D&D's Chromatic Dragon Yоu've Never Heard Of 

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Now I imagine a campaign where the party has to quell a feud between a Brown and Blue dragon. The twist, the Brown is the 'teenage' child of the Blue, and it becomes high powered family therapy.

Those kobolds that are traveling the desert to bring food to their dragon master? They’re actually master chefs. They’re not hauling people, just gourmet ingredients to cook their master meals. Isn’t it awful that the brown dragon is forcing these kobold chefs to cook for him, under probably threat of death? No, it’s actually an honor to be asked to cook for a brown dragon, and they willingly there to prove their skills as the best in their field. Satisfying a brown dragon with your meal is the highest praise! And he tips very well. Maybe he’ll still eat them if he doesn’t like the cooking though

I love that this dragon is both a food critic and a history buff.

"Brown Dragon Likes to taste different foods" Great this is my favorite dragon now.

I like the idea of polymorphed Brown Dragon that gives the players quest to track down and bring criminals who belong to rare species ( to eat).

The intelligence, history appreciation, and gourmand tendencies make this sound like a great candidate for an affable (yet morally dubious) quest-giver for PCs to interact with. Plenty of motivation to issue the party fetch quests that will take them into monster-filled wilds and perilous ancient ruins!

I like that brown dragons have a lot of possible backgrounds, they can be like the "mutt" of the dragons.

Quicksilver and steel dragons are both fascinating

Lets not forget about Gem Dragons. They are pretty interesting and neutral. There are also Linnorms which are pretty cool dragons too.

Now I imagine a brown dragon chef who captures new creatures and brings them to their lair where they debate on how to best cook them while they're locked in a cage of some sort

So with the color wheel principle there should be 15 variations of chromatic dragons: 5 Primary Variants: Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, and White And 10 secondary: Red and Yellow making Orange Yellow and Blue making Green Red and Blue making Purple Red and White making Pink Red and Black making Crimson Yellow and Black making Brown Yellow and White making Tan Blue and Black making Indigo Blue and White making Cyan. And Black and White Making Gray.

Brown dragons being some kind of culinary enthusiast or food critic is amazing. The party bribing the dragon or seeking out some kind of new food, spice flavour combination is one of the most unique adventure hooks I've heard in a while.

I recently brought back the brown dragons myself to 5e, but i took them into a different direction. Yes they are still burrowing predators that stalk the desert but instead of hoarding long lost relics, they hoard spices. What do they use those spices for? Cooking of course! Yes brown dragons in my world are draconic chefs, the issue is that you are the one whos being cooked.

A cookoff campaign with a Gordon Ramsey esque brown dragon sounds like the perfect opportunity to use the DragonStew supplemental book from Pointy Hat!

For the metallic dragons: I'd like to see the Iron Dragon first. For my first campaign, and unbeknownst to me that they existed, I had a grey dragon & and Iron dragon of my own creation. I even made a delivery quest for the Iron dragon's egg to be returned to it without the team knowing. They really enjoyed it but I would like to see the true Iron dragon come about.

The Brown Dragon is certainly a cool one. I like how it's usually drawn with a rough, rocky hide Though, I never liked the fact it had an acid breath weapon, and prefer to give it a sandblaster-esque attack (but that's probably just me lol) Nonetheless, dragons of all colors are cool, and I enjoy your videos. Keep up the amazingness!

Now that we finished with the choromatic I think it will be cool to explore the metallic dragons next. And maybe gem as well if they are other variants besides the main five,

I like how the dungeon dad has been using Diablos from Monster Hunter as the monster of reference. Despite no breath attack and having wings, Diablos exclusively uses his wings as a jump assist as if they are a +10 on a jump check. It's mainly because of a Sonic bomb going off and causing the Diablos to stumble.

Happy to see one of these boys! I actually just finished up a statblock for a Brown Dragon Bard villain for my own campaign. His story is that he is taking over one of the major trading ports of my setting for the goal of creating the ultimate draconic cookbook to immortalize himself. I definitely used more elements of the 4e Brown as opposed to other editions but I can't wait to compare your version and my own! As for the next metallic dragon, my vote is either for Mercury or Adamantine. They both hold a special place in my heart due to older campaigns I ran

I think something funny would be a "Good" Brown dragon, where it's the leader of a massive and successful trade city full of archeologists and chefs where they take food in from around the world as well as ancient objects. I think a local like that would be VERY interesting for players to go through. And it's hoard is a museum guarded by the dragon itself displayed in grandeur

I like the aspect of their hordes being a collection of ancient artifacts. You could easily make them a quest giver as the draconic curator of a museum who hires adventurers to find more artifacts, or a good target to pull a heist on. Love the dragon videos, my players may not encounter every dragon I’ve populated out world with, but I love knowing they’re out there!

