The Dragon D&D Tried To Erase From Its History 

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Bobert Robertson, town kook who’s CONVINCED he’s a dragon, turns out he is a steel dragon and doing a very elaborate bit

Imagine a boss battle, where a party defeats the boss. The boss drops his disguise and becomes a steel dragon, who then congratulates the heroes and thanks them for killing the bad guy, freeing the dragon to move onto a new role. Maybe even perform a sort of “exit interview” with the party, to see how they would rate him as a villian. Afterwards, the dragon leaves to assume a new role never to speak with the heroes again.

Just an idea: A small town comprised of entirely steel dragons who are mysteriously drawn to the town and none of them realize that everyone is a steel dragon due to their incredible dedication to their role.

I could totally imagine a steel dragon becoming the party’s benefactor. They send out the party to collect interesting things and then ask the party to retell their story for them.

I had the idea of a steel dragon being the secret owner of a public art gallery, each piece being an artistic representation of its many past lives.

Sister Saanah runs an Orphanage in the local town. She is well beloved and generous, the only sign of vanity she displays is a pair of simple steel earrings. She listens very patiently to the (often made-up) stories the children tell her, affectionately referring to them as her "Little Treasures". She is also notably protective of her charges, making sure potential adopter's paperwork is in perfect order and checks in on the adopted children and their families as often as she can. Which are the real "Little Treasures", the Stories or the Children? Is she really as caring as she appears?

Could you imagine doing an entire campaign within the locked away memory of a steel dragon only to find out that you are just an NPC in the matrix and part of a larger piece of information that yet another adventuring party needs?

Feel Like theres some potential for an interesting campaign regarding a steel dragon versus a false hydra. Seems like a creature that values memories and experiences would be majorly threatened by a species that devours not only entire towns worth of people but the memories those people ever existed.

A Steel Dragon that owns an inn or tavern, gaining stories from any patron or adventurer that comes by. Yet the adventurer apparel and weapons decorating the tavern could be from previous friends or lives the dragon has lived and loved.

Another detail is that if the steel dragon’s persona mates with another humanoid, it will NOT be a half dragon.

Oh, this is awesome! Steel dragons were always one of my favorites, and I had a recurring NPC of a steel dragon who disguised herself as a librarian. Books were her horde, and while she'd let people borrow them, she was VERY clear that you didn't want to return the books late. The players didn't find out she was a steel dragon, but were such big fans of her they ended up convincing her to adventure with them. She kept it a secret, but because my party was being the opposite of murder-hobos, and their kindness towards her made her like them, she eventually revealed herself. It wasn't a 'Hey I'm a dragon' thing, but the party was getting some really bad rolls and were getting close to getting TPK'ed, so she went dragon mode and saved them. After saving them, she had to leave(to protect her horde/children now that the bad guys knew she was a dragon) but the party was flabbergasted. And, honestly, if they hadn't been so active and engaged in the roleplay, they wouldn't have befriended a steel dragon to the point she was willing to reveal herself to protect them. Never had a game as good since.

I know you said they normally don’t interact with other steel dragons but I love the idea of like every hundred years a group of 6-10 steel dragons meet up and tell people about their lives and make recommendations to each other like a sort of book club

My players in my first campaign gave me blank checks for their backstories, so I turned one into an amnesiac steel dragon. The reveal was awesome, to say the least.

I have always like the idea that as a Steel Dragon lives another life, a single scale on the dragon changes and is enchanted with the memories of that life. Anyone that touches it, can access the entire memory.

I thought of a Steel Dragon living as an undertaker, to better understand the sorrow of the short lived races. Perhaps his lair is the graveyard, surrounding forest, and the tunnels of the underdark beneath. The people may know something is in charge there, and that it often seems quite peaceful, but be unsure if it is evil, as often most things with dominion over areas of underdark are not exactly friendly. Could be interesting.

