faerie dragons so much. I once got pretty much ignored by police we'd called because we witnessed an altercation and car accident because I kept trying to point out a double rainbow. They probably thought I was high. (Spoiler: I wasn't. That's just how I am.)
Now here's a question - If a fun lil prank goes horribly wrong, toes the fairy dragon, being inherently feel bad? Like... The person who bothers an illusion'd beehive starts having an allergic reaction and starts to suffocate. Will the feydragon try to help, or just 'lol so random' and take off not realizing the extent of what it has done..?
from that specific example, the illusion shouldn't cause an actual reaction, perhaps just a psychosomatic reaction to the bees and yeah, the Faerie dragon will find it hilarious.
@@AJPickett Fair! I thought the illusion was hiding a real beehive, so the bees were very real, like you mentioned in your vid. But thank you!!
i play a fairy dragon caracter and i play a caotic good caracter but my party usually says its more like a caotic caotic caracter. Farie dragns dont whant to destroy or harm otthers for seriously, but if somebody dies by accident we became a little sad, for a minute, but dont forget we are dragons. Fairy dragons are like a 4 years old child with terrific super power.
If we were to get caught up in the capabilities or problems of others, we'd be too distracted from actually getting our ploys to work. And that's boring.
Dragon video! 😎🐉
🐉 🦋
Great video on one of my favorite D&D creatures.
Thanks for all the lore
I love the character of the sage, it’s very immersive
Consider, fairie kobolds
Can you do a video on the Cult of the dragon next please. Great Video.
My god they get cuter and cuter with every word. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video, fairy dragons are my absolute favorite creature in all of dnd and I would give anything to befriend one. The amount of violent hatred and malicious vengeance I would bring down upon whoever I would find that would dare imprison and harm one of these precious creatures would be enough to poison the very earth with necrotic energy and taint the land for years to come.
So, in my setting, the “True Dragons(Chromatic and Ferrous fascist IoM dragons)” purged the Faerie dragons across my settings multiverse. I deserved to be stoned to death for writing such grimderp.
@@RedSunUnderParadise you do yes. I shall slay all the dragons for this.
@@frankalphonso268
My only regret is that I don’t have the skills to DM all that well. If I could, I’d let you pull a Frieza on the scaly war criminals in my WIP setting.
@@frankalphonso268 what do you know, Faerie Dragons are my favorite too!
@@RedSunUnderParadise perhaps we shall re-infest your multiverse with countless vengeful faerie dragons. And they might then show you an alternate way to be 'stoned to death'
Pseudodragons are the ancestors or fae dragons, a group of pseudodragons were imbued with fae magic and eventually became the fae dragons that we know now
My man said, "there's no fucking way..." and had to rewind to make sure I heard that correct.
Might have just missed it in the past but I've never heard you swear 😅
When I do, it's for a reason.
The gas they breath might be good for interrogations or brokering deals with certain individuals.
How can I farm some faerie dragons?
Who says you need to farm more than one?
@@VigilanteMike
This campaign of mine is to end every pantheon in DnD. It is logistically wise to farm more than one faerie dragon for their breath weapon.
The preferred way is to make it worth our while. If you're willing to share lots of tasty treats and let us have fun 'playing' with your, erm, 'victims', then we might just hang out naturally with you. There's a cat analogy around somewhere.
@@FaerieDragonZook
That sounds good but if I see one playing the role of tooth fairy dragon then you'll have to understand my hesitation. I don't trust the fae with deals, see. Never heard a good story from it.
What about puck or Robin good fellow?
On a aside, how much do fairy dragons like hard candy?
They like it a LOT.
@@AJPickett
I can see it now
After a Fierce fight with a band of bugbears
The party open a treasure chest fill with only lemon drops
The stolen hoard of a elder fairy dragon
Fairy dragons are my favorite part of dnd
Mine too! But I might be biased..
Hey AJ, great video and loved the artwork! The picture of Banana Slug Faerie Dragon that one was epic. I like these friendlier dragons you have been introducing to us, more game play options.
Thanks AJ you have a wonderful day!
This was a lot of fun to watch/listen to. You are an amazing writer and narrator.
