Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Half Dragon 

I have no idea why the intro screen is so small, lol. ah well, doesn't matter.

Half dragon, half medusa. Half dragon, half purple worm. Half dragon, half kobold. I guess Bard is a popular Dragon class.

_Watches video to get inspiration/justification for my secret Half-Dragon Medusa end boss_ AJ: "Can you have a Half-Dragon Medusa? Yes you can." Me: He's onto me!

An amusing character. A dragonborn/half dragon who thought he was just a dragonborn with a tail because he never saw another dragonborn until he was almost 12 after being given to a human blacksmith when he was the dragonborn equivalent of a toddler

There's a lot of really cool art in this video, but would you mind citing the artists so I can see more of their work?

Dragon Blood Baths: Takes years off your skin......and replaces it with scales...

So are dragons just getting around like Zeus or what lol

Anyone else clicked the like button out of habit when seeing Half-Dragon in the title? I'm not biased, I swear. Ignore the dragon thot in my avatar, it means nothing. I am not being obvious!

Well, this video has certainly validated the concerns I had with the main antagonist in my upcoming debut campaign. He's a half Goliath, half blue dragon. In my homebrew setting a certain colony of Goliaths carry the werebear lycanthropy gene, so for this guy the bear part didn't quite mesh into the genetics. He's able to shapechange between Goliath and half dragon form, with his latter form also sprouting tufts of course hair. I did this for the purely dramatic effect of having this already imposing Goliath figure transform into an even more intimidating presence.

Half dragon bard that sings nothing but power metal

Drow dragons? I think you mean...Drowgons

"Infiltrated the priests graduation ceremony." *Flashes back to Homeland* Yeah, I can see how that might cause an issue, given how the Drow like to celebrate.

You think about ever doing a vid on the weredragon? Nice work AJ! 🐍🐍🐍

My current char is a half-Orange dragon/Kor Warlock[Hexblade]/Rogue[Swashbackler]. I got Cha for days.

Half dragon tarrasque by the gods that'd be terrifying to try and fight

Half dragon (red) troll is dam near immortal.

I have a player that is half dragon half tiefling, We chose the half dragon template and tweaked the damage resistances to suit their draconic parentage, and the tiefling side gained one of the tiefling legacies. Fairly balanced homebrew character that is actually half Crystal Dragon and half Tiefling.

I got a half emerald dragon kobold (actually Urd or however it was spelled) infant the party's cleric instantly adopted the thing, having no idea that it is is not only a half dragon but also a sorcerer (it has thunderclap and has never seen the sun, I am looking forward to these idiots trying to bring it out of the Cave XD)

Don't tell my party, but they're gonna run into a half black bullete sometime soon

half shadow dragon vampire succubus necromancer to build an army.

Half-Dragon Corgi mount. Half-Dragon Frog, Half-dragon Grimlock Lich, Half-dragon Minotaur Skeleton, Half-Dragon Purple Worm Vampire, Half-dragon Doppelganger were-owl ghoul, Half-Dragon shark were-human. hows that?

I think the most terrifying half dragon would be half dragon cats. Their already massive assholes without the draconic influence. Most seem to posses reality warping powers too; their lack of fireballs is the only thing keeping them even a little balanced. I mean, could you imagine finding an abandoned village full of stray cats, trying to pet one, or pick it up and immediately having your face lazered off?

there is a sub-type 'half-dragon' in my world, because there are a lot of similar ones. For example there is a race (or monster) of feline half-dragons like those "dragon-guard-dogs" in Volo's Guide, but with big cats (lions, tigers, leopards, etc).

The most broken overpowered half dragon possible is a half gold dragon half celestial

Half-Dragon Purple Worm? Dragons really have to keep a better lid on their kinks.

I have played a half-dragon before, he was a half-orc half-prismatic dragon cleric of the strength domain and was an absolute beast in combat. From memory he had 30 strength, being the max he could start with, as I scored a single 18 with my attributes. The rest of his ability scores were nowhere near as ridiculous. He would have been insanely overpowered in some groups but he joined a campaign where the other members had already been running for a while and were 5th level. He was a lot of fun to play as he had decided that his ancestry meant that he was destined to become overlord of the goblinoids of his region.