My party's main city has one of the classics, a librarian who's an ancient steel dragon. She disguised herself as a visiting draconologist and asked the party to help her find a blue dragon hidden in the ruins of the city. In the blue dragon's lair, they found... the actual draconologist she was impersonating, kidnapped by the blue dragon. She eventually transformed during the final fight. It was a really memorable dungeon.

Out of all dragons, chromatic, metallic, and gem, the steel dragon has by far the most beautiful and meaningful life cycle I've ever seen. It was very heart warming to watch.

I like the idea of entering a Steel Dragons mind vault to look for a specific memory, but what about the opposite? Entering their mind vault to either implant a memory or alter their memory in a certain way... Inception D&D edition style.

For the curious, here's a bit more detail on steel dragons in publication: 1) The very first mention of the steel dragon was a unique entity, a singular dragon that was the good counterpart to the evil Grey Dragon, in Dragon Magazine #62. 2) The steel dragon species first appeared in the original Draconomicon, a Forgotten Realms supplment for 2e, after having appeared as "the Greyhawk Dragon" in Greyhawk Adventures. 3) Rules for playing half-dragons with steel or greyhawk dragon heritage would appear in Dragon Magazine #206. 4) The Steel/Greyhawk Dragon split would persist into 3rd edition, with Steel Dragons appearing in Dragons of Faerun and Greyhawk Dragons appearing in Dragon Magazine #339. 5) Their last appearance to date, and the first time they were officially considered Metallic Dragons, was in 4th edition's Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons. This also introduced a new quirk to the species, giving them a strong belief in personal liberty that made them bitter enemies of tyrants. In particular, they often acted as self-appointed guardians against the more tyrannical inclinations of fellow metallic dragons (who becamse less "Always Good" in this edition), which often brought them into conflict with bronze, cobalt and gold dragons.

A steel dragon that takes the persona of a rat-obsessed crazy dude whose lair is in the sewers would be neat. I’m thinking essentially the Rat King from TMNT, but less evil.

I really love the whole "trying to understand something you are not part", it's not just immitating, but learning and appriciating the what people go through, even though you don't share the same struggles. One fun one can be a steel dragon that runs a brewery or tavern/inn, since they get to meet new people since people are always hanging out there sharing stories, drinking and socializing, and many people of different cultures often meet there. It also makes a funny twist on the tavern owner that is a level 20 adventure meme. Honestly why did wotc want to make them non-canon?

This is quite literally my favorite dragon of all the different kinds. There’s just something about a dragon whose curiosity and treasure lies in the normalcy of everyday life.

I still can’t believe Fizban’s tried to retcon all of the obscure dragons out of existence. There’s no reason to ever limit the creativity of DMs like that.

Actually played a steel dragon in a campaign years ago. Wandering blacksmith who would craft swords and weapons for aspiring adventurers using his one scales as the materials. ❤

Could be interesting to have a steel dragon kickstart the main plot by noticing some sort of threat growing under everyone's noses, and deciding to give a group of fresh-faced adventurers an innocuous quest that will lead them to stumble upon hints of the greater threats, or maybe hints as to where to find something that can be used against that threat. From there, it's up to the adventurers to follow through, but at least now there's a chance for good to prevail...

I find the concept of them in itself kind of beautiful honestly, especially them releasing all that information out to the world before they die. What a cool creature. Congrats on the silver play button by the way. Well deserved!

That bit about what they do when it's time to die is honestly really beautiful, it made me cry a little lmao.

These are my favorite dragons. Thanks so much for bringing it to 5e after I was so disappointed by Fizban when they were passed over.

