What They Don't Tell You About Wyverns - D&D 

so this is why rathian can poison you with their tail in MH

"Bulges drips and sprays all over the battle feild" had a bard like that in my last campaign.

So basically what you're telling me, a battle between two adult Wyverns, is basically an extreme pissing match?

I love how you narrate all this like you have actually seen all of this. Your excited voice when you talk about facts is brilliant voice acting.

My home brew is simple: Dragons - intelligent, can speak, magic using, immortal Wyvern - wild, animalistic, blows fire but not magic using, has a lifespan

Sometimes i forget this is all fantasy just because of the amount of lore put into it. I fell like i watching discovery channel

MrRhexx you should just accept the fact that your the bonafide D&D zoologist on RU-vid. Embrace it because this is great content

This video gave me a good idea for a one shot: a town has an old wyvern that they tamed and colected their poison to keep the town safe from other wyverns, but this wyvern is almost dying of old age, so you need to find a wyvern's nest and rob an egg

Mr. Rhexx: Adult wyverns settle their differences and territory disputes in the most bizzare of ways... Me, seeing the picture at 6:34: ...please say dance battle....

The last portion about why there’s little to no reason to hunt wyverns is fascinating. Thank you.

pleease do a video about the PURPLE WORM, i would love to know more about it

"the wyvern farm", new dnd concept

Explaining the wyvern Poison and it’s stinger just sounded so dirty

I want hydra next and also i want that dragons chart.

Wyverns, and generally any generic dragon interpreted with 2 wings and hind limbs, were considered dragons until heraldic Europe wanted to differentiate their iconography with continental dragons (the generic 6-limbed or winged quadrupedal dragons we all know and love) when using them on royal crests and symbols. Though not in DnD, I still consider Wyverns are dragons.

I JUST had a session where my players found some wyvern venom and had the possibility to go hunt one. This came at the perfect time!

I used to watch a lot of animal planet as a kid, and I remember how certain kinds of raptor birds would fight by flying at each other really high up, clutching each other with their claws, and biting each other as they plummeted towards the ground, separating before they hit and repeating the process until one died or gave up, I imagined a confrontation between wyverns would be similar, except with tail sting attacks instead of biting.

Makes me wonder how squadrons of wyvern riders train them so that they can work together. Especially if they’re all tossing poison at the enemy.

So you're telling me Wyverns are big Splatoon fans. Interesting.

Yay! Now we just need videos for the Linnorm, Lung, Pyroclastic, Ferrous, Shadow, Song, and Gem Dragons. (I’m probably forgetting a few types.)

"No one has figured out how to cure Wyvern skin", huh? Tell that to the Hunter's Guild blacksmiths

Wyvern Poison to another Wyver is basically the human equivalent ofa fart from other people. So Wyverns fart into each other's mouths for domination. This needs to be a combat sport.

Somehow during the vid got numerous gachimuchi flashbacks Mostly in "dominance by trying to force-feeding the venom" section You know, "Swallow my..." and all of that

Do one about Drakes, they're so underated.

How do wyverns interact with true dragons? And what do dragons think of them?

I'd love to have heard more about how to tame a Wyvern, much like you covered in the Gryphon videos, would be v helpful for something I've been planning in my campaign!

People always ask wyvern but never howvern =/

Wyverns, technically are just a classification of the species of dragon. But I guess the story/lore is different from most other fantasy classifications.

I twitched every time the venom was described as poison. They ain't synonyms.

In a campaign I'm taking part in my character actually managed to get leather from a Wyvern, which means a literal Troglodite managed to do the impossible and found a way to cure Wyvern hide.

I'd like to add the wyvern-dragon argument only exists in D&D. Mythologically speaking if it's a big freaking reptile (or even fish in some cases) it's a dragon.