A half-fiend troll eats a wounded red dragon and gains the half-dragon template

Here's a idea make a kingdom with a targaryen like royal family but instead of riding dragons they are the dragons or at least descended from them and yes just like in GoT they primarily keep in the family

Actually running a game currently that has the PC's as all half-dragons. We have a silver/human paladin, a brine/elf druid, a magma/elf sorceress, and a blue/gnome bard. They're good aligned pirates who sail against the evil kingdoms of the setting.

I played a Half Red Dragon troll in 3.5 so op no fire damage and plus 20 str

I once played as an abomination born from 2 Half Dragons. Mother was Silver Dragon/Celestial, Father Blue Dragon/Infernal. Ended up with Celestial and Infernal natures with the Dragon Blood holding the mix together without going Kaboom! We all thought Character would die quick as DM was throwing everything at it to kill him. Stupidly lucky rolls and munchkin fuckery kept him alive up to level 20 surprisingly.

I still have and use my Council of Wyrms. What's that? Use a Female Drow, half deep shadow dragon... Priestess of Nerull/Necromancer Wizard as the next BBEG?. Yeah, I think I will, thank you 🖖😁

3.5 edition campaign that just started. My friend is a human, half-silver dragon monk that looks like a bald human with silver scales, getting the dragon part from his mom, and I'm plotting on how to become a dragon rider if we ever meet his mom so I can be like "dude, I'm riding your mom". The DM was thoroughly entertained when I told him about my plan, so high hopes.

An elf can live about 1,000 years, a half dragon elf can double that to 2,000 years, an arch druid ages 1 year for every ten that pass meaning a half dragon-half elf arch druid can live 20,000 years To put that into perspective, Karsus's folly happened 1,800 years ago, the netherese empire began 4,500 years ago, the fall of the drow happened about 11,500 years ago, the first crown war began 16,200 years ago, and the first sundering was 19,100 years ago For an irl example, goats were domesticated 12,000 years ago, pigs were domesticated 15,000 years ago, and pottery for storage rather than art was invented about 20,000 years ago in China

I don't know if you remember my comments from earlier videos but I have been making a shadow Dragonborn, shadow dragon combo of a nearly destroyed Dragon Cult that got trapped in the shadowfell (they are the last 2 survivors), how does throwing in the half dragon aspects making them half siblings go with that, building the bond between the two. The dragonborn becoming an adventurer to gather treasure for his dragon sibling.

Half rust dragon. An angry looking dwarf with antenna and butterfly wings eating the gold he just mined.

You sweet beautiful bastard. Council of Wyrms is part of my childhood.

A half-dragon dying and becoming a genie sounds intriguing.

So, correct me if I'm wrong but, is it possible to have two different dragon species mate with one another and create a hybrid dragon? If so, I think that would be an interesting topic.

Send a dragon to the elemental (demi)plane of Ooze. The dragon returns with an elemental slime breath weapon. "HE SLIMED ME!"

A golden chain bedroll. Unwieldy and heavy, but satisfying

About the lacking culture/heritage, I think halfdragons would be quite similar to tieflings in this respect, individuals may have extremely different origins, (a loving family or the unwilling result of an arcane ritual), but they are all outcasts, distrusted for their assumed evil nature, their strange appearance, their potentially destructive breath weapons (a haphazard fire blast could level a village of thatched huts). Dragonborn especially may see halfdragons as abominations or mockeries of themselves, actively persecuting and stirring rumours against them. If they aren't sterile their ancestry could lend itself to some very interesting characters, I can imagine a family with a longstanding draconic heritage wouldn't appreciate being called "halfbreeds". It would be interesting how their culture and traditions might develop, maybe "wyrmling", "great wyrmling", "wyrm" and "great wyrm" are used to describe children, grandchildren, parents and grandparents, this could create some amusing misunderstandings with other races. :) While the dragonborn are kind of disappointing, all with the same cookie-cutter origin and deliberately nerfed abilities. Halfdragons can be so unique in their backstories and characteristics, pampered child or tortured pawn, with powers and impulses they may struggle to control. A sorely underappreciated race/template as they're a mix of the best of dragonborn and tieflings.

Hey! Epic! That's my silver dragonborn with the hand bow at 12:00. I'm honored.

