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"What monster would you like to see show up next on the channel?" How about the Force or Prismatic Dragon from the EPIC LEVEL HANDBOOK? Great video as always!
Hold on, Idea, what if the horde was a horde of dark artifacts, weapons and cursed treasures. It would be pretty cool to see what the players would do and could bring up some really good story lines in terms of plot and background
How about Catastrophic Dragons? Dragons who ditched whole Bahamut vs Tiamat conflict and swore service to Primodials, becoming emobidemnts of natural diseasters?
I got an idea for someone running a tungston dragon, the higher you're charisma is the harder it should be to convince them in a diplomacy check, because such a check with high charisma would often involve the flowery words they look down on so much, this could only be bypassed if the person with high charisma passes the right check to know tungsten dragons dislike that or is informed by someone who knows that.
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Didnt someone make an alternate timeline which swapped good & evil, where Tiamat was the good aligned " Rainbow Dragon" god, and Bahamut was now the evil " Plutonium Dragon?"
For an April Fools, you should totally make the Uranium Dragon, from Munchkin, the only dragon I know that starts really large and strong but, as it ages, becomes smaller and weaker due to radioactive decay.
Okay, now I HAVE to use a misguided tungsten dragon as an antagonist for my current party. Two tieflings, a half-drow, and a dhampir. A stubborn tungsten dragon that believes blood determines one nature would be perfect to use.
In Dungeon Dad's defense tungsten is a naturally occurring element, just not in its pure metal form. It is found naturally in the minerals of Wolframite and Scheelite.
Every survival crafting game has led me to believe tungsten is a naturally occurring ore. I can't believe Big Ore has pulled the wool over my eyes, and this is where I learn the truth.
Tungsten can naturally occur (its just super freaking rare) but specifically tungsten STEEL cannot occur in nature. Due to how tungsten and iron bond with each other nature cannot form the proper chemical bonds for it on Earth at least.
It *is* naturally occurring in ores. An "ore" is any mineral assemblage which bears economically viable quantities of an element that can be extracted. The primary ore of tungsten is wolframite, an iron-manganese-tungstate. What you're thinking of is a native metal, which is a metal occurring purely by itself as a single mineral in nature. And you're right - tungsten has never been found as a pure native metal in nature, though it is theoretically possible. Gold, silver, copper, and platinum have all been found as native metals, though usually as accessory minerals and not in economically viable quantities.
317 canonical dragon species exist over all editions of D&D, so just subtract the 19 that were officially brought into 5e, plus the ones this channel has already covered.
@@agentchaos9332damn bro I believe the question was rhetorical but good on you. I was gonna say as many as you want or some other nonsense. That being said you can make a dragon out of almost any element, color, environment ect.
I'd imagine Tungsten Dragons horde weapons, they don't actually 100% horde them, however. They use it as an armory for weapons to arm noble warriors to basically add them as more weapons in the battle against Evil. They might send applicants for any magical arms in their armory on quests to prove both their nobility & skill. No sense in giving the most powerful weapon in your arsenal to someone who'll get killed & let the armies of Evil use it to their advantage or destroy it if they can't. I can also see them allowing a Dwarven community nearby to access the steel for mutual aid, both with food & their horde.
My ideas around the hoard. Records of battles and stratagems of war. For a clan the most important part would be. Their own history of battle and war. trophies from past battles. With a near public list of their accomplishments for the side of good. At least if the clan is a prideful one. For their losses. They keep tabs on every time they failed innocents. Using these instances as primers for what not to do. And or. What to prepare for in the future. Remember it's a small clan of dragons. The history here could go back several dragon generations. + Would essentially make tungsten dragons lairs tactical and strategy schools. For those that can prove their dedication to the side of light..... Some really old clans could have records of conflicts going back several thousand years. To both educate themselves and to study their enemies. ........ As an aside. The brass dragons would be..... Interested in what's in those records. But always turned away at the first sight of brass scales...... Or gift of gab..
I think a good "hoard" for a tungsten dragon would be soldiers. Like, it trains or recruits people to fight for its cause. That would fit its militaristic commander deal and would make its ruthlessness easy to illustrate by showing it casually sending the people that it interacts with daily and has fought alongside to their death for the sake of the greater good.
i imagine in a proper encounter with them the biggest threat wouldn't be the dragon itself but the army of champion, cavalier, and battlemaster fighters, and conquest, glory, and watcher paladins fighting along side it all with +1 equipment
Talking about the lawful alignment of all ferrous dragons, the hierarchy, and the how they still clash personalities with each other, makes me want a setting where the adventures have to go to an academy in a distant city for Reasons where they grate with the cliquish young adults studying there. The professors are more welcoming, but seem oddly keen to have the party interact with the students as much as possible. Eventually, when an enemy/The Enemy attacks the party at the school, they're overwhelmed by the academy's inhabitants who all turn out to be young dragons in disguise, being taught by their elders how to blend in and interact with the mortal races. The party gets what they came for, the students gain some new allies and vice versa, and the bard realizes he achieved his lifelong dream the night before without him knowing.
13:40 Yeah, I agree with you totally. My villain for my current campaign is an ancient silver dragon who’s trying to destroy the King-Killer Meteor and establish a draconic empire anew. And their reasoning for this is they’re disenfranchised with the idea that the best way to let things be is let mortals rule themselves, because once when she was younger she transformed into a dwarven woman and ended up falling in love with a dwarven lord. He was slain due to civil strife in the region where the humans attacked the dwarves without much obvious reason. Seeing this happen to her, and dozens of times over her ancient life, has led her to the conclusion that mortals, while precious, can only be guided by force of Will.
@@lukeari9890 Then you join the dragon and then I will cronfront you with the idea of if Tyranny is still the way to handle people. Sure they're safe, and division is removed. But people loose their identity. They loose the ability to speak out or be different because descent breeds rebellion, which breeds division. You'd be asked to do darker and darker things to uphold your regime, forced to hurt innocents and level homes and businesses.
Amazing intro, discussion of alignment, Leeroy Jenkins ref...This video's got it all. I'm toying with using a tungsten dragon who moved out to the desert to be left ALONE, thank you very much, but then a bunch of mortals showed up and turned the steel deposits into weapons. Seeing where this could go and not really wanting to upset the whole apple cart, the dragon every so often shows up in a new disguise to take a job as a bureaucrat and cripple the government from within. When the party meets him, he's disguised as a portly middle-aged man with a large mustache and a permanent death glare.
Perhaps he failed to protect the innocent. Or he couldn't, so he got them to a shelter that didn't have enough air, so they just went to sleep with their hope intact.