Aren't silver dragons also fond of fine cuisine? I would love to see a cook-off between the two.

On top of the cool metallic dragons from editions past, the gemstone dragons from those same editions are fascinating as well! I have a player who is the child of an Obsidian Dragon in my campaign, and it opened my eyes to just how many cool dragons got shafted by Fizban... :'( Edit: spelling :(

Hmm... Taking inspiration from that "brawl between a brown dragon and a blue dragon" idea, you mentioned that it's a delay that no merchant would ever risk not taking... But what if they HAVE to take it? What if a royal knight was sent to a distant desert town to retrieve a cure for their king who is dangerously ill, but, right as the knight was about to leave, a brown dragon and a blue dragon started fighting in the desert that separates the town from the capital? The knight can't wait any longer, since their king might perish if they take the long way around, and so they ask the party for help. There are so many ways this could go, and now I kind of really want to write a small adventure around this prompt!

You know the brown dragon and the golem made out of pieces of magic paper pair up quite well, maybe on the paper pieces it's part of map that shows the entrance to the tunnel connecting to the tomb used by the brown dragon

I’m imagining aspiring chefs coming from miles away to offer up their latest culinary ideas to a brown dragon. In return for this steady stream of new experiences, the dragon not only acts as a food critic, but also offers advice and insights gained through its centuries of culinary adventures.

I was going to ask about the Howling Dragon, but they aren't chromatic, they are extraplanar. They are screaming and howling mad, so I find them super fun.

I had no idea that this type of dragon existed! I just starting worldbuilding for a new game in a couple months, I'm absolutely incorporating one of these into my desert area. Excellent work as always!

Would love to see some of the forgotten metallic dragons

Should add another episode just on adding old powers to the dragons that are already in 5e

Is it weird that I am seeing a spelljamming Brown Dragon NPC traveling wild space to collect treasures from fallen empires across the multiverse and to test how multiversal and planar terroir will effect the flavor of elves, dwarves, humans, etc?

if you think about it. Brown dragons are the reason why yellow dragons are especially rare. They perfectly counter yellow dragons by not flying. 😮

So theoretically, a brown dragon historian would make a really fun character. Trading recipes for information!

Thanks for including the Molduga clips, I will be using the lair as a dungeon idea where the party will discover one of their members has another hidden ability to unlock. Ascend. Yes the very same one from TotK. They're gonna need a way out once they find themselves stuck! Also, the Chef Dragon idea was actually what I was gonna go for, how ironic that you had a whole thing for that already. I love you so much dude, you're amazing. Actually, I think I'll make it two chef dragons, who have been competing to make the Realms Tastiest Dish for centuries as a rivalry. The players are going to get involved by happening to be going in the general direction of some..... Rare Creatures who's meat will be required, or distance locals with secret grottos filled with special herbs that grow only in those conditions set within. Each ingredient will of course be some kind of Rare/Epic/Legendary item of great difficulty to acquire. Gonna be it's own Full Game Side Quest. The plot twist will be the rewards for the quest. 1: not becoming ingredients for the final dish. 2: getting invited to stay and eat and talk to the dragons about their adventures to find the ingredients. 3: tasting the tastiest food ever made in all of time. But also due to the complexity of each major ingredient, are all granted a random perk / spell / ability of GM's choosing. My campaign right now involves a random assortment of a Harengon Alchemist, Flame Sorcerer Dark Elf, Water Genasi Pirate Druid, and Halfling -Changling Arena Champion Fighter, who are all still unawares that their abilities stem from one place: STANDO POWAH. Having them finish this quest will unlock a new ability for their Stands, as by the time they can complete it, they will be significantly more familiar with their powers (and know about them)

Goodman Games actualy had their own 5e version in their 'Original Adventures Reincarnated #4 - The Lost City' conversion. It really did a good job with fleshing out the levels especilay the deeper ones where less and less info was given because it was asumed DM nolonger needed much help.

You should consider adapting the Dray race from the dark sun campaign to 5e!! Love your content btw!

Adamantine dragon would be a fun choice.

Don't forget about the hybridization 4th edition added in and the dragon kins. The stuff from the chromatic and metallic draconomicons were awesome.

When you started this video I thought that like the Gray Dragon (which was first introduced as the Gang Dragon), the Brown Dragon would turn out to be the Sand Dragon introduced in Dragon Magazine. Everything fits except the breath weapon, which would turn you into a pile of white sand.

DRAGONS!!!!!