A story of 5 half dragon siblings that find out who there mother is and that their dragon side comes form her even though the are all half a different chromatic dragon.

Me before: I have several questions about the logistics of making half-dragons and half-giants, even though I'm certain that the answer is to both is horrific. Me a few minutes in: Oh it's because the dragon polymorphs, okay. By the way, Grea is the best half-dragon.

Half dragon half mouse Half dragon half tarrasque

Half dragon T-Rex or other dinosaurs. Brings a whole new meaning to "clever girl"

I've had a player submit a background to me that had them as a half-copper mother/half-halfling father. The story is that the father was a high-level bard, with some creative magic scrolls. He was raised by the dragon for years, then went out into the world...to bring gifts back for his mother (treasure). Given the possibilities for follow-up adventures, we ran with it. Sadly, the game fell apart, but it was an interesting take on the usual lore.

I love how you speed talked through the “Do Half-Dragons have tits?” section of the video, AJ. Some people just need *ALL* of the details.

White half dragon gnome. Can you imagine the rage of that little thing ? Lol.

I need my half silver dragon, half eladrin paladin, and I need him NOW

I have two accounts of Half dragons within my campaign. One serious, one silly. The serious character was a half-White Dragon, who was trying to combat his limitations of being the son of a white dragon by trying to become a wizard. Needless to say, he wasn't able to since he had a hard time learning magic on a academic level. Since his academy believed he wasn't able to learn magic, he was kicked out. However he soon found out he was able to learn magic on a more hands on sense. He learned by watching, not reading basically and so he became a path of Rage Magic Barbarian. The silly one, was a half- Black Dragon Illithid who became a werebear and then obtained Lichdom. It was after he obtained Lichdom(while also being a werebear), he was basically sucked into the Abyss where he was asked by literally all the demon lords if he would want to become a Demon Lord as well. He accepted this, and goes out drinking with Graz'zt every week.

Hear me out...A Half-Dragon Dragonkin Weredragon...that's a 3/4 Draconic Gilgamesh right there.

Excellent video AJ. I now know that my 5-subject notebook I wrote in the 90s for my player characters "Demidragons" was not so crazy and was not loved because it was niche. I actually included player character versions of dragons and different versions of bloodlines and growth, a way to customize your dragon blood and the "lesser being" to create your dragon PC or draconic hybrid. Most played the boring one, the double-sized member of their non-dragon race with cosmetic alterations and available demidragon traits and mana techniques. Some did love the level-based growth. Some did love hoard-based growth. Some just loved the simple. One dragon-blood was an enemy race. They were a race of Lizard Men created by Red Dragon polymorphed... lusty rogue Red Dragon... with a perverse curiosity. He created the Dragon Men people. They were tougher Lizard Men that can fly clumsily and bellow out fire breath every 3rd round while having major heat resistance... and a special vulnerability to dragon killing weapons (like all demidragons and dragons). One of my reoccurring villains/anti-heroes is Seth in my campaigns. He is a Drow hybrid with a Deep Dragon. His Kit is ironically a hybrid of Assassin and Dragon Slayer. Well, maybe not ironically. He can bypass most defenses in any of his attacks against Underdark beings, bypassing defenses is HIS thing and he is the best at doing it. He is the boring mix, a double-height Drow with 8x the mass. The least of his abilities are really impressive, his fighting talents that are enhanced by his arsenal of magic items. His Deep Dragon nature is stronger than most, Underdark gear he carries does not suffer when he uses them in the surface world like they would be if carried by most. However, he lacks the ability to not get blinded nor hurt by bright sunlight without magic or cover... ever. Evil DM snippet... those casting hurtful light to steal his ability to be stealthy but really bolster his rage to give +10 to hit and damage, let him ignore the first 3 pts of damage of every hit (minimum is taken of 1 HP), and give him 3 additional attacks while all attacks are considered "blind". He is skilled in Blindfighting to the level of +8 blindness canceling. And... yes.... he is a reoccurring NPC that is a role-playing guy to either direction, preferable to not being a murder-hobo bad guy. I had what is now classified as a "murder hobos" that made me give serious thought into Seth. I had to create a whole story and thing about him because of those idiots. The silver lining, Seth is now a wonderful half-dragon!

