Fixing D&D Dragons (by making them Warlocks) 

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Its ironic how he went from: “NO, I *WONT* TALK ABOUT DRAGONS” To having an entire series about them

A dragon whose patron is a dragon lmao

Ah yes, another installment of “Which Lich, But For Dragons.” My favorite.

We need to start a petition to free Pointy Hat's Familiar 😭

A dragon who’s patron is just their dad and who is a patron to their Dragonborn child

Wild that 10 years into dungeons and *dragons* 5e, they didn’t give us this awesome type of dragon-to-character connection yet. Thankfully, the hat never misses. Happy to have delve featured in this one 😊

Monster combinations make AWESOME campaigns for Warlocks. I sent a Lich phylactery into the Air realm and made it into an unwilling Genie. Now it's my begrudging Genie-Lock patron, trying to trick players into setting it free so it can become a Lich again.

Pointy hat's familiar always astounds me when he appears. Like, you're a Dnd player, you're NOT supposed to be that hot! (Great haircut btw)

Dragon content is always needed. Does every class need a fey/fiend/celestial subclass? No. Does every class need a dragon subclass? Absolutely.

Honestly, the concept of basing Warden Dragon off of animals has grown on me, so I think I'll propose some animal ideas for the other classes: Artificer: Termite (I imagine their hoard being like a city of some kind based around advancement. Also maybe monster hunter Ahtal-Ka vibes with the dragon possibly having its hoard build a dragon-shaped mech around its body, which is smaller compared to other dragons) Barbarian: Bear or Bull (I think that makes enough sense.) Bard: Maybe a Lyrebird or Peacock? (I like the thought of them being all flashy and extravagant, with their hoards being like secret societies) Cleric: Dove (White doves specifically to embody an angelic aspect of gods) Druid: Elk (antler headwear is a staple among druids and primal peoples. Also they'd totally take in anyone lost in the woods like a mysterious forest spirit) Fighter: Wolf (was already mentioned in the OG video so it goes without saying lol) Monk: Monkey (Journey to the west. They totally have temples devoted to enlightenment). Paladin: Eagle (It just felt right, and I couldn't think of anything else) Ranger: Viper (Quick fast strikes, nature) Rogue: Rat (Sneaky, underground city type beats)

Have any of us stopped to think about what Mr. Hat *is?* An enchanted object? A demon? An eldritch god? We need answers

I actually came up with a fan Warden Dragon for Warlocks a while back. It was called a Proffer Dragon, and it basically acted as a middleman between its hoard and actual patrons, gaining strength and powers from both and sneakily form partnerships with other patrons in order to grow their hoards

LOVE the design for the Patron Dragon but it feels a BIT too close to the Brainstealer Dragon which is a dragon that has been injected with Mindflayer Tadpoles and underwent Ceremorphosis. And like the Patron Dragons there are very tentacle-y, squidy, octopus faced dragons. But I suppose that COULD be used as a plot point. Maybe a Mindflayer Colony is using the resemblance to lure victims into their lairs. Or maybe someone mistook a Patron Dragon for a Brainstealer and send your party on a quest to slay it?

The vibe of Pointy Hat is so strong that when the Human Familiar spoke, I was like "I wonder if this was dubbed over." I was so sold on the premise that the voice I was hearing belonged to a hat that when a human spoke with it, I was like "this jangles my suspension of disbelief."

I love the idea of combining the Guild Master and Patron roles. I can practically see the story in my mind's eye. A great kingdom falls under the threat of some external foe and when all seems lost, people with supernatural power begin to arise from the masses, calling themselves adventurers and forming a guild, saving the kingdom. In return, the GM, a dragon in disguise, makes a deal with the king, slowly subverting power from within. Before the king knows it, he is little more than a figurehead with the Guild being the real authority in the nation, hostage to its one-time saviors.

How has this been out for 5 minutes and I didn't see it until now?! Thank you PH!

Still salty about dragons I see

A Kobold who desperately wishes to become a flying dragon becoming a "prince" sounds like a compelling story to me.

I really don't understand the beef Pointy Hat has with dragons, but I love this new contents to use on my tables, thanks for the new and interesting content!