Absolutely amazing lmao. This in mind, I think their hoards being composed of “jobs well done” or essentially things that they’ve made or built themselves or things that act as mementos of accomplishments or tasks they’ve finished that they’re proud of would be an interesting concept. The huge stone bed intricately carved out of a cliffside by their own two claws, the polished table made from their crystalized glass breath entombing a tyrant they once freed a city from, a mantle shaped from a tree they planted as a seed when they were a wyrmling, holding the most prized possession of multiple hoards belonging each to an evil dragon they’ve slain, that sort of thing.
OMG, imagine if a Tungsten Dragon teamed up with a War March (see Pointy Hat's Fighter Lich) and outfits the whole war march with armor to handle whatever it is the tungsten dragon needs killed.
OK now I NEED to play a tungsten dragonborn. The flavor here is amazing and I LOVE conquest Paladins but @10:08 that BIONICLE cameo was pure vibes and nostalgia. I'm sold.
The Tungsten Dragon is a natural ally for the Harmonium planar faction, AKA "Hardheads," from _Planescape._ Definitely look the Harmonium up if you're thinking about running a Helldivers-esque campaign. They are one of the few canonical groups that is powerful enough and organized enough to run a Helldivers-style invasion anywhere in the D&D multiverse -- even one right in the heart of the Abyss. Their lore is practically tailor-made for this style of campaign.
A whole adventure with the PCs involved with the Harmonium seeking to ally with a tungsten dragon before they assault a demonlord’s layer of the abyss. Could be used to explain why we only hear about the same ones, the weaker were wiped out by Harmonium
@@JadenLingerfelt The entire Harmonium prime material world has been conquered and unified by the faction just like Super Earth, and they already control most of the plane of Arcadia and have since been branching out to other locations. If you include a substantial presence of Tungsten Dragons anywhere in your game, there's no way they could avoid interacting with the Harmonium. They would either be cooperating already, working as rivals, or both. That fits perfectly with your idea.
I like the idea of Tungsten dragons hoarding weapons either ones taken from evil beings or ones they're storing to arm the forces of good when it comes time to battle. Alternatively have them hoard glass works of art that hold a lot of beauty
Just gonna throw this out there. Y'all remember how the Steel Dragons hoard memories/experiences of their lives? Have Tungsten Dragons hoard victories and their triumphs over evil. I mean, they actively seek out evil aligned stuff to kill so their stories of triumphs would make for a pretty on brand hoard.
That was my thought too! Materialistic things are frivolous, and could be better contributed to furthering the cause, and trophies are grisly & crude. The true sign of a successful tungsten dragon would be the tales of how many times they reduced the forces of evil to little more than glass slag in their wake.
@@msf2399 would like to point out that they wouldn't brag about it as that is wasting their time and far to close to those annoying brass dragons. they are blunt and to the point. Tapestries or stain glass of past glories no doubt, but as for telling tales not so much.
The plothook that came to mind for me was actually a mining town and a tungsten dragon having a symbiotic relationship. The Tungsten dragon allows the miners to mine in its lair and even let the town build directly on top of it with its only demand being that the city handles all the smaller threats to the dragon and its hoard allowing it to focus all its efforts on hunting down chromatic dragons, wyverns, and behirs near its lair. A good sort of comparison/metaphor being that some Tarantulas take frogs as pets, killing whatever would eat the frog while the frog eats the tarantula wasps that would kill it.
By the way, I asked my dad about what ferrous means, and while it does mean iron in latin, in chemistry it usually gets used to say that a metal or element is magnetic or can hold a magnetic charge. Also, Tungsten dragon who forgoes their tradition of general for the side of good to become an industrial tycoon (achieve victory over evil with the power of economics)
I could see an adventure where the players are sent on an Apocalypse Now-style mission with the tungsten dragon playing a Colonel Kurtz role where his obsession with destroying an evil force has resulted in him employing...unsound methods...
Upon arrival into the great mesa's cavernous path, you notice that the stairs are carved of sandstone, glazed smooth by intense heat. On either side of the stairs heading up to the top of a ridge, equidistantly spaced from one another, are skeletons of regal warriors clad in silvery armor, encased in thick Crystal's of glass with placards of brass denoting their names, ranks, birth and death dates, and years of honorable, dutiful service. As you ascend to the top landing and push open the simple iron shod ironwood trunk castle sized double doors, you're greeted with the immaculate sight. Architecture, a blending of what we know of as the American South West's Mesa cliff dwellings mixed with other desert cultures is hewn from the same glazed sandstone, each of the alcoves shows various forms of decorated Terracotta esque pottery. Further down past a bend, you walk past an a giant study. Peaking in, you see it is brilliantly lit by refractive light from all the mosaic glass tiles adorning the surfice. It's bookshelves of combat tretacies, large chairs, and clay fireplace give off a no nonsense reading room, the only exception being a curio cabnet display of ethnographic jewelery and ceremonial wear made from silver, turquoise, coral and bone. Further down still lower into the mountian caverns you observe what appears to be a room labeled " Treasury", which consists only of a giant table, stationary, and a set of 10 foot by 20 foot rectangular solid iron chests with no locks. Seeing as you couldn't even open the heavy lids, you move on to a room labeled " Barracks/ guest quarters", where rows upon rows of well made beds and simple foot lockers are orderly maintained. Across the way, you spy an armory of what appears to be more like a gallery of lovingly maintained but apparently "bland munitions grade" weapons and armor, but upon closer inspection each piece is revealed to be exquisitely crafted in a form of simplified elegant form and function. As you look at one of the pieces inside the armory, you hear a voice speak up behind you. " You've a good eye for quality. Unfortunately, you've not good manners. Turn around. Slowly." Turning around you see a Ancient Tungsten Dragon aiming a claw right at your chest like a rapier. It then smiles wryly and announces itself. " My name is Krayt Daruud, General of the Vitrious Hearts Bregade, also known as the Luminous Sandstorm in some circles. What's your's?"
You know what would be cool, if hybrid metallic and Ferraris dragons would be the representation of the alloys you would get from mixing the metals those dragons represent. For instance, if any of you have homebrewed titanium dragons(I’ve looked around. I haven’t seen anything that indicates titanium dragons are a thing in DND) and they were to mate with nickel dragons, they would make nitinol dragons or memory shape metal dragons. Nitinol is a metal that when bent and then heated up, it will return back to its original shape. A nitinol dragon, upon heating up will be able to undo and heal any blunt damage done to it.
This is the first dragon you've covered that I wasn't already familiar with. All the others I at least knew the name; I only knew any of the ferrous dragons, or even the entire category, by name, no details. I didn't even realize tungsten was one of them!
