First Look at Fizban's Treasury Of Dragons for D&D 5e 

Part of me wonders if it was on purpose, but with the amount of times he said 'imagine dragons' it _had_ to be intentional.

Imagine dragon these nuts across your face ayeeeeee gottem

Came here to say the same thing!

He better be careful. Too many mentions of it and he may be waking up to ash and dust.

@@invertedghostgames9899 Maybe he is a Believer

That's the idea behind my current campaign! (Just started, so who knows where the players will take it.) Volo's has some great giant lore, tips for roll playings and add'l giant monster concepts/stats that has given me great ideas. A fellow GM also suggested stealing ideas from the Storm King's Thunder adventure module, esp. for lairs and magic items.

Volo’s did a section on Giants, it didn’t go into the finest details but it does flesh out the Giant race a lot better. Between the cultures, religion, and how they interact with one another and other races, it’s a great start. If you’re a lore keeper, then a standalone book would definitely be a nice new addition, but if you’re a DM fleshing out your own world (like me) you’d be much better off with certain ambiguities so you can adapt the race into your own world. I take a LOT of creative liberties when it comes to big D&D races such as dragons, giants, Drow, etc. and I do so to sculpt a more immersive world.

@@1003JustinLaw Yeah, I agree more than words can say. Being a storyteller and forcing me to make my own adventures we could play made me realize a few things. The first one was that generic magical items would not exist in a magical world unless it had seen war. No enchanter of note would be willing to make a generic item, that's for their apprentices to do and only when they can make an item by without variations would they be allowed to progress. That would down the line lead to no two magical item being exactly the same. They would have the enchanters calling card, unless it was a point to not add that. One might add flames flickering along the edge without it affecting the weapon at all or it might add a big of fire dame. Each maker would add their own flair and it would be boring to make a +1 item beyond a certain point. So magical items would all be slightly different. The other was a type of monster evolution were the various types of monsters would change a bit to better fit in at an area. This means that there would be no generic monster. Oh, sure it might be a bear and it might look like a black bear, but you would need to understand the local habitat to really know which variant you were up against. And such bests and monsters might also evolve due to some external force. Knowing this I made my own stuff from when I was 16 I think, that's over 30 years ago with me creating my own stuff. I get inspired by things sure and have insane ideas, that needs to be reined in to be used, but over time you gain a sense of what's right. It's not about creating a challenge, it's about creating a world that will grow such challenges naturally, a living breathing world filled with wonders. I started small, with an island actually that help one settlement. From there it grew with bordering towns, roads, the larger area, a big city and then suddenly you have a continent filled with stuff, A few years later I had a whole world filled to the brim with history anyone could pick up on by looking in the right place. A world isn't static because the people and creature in that world had their own wants and needs. Usually I imagined dropping the players into an remote area due to a failed teleport or something like that and from there let them find their way back. Then I would look upon that area and see how it had evolved and how the players actions would have affected the area as they would plow through to get back to where ever. Or maybe it wasn't the players, but rather a younger exploring character. How would such interruption into the local habitat affect it. My players feared the words looks wild, because they knew that in such places what they knew might not be up to keeping them safe. That's how countless weird monsters were born and more than one character any player could interact with. Like the book loving lich who collected magical tomes and readily traded for new books, attack him and he'd rip you to pieces, but trade books ooh, that would be interesting. Or the Tea witch as the players called her. A bonkers old tea loing potion master who liked to experiment on her customers by serving them potion tea. She was to useful to avoid, and to annoying to really want to go to as she would always be pushing tea at you. Random events leads to random consequences, run through a few senarios in any given area of your world and think hard about what would happen if.... Then run that a few hundred times and suddenly you have a nice little area with some weirdness thrown in. Start small and let it grow.

@@taleg1 I wish I could spam likes for this reply, this is exactly what I’m going for. I created a world with a Pangea-like supercontinent but a relatively short description, and some of my lore-loving players were like “can we get a detailed description of the history and whatnot?” To which I reply “there isn’t one, at least not a consistent one”. What I do is set a vague world in which anything can be changed and milder to fit my player group and the circumstances they find themselves in.

Great ideer

"What they don't tell you about Dragon Hoards" has a lot more dragons!It really needs more atention cause it covers everything Fizban's did not.