They aren't stainless steel, they all just rusted out

For a steel dragon personna... why not a bishop ? Maybe archpriest even ! And a cathedrale like lair sounds awesome to me ^^

Congrats on the play button! I like the idea of a steel dragon taking the guise of a city planner for the historic district of a major settlement, who landed the job because he shows intense passion for the area's history and culture, when it turns out the reason he knows so much about the place is because he's been there since it was a tiny village with like 8 huts in it

This was timely. I read about steel dragons on the wiki when I looked up metallic dragons and decided to run one in a game. I have my group going into Waterdeep to seek out a prodigy artificer and the dragon is one of the guard captains. He's become enthralled with the dynamics of the power struggles in Waterdeep and wants to serve the innocents that may get caught in the crossfire. Every time he leaves an old life he returns as a fresh faced recruit to climb the ranks once more until he's head of the guard himself. His lair is the barracks and prison beneath them. Especially evil prisoners are rumored to go mad in prison, claiming that the halls are maze like and every escape attempt leads them back to their own cell after days of traversing dimly lit passages and dodging patrols. Being able to shift walls has its uses for a dragon determined to keep the peace.

As of right now, the inkeepers of the Yawning Portal have all been the same Steel Dragon in my version of Faerun.

Congratulations Josiah. As to the Steel Dragon question, I was thinking the owner of a burlesque theater. They would certainly be able to observe interesting human behavior. I also like the idea of Steel Dragons having a physical lair too with different vaults with momentos of past lives.

Okay, I have a LOT to say from this one. First off, CONGRATULATIONS! I know you said it wouldn’t be possible without us, but in reality, it wouldn’t have been possible without your FANTASTIC work! Next things next, ideas on adding Silver Dragons to campaigns. I think what I may do is have an exiled soldier be a silver dragon, in a kingdom that’s been secretly overthrown by the troubling cult of my campaign. I think I may use them as a way to help my players further progress with their destruction of the cult, and at some point need to transform into a dragon to fight this all powerful cultist, while the rest of the part takes out the minions. (Similar to the one Harvest Devil VS Celestials concept.) I think this would be a neat little way to tie another fantastic creature into the little melting pot of whatever my campaign is so far.

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I have the steel dragon as part of the Ferrous Dragons. Group with iron and other such dragons. Metallic dragons are mostly always good, chromatic are almost always evil, ferrous dragons are almost always lawful, elemental dragons are mostly chaotic and gem dragons tend to be neutral.

So one thing I believe wasn't mentioned is that steel dragons have a unique shapechange. Rather than a simple polymorph effect, they fully and completely become the creature they turn into. To the point where for all intents and purposes they are that creature and dont even consiously know they are a steel dragon. This also has the effect of any effect that would detect or force them to change shape doesn't work making them the only dragon that can enter waterdeep without permission.

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I did one story that involved a quiet but goofy (talented) cleric in a small town, as the townspeople prayed to a Steel Dragon that gifted their clerics with immense healing powers during a plague. Turns out, Steel dragons shed their memories with their scales (I think, campaign stuff), so the party was tasked to find them to observe the cure. Ooh boy, it was a good, but sad one. "Doubt, thou the stars are Fire" "Doubt, the sun doth moon." "Doubt, a truth, and be the Lie" "But never doubt my Love"

This is one of my favorite topics. My first character ever was a variant human whose mother was a polymorphed steel Dragon living their life as a half elf rockstar ( bard) .

Ah, this brings back fond memories of my Half-Steel Dragon fighter with 19 strength. He just... wafflestomped everything he and his half brother (a Half-Brass Dragon cleric) came across. These were 2e characters, so they had a lot of wacky things they could do

Definitely will add this in my campaign. The players will hear about an old monk that lives in the monastery near the village in the mountain. Upon arriving at the monastery in the hopes of finding the ancient weapon needed to defeat the BBEG, they meet by the head monk a dragonborn with a particularly shiny grey skin. With some persuasion and some aid to the monastery, the head monk allows the party to meet the great sage they are protecting, a steel dragon mid slumber. The monk is the descendants of the dragon and tells you that although speaking directly to his ancestor a telepathic connection can be established to ask 3 questions. I think this could be a really cool encounter

Karla I. Popov Steel Dragon who swore to serve a Kingdom so long as a specific King Lived. That King acquired Biological Immortality (won’t die by natural causes) and is the only one who knows about them, but doesn’t know “who” specifically they are. The only clue about who they are is that their name almost always has a pun on what they do. So they could be a guard named Watchman, a chef or politician named Silverspoon, or even an Assassin named Ivanna Shenkyatunight.