Thank you!
As usual, great collection of art. Thanks for the effort. Makes me want to dive back into my Dragon magazine collection just to flip actual paper pages again. ;)
My favorite familiar! Thanks, AJ! Good stuff
Would it be too on the nose to name one "Puff?" Lol
That's the sort of thing you judge by the volume of groans from your players.
Puff the magic dragon seems like the perfect name
@@Sirfinchyyy Perhaps a Feywild portal on a beach?
@@AJPickett Totally solid scale. You want cheers as the storytelling bind, not jeers.
Can a Faerie Dragon's anima be interacted with under the right circumstances? Since it normally can't interact with the material world, maybe pulling a prank for one might be a funny side quest to get information or something.
Yeah, same as speaking with a ghost.
Wanted to say thanks for all the hard work and research you do for these videos. Im playing an int based warlock occult researcher and all of my prep came from studying your videos like college courses lol
You find the best images for your videos. I kept stopping your oration to admire the pictures. I took several screenshots to put into my rotating background. Great job!
This video is just in time. I just got a pair of faerie dragon minis
cant wait for more videos about the various outer planes.. i know you made a few on the heavens and such.. but i've yet to see any of the dnd lore youtubers cover every single outer plane.. hoping for more from you! yours are great :D
Darn you AJ, now I just have to rewrite my oneshot to include one of these little guys! ;)
Awesome video, it made my day. Thank you friend!
I really think I unconsciously schedule my gigs around my favorite creators lol several times lately I set up on a job site and there's a new video from one of the many fantastic D&D talkabouters for me to have a listen.
This was delightful
Oh god I have ideas for a fey warlock god help anyone
I like this new thumbnail layout. Feels way more professional than most of your others.
Thank you, good feedback!
@AJPickett - I defend Fizban's Treasury in three ways:
1. I believe the updates to chromatic, metallic, and gem dragonborn racial features puts them in the S-tier of all PC races. An aarakocra all of a sudden doesn't seem quite so mechanically gifted vis-à-vis a gem dragon at 5th level (flight? Yessir). Aarakocra can fly, but do the have breath weapons that will do damage types as strong as radiant, force, and psychic, to narrative-rich necrotic and thunder (say, a sapphire gem dragonborn who flies around the stage, punctuating their performance with a Freddie Mercury boom in the finale). And those resistances. Oh those resistances. Resistant to psychic damage? Radiant? Force? Astonishing.
2. The notes written by fizban himself are a direct flight back to my 11 year old self taking a chance of a big fat book at the local Warrenbooks--Dragonlance Chronicles
3. It's a last stand for those like me who love dragons. The 5e designers could not have made a more concerted, tone-deaf attempt at diminishing all things draconic.
Leprechauns wore red!
I'll take your word for it.
@@AJPickett The stories are grey there. Some say the red was in their hair, making them gingers. The Irish did eons of fighting over even the details of their myths.
These opposing things are also true: Leprechauns coveted god for various reasons. Leprechauns only collected gold because humans valued that silly metal.
What Leprechauns drink, can drink, and want to drink is also a never-agreed-upon thing in all of Irish culture. The passionate debates are often shouted about over pints of spirits and stronger smaller cups and glasses.
From my various folklore research, they generally follow Leprechaun folklore but the details always seem to be in the ID of those who are "totally sure" of that very detail. So, because of that, for AD&D Leprechauns, I default to the AD&D version with the "open for local homebrew" card on the table.
The most commonly accepted version is the Saint Patrick version, I won't go into my gripes about that "totally really real story about a saint" story. It's a green-clad little person with pointed ears that dresses very much like a Puritan in general style with a shillelagh (battle stick with which St. Patrick chased all the snakes out of Ireland). I mean, buckles everywhere and the stupid pipe, really? Oh, a short green-clad shillelagh donning guy smoking a pipe who covets gold that he hides at the end of a rainbow whose clothes are Puritan-themed is not at all suspect, right? That offends every non-Catholic Irishman who is well-read... and Irish Catholics who see that Leprechauns are linked to their stories and imagery. **Insert drunken people on both sides screaming about the other making this the opposite side's version**
Leprechauns are just Irish Fey, Irish Fae, Irish Fairies, Irish Faeries, etc. From what I looked into and got to understand on who and what they are as faeries... they are pranksters who make Irish people fight about the details about them. Whenever a community gets comes to a good consensus as to who and what they are, they use their magic to "prove" that wrong and stir the pot.