It's worth noting that there isn't always a hard and fast distinction between types of dragons. Overly Sarcastic Productions made a Tropes Talk video about this, and they point out that "dragon" is more of a broad category of reptilian monsters rather than one specific type of creature. You can have dragons with four legs, two legs, no legs, wings, no wings, snaky bodies, lizard bodies, mammalian bodies, scales, feathers, fur, snake heads, one head, many heads, lizard heads, lion heads, goat heads, dinosaur heads (think Tigrex), and so on and so forth. Some European dragons had two legs but were still called dragons, and the term is broad enough to cover monsters like wyverns, the Hydra, Jormungandr, and even Typhon. When you do see hard and fast distinctions, it's typically in specific fantasy worlds with their own unique taxonomies, like D&D. If you go over to Game of Thrones or Skyrim, then there are no such distinctions, and it doesn't make sense to argue over what counts as a dragon, wyvern, or whatever else. If it's big, scaly, and scary, then it's probably a dragon.

That could be a quest from a group of adventures, finding and bring back a wyvern egg for a city that uses its poison and needs a replacement as their wyvern is getting old or has died.

Dude your opening was like a slap to the face of Skyrim and GoT. I never considered dragons needed four legs plus wings, awesome distinction.

Loving this series! Keep up the good work! (You should totally do a hydra series next)

So Wyvern battles are just matches of Splatoon?

Your content is actually really helpful in a secondary way that you probably didn't even intend, which is that it makes Intelligence a far more useful ability than it currently is. A lot of the time Int is seen as a dump stat because the Monster Manual doesn't really gives any type of monster weaknesses that could be handy to know when confronting one, it's just hack and slash through it (Not saying that for 100% of the time, of course). But when your characters Int checks actually reveal that, say, a Red Dragon is going to avoid using its fire breath if there is a chance it will destroy potential treasure, or that a Wyvern is revolted by the presence of other wyvern venom, and will fly away if any ends up in its mouth, then it actually makes having an intelligent character in the party a lot more useful. Keep it up!

I kid you not, in a world of ASMR and hypnosis a tap away from everyone, your voice over that soothing familiar music is he only thing that helps me sleep. Thank you for everything you do!

Wyverns have a real world counter part in the bat winged dinosaur fossils they just found in China.

Worth mentioning that Wyverns were almost exclusive to British heraldry (and only since the 16th Century) before DnD popularized it as the name for a two-legged dragon. In other European countries dragons were represented with both two and four legs (and with no legs or no wings). Even in the British Isles you can see writers like Tolkien referring to what DnD players would call Drakes or Wyverns as dragons. So. Yes. Game of Thrones and Skyrim dragons are dragons.

been binge watching your stuff for like a week. i regret nothing.

Great vid, though a slight critique on your opening remarks, Wyverns are actually Quadrupedal and high fantasy Dragons are Hexapedal (Wings are limbs). The Wyvern body type is actually a more natural body plan if dragons were to evolve on Earth or along with all the other Quadrupeds in a setting.

You're a legend mate. Keep up the amazing content. I literally watch 1 or 2 episodes every single night. Cheers man.

So concerning taming the wyverns....you said they have an instinctive hatred for poison of other of their kind. Does that mean taming and breading Wyverns en masse, as in creating a Wyvern "cavalry" is simply impossible to accomplish?

I'd love to be a person who's whole goal is to make a new spieces of draconid a fire breathing, intelligent (barely), (fairly)tamable , wyvern.

0:27 I can already see a wave of comments arguing about this. But in my opinion what makes a true dragon no matter if it has 4 or 2 leg's is that it needs to fly,be able to grow to large sizes and breathe fire or another elemental power.

Say "this isn't a Dragon is a Wyvern" is the same thin as say "This isn't a Dog is a Bulldog"

actually a wyvern a specific type of dragon outside of D&D mythos that is just a "Winged Two-Legged Dragon With A Barbed Tail"

These DnD vids are gold.