I just finished your Chromatic dragon videos like 30 minutes ago, Bahamut and DungeonDad have blessed me this day.

A funeral home director type of character, idk how to make it appropriately fantasy, but a steel dragon that figures the best way it can learn about human experience is to hear humans themselves try to summarize what the life of their close ones has meant

It'd be cool to see what you did with the Render. The unholy combination of tanar'ri demon and human via spell craft that lives in constant agony and prowls the wilderness. Even if you weren't able to find enough details on the monster's stats/abilities itself, the idea of a wendigo-style monster is pretty rad.

I love the idea of a Steel dragon having their memories reawaken when meeting a descendant from a previous identity

There actually is a steel dragon in 5e, it uses a modified silver dragon statblock if I remember right but it's on floor 21 of dungeon of the mad mage disguised as a duergar living among a splinter clan of duergar in the dungeon.

I have a dragon masqurading as the archmage of the guardians of a city in my campaign and I am totally switching him from a silver dragon to a steel dragon. It's just too perfect! Thank you so much for the awesome content you make, Monster of the Week has made my campaign so much better! His current persona is named Nelluth the old Kook (kind of a Gandalf-y figure) and his lair is a massive Redwood god-tree called The Tower that sits in the middle of a permanent hurricane.

Great video Dungeon Dad. This is my first time hearing about them, and I have to say... I LOVE Steel Dragons! They're even shaping up to be my favorite, as I resonate with them in a number of ways. Also... WAS THAT AN EVA-REFERENCE OUTRO? 10/10 video!

In my setting I have a steel dragon who guards a port town. A millenia ago he and his twin brother used their dragon forms to protect a civilization that lived on a volcano, and one brother's mistake led to the other being killed by an enemy dragon. So the surviving brother has forgone vaulting and immersion to stand lonely vigil over the port town that sprang up in the volcano's shadow, to make sure no one else dies for his mistakes. He wishes he could bring himself to vault and forget, instead just drinking and sitting still for long periods of time even in disguise. Lad needs therapy.

After watching your chromatic series i actually stumbled across the Ferrous dragons after looking for more information and i instantly thought they were fascinating. Im so glad you'll be talking about them.

