The Birth of a New D&D Dragon Species 

thats wholesome

May I suggest the LeShay, the immortal mentors of elves from a lost timeline?

the dragon kings of Dark Sun. They start out as wizards but turn into Athasian dragons because they have taken in so much magic from the land and now can only cast magic from living sacrifices. I love Dark Sun. Elves flocking together and always running. Halflings safeguarding the last pockets of forest by turning travellers into compost. Weapons being more commonly made with bone and crystal making adventurers prioritizing ripping iron scones off the walls of an ancient tomb since iron is a more treasured material to make weapons out of

I would like to see Vampire Muses. Vampires from the Feywild that inspire artists while slowly killing them.

How about a Drolem - a flesh golem made out of Dragon body parts, which all Dragons unanomously see as abomination and attack on sight?

Ditto

Why I'm obsessed with the OSR systems I love. You can FEEL the passion and care in the books. Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea is stunning and the creator is a really cool dude.

Wasn't that the reason given for the creation of the Murder Comet?

I feel like the modern DND book designers don’t need to flex this muscle as much because they have such a large backlog of monsters to take inspiration from.

@@insanehiker5587 Specifically it was "we needed a 1-page monster starting with M for book formatting purposes."

right tho ? Not a huge fan of forgotten realms after all the years of playing in it. But Ed is such a cool dude 😂

Ah fair i supppse my thing is theres so much other shit besides just Faerun its a whole world filled with cultures and such but if your a long time player I get it​@iantaran2843

Nah, just a dude who was visited by Mordenkainen and Elminster for tea a couple decades ago.

​@@chaosreigner869Nah, he hid in a suit of armor while they were having tea

​@@shiro4833Don't forget they invited Dalamar once too.

Yes. She has a harem of each of the chromatic great wyrms. She's very protective of being the only multi headed dragon. As she murdered her sister the goddess of the lost colors. Who was known to be multi headed as well.

Yeah, that would be an interesting topic!

@@zacharyhawley1693 5e calls this out as the origin of the Hydras, but of course there's also the old lore around the missing chromatics that suggest a murdered sister as well.

He has done a whole series on these. DungeonDad has you covered already

I just use the DracoHydra statblock in Fazbans to represent these dragons.

Ever try to interrupt a bar fight or domestic dispute before? It's more likely they will turn both armies on the dragon. A certain degree of arrogance is required to muster an army, after all.

@@HenriFaust And the dragon continues to alternate breath weapons, repeatedly burning and resurrecting all those who don't lay down their arms.

Grossly underrated comment.

@@CaTastrophy427 Sounds... A little bit not Lawful Good, tbh. Definitely Lawful. Possibly justified. But not Lawful Good.

@@karnewarriorI’d say Lawful Neutral since it refuses to choose a side or really stop what’s happening itself, but is doing so through belief in it’s own personal code

We even know for a fact that evil and good are not inherent, even in the lore of the Forgotten Realms. The fact that angels CAN become fallen proves this. These good and evil labels are meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. Even for beings who presumably are physical manifestations of a realm of evil, like Devils, are not necessarily evil at an individual level.

That idea sounds very cool. The Fizban retcon is dumb, but not surprising based on what it has done to other dragons (like purple and steel)

28:00 The idea of a fallen platinum. Where the ascension ritual was distribed gives an interesting chance for this. A curse hitting a dragon at that moment or The mists of the dread lands stealing the dragon in the midst of the rite..... Perhaps a evil dragon attempted the rite.... Thinking it had hid its misdeeds and it's repentance was already enough.... In essence a hypocrite dragon. But it's darkness and repeated attempts got it cursed by bahamut instead and sent to the shadowfells. Possibly in it's own domain of dread as a false platinum/shadow dragon.

​@@arcticdino1650Well, when you consider that, technically speaking, Bahamut himself is writing this book, I think you can make a lore argument for saying "Bahamut is just trying to keep those dragons safe." 😂

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@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim But it's not Bahamut it's a senile avatar of the god Paladine who isn't Bahamut the way they act are very different. If anything Paladine is another Platinum Dragon.

This! I want to see more of this!

Plat dragon born are in 3.5e and can come from any race.:3 Should be an easy conversion to 5e.

This is a pretty dope character motivation. Dragonborn paladin serving a platinum dragon in the hopes of Ascension is the obvious choice. Platinum Dragon warlock patron? Now that's a homebrew I could get behind.

Yeah, I'm stealing that. I think the I'm gonna use the human form and the party won't know the patron is a dragon until the end. Definitely a nice hook for a new group.