Any one else seeing a clan of Tungsten Dragons as heads of a maybe fanatical Templar order? Could start with a job to get some high quality ore from a dessert for a smith or so, you do a miss step or have bad luck and stumble onto the order, either you took the wrong corner and end up in their mine and effectively stealing from them or they just see you on the way back and ask for the document that allows mining there which the smith sadly forgot, and from there you somehow learn that the order is going on a crusade, maybe against the city you were just in or another and maybe get hired as scouts or you may just want to warn the guy theyre going to and then a big sabotage campaign begins leading to a dragon fight.
@@andyenglish4303 they would be stated like the dragon who's qualities they share just like the others..like in this case..your breath weapon would be the molten sand just appropriately scaled as for other stuff 🤷
For this kind of thing, another dragonborn wouldn't work. It'd be best to reflavour what dragonborn we already have and make homebrew racial feats that mimic that specific dragon's abilities. I did that for the purple dragon.
20:43 I really appreciate that perspective on alignment and species! It’s pretty much where I fall, along with the idea that alignment is like most other personality/morality terms - it’s a shorthand way to communicate the general direction you go in. It’s a starting point, not a unified be-all-end-all.
TL; DR: The Tungsten Dragon is the most based Dragon species. BTW, them being immune to Fire damage makes sense for them especially because Tungsten is the element with the highest melting point. If I'm not mistaken, lava evaporates at a lower temperature than tungsten melts at (heavily conditional lol).
...I have to admit I was still holding out on the Tungsten Dragon announcement being rolled into April Fool's for a Fool's Gold/Pyrite Dragon announcment 😢 Regarding the Tungstens' hoard: I just can't see it as anything else except trophies of successful campaigns against evil and chaos. So maybe one particular tungsten dragon might have a collection of foes in glass, while another might prefer to keep all their weapons so they never fall into the hands of evil-doers again. Anyway, this is good stuff, as always 🫡 Thanks, DD!
They can call themselves lawful good as much as they want but these dudes are at best lawful neutral if not lawful evil. "Listen I didn't kill you 'cause you're an innocent living in the city of a tyrannical ruler, but I did completely destroy your home and livelihood and everything you know because you happened to live in evil guy's city. I'm good!" Great vid as always DD!
The hoard should definitely be assets. So anything needed to fight evil. That can be some combo of gold, informants, weapons of mass destruction, ancient curses. treaties, etc.
I don't know if you know of a certain hat shaped D&D content creator but they recently made a Fighter Lich that's all about growing it's army at all costs and... Tungsten Dragon vs Death March sounds like a fantastic campaign.
lol he not done with the fors dragons so your going to have to hold off a bit longer till he done with those. He has only covered like what two of them and there are what five or six displayed. yah wait a bit longer. lol love the enthusiasm though. keep it up!
Not sure if anyone else has pointed it out already, but tungsten-steel alloy would suck for weapons. The best analogy I can think of is trying to use a glass sword, but it's a metal. It could be great for armor, though (provided anyone beyond dwarves could work it). Edit: bc of how hard it is, tungsten would be good against slashing and perhaps even piercing damage, but not so good against bludgeoning. My understanding is that a tungsten armor wouldn't absorb much of bludgeoning damage, if any at all, meaning the wearer would the take full force of the attack.
Thanks for pointing that out! Everyone else's daily reminder that Hardness ≠ Toughness! Toughness is a measure of how much energy a material can absorb before breaking, Hardness is a material's ability to resist deforming. Glass is very hard but not very tough.
@@ElishaFollet en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten#Apllications Apparently, it's used for missiles, bullets and grenades. Also, I mistook tungsten for titanium when I talked about armor, bc titanium is in airplanes. My bad ;p
My personal idea for their hoards is that they amass tons of weapons and armor, collecting anything in good enough condition from their battles. Whether friend or foe, if they died they are being looted, any advantage is a good one. What makes them unique is that they are also the most willing to take things out of their hoards to give to their armies, knowing that in the end what they give out will probably be looted and sent back to the hoard
Some of the illustrations of the metal look like bismuth. Another heavy favorite, but chemically and crystallographically very different (especially due to its low melting point).
I love this series a lot. I have been absolutely obsessed with the purple dragon ever since that video came out and the ferrous dragons aren't far behind. The tungsten dragon is the perfect stand in for a certain nation that loves to spread freedom and that's really exciting to me. Another potential series I would really love to see would be conversions of Final Fantasy monsters; especially the summons.
funny, I actually made Tungsten dragons before I knew about the one from older DnD editions. At this point I've kinda blended the two concepts, but really the official one wasn't too different! Strong fighters, good aligned, all that. I do like to imagine them being more dark, iridescent, and bulky though to match the density and shine of scorched Tungsten. I also like to imagine them being terrifyingly skilled at taking out Red Dragons. Because y'know. Heat resistance. As for hoards, I often picture them collecting metal ingots, even melting down their own ore and scrap. But also keeping the skeletons of evil dragons (especially Reds) and casting them in metal as grotesque displays of their victories.
@@ElishaFollet Right? The vicious monster that they can throw their might at but still doesn't stop. Fire breath to the face and a Tungsten shrugs it off before using its entire body as a bludgeoning implement
I do love the monster deep dives of this channel. Really great thing to listen to before a campaign. It also helps a lot with world creation and NPC/Character ideas. Thanks for what you do!
I'd imagine they would collect symbols of accomplishments, for instance if when they were younger they destroyed a bandit group they might still have a flag with their insignia on it. They might also have parts of evil creatures encased in glass, like the horn of a blue dragon or an eyestalk of a beholder or something like that.
i'm super curious how you are going to handle cobalt dragons with their constant flip floping, they breath cold, they breath lightning, now they have a magnetic force breath, they live in the frozen mountains and hoard civiliations, now they live in the jungle and are solitary. i've handled it by giving them a primary breath weapon of lightning, with a secondary of cold, and an ability to expend both at once for the magnetic force breath
9:34 I imagine a tungsten dragon with personality of Bayverse Optimus Prime. Bayverse Optimus Prime: "We bring the battle to them!" "I have sworn never to harm humans. But when I find the one responsible for this, he is going to die!" 10:03-11:09 fiery blunt force trauma, a sandstorm ability, and setting enemies on fire... Sounds like Bayhem to me. 12:50-13:35 well in keeping with the bayverse transformers references... They hoard faces! Bayverse Optimus Prime: "Give me your face!" [Tears off The Fallen's faceplate] [punches the fallen spark chamber out and crushes it] "I rise, you fall."
Ah yes, dragon me up and call me treasure! That said, I love the dragon videos best and D Dad has a great sense of humor and story telling. Thanks Dad!