I have a dragon character in my campaign setting that, after watching this video, I think I'll be making a steel dragon. This dragon is inspired by a dragon found in JetPack7's Legendary Dragon. Tyr is a terrifying two headed dragon who rules a harsh kingdom to the north with an iron (or steel?) fist. The kingdom is largely governed by his cult of worshippers, the Tyrfang, and the dragon's role in rulership is largely to intimidate his subjects and his enemies beyond his borders to keep the peace. When Tyr was born, he was obviously mutated and deformed, with two heads, three legs and three wings. Tyr also had a monstrous appetite that veered him away from the lawful alignment of his parent and drove him to constantly seek satiation for his wild hunger. When he attempted to eat one of his unhatched siblings, Tyr's parent lashed out in anger. Believing both Tyr and his sibling were mortally wounded, the parent left, grieving and certain both would die. Tyr lived, however, and he grew far faster than any normal dragon would, essentially reaching the size and power of an adult dragon while young, and an ancient dragon while adult. Tyr spends most of his time in one of two forms, the brutal and bloodthirsty leader of a mercenary company called "The Bladed Wing", and the secretive, conniving leader of Tyr's own cult of Tyrfangs. Tyr has two personalities (one "wolf-like", the other "tiger-like") with heir own preferred forms, and they tend to unexpectantly switch between them, leading to situations where Tyr must quickly excuse himself from conversations and meetings as he feels he is about to change from one to the other (think a mix of super heroes having to find excuses to go be super and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, except they are both Mr. Hyde). Tyr must also turn back into a dragon regularly, both to maintain his kingdom and so he can hunt to feed his monstrous appetite. Tyr's unhatched sibling also lived, though never developed beyond being a wyrmling, never even hatching, even. This dragon is incredibly strong magically, and keeps inside its egg which has now been warded with such powerful magic that it is all but unbreakable. This dragon convinced a group of adventurers long ago to help it build a hoard so that it could steep weapons and magic items in its power to be used by future heroes against its brother. This dragon can communicate and see through these items, allowing it to experience the world safely despite its physical deficiencies, and act as guide and aid to heroes. Tyr's primary goal is to track down and get revenge on the parent that abandoned him, which would certainly lead to that steel dragon's death. His brother, meanwhile, is trying to stop the from happening. The parent being a steel dragon would explain why Tyr has had such trouble finding them, and I'd imagine this parent is still unaware that either of their children survived the tragedy that led to them abandoning them, otherwise they would have long ago tried to reunite and reconcile with their children. This dragon may have heard of Tyr, but Tyr's rapid growth would make it hard to imagine this two headed dragon is the same as the two headed dragon that was their son. Tyr and the Unhatched both being steel dragons draws attention to how their unique disabilities make it difficult for them to live the lives their parent likely expected of them, yet they each found a way to make it work. Tyr has two personas that, while there are certainly complications with, he has managed to juggle, and even if he can't be in human form all the time, he has managed not to jeopardize either of these identities. Tyr's evil, notably, is not due to his disability, but due to how his parent reacted to it, and his desire for revenge. The Unhatched, meanwhile, has found its own unique solution to its problem. Sure, it can't turn into a human itself and walk the world, but it can still experience humanoid life through the people that it has entrusted with its magic weapons and items. I imagine if their parent could see them today, they'd actually be very proud of them, which just adds to the tragedy of their family drama.

I like the idea of a steel dragon being one of the village gossips during the early stages of a campaign, with some of the little tidbits that she passes on to a PC (or one of their family members) actually being adventure hooks.

I've been running a homebrew campaign world for my wife to have a single player adventure in since 2010. It's been a multigenerational world, she's essentially a humanoid in an unaging body her teacher/father figure created for her before he passed. He was based on her irl father, who had passed almost a year before, and the first part of the campaign helped her come to terms with it. she's leveled very slowly over the years, both in world and out. She's had 23 companions of her original race (hylian, if that works means anything to ya). She recognized the first one because he had her teachers ring, a steel band with an engraving of a book on a shield. She has outlived each companion, some by battle, some by age, and yet she's always found someone soon after wearing that same ring, and they always say they've just had it as long as they can remember. She thinks it's me metagaming, I'm pretty sure. In about two more irl years I'll be making the reveal as she hits level 20. Think she'll like it?

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Dungeon Dad has just been a steel dragon all along to spread his wisdom of DnD to all mortalkind

There was also a (unique) steel dragon featured in Dragon Magazine #62 (June 1982).

I feel like the steel dragon might be a perfect natural enemy to creatures that kill people through deception, such as the false Hydra. Just imagine a false Hydra tries to eat some random commoner and it turns out to be a steel dragon. I can also imagine a steel dragon absolutely hating false Hydras due to their nature of making people forget things, as they value their memories so much

Steel dragons were my favourite ever since I found out about them, and it's when Fizban decided to delete them and Sardior that I gave up on 5e official products.

Steel dragon Dave the dwarf who works in a new town as a miner who basically tries negotiating between the two mine bosses of the town to cooperate to build stone walls and metal tools. Dave likes to spend all nighters mining and was originally an Adventurers' Guild master who "died" fighting off a green dragon.