Honestly, I know that these aren’t really the most impressive dragon-like creatures, but I’ve been most excited for this video

Wyvern eggs missions in Monster Hunter seem to make more sense now. Spoiled Princess: "I WANT A RATHALOS! CAPTURE ONE ALIVE!"

"I used the wyvern to destroy the wyverns" - some savvy noble, probably

DnD is the exception rather than the rule, a wyvern is simply a sub category of dragon in the same way a drake, a cockatrice and Chinese dragons are. In terms of real life definitions think of dragon as a broad family grouping.

SOOO much info. I love it, brother. Keep it up

Will you cover the other chromatic dragons? (Yellow, Purple, Brown, and Orange) You should! They’re pretty cool Imo

I want a "how to kill X"- manual! I'm planning on DMing and this would be valuable information to emerse my players

Here’s a good way to tell apart dragons and wyverns In D&D, they are completely separate species. Four legs vs two In real life, a wyvern is a subclass of dragon that has specific characteristics such as only two legs and two wings

please do a video on Drakes, I'm planning on taming a wyvern someday in D&D and this video really helped me formulate a plan, but I'd also like to have a pet drake

D&D writers need to learn the difference between "poison" and "venom".

So build an out house or rain shelter pavilion and spread it's poison under the roof and you have long lasting wyvern poison sent that does not just wash away.

Would love to know more about the purple warm plz.

Your videos are really good, like seriously, should I ever be a GM, I will consult your videos again for these info's. I think they are well made and easy to understand. So good work

One of my first ever d&d games I played, a wyvern killed the party's favorite npc. We were all level 2 so there was little to any chance that we would successfully kill the wyvern. So my character traveled to a nearby town and hired every single adventurer there. After I had amassed a large enough army of level 1 adventurers we all went to pummel the wyvern to death. We lost about half of our forces but we killed her and feasted on her eggs. My character now wears a wyvern skin coat.

I would love for you to start a series of videos about the playable races when you finish this one

it is a VENOM not a POISON (great video though!)

One of the players in my campaign has began to tame a wyvern. Still a baby but recently hatched from an egg he found in the shadow realm. It will soon grow to consume a sheep a day and fly off to hunt and ravage as it pleases only to return and be a mount of the skies.

Wywerns are dragons, saying the dragon of Skyrim isn’t a wyvern is like saying my dog isn’t a dog it’a a golden retriever.

I have a few questions... 1, I know dragons have the highest compatibility for interspecies breeding. How do other species of draconic fair with this feature? (I'm fascinated with playing God and cross breeding) 2, How do wyverns fair at swimming? Would they use their wings to prepel themselves or would they fold them up and swim like a crocodilian? Are their bones hollow and make sinking near impossible as well as being able to go underwater? Would their body act as a buoy and deny them the ability to chase after their prey if it got far enough underwater? 3, If I have this correct, plants and other flora has poison, but animals that use a chemical pathogen in a bite, fang injection or stinger is a venom. So a wyvern would be considered venomous, whereas a giant carnivorous plant would be considered poisonous. I just thought this little tidbit of info might be useful to whomever reads it. 4, How does the mother react to the hatchling's venom? Do her maternal instincts overpower her disgust? What role does the father play in the hatchling's life? Are wyverns monogamist and only stick to one mate unless it's killed? If it is and it's mate is killed, does it go through a grieving. And choose not to mate for a certain amount of time? Would it take revenge on whomever killed it's mate then grieve? (Part of playing God is having a thorough understanding of the nature of the creatures I would be experimenting with)

I would really enjoy a series of all the separate planes. Like what landscape they have and what monsters live in them, for example.

Venom. Biggest bugaboo with dnd. You can calc em the same just make the distinction

Gotta love the Dragon's Dimwitted cousins.

It always bothered me when someone's like "Skryim dragons are actually wyverns not dragons." Sure, by DnD standards they are but this is a different universe they can make a dragon whatever they want it to be.