I really like the idea of creating a Vampire half dragon. I'm sure there's a blood dragon in dungeons and dragons lore and I can see a cult of vampires worshipping this beast, the half dragon is the spawn from one of it's consorts. I don't know what mother race but I've got the visual of a draconic face drooling blood similar to the Xenomorph drools in Aliens

3rd edition... Half dragon centaur... One of the nastiest melee fighters I've ever seen.

I want this race as a playable race!

god the idea of playing a half kobold sounds amazing, or just a regular kobold/urd that tries to display themselves as a half dragon. so many fun ideas i'll never get to play.

I had a high level half brass dragon monk back during the 3.5e days. It was a bit too broken but I loved the guy. Rare case of a melee class being able to dish as much/more damage than spellcaster classes. Double natural armor advantage, immune to poisons, fire, diseases, basically immortal, double unarmed strike advantage, can heal his own wounds without needing a healer... Once we were done with this campaign my DM told me to switch characters because I could basically just walk into any situation or fight and come out unharmed and having left a gory mess of whatever attacked me behind. It didn't help that being half brass dragon my character was super cocky and talkative and would continuously jest with the opponents during a fight... Fun fact: my party's preferred mode of transport was riding on my character's back, because he was strong, fast and tough enough to be much more convenient than having to deal with horses.

Wow they sure cut out alot of lore and stats for half dragons in 5E in 3.5 half dragons could breed true with other races that's how they explained the Sorcerer bloodlines and they were just stronger overall

Baphomet PLEASE, he's my favorite icon in any lore, yet I cant find anything interesting about him in dnd

Really enjoy your channel. Just a Note: Draconians from Krynn are not completely sterile. Their are very very few females however. There eggs being hidden away in stasis chambers by followers of Takissis. As insurance if they ever turned against her. Most Draconians do not even know of their existence. Kangs Regiment trilogy. Thanks

Most insane half dragon concept that I remember popping up is the Half-Black Dragon War Troll in 3.5...the one that is pretty close to indestructible for it's CR level and requires some pretty hefty magic to put one down.

I am currently flooding my homebrew world with half dragons of all kinds and shapes. Also, I like imagining the half dragons that are created unintentionally. Imaging a pair of bronze dragons mating in a mareel or a plankton bloom. If some sperms get in the water, you may soon have a magic half dragon reef and the lokals might complain about the recent increase in lighning breathing oysters, considering how many marine organisms release their eggs in the water. Also half dragon barnacles might protect the ships, they are growing on. On the other hand, they will make keelhauling even more painful. And half black dragon, acid breathing shipworms are the bane of all sailors. I am currently working on a swamp region in which all creatures are ore will soon become half dragons (thanks to dragons understanding evolution and wanting to create a deep impact in their ecosystem and leaving an everlasting heritage), so even if you just flip over a stone, everything will spit acid in your face. Also all those half dragons influence the ecology and change the food net (they can reproduce and are really invasive, especially since the ecosystems they invade do not have the elemental resistances that their original habitat had). I think one of my favorite half dragons I am currently working on, is a gigantic blue dragon man o´war that rules as a tyrannical queen over the sea in the hollow world of my setting and stores its hoard in its translucent pneumatophore (it uses the up flying nectar of the world willows to counterbanace the weight). Also, since siphonophores are colonial, "she" is not only the queen but also the aristocracy (technically this colony does not have a gender since they are polyps and thus the asexual part of the life cycle of the species). Also if blood can create half dragons, things will get interesting. Imagine all those parasites that will soon become half dragons! Maybe the dragon has nematodes that will rise and protect its host (or emerge after the dragon died). Maybe the old black dragon had a favourite bog or lake he liked to rest in, and now the people tell stories about those strange scaled giant leeches that are starting to get a breath weapon and also sprout little wings and start to fly around. Or imagine the heroes that recently have slayed the ancient red dragon. Now his corpse lies in the woods and his blood is seeping away in the ground. If you remember the high abundance of biodiversity in only a hand full of earth, you might realise that there soon will be fire breathing earth worms, scaled springtails and many other organisms. Also what about scavangers both on land and in the sea that will eat dead dragons? Might they also become half dragons or creatures alike? Can you imagine a dragon fall ecosystem in the deep sea analoge to the whale fall communities? There are many interesting things to consider!