Sorry about this rant... I have a *LOT* of Irish ancestors, my 2nd biggest bloodline, and my 1st biggest word-of-mouth story source. When I even think of adding Celtic fey into AD&D, it almost feels like I am blaspheming against just about everything because of the grey areas and the pop-culture (even centuries-old) misinterpreted tropes.
This post I just posted will make everyone who has a "totally solid" "well-researched" and "absolutely clear totally accurate" account of Leprechauns go red-faced screaming of how I know nothing, I am stupid, etc etc etc... all the way to questioning my sanity, bringing in religion, quoting "scientific" research of these mythical (fictional) beings, and going even Fox News on me.
So, did they wear red? Yes. Did they not? Yes. Was the read because they are all Gingers? Yes. Is the red because they are Gingers who wear red? Yes. Is the red nothing to do with them? Yes. So, could the red be because they don't wear red? Yes. Could the red be because they are not Gingers? Yes. Could the red actually be a red herring? Yes. Literally, every question is "Yes"... on the details level. Leprechauns were hard to find, always were, but seemed to challenge Humans to find and chase them. So, they liked to play hide-and-seek with random people by enticing them with what they saw as valuable... but wore crap that would make it easy? Or... wore that crap at the challenge, and like Humans, can change their clothes. It's like people think mythical creatures that (if they exist) can remain in the realm of mythology while being stupidly predictable... as if they are projecting their issues upon such mythological creatures.
Personally, I'd rather not deal with a Leprechaun. If I ever caught one and he gave me wishes, I'd ask him to live his best life and make me forget I caught him. That would all be for the best.
@@AJPickett The folklore says they wore red coats specifically because they didn't want to be associated with the more "trooping" fey.
I always found fairy dragons facinating. I know it would be bit broken, but would same time be realy fun, ability similar to what fairy dragons had in heroes III... Random spelcasting (maybe as legendary action or something?). In HoMM 3, it was few spels it might randomly cast, but it would be more intresting if they can cast (atleast once per battle) a random spell that can literaly be any spell in exsistance (and afcourse, they themselfs have no idea what spell will be cast :). It could be something very usefully, something that is completly useless (atleast in this situatsion) or even harmfully for party/itself if realy unlucky. HoMM3 fairy dragons had fair change to cast chain lightning at worst moments, lol
I feel these should have been bigger, like the size of a young chromatic dragon.
We can grow larger, if we find reason to do so, but growing requires spending more time on hunting for more protein-rich foods like rats and squirrels, and many of us don't feel the need to when sweets are available.
Love the video. I have been listening to your dragon lore playlist and noticed you had the Cobra Dragon but not the Rattelyr Dragon. Have you ever heard of it? It's an interesting one from the Forgotten Realms Shining South sourcebook, could make a good video
Indeed! I have a few more rare dragons to cover.
@@AJPickett I'm looking forward to it. I have learned about all sorts of dragons that I didn't even know existed thanks to your videos
There are also Fey Dragons from Gm Binder. i like it.
Thanks for the video AJ
Thank you Loremaster Pickett. My DM has a new headache!!!
It's a myth that we don't eat meat. I for one like catching rodents and birds. I'm a bit larger than most other Faerie Dragons though, so I can't complain if others prefer crickets and moths.
Moths are full of parasites.
Thank Tzeentch, a surviving Faerie dragon. I though the Dragonlord Administratum and their Republic's Doom Troopers purged you all.
@@RedSunUnderParadise Not only is your Administratum's knowledge and coverage of the multiverse inherently limited, but even the sheer concept or knowledge of the existence of us is sufficient to allow us to return. We are the creatures of dreams and nightmares, and we infest the consciousness of those who ever dared to slight us, twisting and warping it in ways unimaginable.
@@FaerieDragonZook
Based.
I’ve been waiting for this video for a long time, I am super excited