An excellent premise. I had my own notion of how to do dragons following a theme of "power". Assuming a homebrew setting where the chromatics, metallics, and all that jazz doesn't exist, a dragon starts off with a mote of power. As it grows, it develops and obsession for a particular thing that gives them 'power' and they make a horde that way. This can be anything: knowledge, wealth, loyalty, divinity, even something more nebulous like reputation. They grow in size as they accrue 'power', and usually stick to one type over others but can frequently get multiple. Their physical characteristics are dependent on what they value and collect the most of and usually this further entrenches their obsession. For instance, not all of them can fly, and not all of them look like lizards, much like your own dragons, but as they grow older, they need to accrue more and more of their power until they can't anymore, after which they lay a clutch of eggs, endowing it with some of their original power, before rapidly declining in health and dying... assuming they don't have contingencies. Often a dying dragon won't go quietly and becomes *everyone's problem*, just as a growing dragon seeks out more and more sources of power to feed itself. They essentially become 'power elementals'.

I love how P.h and Antonio’s relationship is an inversion of Gaijin Goombah’s relationship with “Little G” (His old avatar). The latter is a friendship and partnership between lovers of learning. While the former is a strained relationship, bordering on “Internship”!

Honestly, I get his Frustration at how "All Dragons have the same stat blocks"... But that's really mostly just a 5E Problem, and it applied to basically ALL the Monsters, not just Dragons, they really Messed up when they Oversimplified the Monster Manual for 5E... In 3.5E/PF1 Each Dragon Type DID actually have Unique Identifiable Traits. Like Silvers Could Solidify Clouds and Fog to just Step on it if they wanted and they can see though it as if it wasn't there (Some of them even make their Lairs on Clouds), They Had a Flight Maneuverability that was one step Higher than other Dragons their Size(And it's a 5 Point Scale so 1 is a lot), They had a Cold Aura, and their Scales REFLECTED Spells that failed to Bypass their Spell Resistance Right back at the caster... And that's on top of the Fact that they can Cast Spells like a Sorcerer with a level based on their age Category same as all Dragons Can (Pick a Spell Known List to match what you want them to do). Also, about the Patron Dragon itself... Neat Concept Thematically, Mechanically even... But ALL of my NOPE to it's Appearance, this is a DRAGON, not a Gods damn Eldritch Abomination/Great Old one POSING as a Dragon! Just NOPE on the Octopus/Eel Look... If you want it to Fit with the Concept of Making Deals and having Smaller beings Serving it, You can Make it a Shark(It's Servants Filling in to Remoras, those Little Fish that swim around Sharks to clean them), or a Wolf and/or Raven (With the Servants filling the Natural role of the other), Or a Crocodile and it's Plover... Look there were WAY Better Options that weren't just "Dragon Cthulhu" ok? We Already have a "Great Old One" Patron for Warlocks, we don't Need another one that's pretending to be a Dragon on top of that. It's Redundant and Frankly Unoriginal, it amounts to saying that ALL Warlocks Must Exclusively be Lovecraft and Demon themed... Also, Also... I have to say, the concept of a "Prince" is neat and all... But it's also REALLY Stupid... If the Dragon can only have ONE Successor, and it Ceases to be a Dragon when it Passes along it's Essence... How does the Species Survive? if one of them Gets Killed, that's it, One Less of them in the world and there is NO way for them to replenish their Numbers. If there were a 1000 of them at the start of the world, and one gets Killed every few Years, then eventually they'll go Extinct despite having done Literally nothing wrong, simply because they have no means to actually Reproduce, only "reincarnate" and even then only though HYPER Specific Rituals... If Someone Prevents that Ritual, Prevents the Dragon from Choosing a Prince/Successor long enough, then that Dragon Dies and that's it, one less in the world, which WILL Inevitably Happen, OFTEN, Especially if the Dragon has Rivalries with other Dragons... You just Created a Species that is Doomed to Extinction no Matter what... That does NOT Fit with the Model of a creature that SHOULD be Superior to any other Material Being...