Yesterday, I finished watching Band of Brothers, and for whatever reason, I can't help but imagine some Tungsten Dragons as some of the soldiers in WW2. They both have a mission and will do whatever they can to meet those objectives, primarily with the goal of doing real good in the world, but sometimes going over the line. Lt. Speirs is the perfect example; he doesn't mince words, he steps in when he sees his side is screwing up, and has no problem growing an infamous reputation within the military (to the point some of his own soldiers fear him).
I like the idea of recruiting the tungsten dragon as a renowned general. But after the war is over, he decides that he is a better leader since the king was too weak and maybe even corrupt, and allowed evil to get a foothold. Now comes, the tungsten crusade. The party will need to follow orders, or attempt to stop the dragon.
Just binged your dragon videos recently, absolutely love them. I'm excited for when the gem dragons finally appear, as they've always been my favorite.
I am definitely on the same page as you concerning the horde the dragon would keep. My first thought was oh definitely trophies of the evil they have slain.
There’s an RPG called Anima that is no longer in print but oh my god it has the coolest monsters! I would love to see you convert some of those creatures
My first thought when it comes to their hoard would be their brood. If they view evil as anything that threatens them, it would make sense that they technically view the group they fight for as their property in a twisted way.
I betcha if you made a cube from it's scales, it would be the undisputed most powerful legendary artifact in existence, making you stronger just by carrying it.
i think a good idea for a tungsten dragons hoard is relics of fallen warriors under their command, they will not hesitate to sacrifice soldiers for the greater good, but at the same time honor and respect that sacrifice, so each piece in its hoard tells a story, a collection of battered shields filled with arrows from a battalion making a heroic last stand to hold the line, a sword covered in ash tells of a knight working as a double agent and sent on a suicide mission to assassinate an enemy dragon with full knowledge they would be immediately burned by the dragons kin as soon as their true allegiance was revealed, and of course at the center, skulls of their clans honored dead encased in glass this could also be used for the reveal of the dragons extreme nature, when they notice the shield the tungsten dragon said was of someone who bravely gave their life to hold the line sure has a lot of arrows piercing it from the back side, almost like the person using it was fleeing because they were promised reinforcements that never came and realized all to late their heroic sacrific was decided for them
When I converted these guys for a Dune themed campaign I took off their tail attack but gave them a tail spike attack similar to a manticore. They snap their tail forward like a whip and with a supersonic crack release one of the spike from the end. Recharges on a 6, 2d8+5 but I brought out 3.5's Touch AC mechanic because they just launched what is essentially an anti-tank kinetic penetrator round. The players needed to recruit the dragon to help crack the shell of the BBEGs guard monster so that was fun roleplay with the paladin too
Tungsten dragons are like the dragon equivalent to Bayverse Optimus prime, they will straight up kill a bitch, but they will also give their lives for those they protect at the drop of their metaphorical (or literal) dragon hat
I plan on having a tungston dragon acting as a agent from one of the good planes investigating rumors of the big bad in the fey wild he is partnered with a chaele.
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"What monster would you like to see show up next on the channel?" How about the Force or Prismatic Dragon from the EPIC LEVEL HANDBOOK? Great video as always!
Hold on, Idea, what if the horde was a horde of dark artifacts, weapons and cursed treasures. It would be pretty cool to see what the players would do and could bring up some really good story lines in terms of plot and background
How about Catastrophic Dragons? Dragons who ditched whole Bahamut vs Tiamat conflict and swore service to Primodials, becoming emobidemnts of natural diseasters?
I got an idea for someone running a tungston dragon, the higher you're charisma is the harder it should be to convince them in a diplomacy check, because such a check with high charisma would often involve the flowery words they look down on so much, this could only be bypassed if the person with high charisma passes the right check to know tungsten dragons dislike that or is informed by someone who knows that.
Day 100 of requesting the Anglerlich, a giant cosmic fish that lures in heroic souls with a fabricated villain, and consumes them when they finally triumph
Don't forget the slightly more modern, Depleted Uranium Dragon
Dang it, now I need this
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Didnt someone make an alternate timeline which swapped good & evil, where Tiamat was the good aligned " Rainbow Dragon" god, and Bahamut was now the evil " Plutonium Dragon?"
😂😂😂funny you should mention that one🤣🤣
@@agentchaos9332 I love all these concepts.
For an April Fools, you should totally make the Uranium Dragon, from Munchkin, the only dragon I know that starts really large and strong but, as it ages, becomes smaller and weaker due to radioactive decay.
I second that! WOOT! More dragons! all the dragons lol
I thirdly support this idea!
That would be so cool 😮
I wonder if they would still fit the "strongest the moment before they die" rule
I love this, idea. When it finally reaches its last stage of life it should go into a cocoon and turn into a lead dragon.
Okay, now I HAVE to use a misguided tungsten dragon as an antagonist for my current party. Two tieflings, a half-drow, and a dhampir. A stubborn tungsten dragon that believes blood determines one nature would be perfect to use.
Have you gotten the chance yet?
Good job on the tungsten. It sure is dense.
*rimshot*
"This Tungsten Cube cured my mortality"
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@@dubuyajay9964 the famous “Tungsten Cube review” contains some banger lines. You can find some dramatic readings here on TH-cam.
Ooof. Such a heavy joke
In Dungeon Dad's defense tungsten is a naturally occurring element, just not in its pure metal form. It is found naturally in the minerals of Wolframite and Scheelite.
Every survival crafting game has led me to believe tungsten is a naturally occurring ore. I can't believe Big Ore has pulled the wool over my eyes, and this is where I learn the truth.
Tungsten can naturally occur (its just super freaking rare) but specifically tungsten STEEL cannot occur in nature. Due to how tungsten and iron bond with each other nature cannot form the proper chemical bonds for it on Earth at least.
So you were gaslit by terraria two, huh?
@@cmdbitesawterraria has a sequel????
@@glompert7390currently no - but maybe in a decade or so.
It *is* naturally occurring in ores. An "ore" is any mineral assemblage which bears economically viable quantities of an element that can be extracted. The primary ore of tungsten is wolframite, an iron-manganese-tungstate. What you're thinking of is a native metal, which is a metal occurring purely by itself as a single mineral in nature. And you're right - tungsten has never been found as a pure native metal in nature, though it is theoretically possible. Gold, silver, copper, and platinum have all been found as native metals, though usually as accessory minerals and not in economically viable quantities.
“How many more kinds of dragons could there possibly be!?”
317 canonical dragon species exist over all editions of D&D, so just subtract the 19 that were officially brought into 5e, plus the ones this channel has already covered.