Now I want to set my party up in a situation where an ancient Brown Dragon wants to savor some of the rarest meats there are... imagine a dragon that just states; "I want to taste a god..." the party is all of a sudden just left dumbfounded and confused... how does one serve up a god, and who the hell is tthis dragon to make such a request and refuse passage to the party?... makes a for a funny and terrifying encounter I find😂

I'd say the mercury dragon would be good or perhaps the steel dragon?

I was looking at the Forgotten Realm Wiki page, specifically at the dragons, and came across the Mercury Dragons. Aside from feeling retroactively called out in the form of a dragon, its hoard is what I find most interesting. No consistency or cohesion, just shiny things and many wondrous *unique* trinkets. Emphasis on unique. They are noted as willing to trade away duplicates within their hoard for something they've heard of, but haven't seen. And this gives me the idea of one of them aquiring a Lich's phylactery.

Metallics are next? Cool. Still, please don't forget the Neutral-aligned Gem Dragons. I actually played an Amethyst Dragon wyrmling once, and it was great! Their breath weapon is a Gem of Amethyst that acts basically like a grenade, with a blast radius like that of the Fireball spell. Please don't forget about them! :)

I'm personally a huge fan of Steel dragons, always thought their ecology and design was fascinating (definitely not related to being an art student, not at all 😅) They sort of exist in 5e, Fizban's Treasury referenced them, but they're just described as mistakenly labeled Copper or Silver dragons there. Looking forward to whenever you get around to them!

I hope he does the other metallic dragons, planar dragons, and epic dragons!

I love this dragon, I stumble into it in a desert adventures supplement for 3.5, never though it was a chromatic, it was named sand dragon and neutral alignment

Expanding on the cook off, I like the idea of the party going on a hunt to track down a rare creature for its meat for the competition or seeking out a legendary recipe or aid from a chef. Or even sabotaging with poison to kill the dragon or disqualify rivals. A side quest to acquire rare herbs, spices, and other ingredients is also nice. For a brown dragon, I imagine them to have one of the most inaccesible lairs and just have it be sand, but 200ft underground. The hoard is literally buried treasure. Better bring a shovel. This creature also sounds like it would be great in a game with endling races. They're new races from The Book of Extinction kickstarter where an endling race is one in which the player character is the last of that race. That would make them quite the covetted meal for a brown dragon, but should the dragon succeed, the race is then extinct.

Are there variations of Catastrophe Dragons besides the main three? Could be interesting to do along with Astral Dragons.

Man I really appreciate your work. It makes me so inspired to run interesting creatures or scenarios. I only got into dnd about 2 and a half years ago and I found your channel when you made the spirit warrior video and I feel like whenever I want to get the creative juicies flowing I just put on one of your vids.

Imagine a Blue Dragon parent sending adventurers on a quest to bring back rare or weird foods for Brown Dragon child whose an adventurous eater.

Wait! They do not have entrances to their layers and they can hold their breath for 100 years? This would mean, that their lair could be full of foul air, making the fight more complex and dangerous.

One suggestion for a breath weapon instead of also doing acid. What if it's a liquid that turns the dragon's victim into sand?

Lol I just found your channel and spent this mornings commute listening to your dragon playlist! Guess I picked a perfect time to watch all the others!

I'm very happy you got to this one. I knew about Brown Dragons before this, and I really wanted to get your research on it. It's still my favorite of the "other" chromatics, but you brought some awesome ones to light, like the yellow, orange, & purple. You also gave me some new passion for the Fang Grey differences. Plan a campaign with a Fang Dragon in disguise as a guild master to dragon hunters (the players), in the end goal of eradicating any remaining Grey.

5:12 another idea, the way to make brown is to mix all of the colours together, what i'm trying to say is they are made by a massive dragon orgy.

I like the idea of their breath weapon being force or (magical) bludgeoning damage, if force is too OP. It also fits with an idea I had about how they burrow. They temporarily liquify sand around them with focused vibrations. Dope. Bass. 😎

I think a good campaign idea with a brown and blue dragon is that their conflict has reached a stalemate and it is up to the party to give one side an edge over the other. Maybe eating “exotic food” gives the brown dragon a power boost or work with the blue dragon to poison the brown dragon’s meal.

Holy shit that Baldur's Gate 2 music hit me with immense nostalgia

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Awesome! In my mind I understood it that 4e brown desert replaced the 2e yellow sand dragon. While I despise replacing arguments, the 2e yellows should be renamed/ colored to Beige / Tan dragons. Why? Well having THE Yellow dragons be the chromatic coastal, winged and salt breathing type is much more unique and varied. Yes I want my coastal territory dispute of Yellows, Topazes and Bronzes 😂 If WotC or a creator like you DD could make a campaign around THAT I would shell out dosh for sure 😁

i love how much the editing and the content of the videos has grown since the older videos. Its very cool!