Half Blue Dragon, Red Dragonborn Sorcerer with White Dragon Bloodline. Merica!

half dragon dragonborn with weredragon lycanthropy? 200% dragon?

I ran a game in which a chad type who made a 1/2 dragon in an evil campaign I ran. he bragged about making such an op character that I couldn't touch him. I stopped fudging rolls. 1/2 his tail was severed while he was in a drow city. While there he got an artifact called queen elyssas marvelous nightingale. He botched his 1st will save so got possessed by the spirit of an 8 year old human girl

Half Dragon-Dragonborn...Name is "S'calacles" and his trials to become a full dragon...

Half dragon half Aasimar +1 con +2 cha and a breathweapon that does radiant damage

Half Dragon Hydras should get more breath attacks, Tiamat style.

Currently got a Human Wizard with an accidental similarity to an Adult Green Dragon's skills and mental ability scores. I'm very keen to see if she will happen upon a chance to study draconic transformation. Harvesting a chromatic dragon would be less ethically dubious than a metallic one. :P

I call these "Bard spawn"

As far as I'm aware. Draconians are all male, not sterile. I have a book with a story about a battalion of draconians searching for female eggs. Also you didn't talk about the 3.5 edition half-dragon template. Made me very sad. I was looking forward to you explaining half-dragon shambling mounds and gelatinous cubes.

Tortle Half-Dragon, a whole new meaning of Dragon Turtle.

I typically make half-dragons, cambions, and other planar hybrids have souls, but their souls are supplemented by a particular source of planar energy due to their heritage. Similar to how a sorcerer gets their power, but rather than drawing on the energy for a source of arcane power, it’s more so a vital part of them, like blood or lymph, their physical form depends on the presence of that energy to function.

Half Dragon Gnome, I can’t wait to see how Kobolds react 😆

The personality traits from their draconic parents not affecting their alignment always sounds fun to play with. Like, say a Chaotic good half-Red Dragon. Jovial, friendly, holds family and friends at a high value... and if you try to harm either of those then that half-red dragon greed shows itself. The potential villain could have the two-fold rage of attacking those dear to them and attacking what is "theirs" directed toward them.

Half-black dragon half-black pudding... nasty moving puddle with an acidic "breath" weapon. Almost be like a venom symboite thing that just dissolves whatever it covers, could imagine a crazy (subjectively crazy) one that thought it could "bond" with things and doesn't quite understand why it never works.

I once had an epic level Unicorn/human/gold dragon, the Unigon. He was a paladin gifted as a son to a gold dragon who was faithful to Lurue her entire life but had never been able to bear the child she so desired. Pretty insane stats too, I'm glad half dragons don't get the ridiculous bonuses to Str, Cha, ect they used to because it made them almost unplayable as a character race.

The only Half-Dragons I think of are Lizardfolk Half-Dragons. Plenty of Black Dragons lord over swamps utilizing carefully chosen Lizardfolk tribes to produce consorts with which to breed. Inevitably these interactions produce loyal hulking half-breed monstrosities which act as chieftains, proxies for the Black Dragon's domination. I don't know the adventuring party who would willingly go into those swamps.

White Half-dragon orc, who acts as a leader for his people thanks to his intellect, strength and his charm. He advanced his people from a barbarian stone age society to a steel age honor bond warrrior viking culture.

I always try to play a half dragon, but most GMs claim that the race is too OP. I also am normally in 3rd, 3.5 or Pathfinder. I'm hoping to talk a friend of mine into letting me run one as a Paladin or fighter in his Supernatural/monster hunter game. The later 3.5 books granted extra feats that let you gain extra uses of the breath weapon, wings and feats for them, and ways to increase your half dragons natural armor.

Half Dragon mind flayer? Cthulhu???

Half-dragon tarrasque lich. My player's characters need to die, soon

Kobold huh? That's one step up from a sheep. Just think of the cloth that could be made from it.