The lair stuff had me thinking about a King who, desiring the benefits a nearby Platinum lair would provide his city, strove to create the deepest, most inaccessible dungeon possible, right there in the center of the city. He made it 100 floors deep, 1000 feet on each side. He filled it with traps both mundane and magical, ranging in difficulty from the most obvious set-ups to downright unfair. The layout was a labyrinth, laden with shortcuts that didn't always lead forward, and twisting on itself in ways only possible through powerful spacial magic. And he imported Goodly beasts of many descriptions, building a thriving dungeon ecosystem unrepentantly hostile to the undead, the fiendish, and the unworthy. At it's center was a grand lair, appointed in the finest silks and golds, fit for ten kings. He did everything in his power to make the dungeon a true test of every kind of mettle, and set complicated mechanisms in the walls which could be manipulated from a control room in the center. Then, he sent out a call, inviting young Platinum dragons seeking home to his city, if only they would stay there and let their energies seep into his wells and streets. His plan worked. Now, a hundred years later, the king's great grandson faces an unjust war. His brother, the vile Prince Agister, has bought a claim to the throne in blood and coin, and presses it with an army of bandits and orcs. The rightful King fears Agister may just be stronger than he can provide, not without killing his kingdom in the very act of saving it, and so he offers a party of adventurers a quest - to enter the Platinum Labyrinth, and seek out Grunwald, the Platinum Dragon at the center, who has not been seen since moving in. The dungeon has aged, and many of it's internal wells dried up, but those that still sate thirst cure the many curses layered in those empty halls. What's more, Agister has also sent forth a party of his own, a team of assassins. The party now must race down the 100 floors of the Platinum Labyrinth, facing more and more dreadful threats as they go, hounded by the forces of evil, if they want to save the kingdom from Agister's black gloved fist. They can't be sure that Grunwald is even still in the dungeon, but it is the only hope they have... And some strange force seems to be happy to keep things fair, even when the forces of darkness use dirty tricks. Could this too be the influence of the dragon, a blessing of fortune? Or is it simply a deeper, crueler trick by something malevolent?

Honestly it also makes sense that a platinum dragon could make purifying water since Platinum is one of the purest metals in the world

Even before this video I had an idea for a dragonborn (most likely chromatic) paladin who’s goal is to shed he chromatic scales and be reborn under bahamut. With the final goal of being the champion of bahamut and becoming a platinum dragonborn or a platinum dragon itself.

An then she swoops in pummeling the bad guy while yelling ORA repeatedly. I like it. 😁

@@Franky_Sthein The last thing any Tiamat Aspect ever saw.

a platinum dragon called "STELLA"

Thanks! It took me a very long time lol. After effects is literally the devil

I guess we know what the next video will be about then. But for real, it looks sick.

Similar: In my headcanon Bahamut was the only platinum dragon THAT DID NOT YIELD, never baring his neck for that evil bitch to chomp. The rest respected their elders, or some shit.

I'd say betraying Tiamat and literally burning bridges (and battalions, and storehouses, and siege weaponry) on your way out of Tiamat's army would do the trick.

That sounds like the makings of an all-dragon campaign.

Oh That’s genius

I'm going to make this a thing in my world, this idea is amazing!

Ooh, imagine a campaign that blends aspects of that and Celeste.

Thanks! Also don’t worry, you’ll definitely see Ed pop up again

The GTA car gag was perfect

Thanks for hanging out!

You're so incredibly talented! DD keeps gushing about working with you to me.

"goddammit this is never part of my agenda!"

Ah, retcons....

Once the other video comes out that this interview is being used for, I plan on putting the whole thing up on my second channel!

I had the exact same though as Ed brought up the ascension. I felt like it could literally be the same ritual. Also i don'[t know it it is the official cannon now but there was a retroactive theory that posed that the 4e/5e dragonborn from abeir started as a corruption of those eggs by tiamat cultist. Before that those 3e platinum dragonborn are sterile and the Cromatic corruption inadvertently made the abeir dragonborn able to reproduce, hence why 4e dragonborn were all chromatic (except for some of characters in the novels). That was then retconned and let metallic dragonborn arise as half-dragon/sorcerous lineage descendants kinda like the bg3 incorrect character creation dragonborn flavor-text. there is also the other rationale of them being made by asgotrath/io long ago in abeir to be servants/ soldiers for dragon kind. I think that latter one is the 5e explanation but may have been a mid 4e era retcon.