Yes
@@agentchaos9332damn bro I believe the question was rhetorical but good on you. I was gonna say as many as you want or some other nonsense. That being said you can make a dragon out of almost any element, color, environment ect.
Plus, they added 5 more (possibly more) in the new dnd beyond book by Kobold Press
We got colors, gemstones, metals, solar bodies, so if pokemon's any baseline we still have letter dragons coming...
I'd imagine Tungsten Dragons horde weapons, they don't actually 100% horde them, however. They use it as an armory for weapons to arm noble warriors to basically add them as more weapons in the battle against Evil. They might send applicants for any magical arms in their armory on quests to prove both their nobility & skill. No sense in giving the most powerful weapon in your arsenal to someone who'll get killed & let the armies of Evil use it to their advantage or destroy it if they can't. I can also see them allowing a Dwarven community nearby to access the steel for mutual aid, both with food & their horde.
My ideas around the hoard.
Records of battles and stratagems of war.
For a clan the most important part would be. Their own history of battle and war.
trophies from past battles.
With a near public list of their accomplishments for the side of good.
At least if the clan is a prideful one.
For their losses.
They keep tabs on every time they failed innocents.
Using these instances as primers for what not to do.
And or.
What to prepare for in the future.
Remember it's a small clan of dragons.
The history here could go back several dragon generations.
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Would essentially make tungsten dragons lairs tactical and strategy schools.
For those that can prove their dedication to the side of light.....
Some really old clans could have records of conflicts going back several thousand years.
To both educate themselves and to study their enemies.
........
As an aside.
The brass dragons would be.....
Interested in what's in those records.
But always turned away at the first sight of brass scales......
Or gift of gab..
"people who speak with lots of flowergy language"
"verbose nuisances"
*Shows Elminster's simulacrum at both points*
I think a good "hoard" for a tungsten dragon would be soldiers. Like, it trains or recruits people to fight for its cause. That would fit its militaristic commander deal and would make its ruthlessness easy to illustrate by showing it casually sending the people that it interacts with daily and has fought alongside to their death for the sake of the greater good.
i imagine in a proper encounter with them the biggest threat wouldn't be the dragon itself but the army of champion, cavalier, and battlemaster fighters, and conquest, glory, and watcher paladins fighting along side it all with +1 equipment
That’s a great idea!
Here's an idea: a buddy cop duo of the hothead tungsten dragon and a brass dragon who's getting too ancient for this "stuff", a là Lethal Weapon
Talking about the lawful alignment of all ferrous dragons, the hierarchy, and the how they still clash personalities with each other, makes me want a setting where the adventures have to go to an academy in a distant city for Reasons where they grate with the cliquish young adults studying there. The professors are more welcoming, but seem oddly keen to have the party interact with the students as much as possible. Eventually, when an enemy/The Enemy attacks the party at the school, they're overwhelmed by the academy's inhabitants who all turn out to be young dragons in disguise, being taught by their elders how to blend in and interact with the mortal races. The party gets what they came for, the students gain some new allies and vice versa, and the bard realizes he achieved his lifelong dream the night before without him knowing.
lol love it.
One of the teachers could be a steel dragon the masters of blending in with the people
Tungsten dragon having lightbulb jokes for abilities does not disappoint
Wdym?
Man I'm a shill for more dragon content, as I also love the numerous non 5e published ones.
13:40 Yeah, I agree with you totally. My villain for my current campaign is an ancient silver dragon who’s trying to destroy the King-Killer Meteor and establish a draconic empire anew. And their reasoning for this is they’re disenfranchised with the idea that the best way to let things be is let mortals rule themselves, because once when she was younger she transformed into a dwarven woman and ended up falling in love with a dwarven lord. He was slain due to civil strife in the region where the humans attacked the dwarves without much obvious reason. Seeing this happen to her, and dozens of times over her ancient life, has led her to the conclusion that mortals, while precious, can only be guided by force of Will.
But what if we JOIN the dragon
@@lukeari9890 Then you join the dragon and then I will cronfront you with the idea of if Tyranny is still the way to handle people. Sure they're safe, and division is removed. But people loose their identity. They loose the ability to speak out or be different because descent breeds rebellion, which breeds division. You'd be asked to do darker and darker things to uphold your regime, forced to hurt innocents and level homes and businesses.
Amazing intro, discussion of alignment, Leeroy Jenkins ref...This video's got it all.
I'm toying with using a tungsten dragon who moved out to the desert to be left ALONE, thank you very much, but then a bunch of mortals showed up and turned the steel deposits into weapons. Seeing where this could go and not really wanting to upset the whole apple cart, the dragon every so often shows up in a new disguise to take a job as a bureaucrat and cripple the government from within.
When the party meets him, he's disguised as a portly middle-aged man with a large mustache and a permanent death glare.
Perhaps he failed to protect the innocent. Or he couldn't, so he got them to a shelter that didn't have enough air, so they just went to sleep with their hope intact.
Absolutely amazing lmao. This in mind, I think their hoards being composed of “jobs well done” or essentially things that they’ve made or built themselves or things that act as mementos of accomplishments or tasks they’ve finished that they’re proud of would be an interesting concept. The huge stone bed intricately carved out of a cliffside by their own two claws, the polished table made from their crystalized glass breath entombing a tyrant they once freed a city from, a mantle shaped from a tree they planted as a seed when they were a wyrmling, holding the most prized possession of multiple hoards belonging each to an evil dragon they’ve slain, that sort of thing.
... right just gonna steal that "Ned Flanders the Brass Dragon" thing for future use...
OMG, imagine if a Tungsten Dragon teamed up with a War March (see Pointy Hat's Fighter Lich) and outfits the whole war march with armor to handle whatever it is the tungsten dragon needs killed.
OK now I NEED to play a tungsten dragonborn. The flavor here is amazing and I LOVE conquest Paladins but @10:08 that BIONICLE cameo was pure vibes and nostalgia. I'm sold.
Ikr that was a sweet treat.
Saw this comment right at 10:08 lol
"Make it play out like Game of Thrones, but with dragons."
What's this about the Council of Wyrms setting?
lol
The Tungsten Dragon is a natural ally for the Harmonium planar faction, AKA "Hardheads," from _Planescape._ Definitely look the Harmonium up if you're thinking about running a Helldivers-esque campaign. They are one of the few canonical groups that is powerful enough and organized enough to run a Helldivers-style invasion anywhere in the D&D multiverse -- even one right in the heart of the Abyss. Their lore is practically tailor-made for this style of campaign.