Black Dragon, Dire Wolf :D

A pod of half-bronze dolphins

Got a game where half-dragons were very much the full rarity that they should be, but something 'stirred in the water' that drove many full blood dragons, even those without an innate transformative ability, to breed (naturally those that can't transform found rituals and other means) outside their race, a drive of quantity over pureblood retention. It hasn't come to light what this occurance was, or could be, but the need to pass on the blood was so strong that it superceded any other natural drive. Essentially this had lead to a fifty year period where half-dragons have come about here and there, many by one-night stands and the like in all corners of the world, only a meager handful being from actual romantic pairings. A Bahamut follower group who have come off of a prolonged war with Tiamat's followers are now seen as something of an authority to these half-dragons, and have decided that there's a need to actually create a settlement in my campaigns main setting, a vast city-state where law dictates that might makes right, so they figure their inherant abilities, as well as the fact the outcastish dragonkin are likely to be fairly powerful to a one. Out of the five hundred across the continent it takes place, two hundred and fourty have decided to join them, with the others too afraid or secular to wish to band together (although it's noted those made in romantic pairings are almost all in refusal to join the community for more obvious reasons). How their fates work out, being vastly outnumbered, but with some truly powerful half-dragons leading them, will work itself out in my next campaign. The players aren't part of it, or the main movers and shakers of the city-state, but part of a group of mitigators, known as the Greys, who essentially act as guards to the unaffiliated, and act as a semi-authority to the gangs that mostly run the place, mostly stopping people from engaging in truly abhorrant acts like mass poisonings or the like. The Greys aren't necessarily more powerful than any given faction, but they are backed from outside the city by a collaboration who want to make sure no one group gets too strong. That said, I've made my half-dragons fertile, but with some serious caveats; Firstly, breeding outside of elemental type has a strong chance of causing a 'mute' (and an absolute certainty with opposing elements, with a non-aligned otherwise having a 70% chance, and successful pairings have an extremely narrow chance of forming a unique energy type half-dragon which almost certainly will be sterile but likely very powerful if they can harness their peculiar lineage), a half-dragon with no elemental connection, no inherant magic, just slightly greater size and strength. Half-dragons can mate with dragons via the same transformative means, although it will create a rather fragile full blood dragon, dull in magic and not as large or strong, and conversely, mating with a conventional humanoid will create essentially a perfect candidate for a dragon-blooded sorcerer but no other advantages.

Sweet an upload at 5am lol!

I've been waiting this for so long thx! I always love half dragons

Now I want to play a half human half dragon that looks like a teifling

In a game I DMed I had an evil dracolich that was very much in love with a human lich and they made interesting half dragon undead things through their perversions of magic and biology.

Half-Force dragon thunder giant. Feel the Storm

half green dragon/ tiefling with rakshasa bloodline was a wild idea I got from this vid

Does a half dragon medusa have dragons for hair instead of snakes 😃

8:45 Wait till he finds out about America ☠️

In the Forgotten Realms paperback "WAR IN TETHYR" a female gem dragon (I think a Amethyst dragon) had birthed a new for of dragon. This character was female with red hair and did not know she was a dragon until she changed but thought she was a human girl. When she changed she became a one of a kind ruby dragon with a breath weapon made of ruby dust blown at speeds that could shred flesh. How could this have happened and have you heard anything else on this one of a kind dragon?

An Half Half-Orc/White Dragon Half-Dragon makes for the perfect “Dumb and Strong” Fighter Character.

In the realm of weird combos, I made a half brass dragon triton storm sorcerer (from her triton mother) and vengeance paladin. It's a bit min-max for sure… when she reaches 6th level sorcerer she will have resistance to lightning and thunder damage in addition to her fire resistance. Her dragon father was wounded near fatally by Imyrrith (sp?) in an air battle, so he fled to the sea, shifted into a male triton, then hid there, falling in love with a female triton which resulted in her birth. As an adult, she took up work on a ship as many storm sorcerers do, when her crew was killed by a green dragon which aids pirates by gassing the crew, leaving the pirates no resistance to their plundering (this storyline is from an old adventure in a very early Dungeon magazine). She now hunts evil dragons (paladin) and ultimately seeks to find out if her father still lives. Since she's 9th level, I've equipped her with a dragonslayer great sword just to put the whole NPC over the top!

Hey AJ, interesting video. Yet another playable race for 5e. I enjoy the way 5e is so open to, whatever it is you want to do. Thank you AJ & have a great day.