Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Hellfire Wyrm 

It's a trope that is as old as time.

Deathwing lol

I want to see this. It might actually auto convert into a lich, and be the most literal Skull Dragon you've seen in a while.

Screw how wicked it is, I don’t want to imagine how downright evil it’s breath weapon would be. Acid plus he’llfire? No thank you!

@@animefan3794 Honestly, the heat will kill you long before your ashes are redendered nonexistant. The true worst combination would be if he could turn it into boiling acid. Yes, it fills the entire area in a massive, corrosive cloud, that is quickly cooling down. Filthy brown acid rain pouring down like egg chowmein. Hmm, I think I need to take it easy on my musical humor. This is really getting obscure.

@@TheKing-qz9wd Ferngully reference? I see you're a man of culture as well.

thank you for my next character build

@@chrishardy559 enjoy it!

Hands the dragon a towel, tells them how the betting is going on the fight back at the office.

It's 3 o'clock in the morning ima try to get some Sleep! XD

Iirc it's like 9am in Australia.

He's great with timing so hey

@@Meun I’m not being criticizing to his time of posting but I’m just awake more at night than the day so it’s more convenient for me. Besides when people post during the day it’s an annoying to have several notifications on my computer or phone about it. So in summary I like his posting time but I’m friendly tapping it with a joke.

@@mushroomwizard1175 wasn't saying or implying that you were

As cool as that sounds, if they could do that, then it wouldn’t be the Nine Hells. Hell, in almost all variations throughout mythology and fantasy, is a place of torment where creatures are sent there for a very GOOD reason, and the monsters that call their variations of Hell, home, are even worse than the creatures that are sent there. Time is not an issue because eternal life is a thing for most of them. Hellfire Wyrms are just a piece of sand in a giant burning desert covering a glass floor. Any move you make may have been predicted and you could’ve even been manipulated somehow without ever realizing it because the one who manipulated you is millions of miles on another plane of existence working on a bigger project with your entire campaign being a small piece of their project.

Na man. The Lords of the 9 are powerful af. That's why I think Tiamat hasn't tried taking over Avernus & just kicks it there.

that dragon is already freaking OP. At that point . It would be a demigod. It already the Number one dragon you don't want to fight. Me DMing Murder hobos : Ok that it time to pay for your crimes. Gold dragon appears with backup

@@blackgriffinxx Being a Lawful Good Dragon, they could always plead for mercy. Granted, their desire for redemption must be honest and the price will definitely be steep - most likely requesting challenges up to a full redemption arc via the spell Geas/Quest or similar - knowing them, but better than certain death, is it? XD

That's not to far off... the serpents coil being a fibonacci spiral... hmmmm... mathematical and lawful... any ties to Mechanis?

Hellfire Shadow Wyrm Dracolich, the ultimate force of draconic evil.

Both wonderful and truly evil ideas! Will use later on. Enough time in any playing can also influence a dragons type. So if you spend too long in the 9 hells you can become this type of dragon. Don't look to nervously at the Astral plane, or think about a dragon growing as big as a moon with the Advanced dragon rules (growing bigger and gaining virtual size and age categories). Though I think both of you would love the Pyroclastic dragon's save or die ionizing breath weapon.

A planar template, something like that? It did cross my mind. 3rd edition was all about the templates.

@@AJPickett Yes 3.5 was all about that. Though it's not a terrible idea... *looks at 5e shadow dragon template*

^this^

You mean aside from Coatl?

@@AJPickett something like a silver dragon rise in mouth celestia would it have a change like how the red dragon change in the 9 hells

power there is now. My players will hate me when they need to fight it (they are all evil)

Devine Wind Dragon? Make it based on the Lung dragon, mix in a bit of Shenron and Reyquaza and give it a bit of a "I AM THE ALPHA AND OMEGA" opinion of itself.

Fire is inherently destructive, not chaotic. Fire follows the laws of physics making it lawful. Hellfire does not follow the laws of physics, making it chaotic.

Chaotic fire consumes and spreads according to air, fuel, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and many other factors interacting in a universe where entropic randomness is built in. Hellfire overrides random variables and the fire consumes the fuel more efficiently and predictably, if there is a random chance the fire will set off the fuel tanks.. hellfire WILL set off the fuel tanks.

@@AJPickett thanks for agreeing with me... in more words

Short version: Yes it doesn't make sense, but there is a very purposeful reason by some big players in the D&D multiverse. @@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085 You might be intrested in the origins of hellfire. Who proclaims to be the inventor of the school of Hellfire magic.... and who it actually comes from. It's a bit humorous if you find out why the "inventor" researched into discovering it.

Totally is dude.

Nice

He´s saying "This baby will quite handily achieve a TPK" Or at least seriously spook even a Tier 4 party.