A whole adventure with the PCs involved with the Harmonium seeking to ally with a tungsten dragon before they assault a demonlord’s layer of the abyss. Could be used to explain why we only hear about the same ones, the weaker were wiped out by Harmonium
@@JadenLingerfelt The entire Harmonium prime material world has been conquered and unified by the faction just like Super Earth, and they already control most of the plane of Arcadia and have since been branching out to other locations. If you include a substantial presence of Tungsten Dragons anywhere in your game, there's no way they could avoid interacting with the Harmonium. They would either be cooperating already, working as rivals, or both.
That fits perfectly with your idea.
With such a marshall mentality, the hoard would be anything you would put in a military museum.
The most fantastical thing talked about in this whole episode is the notion of landlords giving deposits back, no matter what lengths tenants go to.
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I like the idea of Tungsten dragons hoarding weapons either ones taken from evil beings or ones they're storing to arm the forces of good when it comes time to battle. Alternatively have them hoard glass works of art that hold a lot of beauty
Tungsten has the highest melting point I think. A true monster of a metal
man the dungeon dad realm has to be terrifying to live in, theres like 100 tarrasques
Just gonna throw this out there. Y'all remember how the Steel Dragons hoard memories/experiences of their lives? Have Tungsten Dragons hoard victories and their triumphs over evil. I mean, they actively seek out evil aligned stuff to kill so their stories of triumphs would make for a pretty on brand hoard.
That was my thought too! Materialistic things are frivolous, and could be better contributed to furthering the cause, and trophies are grisly & crude. The true sign of a successful tungsten dragon would be the tales of how many times they reduced the forces of evil to little more than glass slag in their wake.
@@msf2399 would like to point out that they wouldn't brag about it as that is wasting their time and far to close to those annoying brass dragons. they are blunt and to the point. Tapestries or stain glass of past glories no doubt, but as for telling tales not so much.
The plothook that came to mind for me was actually a mining town and a tungsten dragon having a symbiotic relationship. The Tungsten dragon allows the miners to mine in its lair and even let the town build directly on top of it with its only demand being that the city handles all the smaller threats to the dragon and its hoard allowing it to focus all its efforts on hunting down chromatic dragons, wyverns, and behirs near its lair. A good sort of comparison/metaphor being that some Tarantulas take frogs as pets, killing whatever would eat the frog while the frog eats the tarantula wasps that would kill it.
“The horrors are never ending, Yet I remain silly”
Yup, that’s going in the cart
By the way, I asked my dad about what ferrous means, and while it does mean iron in latin, in chemistry it usually gets used to say that a metal or element is magnetic or can hold a magnetic charge.
Also, Tungsten dragon who forgoes their tradition of general for the side of good to become an industrial tycoon (achieve victory over evil with the power of economics)
I like how you incorporated tungsten being the heaviest metal into the unique lair action.
“This tungsten cube cured my mortality”
I could see an adventure where the players are sent on an Apocalypse Now-style mission with the tungsten dragon playing a Colonel Kurtz role where his obsession with destroying an evil force has resulted in him employing...unsound methods...
Kobolds don't surf
Upon arrival into the great mesa's cavernous path, you notice that the stairs are carved of sandstone, glazed smooth by intense heat. On either side of the stairs heading up to the top of a ridge, equidistantly spaced from one another, are skeletons of regal warriors clad in silvery armor, encased in thick Crystal's of glass with placards of brass denoting their names, ranks, birth and death dates, and years of honorable, dutiful service. As you ascend to the top landing and push open the simple iron shod ironwood trunk castle sized double doors, you're greeted with the immaculate sight.
Architecture, a blending of what we know of as the American South West's Mesa cliff dwellings mixed with other desert cultures is hewn from the same glazed sandstone, each of the alcoves shows various forms of decorated Terracotta esque pottery. Further down past a bend, you walk past an a giant study. Peaking in, you see it is brilliantly lit by refractive light from all the mosaic glass tiles adorning the surfice. It's bookshelves of combat tretacies, large chairs, and clay fireplace give off a no nonsense reading room, the only exception being a curio cabnet display of ethnographic jewelery and ceremonial wear made from silver, turquoise, coral and bone.
Further down still lower into the mountian caverns you observe what appears to be a room labeled " Treasury", which consists only of a giant table, stationary, and a set of 10 foot by 20 foot rectangular solid iron chests with no locks. Seeing as you couldn't even open the heavy lids, you move on to a room labeled " Barracks/ guest quarters", where rows upon rows of well made beds and simple foot lockers are orderly maintained. Across the way, you spy an armory of what appears to be more like a gallery of lovingly maintained but apparently "bland munitions grade" weapons and armor, but upon closer inspection each piece is revealed to be exquisitely crafted in a form of simplified elegant form and function.
As you look at one of the pieces inside the armory, you hear a voice speak up behind you.
" You've a good eye for quality. Unfortunately, you've not good manners. Turn around. Slowly."
Turning around you see a Ancient Tungsten Dragon aiming a claw right at your chest like a rapier. It then smiles wryly and announces itself. " My name is Krayt Daruud, General of the Vitrious Hearts Bregade, also known as the Luminous Sandstorm in some circles. What's your's?"
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You know what would be cool, if hybrid metallic and Ferraris dragons would be the representation of the alloys you would get from mixing the metals those dragons represent. For instance, if any of you have homebrewed titanium dragons(I’ve looked around. I haven’t seen anything that indicates titanium dragons are a thing in DND) and they were to mate with nickel dragons, they would make nitinol dragons or memory shape metal dragons. Nitinol is a metal that when bent and then heated up, it will return back to its original shape. A nitinol dragon, upon heating up will be able to undo and heal any blunt damage done to it.
I’m thinking…. A young blue dragon asks the party for help against an adult tungsten dragon
Idea: they hoard scales of dead evil dragons. Fits with their war on evil mentality
Man so my idea of a tungsten kobold fits and with this proof that my concept of a dnd subrace could exist in formats
I imagine this dragon hoard would contain various tactical reports and history documents, so that no knowledge is lost in the constant fight for good.
This is the first dragon you've covered that I wasn't already familiar with. All the others I at least knew the name; I only knew any of the ferrous dragons, or even the entire category, by name, no details. I didn't even realize tungsten was one of them!
Tungsten is non ferrous, so a tungsten dragon does not actually fit in this scenario
@thedango6890 if you watch the Iron dragon episode, he talks about that.
Ok, the flanders part got me really good, the tungsten just staring on, and then the blue walking in, that was a good bit and gave me a good laugh.