This is great! I love the "Dragon wnats to play humans and houses" thing, this guy's a lot of fun and I'm seriously considering adding one of these to my next campaign, even though that'll be a minute. Keep up the amazing work, and I'm curious about Mercury Dragons, they're really cool lore-wise.

I absolutely love that you took the time to do the steel dragon. They're one of my favorites, though I do prefer the forgotten realms version of them. One thing I would add as a note, is that steel dragons have a higher magic potential than any other dragon of their type. As even wyrmlings can cast spells, example 3.5, I do appreciate the increase in charisma which would help with the number of spells given in Fizban's treasury of Dragons with innate spellcasting. I would still put a note of either giving more spells known or more times per day due to their innate magical nature. But thank you for your contribution and I can't wait until the next one.

Congratulations on the play button Josiah! You have definitely earned it, man. Thanks for all the awesome work and and content that you’ve shared with us!

Best steel dragon story I have is, weirdly, from 4e. Had a player who ran a steel dragon character (unknown to her-she thought she was human swordmage) searching for her “vanished” mentor. Eventually met her brother (whom she nearly slew for banditry-oh, the fun family reunion stories they can share, later!-neither of them knowing the family connection at the time), discovered she was adopted by her mentor, discovered she *wasn’t* adopted… or rather she was, but by her own father (meaning her mentor was her father), followed up on the old lead from the dragon she nearly killed who’s father was missing, discovered they had the same father (said dragon apologized for the banditry; he was cursed and “couldn’t transform and was supposed to take care of his sister, but his father died before they could be introduced and- wait, what was your father/mentor name again??? Ooooohhh-“) and found the hag who had knowledge of their dad, got the knowledge, destroyed said hag for attempting to enslave the PCs and finally found their dad as a dream breath dracolich that he’d become to thwart a killing curse targeting their family. Together the three (with the other PCs and other PCs’ important family members) managed to destroy the curse and restore the dad to life. She eventually inherited the title of Empress in Imaskar (a great investment that can’t possibly go wrong, later) while working to fully Imaskari and Mulhorandi people together as one (it was a complex project). The elf wizard eventually found his mom and took over the pirate isles. The half-elf monk/rune priest somehow survived long enough to become a giant purple marble (uh, it… makes more sense than it sounds) and recover his baby sister from being a manabeast into being a horrifying fey-themed super hero in their homeland of Turmish. The artificer had no neat backstory or connections and just wanted to be (and was) the Empress’ Hand. The bard faded into maybe never having existed or maybe the Feywild, who knows. The sorcerer/warlock decided they were evil (partnering with their devil sire) and, after fighting their former friends (the other PCs), fell into the Abyss on purpose destroying an evil artifact on the way to their doom. The druid/barbarian decided to become a god of mongrelfolk and did (also joining the burgeoning pantheon of famously anti-theist Imaskar).

This gave me a new idea for one of my NPCs! An elf that's family has befriended a steel dragon over the centuries. The steel dragon was approaching Reflection just as the elf was born. It decided to spend it's final life as his mentor/caretaker. Neither know if it's up to his disposition or influence of the steel dragon, but the elf grows up to be a scholar and archivist (not sure of the specialization yet). The steel dragon decides to entrust it's identity to him and together they begin the recording process together. Now the elf's role is to distribute the knowledge and memorabilia. Either for fun exposition purposes, flavor, or to put him in places at appropriate times. He comes with most places i designate for exposition or flavor gsksgksosb

When you were describing the lair abilities, all I could think of was a steel dragon who runs a tavern that uses the lair charm ability to make sure everyone tells all their friends about how wonderful it was and to lure in the best bards around to make sure it can hear the most amazing stories.

The true horde was the lives we made along the way

I would add a feature. In my world, they would add 1 20th level class to their mind vault at the end of every vaulting ritual associated with that lifetime. On a Recharge 6 they can delve into one of those lives randomly and use one feature from that class as it fits in their action economy. Roll and delve into a sorc life, use a 9th level spell as that action, or a bonus action spell and still breath weapon if you desire. If you fall into a fighter past life, action surge and go nuts.