I actually have a brown dragon in my campaign, except he is one of the last. I don’t go off the whole colour theory lore, but the whole “Tiamat had a rival chromatic sister she killed” one. Baradün is an old, old dragon who actually is not hostile to the players at all. He kept snacking on those flying dream manta rays from a previous video and started tripping massive dream balls. He fell asleep at his ambush spot decades ago and now is never quite sure if he’s awake or asleep, referring to any players that fall into his forgotten trap as “little dreams”, not bothering to snap at the clearly imaginary PCs unless provoked. His area of the desert has some trippy mirage-dream stuff going on and actually borders the blasted waste that is an ancient blue dragon’s. The Big Blue however knows he’s around and his current state, so pragmatically allows him to slumber there for the added draconic regional effects, having plundered the lair years ago. But he also has many contingency plans in case Baradün wakes up and causes a ruckus.

Its pretty obscure but I'd love to see you do a video on the sloppy top dragon.

Wooooo, baby dungeon dad upload!!

I love this series and this channel, keep it up and know that you’ve contributed to many great campaigns

Its interesting that a dragon that likes to eat new food would live in one of the most food scare biomes on any planet

YEAH I CAUGHT THIS WHEN IT DROPPED, I LOVE YOU DUNGEON DAD! KEEP MAKING SHIT THIS CONTENT IS SOMETHING I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO, AND TOU DESERVE WAY MORE ATTENTION HERE THEN YOUR GETTING.

Do you plan on doing other kinds of Metallic Dragons since your done with Chromatic Dragon

Oh, I *love* brown dragons! Mainly just because the fins are rad as hell, but I saw a mini of one on a shelf once, bought it immediately, and then looked up everything I could about them. They’re so cool!

Imaginging the dragon occupying like a anceint liches liar and scaring it into slumber would be funny

And now we need to collectively brainstorm what cyan dragons do.

Brown dragon sounds like a euphemism for heroin

The desert setting reminds me of another being who was lost to previous editions, not a monster but a god. My favourite D&Deity in fact, Jarmik. Unlike other gods who have realms devoted to war or vengeance, Jarmik is devoted to generosity and his mosques are havens for the thirsty.

i've never played dnd but i fell in love with baldur's gate 3 and now i'm watching all your videos man thanks

mercury dragons please !!

Love the brown dragonnn!

Ah, brown dragons. That takes me back, it's good to see they're getting some love. =^_^= Also, I always liked the steel and mercury dragons. A video on one or the other would be awesome. =^_^=

“They do have these long finlike structures on either side of their body, but no actual wings to speak of.” Gold dragons: …

*Brown dragon eats Arbys* Takes 10d6 necrotic damage.

Sand Wyrms, you hate em right? 😏

I have had a scene of one of these dragons in a more modern time era chasing an armed caravan through the desert, the caravanner's attempting to fend off the beast, barely managing to keep ahead of it. Usually it has the song, "The Hot Wind Blowing," playing in the background.

Nothing to say, you are truly the best. That is. Whenever I need some monster in particular, The Dungeon Dad comes along to give the one you didn't ask for, but knew you needed.

You should do all the other metallic dragons next!

Or a human named "guy"😏

Thanks for all of the hard work on these draconic guides!

1:09 the lil reynauld making a appearance just made my day

What about play a lombax artificer

"Hasn't aged well"-> slavery Yeah by hasn't aged well it means that people somehow think this specific evil thing can't be depicted as something that the villains do in a fantasy world because they are weird.

5:00 brown dragon is what results from a dragon orgy. Like paint, mix everything and you end with brow

Oooooh i can 100% see a campaign arc where an old brown dragon has managed to learn how to shapeshift and spends his days like NBC's Hannibal from 2013, Mads Mikkelsen impression and all.

i thought brown dragons would have a shit breathe attack

"Red? That's Maroon, you Idiot!" 🤣 Sorry, that's a very obscure reference.

A mummy who actually sends adventures to the lair of a brown dragon to 1. Keep its own treasure secure 2. Has a deal with said brown dragon that it will help protect the tomb of the mummy as long as it gets fed different types of meat

100% appreciate the diablos clip, exceedingly dangerous burrowing derg, meet you but wyvern XD 13:25

pog

The shart-dragon

All I could think was a Gordon Ramsey pun so I'm glad you said it. (Gorgon Ramsey's 9 Hells Kitchen- the perfect bait for a brown dragon)

Definetly curious to see some metalics enter the field. Also wasnt there like a rainbow dragon what even gods dont mess with. That could be a fun one to cover, not practical if its that powerful, but fun