Any one else seeing a clan of Tungsten Dragons as heads of a maybe fanatical Templar order? Could start with a job to get some high quality ore from a dessert for a smith or so, you do a miss step or have bad luck and stumble onto the order, either you took the wrong corner and end up in their mine and effectively stealing from them or they just see you on the way back and ask for the document that allows mining there which the smith sadly forgot, and from there you somehow learn that the order is going on a crusade, maybe against the city you were just in or another and maybe get hired as scouts or you may just want to warn the guy theyre going to and then a big sabotage campaign begins leading to a dragon fight.
I really wish you would include a "this dragon as a dragonborn" stat block with all the age categories
Between chromatic, metallic, and gem I'm not sure if there are any more resistance/breath weapon combinations to give a dragonborn.
@@andyenglish4303 they would be stated like the dragon who's qualities they share just like the others..like in this case..your breath weapon would be the molten sand just appropriately scaled as for other stuff 🤷
For this kind of thing, another dragonborn wouldn't work. It'd be best to reflavour what dragonborn we already have and make homebrew racial feats that mimic that specific dragon's abilities. I did that for the purple dragon.
"Molten SAND? It is outrageous and unfair." (A. Skywalker)
20:43 I really appreciate that perspective on alignment and species! It’s pretty much where I fall, along with the idea that alignment is like most other personality/morality terms - it’s a shorthand way to communicate the general direction you go in. It’s a starting point, not a unified be-all-end-all.
I like the idea that their hoart would be basically an armory. With weapons to supply soldiers for the good fight.
I like this and the idea that they would only give anything to someone they consider worthy.
TL; DR: The Tungsten Dragon is the most based Dragon species.
BTW, them being immune to Fire damage makes sense for them especially because Tungsten is the element with the highest melting point. If I'm not mistaken, lava evaporates at a lower temperature than tungsten melts at (heavily conditional lol).
I'm digging the neo-retro intros and transitions you've been doing for a while.
...I have to admit I was still holding out on the Tungsten Dragon announcement being rolled into April Fool's for a Fool's Gold/Pyrite Dragon announcment 😢
Regarding the Tungstens' hoard: I just can't see it as anything else except trophies of successful campaigns against evil and chaos. So maybe one particular tungsten dragon might have a collection of foes in glass, while another might prefer to keep all their weapons so they never fall into the hands of evil-doers again.
Anyway, this is good stuff, as always 🫡 Thanks, DD!
Just binged all the forgotten dragons and now holding out for the Nickel, Cobalt, and Chromium videos so I can use them all in my campaign
I think they would horde stained glass windows, the more beautiful, the better.
They can call themselves lawful good as much as they want but these dudes are at best lawful neutral if not lawful evil. "Listen I didn't kill you 'cause you're an innocent living in the city of a tyrannical ruler, but I did completely destroy your home and livelihood and everything you know because you happened to live in evil guy's city. I'm good!" Great vid as always DD!
10:08 I felt the nostalgia rush with this clip, holy shit.
The hoard should definitely be assets. So anything needed to fight evil. That can be some combo of gold, informants, weapons of mass destruction, ancient curses. treaties, etc.
I don't know if you know of a certain hat shaped D&D content creator but they recently made a Fighter Lich that's all about growing it's army at all costs and... Tungsten Dragon vs Death March sounds like a fantastic campaign.
Yeah! That’d be awesome
I just finished making Dragonborn for all the dragons you’ve made videos on, guess I gotta start on this one next!
lol he not done with the fors dragons so your going to have to hold off a bit longer till he done with those. He has only covered like what two of them and there are what five or six displayed. yah wait a bit longer. lol love the enthusiasm though. keep it up!
@@dranoradragonqueen1494I know, I said I was excited for a new dragon. I know there’s more.
I can't get over how good the new episode intros are
Not sure if anyone else has pointed it out already, but tungsten-steel alloy would suck for weapons. The best analogy I can think of is trying to use a glass sword, but it's a metal.
It could be great for armor, though (provided anyone beyond dwarves could work it).
Edit: bc of how hard it is, tungsten would be good against slashing and perhaps even piercing damage, but not so good against bludgeoning. My understanding is that a tungsten armor wouldn't absorb much of bludgeoning damage, if any at all, meaning the wearer would the take full force of the attack.
Thanks for pointing that out!
Everyone else's daily reminder that Hardness ≠ Toughness!
Toughness is a measure of how much energy a material can absorb before breaking, Hardness is a material's ability to resist deforming. Glass is very hard but not very tough.
Would it be good for fortifications? Or perhaps armored siege weapons if we went the steampunk/magic-tech route
@@ElishaFollet en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten#Apllications
Apparently, it's used for missiles, bullets and grenades.
Also, I mistook tungsten for titanium when I talked about armor, bc titanium is in airplanes. My bad ;p
10:08 Holy heck! I haven't thought about the Bionicle movie in decades! You just hit me with a massive nostalgia trip!
My personal idea for their hoards is that they amass tons of weapons and armor, collecting anything in good enough condition from their battles. Whether friend or foe, if they died they are being looted, any advantage is a good one. What makes them unique is that they are also the most willing to take things out of their hoards to give to their armies, knowing that in the end what they give out will probably be looted and sent back to the hoard
I would think that they would hoard divine/religious weapons, artifacts, symbols, and iconography that go against evil.
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Dude, that ad transition was awesome, as is this dragon. Glad you've got such a big sponsor!
Jesus Lethander Christ I LOVE ALL of Dungeon Dad’s content!!!
Same
I always thought Jesus's middle name was H. At least that's what my dad would yell when I was a kid. But he was no theoligist
@@Jeremycook_ Sorry, it’s a NerdImmersion thing combined with the Professor Dungeon Master algorithmic takeover. Basically a double injoke.
@@soultron4238 no apology necessary. Mine was just something my dad would yell when he stubbed his toe, so maybe just a regular injoke lol
@soultron4238 Captain Robear says it too.
Some of the illustrations of the metal look like bismuth. Another heavy favorite, but chemically and crystallographically very different (especially due to its low melting point).
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I love this series a lot. I have been absolutely obsessed with the purple dragon ever since that video came out and the ferrous dragons aren't far behind. The tungsten dragon is the perfect stand in for a certain nation that loves to spread freedom and that's really exciting to me.
Another potential series I would really love to see would be conversions of Final Fantasy monsters; especially the summons.
I really wish somebody would finally copy Valstrax species into their fantasy setting. Jet dragon is an amazing idea.
funny, I actually made Tungsten dragons before I knew about the one from older DnD editions. At this point I've kinda blended the two concepts, but really the official one wasn't too different! Strong fighters, good aligned, all that. I do like to imagine them being more dark, iridescent, and bulky though to match the density and shine of scorched Tungsten.