15:30 I just had a wonderful idea for a location. A massive hall/mausoleum/library/museum filled with the works of every steel dragon. Mind you, not necessarily the original works, but a perfect duplicate. What's special about the location itself is that, were one of the originals about to be damaged or even destroyed, it swaps it with the copy it holds. The entire place uses spatial magic of absurdly high level, and can be considered a demiplane of theoretically infinite size. A few other aspects: Each section from a particular steel dragon is a grand doorway with their name inscribed across the top, and enters into a hall lined with shelves. Separating sections of shelving are statues of every form they ever took, which magically warp to show how their appearance changed over that form's lifespan before cycling back to the beginning. This includes a statue of their draconic form at the entrance to each hall. The main hallway branches off every 10m, with hallways leading off it representing each crystal sphere on which these dragons originate. Then, walking down one of those halls, you have the doorways to each dragon's respective knowledge along each one. One side has each dragon ordered by date of birth starting from the oldest, and the other each dragon by date of death, starting from the most recent. A hall for one dragon can show up in multiple of the halls for the various worlds, yet leads to the same place. When leaving, you will come out the same entrance you went in. The main point of the same entrance being able to show up in multiple of the world halls is due to the possibility of inter-world travel. Easiest way to access this realm is to enter the city of doors and then go find it, as an entrance is hidden there. Upon arrival, don't even try to damage anything, as all the statues I'm the mausoleum are alive and will kill you. Final note, the place was made, and is owned by an ancient dragon of immense power who simply loves knowledge, and is only a small fraction of their total collection. Think Trayzn the Infinite from wh40k, but immortal dragon.

Honestly, the Dream Heist concept could be with a dragon in their deep sleep, recounting their past lives but being otherwise unreachable. Working through a mindbending search through generations within the mind of a constant observer.

In our campaign, we met a Steel dragon. It gave us knowledge, magic items and training (2 levels) From what you sad about Steel dragons, the DM did his homework.

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I had an ancient steel dragon working as a deckhand on a merchant ship that my murderhobo party was sailing on. Then the murderhobo party decided that they wanted to take the ship and all of its cargo so they can become rich, the steel dragon was forced to transform, grab two of the party members and just dived THROUGH the ship splitting it in half drowning everybody and giving it the perfect way to fake its death. I'm probably forgetting a few details but I'll probably remember them if anyone asks.

It's now canon, Dungeon Dad has Truesight.

Finally. Onto the Metallics! Very excited. Keep it up, my dude.

A player of mine drew The Void from the Deck of Many things, so I was doing some research on Elysium (where they were imprisoned) and came across Guardinals. Honestly would love some coverage on these super cool celestial animal warriors!

Imagine reading a DnD campaign book, only for it to be revealed it’s a steel dragon’s autobiography. The player characters are people that the dragon is remembering during its final moments.

Honestly, Steel Dragons are hands down my favorite of the dragon variants. Just such a fun, beautiful concept.

Please redo your old visilight video, it is a great monster that deserved a better video

My idea for a Steel Dragon lair is he is a Tour Guide for a city that had gone largely unnoticed but had a unique quirk that makes the town unique. So he moved in and saw how this might benefit others and began a tourism guild within the city, wanting everyone else to experience all he has here. His lair is just his shop, where any "treasure" he might have is stored in a few chests of holding that when opened only contain books unless a magic phrase is said. Or just opened by the dragon.

the greendale human haha, your memes are on point lately! thanks for another awesome vid

I imagine a Steel Dragon running a costume shop or even the DnD equivalent of a fur suit crafting parlour.

Just thought of a great idea... You could make a character based off of nimona using a steel drag as a base... Not sure if it completely works but to me it could be at the final part of their life after they went into hibernation so they are less inclined to be just human... It's an idea.... I didn't say it 100% fits... Plus it's DND so uo to each person to decide how things fit...