Not as far as I could see.

I’m having trouble imagining Tiamat as Waifu Material. Think you can elaborate

@@couragew6260 Look at her and fate stay night and you’ll understand

@@charlottewalnut3118 Thx... also typical

This is the way.

When hell becomes looney toons.

@@zennyblades Looney Toons are Elmer Fudd's hell. He was a poacher. Now he's the prey to a devious bunny and a psychopathic duck for all of eternity. Except for when the duck and bunny are fighting, then he's a tool.

@Ian Robertson gods forbid your spite damages aj’s numbers and aside from thinking that’s very petty of you does very little to me. So maybe you think before you get your knickers in a bunch next time. Should have just disliked my comment, that would have been an appropriate response.

Was it? I have Fiendish Codex 2 here but not... MM2 that the Hellfire Wyrm was in.

@ because they were too high. They got so ridiculous in 3.5ed that you couldn't kill anything. So the solution was to give epic levels to the PCs which broke the game

@@staticcharm3808 to be fair there should be things that no mortal being should be expected to be able to beat without the direct aid of deities, devil lords, outsiders etc... or at least their artifacts which would debuff or counter said beings. A good DM would do that instead of just adding epic levels.

Yes, apparently they do exist, just look for search for 3e Vampiric Dragon. Edit note: it's 3e not 5e sorry!

@@frostdragonking5336 hope we get a video 🦄

Yes to many types of undead dragons, even !

or a white or black dragon?

or a gold dragon in arborea, or a copper dragon in celestia?

Presumably the result would be the same: the hell-aligned energies would override any preexisting conditions the Dragon might have had.

@@devilsadvocate1380 I imagine a green dragon would have a press attack if it lived in hell that is more similar to some of the nastier magical poison weapons that you see in movies and anime at the gas used by Cesar clown that turns people into stone statues as for a blue lightning that also deals necrotic damage and the white dragon Perhaps spheres of ice and paint you to the ground and begin to freeze you solid if you don’t make a constitution saving throw

​@@charlottewalnut3118 That is a possibility, however since it seems as if at least a part of what makes a dragon take on a color is being "Connected a type of energy from an elemental plane" then being connected to a plane like Avernus could quite possibly remove any such heritages and result in a "Normal" Hellfire Wyrm. It would really depend on how invasive Avernus is, how resistant/vulnerable dragons are, and how resilient their genetic heritages are.

Lore master Pickett will recommend the crab cakes and mead. He currently has a summoned Quasit named "Twit-Ler".

imagine what would great wyrm time dragons think

@@lorekeeper685 Probably something like get off my lawn you bunch of brats

i call dibs on soulmelter as my metal band name

Soulsmelter is my bet

@@ethanbowe8819 but you don't smelt with acid lol edit, love the name for an infernal metallic dragon

frost ones should be called Stygian dragons, as the Stygia realm of cold and ice. there is also Cania, but Stygian sounds much cooler

@@dragonrenver why not both?

Noted!

For your 1st? That usually happens unless if they perform a certain ritual during their twilight years. Involves consuming their hoard than they can go to dragon after life. To answer your other?s they are not considered true dragons according to the book that AJ quoted. So they'll go back to the 9 hell's assumingly. UNLESS killed in a certain way that would bring out their true death. Which yes it could discharge the 9 Hell energy into the material plane. What exactly happens to that energy I'd say is up to DM's ruling... but I like where you're going with this.

Roger that!

probably, two supernatural forms don't stack aftar all, if dragon becomes the shadow there is no fire left

@@dragonrenver invisible fire 🔥🔥🔥 *runs around screaming*

@@AJPickett The Great Nyxfiend rose from the gloom to unleash her Ebon Flame Breath. The flames burned cold as a Lich's kiss 😈😈

Song dragon video. Also, rare dragon breeds video.

@@AJPickett thank you good sir. Could of sworn I watched both of those.

Normal red dragon. Dragons attune to their surroundings. A red dragon born in the shadowfell will be shadow dragon, but that same egg hatched in the prime material plane will turn out to be a normal chromatic dragon. In the same way an egg from 2 hellfire dragons hatched in the prime material plane won't have the hellish surroundings to attune to, and thus be born a standard dragon.

@@synmer7104 Oh yeah. That answer does make sense

I would say it depends on how long it was incubated in which area and if there was any magics trying to prevent, or help that. Not every dragon born on the shadow fell/negative energy plane becomes a shadow dragon. That factoid is part of the Deep Dragon's story.

Sub-type

Yes

Doesn't even has to be a devil, get creative.

Quite possible that they would be Warlocks in pacts with the Lords of the Nine Hells.