I believe this only applies to the Metallic Dragonborn's special breath weapon.

@@DungeonDudes Nope. It applies to all of the Breath Weapons.

Breath Weapon. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with an exhalation of magical energy in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, the creature takes 1d10 damage of the type associated with your Chromatic Ancestry. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. This damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

@@DungeonDudes Logan is correct. All of the updated and new breaths regardless of ancestry can be used as part of your Attack action, the breath doesn't replace it entirely as the original Dragonborn did. The wording says "When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks..." for all of them, implying that if you have Extra Attack it only replaces one of the attacks, not the entire Action. This is a HUGE buff for martial classes with extra attack because generally it was better for them to just do a normal Attack as the 2+ attacks made would out perform a breath weapon usage. Now they don't have to choose. A Dragonborn Paladin with Extra attack can charge in, take a swing on a goblin with their sword, and then as part of the same Attack action perform a breath attack on the goblin and its nearby friends.

@@jmtrujillo33 Metallic Dragons gain even more from this at level 5, because they get a "Metallic Breath Weapon" that is not their original Breath Weapon, and is even written as "second breath weapon". RAW it doesn't say it can't be used in the same turn as the Breath Weapon, so it would be a nice 1-2 punch in a 15 ft cone.

Yeah im glad they brought this out for my kiddo he's obsessed

This made me happy to hear. Thanks for sharing 🐉🐉

That's wholesome

Lol I wish I could reroll as a drakewarden also but my DM said he's not ready for that mess

Nice. Sounds like my situation. I'm running a campaign where my wife was going to be a beast master and I told her about the Drakewarden (the party will be hitting level 3 tonight). Now she's just in time to discover a large geode that will hatch her little drake companion.

Players always deserve arbitrary suffering.

Yeah, give them a bloodline spell list!

You can give them Dragon's Gift at the moment of character's creation, though. Which may be incredibly strong depending on which gift will the character receive. Which is better than nothing, I guess

that is indeed a missed opportunity

100% agree with you. I love the book but I feel it could have added more stuff. They definitely missed an opportunity with revising the draconic sorcerer! Draconic sorcerer is still powerful and cool but definitely could use more features such as free elemental themed spells/draconic magic. Also I still find it odd how they didn't give all dragonborn darkvision. I always found it silly how dragonborn don't have darkvision or keen senses like their dragon ancestors! As a DM I would give my dragonborn players darkvision and proficiency in perception. I absolutely love the dragonborn variants! Not only do you get new and improved traits but you can choose your stat boosts rather than being pigeon holed into strength and charisma. The new subclasses are fantastic! I can't wait to try out drakewarden! Overall this book is 9.5/10

I agree. I also want a Draconic Warlock.

Ooooo, I like that! Perhaps Strahd twists the spirit of Argynvost? His beacon of light and hope getting extinguished by Strahd would definitely drive the point of Barovia home.

Or you can make Strahd turn into dragon after he dies.

@@mardshima2070 No

Oooooohhh my. Good luck to your players.

Could do one for each creature type! Might wanna skip beasts and humanoids though lol

Sounds like you want Lords of Madness, Libris Mortis, the Fiend Folio, etc. They’re all 3.5, but have tons of stuff in them

@@dang5736 thanks for the recommendations! I'll have to check em out!

Codex of evil 5e, Van Richten's guide to ravenloft...

​@Dan G I was just thinking about those 3e books lol.

I love the new dragonborn cause I felt the old one was straight up bad, the breath weapon was worse than an attack from a weapon and for immunity you could just go genasi, it was sad especially because dragonborn are so cool looking

the new dragon born feel more like what they should have been in the first place

@@maksudshtrudel1089 I always plucked the Ravenite DB from Critical Role since they feel far more flushed out

Something tells me they aren’t in charge of that.

I wonder what Kelly's favorite band is...

Now what was that spell again? Fire- *Raistlin aneurysm intensifies

I think, honestly, the most disappointing thing about this book is the Greatwyrms Super underwhelming IMO. Everything else fantastic, and the Elder Brain Dragon has literally inspired an entire Illithid campaign.

@@Helldog6 What specifically do you feel is underwhelming about the greatwyrms?