Many years ago a couple of friends and I developed a Shadowrun campaign where every fixer hid their eyes (sunglasses, lighting affects, etc) until the last one whose pupils were shaped link gold daggers. The twist being was that they had been working for a gold dragon the entire time, but it was in different disguises. While watching this video I thought it would be fun to do kind of the same. A group of Steel Dragons living in a large city work together as the "quest givers" for an adventuring party. Maybe even each dragon, in turn, accompanying the party on their part of the quest.

I'm thinking of a Steel Dragon that went little too far with the Vaulting and forgot they are a dragon at all. They may need to find an artifact to unlock their own memories.

Can’t wait for mercury dragons love your vids❤

5e is so lacking when it comes to lore for the various worlds or redoing creatures from older editions. I’m so glad RU-vidrs like yourself are giving us what WotCash can’t be bothered to do. Thank you!

Steel Dragon says: How do you do fellow humans?

There's something so beautifully sentimental about steel dragon hoards- every item is undoubtedly personal and meaningful, not just shiny or 'valuable' in a more materialistic sense. They're method actors of dragons, and its so fun to wonder what they'd value most out of each life story.

For anyone who wants a more indepth view in steel deagin. Including some things that seem to have been mossed here I recomend watching "What they don't tell you about steel dragons" by MrRhexx For example the fact that steel dragons transformation ability is way way stronger than normal dragon transformations. So giving them the shange shape spell to represent that is hinestly really supperficial and not at all lore accurate.

Why the hell has WotC ditched this dragon? This sounds like awesome story fuel. Like, I could think of running three campaigns with this character to throw off my players, especially if they keep notes. This sounds like a philosophical gold mine, like the idea I have for this dragon is one that, from birth, has tried to learn and understand human concepts of Morality, starting off as a dickish brat that does some dickish pranks, to a raider lord, to a tyrant king, to a Cult leader, and then switch it to Neutral when he becomes a Merchant Noble with kids. Hell, end it off with him being an elderly townsguard and beloved community member of a large city, with thr adventurers finding out that the raider they scared off, the philosopher explorer and this townguard - all from different campaigns - were all the same dragon trying to learn why humans live by these strange rules. One idea for this dragon's mind vault could be a physical vault, with different rooms, and magic mirrors that depict his past lives like paintings on a wall Dorian Grey style. Sure, it'd need so much work to pull it off right, but HOO DADDY THAT PAYOFF WILL BE SOMETHING GREAT!!!

The dream heist idea is sick, definitely yoinking that one. Thanks man, keep up the great work.

(6:55) Dragon streamer. Oh, I can imagine the shenanigans they’d get into.

I would prefer more low level monsters that we can actually fight 😁 this dragon seems like an excuse for a GM to play an over the top Deos Ex Machina GM-PC 😎

A steel dragon that lives a double life as a batman-like vigilante. The more experiences the better, right?

Congratulations on 100k, you're easily one of my favorite dnd content creators on yt.

Some random ideas I had to include steel dragons in a game; An evil necromancer finds his way into a graveyard and starts digging out corpses to add to his growing army. But a steel dragon that faked their death was very recently buried, but their teleportation spell went wrong, so now that the necromancer found them, to hide their identity, they have to pretend that they're an undead risen by a necromancer, as they try to escape through increasingly comedic means that always end up failed. So basically reverse weekend at bernie's. Another idea is a steel dragon that lived as a psychiatrist in a past persona, that was heavily fascinated by psychopath serial killers. In their next persona, they start mysteriously kidnapping people in the middle of nights, disguising theirself as an old, almost Mr. Hyde-like persona, using their poisonous breath weapon to knock people out, only to gruesomely butcher the bodies, as they start developing truly sick tendencies. Rumors start swirling about an old man with the ability to instantly put people to sleep with their breath.