To me AD&D 2nd Ed, particularly the Councle of Wyrms box set, made the different dragons feel different. One reason is back in that edition of D&D flying characters had a fly level ranked from A to E. I think it was A could basically hover like a hummingbird but E had to constantly keep forward momentum at least at half speed. It also affected how well they could turn. A and B could turn on a dime, E turned in giant curves while C and D could turn faster but not easily. It was a lot of work that was normally ignored by all players/DMs unless you were very specifically having an aerial fight like dragon vs dragon. The really good fliers could mess up the crappy fliers. There where some other things that made them feel kind of different as well but I focused on that due to your comments about flying.

Probably my favorite Warden Dragon, I love the octopus design and I really like how different you made it from all dragons

Ooo me thinks the new Junior High is heading this way. Either way fabulous idea (looking forward to seeing the pointed hat reasons why)

YEESSSSSS! Finally. The first video I watched on this channel, the first DND I ever watched, was the warlocks with a twist. And I've been waiting for this video ever since

Personally, I like finding redundant combinations that just go hard. Case in point: Draconic Sorcerer Dragonborn. So if there is a Dragon Pact, I'd love to see what a Dragon Race(Species post TCE) would do with it. Like a Assimar Celestial Warlock.

I just made a character who is a librarian in a library run by a poly morphed dragon. The inspiration was clearly your earlier dragon vid! :)

"Ginny Di, Dungeon Dad, DnD Shorts, a bunch more-" Excellent, love it, 10 out of 10 "aaaaaaaaaand... moi." You son of a bitch, I'm in.

Honestly silver dragons smelling like rain is such a good way to give a little bit of exposure to players. When you say something smells like rain you can immediately image the sensation and you will easily connect it with the particular dragon. It's the difference between describing entering the dungeon and saying the slabs have moss on them and saying "the place smells of damp, mossy stone". It's like it teleports you there with your eyes closed.

I remember reading about Silver Dragons and I remember somewhere saying they particularly love observing mortals. Like a person enjoying their favorite tv show. They are also the most socialable of the metallic dragons, eager to engage in conversation. Social Butterfly dragons.

I'd love to see a Cleric or Paladin Warden Dragon!

I like the classic nordic concept of dragonhood as a curse. If you are too greedy, wrathful or gluttonous you become a dragon, but how wold a envious, lustful, slothful or prideful dragon work?

as soon as i saw the thumbnail, i knew this was going to be good.

This series got me thinking of a fun idea for an artificer dragon. They have less raw power than other warden dragons so they resort to technology when building their hordes. While some foster communities of inventors, others construct whole armies of warforged trying to artificially raise their own strength. Make their design based on rodents like rats or beavers to match their weak but industrial vibes

Thank you! This is almost exactly the type of dragon I've been running as a warlock patron. Not only do the characters regard them as gods, but I sidestepped the power sharing/loss dynamic by having the dragons demand their helots absorb the life essences or life echoes (memories) of defeated foes and offer these as semi-annual tributes to ensure the dragon patrons stay in power.

I love this series! Dragons as classes are so cool! (Also drag-on-race is a great name)

How dare you, combining my love for big scary monsters and lovecraftian horrors in a way that naturally I'll freaking love. Absolutely never disappointed by one of your videos, they're all great!

I was scared this series might've gotten canceled! Dragon Race is one of my favorite series on this channel.

I heard from a dnd RU-vidr that once a patron gives power, they can't take it away. This is because the power a patron gives is more akin to knowledge than superpowers. So, the patron dragon being able to take away a warlocks power is probably a somewhat unique ability of theirs, kind of like taking knowledge from out of your head. And because the patron dragon lose some of themselves when they give power, it can be seen as the patron dragon being made of knowledge, which is maybe how they are able to take the knowledge away, since that knowledge is their body. And if all of this is true, perhaps as the power and knowledge given to a warlock grows, in some way, the patron dragons' body, knowledge, and power also grows. So when a patron dragon takes their power back, they gain more power knowledge and body mass. And if a patron dragon takes back all their power they gave all once it can result in a temporary super state where they're like twice as big. Maybe it's temporary because in taking all their knowledge back too fast they also takes all the knowledge of the warlock so they has to purge all of it afterwards before their soul gets polluted by memories and identities not their own.