I also like to imagine them being terrifyingly skilled at taking out Red Dragons. Because y'know. Heat resistance.
As for hoards, I often picture them collecting metal ingots, even melting down their own ore and scrap. But also keeping the skeletons of evil dragons (especially Reds) and casting them in metal as grotesque displays of their victories.
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I like the idea of red dragons viewing tungsten dragons as slasher villains from a horror film lol
@@ElishaFollet Right? The vicious monster that they can throw their might at but still doesn't stop. Fire breath to the face and a Tungsten shrugs it off before using its entire body as a bludgeoning implement
I do love the monster deep dives of this channel. Really great thing to listen to before a campaign. It also helps a lot with world creation and NPC/Character ideas. Thanks for what you do!
I'd imagine they would collect symbols of accomplishments, for instance if when they were younger they destroyed a bandit group they might still have a flag with their insignia on it. They might also have parts of evil creatures encased in glass, like the horn of a blue dragon or an eyestalk of a beholder or something like that.
19:40 I'm imagining Brass Dragon Kefka now.
I hope that Depleted Uranium Dragon shoots solid armor piercing projectiles...
i'm super curious how you are going to handle cobalt dragons with their constant flip floping, they breath cold, they breath lightning, now they have a magnetic force breath, they live in the frozen mountains and hoard civiliations, now they live in the jungle and are solitary. i've handled it by giving them a primary breath weapon of lightning, with a secondary of cold, and an ability to expend both at once for the magnetic force breath
Just imagine a tungsten dragon joining a St. Cuthbert’s church, a massive dragon backed up by monks and paladins with a very similar mindset
... now i want a grouping of dragons called "Stone Dragons" who are strictly of the Holy Neutral Cross
You got copper and brass dragons mixed up for the whole prankster thing.
9:34 I imagine a tungsten dragon with personality of Bayverse Optimus Prime.
Bayverse Optimus Prime: "We bring the battle to them!" "I have sworn never to harm humans. But when I find the one responsible for this, he is going to die!"
10:03-11:09 fiery blunt force trauma, a sandstorm ability, and setting enemies on fire... Sounds like Bayhem to me.
12:50-13:35 well in keeping with the bayverse transformers references... They hoard faces!
Bayverse Optimus Prime: "Give me your face!" [Tears off The Fallen's faceplate] [punches the fallen spark chamber out and crushes it] "I rise, you fall."
Ah yes, dragon me up and call me treasure!
That said, I love the dragon videos best and D Dad has a great sense of humor and story telling. Thanks Dad!
Yesterday, I finished watching Band of Brothers, and for whatever reason, I can't help but imagine some Tungsten Dragons as some of the soldiers in WW2. They both have a mission and will do whatever they can to meet those objectives, primarily with the goal of doing real good in the world, but sometimes going over the line. Lt. Speirs is the perfect example; he doesn't mince words, he steps in when he sees his side is screwing up, and has no problem growing an infamous reputation within the military (to the point some of his own soldiers fear him).
What if a triclops and a cyclops have a kids, for the kid only have two eyes
There are biclops, they're often depicted as the eyes stacked vertically over a normal humanoid's horizontal
Intrusive thought, The tri-klops he-man figure from the 80's was sick.
19:00 ...I literally fell out of my chair laughing 🤣🤣🤣
They should hoard cursed artifacts to make sure they don’t fall into the wrong hands
I'd love one that acts sort of like Saw Guerra and his Partisans
Haven’t seen many of your vids… yet. This one was definitely worth a subscription!
I like the idea of recruiting the tungsten dragon as a renowned general. But after the war is over, he decides that he is a better leader since the king was too weak and maybe even corrupt, and allowed evil to get a foothold. Now comes, the tungsten crusade. The party will need to follow orders, or attempt to stop the dragon.
I just finished the Iron dragon video, and then this comes out? Amazingly perfect timing!
Anything but the Beyblade collection 14:52
Everytime he said domain all i could think was domain expansion the labotomy kaisen brain rot is real
I'm absolutely loving all the dragons, but id also love to see more Giants! More specifically your take on the Voadkyn/Wood Giant.
Just binged your dragon videos recently, absolutely love them. I'm excited for when the gem dragons finally appear, as they've always been my favorite.
I believe theres official gem dragon material for 5e.
Unrelated, but izzet is the best guild
@@connorletkeman5002I know, but there are other gem dragons, like the obsidian and Ruby dragons not in 5e.
And yes, Izzet is the best guild
I am definitely on the same page as you concerning the horde the dragon would keep. My first thought was oh definitely trophies of the evil they have slain.
There’s an RPG called Anima that is no longer in print but oh my god it has the coolest monsters! I would love to see you convert some of those creatures
My first thought when it comes to their hoard would be their brood. If they view evil as anything that threatens them, it would make sense that they technically view the group they fight for as their property in a twisted way.
I betcha if you made a cube from it's scales, it would be the undisputed most powerful legendary artifact in existence, making you stronger just by carrying it.
i think a good idea for a tungsten dragons hoard is relics of fallen warriors under their command, they will not hesitate to sacrifice soldiers for the greater good, but at the same time honor and respect that sacrifice, so each piece in its hoard tells a story, a collection of battered shields filled with arrows from a battalion making a heroic last stand to hold the line, a sword covered in ash tells of a knight working as a double agent and sent on a suicide mission to assassinate an enemy dragon with full knowledge they would be immediately burned by the dragons kin as soon as their true allegiance was revealed, and of course at the center, skulls of their clans honored dead encased in glass
this could also be used for the reveal of the dragons extreme nature, when they notice the shield the tungsten dragon said was of someone who bravely gave their life to hold the line sure has a lot of arrows piercing it from the back side, almost like the person using it was fleeing because they were promised reinforcements that never came and realized all to late their heroic sacrific was decided for them
22:32 this is just lethal company with the dragons minions.
When I converted these guys for a Dune themed campaign I took off their tail attack but gave them a tail spike attack similar to a manticore. They snap their tail forward like a whip and with a supersonic crack release one of the spike from the end. Recharges on a 6, 2d8+5 but I brought out 3.5's Touch AC mechanic because they just launched what is essentially an anti-tank kinetic penetrator round. The players needed to recruit the dragon to help crack the shell of the BBEGs guard monster so that was fun roleplay with the paladin too
Tungsten dragons are like the dragon equivalent to Bayverse Optimus prime, they will straight up kill a bitch, but they will also give their lives for those they protect at the drop of their metaphorical (or literal) dragon hat
I plan on having a tungston dragon acting as a agent from one of the good planes investigating rumors of the big bad in the fey wild he is partnered with a chaele.