@@AJPickett I'd find some way to give them some very potent ice magic. Which is a trick that I worked in to a couple of Red Dragons that I created, for fun.. Maybe through a pact with Levistus? Or any number of other chilly entities! I'd think that it'd be common for highly intelligent dragons, to have some suprises waiting for any challengers. Hell! Why not have an few adult (or older,) White Dragons, subdued, and acting as sentries for a Red Dragon? If Frost Giants can bully White Dragons in to serving them, then a Red Dragon certainly could.

Everyone dies.

@@AJPickett hahaha good one

Eh, it helps when good has the capabilities to overcome evil in some way.

That's what I"m saying! I wish that the chromatic dragons also had a secondary breath weapon or some other sort of ability. In all my home games, all chromatic dragons learn the polymorph spell.

@@stevewinkleburg5300 their secondary names could hint at a magic school or something they control, eg Black Dragons being Necromancers or having a Raise Dead aura

@@jgr7487 eh IDK an aura that does it automatically would be a bit much, I can agree with them getting extra abilities that correspond to their color of scale though. If you look back at 3.5 the draconomicon and Dragon magic PDF both had abilities that dragons could grant for spell slots as well as some Dragon blooded specific spells so it would make sense.

I bet it would be too spicy for the tadpole

what the hell would it look like?

yeah, no kidding

AJ when my Graphic Novel is nearly finished I'm going to give you a shout out in the back of the book just because you did this video man. Your the 1st person to so a video on my favorite Dragon which will be in the book series. Mahalo Aloha and keep the dice rolling my friend.

Fizbans is optional

@@AJPickett true, I was working from it. I was just curious if each version of the material plane had it's own version of the nine hells but seeing as Sardior created dragons "echoes" in the material planethat wouldn't work. My other thought was to have a mage like Sammaster create Simulacra of the dragon to feed on souls to become fully formed beings like the simulacrum of Acererak near the soul monger. Are there other ways this could be done like the soulmonger?

Compare the red dragon to the hellfire, and subtract the similarities. Apply what's left over to any other dragon type, and use your best judgement to flavor it correctly... then consider the alignment difference and personality differences, and use your best judgement to fix any glaring contradictions. That should get you pretty close.

When considering good dragons for this, I would look at the evolution of nightmares from pegasi, and apply the characteristic differences to your dragons personality, considering how the evolution might be different for such a powerful apex creature.

Sounds like a great campaign hook

Tiamat happens.

I'd rather not. D&D has way to many dragons as it is. I mean I know that they're in the name, but IMO dragons have become low hanging fruit. Mix one part dragon with one part element X. Give it a breath weapon, a few dashes of quirks, a few abilities, a few defenses, a few weakness and stick it in an environment that falls somewhere in between its X and its breath and tada! You send it to the art department and go to lunch. Mix dragon with glass. Breath weapon, A cone of glass shards that cause wounds that bleed until healed. Quirk 1, nearly invisible when still in low light, quirk 2 flightless. Quirk 3, eats crystal, jewels and stone(In a pinch), quirk 4, can not cast spells Ability 1 Prismatic sphere 1 time per day, Ability 2 Prismatic spray 3 times per day, Ability 3 all melee attacks act as if they were of wounding. Defense 1 immune to gas based attacks, Defense 2 Immune to blinding, Defense 3 any spell that emits light reflects back against the caster as a color spray spell with a penalty on saves. Defense 4, emits a high pitched ring like a crystal goblet when struck. Make save or spell casters lose their ability to concentrate for 1d4 rounds. Immune to fire. Half damage lighting. Immune to mind effecting, and life drain. Weakness 1, takes double damage from blunt attacks. Weakness 2, takes extra damage and is slowed by cold based attacks. Weakness 3, takes double damage from sound based attacks. Favorite Environment crystal filled cavern or the crystal mountains on the elemental plane of earth. Number of appearing 1. Unless on the elemental plane of earth Now do I get Subway, or Pizzahut while someone doodles up a picture and AJ dreams up a fitting back story for this thing? BTW, I'd never wanna fight this thing, but I'd love to unleash it on a clueless non meta gaming party. The pure panic when everyone started bleeding out after the first blast of its breath weapon would be utterly delicious for a DM. It would stroke my inner willowisp and make you feel like you earned every drop of treasure.

@@dexterisabo3137 I mean, the same could be said of all DND monsters. Also that Glass Dragon is AWESOME.

Aside from the notable changes I described, just use the Red Dragon stats.

@@AJPickett Seems my brain failed to hear that. Time to see the video again!

@@darkmystic7764 It Is a good video anyway, might as well Watch It 2/3 times.

@@stefanomartinelli7344 Agreed!

Thank you Sir

That is the way.