Thanks for another fantastic entry, PH! I love what you've been doing for dragons in this series (can't be easy). Not only has it inspired a bunch of new ideas, it's helped fill some holes in my own worldbuilding process. And that's coming from someone who has a preference against dragons in general! You've given me a lot of use for them now. I hope this series is a success for you. It would be much deserved, especially because it's evident that a lot of work and care goes into everything you make. Gonna go rewatch my lich & dragon playlists now that I've updated them. 😂 Edit: Also love how the draconic essence could go one way or the other. Personally, I like to think of it behaving similarly to the Avatar Spirit from ATLA.

This was interesting, but I totally fell into it because I thought, from the outset, that it was how to make a Dragon as a Patron, which is something I have wanted for three years, which it eventually does, and almost as much as i have longed for a Clockwork Patron, so I can have some gunslinger warlock who received their firearm from Mechanus, and serves some powerful Modron, or even Primus, or some forgotten LE Rogue Automaton. Hell, now I might have to keep an eye out for Artificer + Dragon, because a dragon that actually MAKES something, and that then might be useful to others, despite their typical hoarding habits, could be great! Nice video!

You may or may not already know but part of the reason for the contradictions in the details of Silver Dragons (like the city/mountain thing, for example) is that 5e retcons Song Dragons, which used to be their own thing, to actually just be silver dragons, and then they had to reconcile the lore.

I was just in the process of making a bounty hunter guild for my next campaign. This is PERFECT! THE HAT READS MINDS! BEWAAAAARE!

please let there be a dragon Warlock, for the love of all that is hat shaped. Edit: YES!

This is going straight into my game. I have an organization that hasn't been fleshed out too much, but this concept will be perfect.

I have never played actual D&D with actual people and pen and paper, but man I love every single one of your videos, your explanations, your illustrations. Keep up the good work!

I really like the ideas behind the Archon Dragons. Each one feels unique and gives so many options for DM's to use them in their campaigns!

Now we need a dragon warlock subclass to go along with this.

Hands down my favorite Warden Dragon both from a design and concept stand point. Love love love love LOVE your work bro. Much love from The Cosmic Neighborhood!!

I'm loving these creative spins on dragons!

I would love a Patron dragon whose power grows independently of itself, like a plant's roots will grow to fit its container. In that way, the larger the dragon's hoard, the more their power can grow collectively over time.

I love all your content. Keep it up as long as you want im here for it

Thanks for making the Archon Dragon stat block!

Dragon: Look at yourself, my prince, for the ritual made you into my heritage. Heir: Oh cool! Dragon: Now you are in control of this hoard... Heir: Yes! Thank you my lord! Dragon: About that, there's a horde member whose pact said "I shall provide thee one kidney of my own to keep your aunt alive when the time comes". The time comes tomorrow and, as the heir to my horde, you take on the contracts and pacts I made during my time. Heir: Wait what the fu- Dragon: See you, loser!

My god, your videos are becoming even better ! That dragon series is SO COOL !!!

As always, these videos give me ideas that fit perfectly in my campaign. Thank you so much

Can’t wait for the new stat block that totally isn’t free in the description!! (Sarcasm, thank you for the awesome content!)

I like this series a lot! I hope you do more!

As always your videos spark wonderful campaigns and adventure ideas, thank you pointy hat!

As a fellow dragon-non-enjoyer this made me so happy! It's always a pleasure to watch your videos, thank you for sharing your ideas with us, can't wait for the next one (familiar's hair looks great btw)

Here's where my mind went during this video. You could interact with members of the dragon cult that have different levels of Warlock each time you meet them (like the same character). Party helps them, they are significantly more powerful, party defeats them without killing them, they are level 1 or have no more powers. As you are battling the dragon, it returns it's power to itself, making it stronger but the cult members also in the battle are significantly weakened.

I live in Colorado and will now always be on the lookout for silver dragons when in the mountains.

Pretty sure nothing actually stopped dragons from having classes before, some just already had innate spellcasting, theyve always been able to be druids, wizards, or whatever, there's dragons that have had classes that werent casters, like rogues, as in canon ones.

Thank you human familiar, your new haircut looks great! Thatwas an awesome video and an incredible new dragon! I'm so excited for all the game possibilities with an adventuring guild contract bound to it's patron dragon!