​@@mikeprado4381 Well, I hate the fact that they all share the same stat blocks, for one. They all share the same movement traits, essentially the exact same statistics with the only difference being their immunity to whatever element they are. I also hate the fact that their breath weapon is just bigger, and not stronger. The fact that the Ancient Red Dragon's fire breath does more damage than Red Greatwyrm is very underwhelming. The 26d6 from the Ancient Red Dragon not only averages a higher amount of damage, the maximum amount of damage is higher as well. And I get what they were trying to do, it's supposed to be a city annihalator, and the 300ft range is effective at that. BUT, in combat, the 300ft range is a essentially a nonfactor. On top of that, almost all attacks do about the same damage. I think the Red Greatwyrm averages a little bit more, but not enough to really make a huge difference. I do love some of the added elements to their attacks - not sure about the grapple added to their Claw attacks, but I do love the added Prone save with their Tail attacks. Adds a cool element that actually makes the tail attack something you'd want to use, although the fact that it's not an AOE and is still not included in its Multiattack is another thing I dislike, but that's the same with all Dragon types so I can't be too pressed about it. Still, even with the added Prone, I don't ever see myself using it against my players. I'm also not the biggest fan of the "Arcane Spear" legendary action, as it's just a not as good version of the Aspect of Bahamut's "Celestial Lances". It's almost the exact same thing tho, just not as strong, which again kind of exemplifies the lack of creativity with the design. The fact that all greatwyrms have this type of ability makes the Aspect of Bahamut less unique, IMO. Now the biggest issue I have with it is the fact that Red Greatwyrms have basically two lives, which mean they have about 1000 health, they have EIGHT Legendary Resistances (Because they refresh after the Chromatic Awakening happens) which essentially means they are almost the exact same dragon, with more health, and more resistances, which is going to make the fight quite a bit longer but neccesarily more exciting. I love the mythic actions, however, I just wish there were more of them and that they were unique. Maybe a couple passive Mythic like abilities - like a Blizzard forming around the White and Silver Greatwyrms causing the environment to become difficult terrain while it's active and causing Cold damage, or a Lightning aura around Blue or Copper Greatwyrms that sends lightning bolts at targets who enter the area, or a Fire Aura around Red and Gold Greatwyrms that deals damage when an enemy attacks the Greatwyrms, etc. IDK. It just felt very underwhelming for me. I love dragons, but I just wanted a little bit more.

@@Helldog6 Gotcha. Great ideas to tweak what they’ve written though, like your passive Mythic-like abilities! And thanks for pointing all of this out. I’m a relatively new DM and have yet to run any type of dragon. Great education!

@@Helldog6 hey! Honestly I think the tail is there to confuse the players with attacks of opportunity, since it hasn't got the same range as the other attacks I believe

I've been playing it in a mid/high level campaign for a while now. Started at 10, currently 14. We homebrewed some changes to the UA that actually wound up being in the final print. Such as the drake gaining a size bump to medium rather than going from small to large with no in between. I like the changes they implemented personally

The reason why they aren't fans of the new monk subclass is because it became harder to use the features of the subclass going from UA to official printed material. Things became more expensive, less impactful or unable to use more than a set number of times.

@@GuardianTactician I’d have to disagree, being able to use most abilities a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and then if you wanna use it again you just spend 1-3 key points depending on the ability, and the more expensive ones you don’t get until much higher levels. I found that the damage to be just about one par with spell casters when they cast spells. And taking into account the abilities to swap damage types at any time with no ki point spending is HUGE. So now the monks can target most damage vulnerabilities on any enemy they encounter. I think it scales quite nicely.

The UA Kobolds simply didn't share the flavor of previous 5e kobolds. IMO they'd have to go back to the drawing board.

Volo's kobolds are 100 times better than the UA. No revision was the right choice.

@@bigdream_dreambig I was at least hoping to be rid of the sunlight sensitivity. Also, I'd have preferred the Advantage to fear or Extra Sorc Cantrip options- fine maybe they shoulda kept pack tactics but honestly I loved what I saw.

I'm honestly fine with all the dragonbron changes, but Sardior & Ascendant Dragon was a major dissapointment yeah.