I love these so much. Always sparks the imagination, new quests for my party or for one shots. Thanks for your continued content :)

Saying Wyverns aren't Dragons because they don't have front legs is like saying that Bulldogs are real dogs because they have no tail. D&D trippin'.

Just realized something you can do in the next, what the manual doesn't tell you about tiamat.

Literally nobody: MrRhexx: ScAHrce

I lost it when he said, "and they will poop out the bones"

Dragons in ASOIAF (Game Of Thrones) are 2 legged because GRR Martins aid that there is no animal that has 4 arms/legs and wings at the same time, thats why the dragons have 2 legs in ASOIAF

The dragons in GoT and Skyrim are still dragons....not Wyverns, who are a pretty unique creature, and while they share some draconic ancestry, I would not consider them to be a subtype or categorical dragon species based simply on it's body parts. Many dragons in tons of stories have the same configuration of wings and no forelimbs. It's technically up to the person writing the lore what constitutes a Dragon, Wyrm, etc. That being said, I DO like the little dragon body type relation chart and I find it mostly accurate (as much as fantasy anatomy reference can be). Anywho... Continue.

What They Don’t Tell You about Fang/Gray Dragons... I won’t stop until it becomes a reality Mr.Rhexx

Oh my goodness, please make more D&D videos!! I want to start playing but I would like to learn more before doing so!

Nice video! I like learning about all this so I can make my games make a little more sense!

I like how wyverns can totally speak, they just choose to communicate by screeching anyway.

I don’t like it when people say “Dragons breath fire Wyverns spit Acid.” Because like what is the Dragon /Wyvern is a different element? Like water or earth. We all know dragons can be different elements.Right?...

Hey MrRhexx! Good vid I'm kind of in the same ballpark with these definitions! Nice job sourcing the artists on almost all the art, I wanted to let you know that the handy dragon-type chart at 0:09 is made by @Drakthug (not save for work warning)

I personally like to think of Wyverns of any canon as a kind of dragon. I may have a broader idea of what things are dragons than many other people.

The encounter possibilites are endless with this information

I would pay good money to watch a wyvern vs wyvern fight

Wyvern vs. wyvern combat: a literal pissing contest.

Where did you get that chart about wyrms,Drakes,and wyverns

Awesome video Rhexx. I’d love to see one of the pseudodragon next as I can’t seem to find anything about them.

I LOVE your channel! Small correction: a creature that kills you if you eat it is poisonous. A creature that kills you if it bites/stings you is venomous. So the stuff you were referring to in the video would more properly be called venom. =)

I feel like I now know where the inspiration for Ridley comes from.

The dragons of Game of thrones and skyrim are real dragons because those universes say they are. You cant really apply arbitrary definitions to mythological creatures across universes. Example, many cultures on earth have dragons that dont have four legs

so the monster's nightmare in how to train your dragon was a wyvern?

That beginning. So many people spreading the whole "wyverns aren't true dragons" drivel forgetting that bit only holds to DnD. Historically, Wyverns were just a style of dragon. Having someone look at a whole spread of cars, declaring one model to be the one "true car" and all other to be merely car-like.

Smaug from the hobbit has 2 legs. U aint gunna tell me hes a huge smart magical firebreathing wyvern right?

I now have to rethink my plans. In a one shot I played a while back, my character managed to hug a wyvern into submission and it became his new pet (the DM was new, he didn't research very well). My character intended to take him home to help protect his village. One person I told this story too suggested using this as an origin for a new breed of domestic wyverns or even a civilization of wyvern riders. In all the research I've done on the matter, somehow I completely missed the poison thing. This will complicate things. Also the fact that, apparently, they can understand draconic. The parties kobold is going to be annoyed with that. He wanted to speak to the wyvern and the DM shot that down.

Wait dude, Wyverns are still dragons, not true dragons but definitely dragons.

Two Wyvern meet, immediately starts a pissing contest