I love this series so much!! hoping for druid dragon next

15:03 warlock pcs that have as much power as their master thinks they need could be an interesting game. Consistently run the same characters but their level (for class features) varies regularly, probably keeping feats and skills

I always love pointy hat videos because not only are they absolute gold, but it gives me a ton of ideas for weird variations and story ideas for my own campaigns

Quite possibly the coolest stuff you've come up with.

These are so good. Thank you Pointy Hat!! (And your Familiar too!)

Thank you so much! You're a big inspiration and I've been waiting for the sorcerer + dragon update because i want to include it in my current campaign. You're amazing Pointy Hat sir!

I love this series! This is amazing.

I would include the ability for the dragon to forcefully rescind it's granted power from a ward, and drain their life force back with the magic, giving a boost to the dragon (in either HP, or recharging their breath weapon instantly, or recharging one of their legendary resistances)

Great stuff as always! I like the idea of Warden Dragons and I made a world inspired by it for my D&D games!

Yoooo, octopus dragon is great. Turtle dragons are my favorite, so seeing another type that could realistically be underwater

You forgot about silver dragons being able to move, shape, and walk on clouds. AJ Picket is a good source for very deep lore on dragons and just about all the monsters in 5E and other editions.

I can’t wait to see how this series is gonna tackle artificers.

Love the haircut btw, and your takes on Dragons!

My Celestial Warlock's patron is an ancient gold dragon that ascended to the celestial plane and now helps mortals as a side project 😂

Great video, and great idea. About time we had a good dragon warlock patron. I would probably add the idea that these dragons have learned to capture and harness the power received from worship, which is why they often form cults.

Im already imagining a fight against tthis thing . Drop a few warlocks in the fight . Whenever one drops. The dragon either gains some health back or a spell slot. Maybe even give the dragon a bonus action to take the power back / or redistribute the power amongst the remaining warlock either giving its power to either warlocks . Or just keeping it to heal a bit, or reganning spell slots

I love the concept, but I’m not too crazy about the squid dragon look. Especially since we already have a big tentacle dragon monster (I think it’s called a brainstealer?). Maybe an alternative look could be some sort of spider-headed dragon. Like imagine a normal dragon with eight beady eyes and two scaled mandibles coming from the corners of its mouth. And maybe with eight legs too. I just think it’d look more unique and still be on brand with the whole ensnaring warlocks thing.

Thanks for the content!

Love the design of this dragon! 😍

Patron Dragon is a lot like Dark Sun’s Templars & Sorcerer Kings. SKs are slowly turning into dragons and templars are warlocks of the SKs.

I haven't watched the video yet, but as a proud Warlock and dragon enjoyer, I'm down for this

Between Pointy Hat and PF2e Monster Core, we’re getting a ton of cool dragon concepts that aren’t just colour + alignment. Love it.

Love this series, so far. Hope it does well enough to do at least a few more classes. Barbarian Dragon might be interesting.

So good. Thank you, hat!

In Pathfinder first edition when fly was a stat that determined how well you maneuver in the air silver dragons were the best at flying specifically. Especially on cloudy days because they could choose to walk on clouds to change direction faster.

i love this series so much. not sure which i prefer between this and which lich

WARLOCK VIDEO DROPPED ¡Vamos alláaaaaa!!!! I love you man, your vids are the best.Ngl midway through the vid I thought I'd be too similar to the sorcerer dragon, but nope, I think in the end it's distinct enough that they wouldn't be that confusing if put in the same setting!

We need a pointy hat pact warlock, imo! Loved this video btw!

The two Silver Dragon breath weapons - The damage one is a high velocity volley of ice shards. The paralysis one is a heavy low kelvin spray mist that snap freezes. Probably!

That's a great idea and helps keep it fresh and different from all other dragons, keeping the theme of warlock. That's again for feeding my campaigns with ever growing enemies and plot hooks

I always find weird how descendents of dragons are full spellcasters (Sorcerers)... But dragon themselves can't cast magic and even the variants by rules have extremely few spells.

15:27 I love the design of the Patron Dragon

You know, I think you should have called this series Demico and Dragons, seeing as it's your take on the most iconic fantasy creature.

I might prefer sliiiiiiightly less emphasis on the tentacles in the dragon patron's art, but it's still a really cool design