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I've made a red dragon that had survived and thrived for so long I've made him a minor god, he's now a reaccuring villain in my campaigns

I quite like the idea of a polymorphed/transformed red dragon hiring the party to steal from his hoard, and accompanying them on the quest, watching them and learning their skills... after all if they are the mightiest heroes they will probably eventually come for him anyway... this way they are coming on his terms...and in the dragons mind, if he makes an example of these fools he might not be bothered for a generation on two.

What if, at the end of a dungeon, instead of a dragon they meet Dr. Agon? Dr. Agon is a family physician that was put out of work by a local cleric. He's really sad and could use a hug. Also, he is so drunk you could light his breath on fire.

One way to avoid some of the metagaming with legendary resistances is by not saying whether it saved with a legendary resistance or the old-fashioned way, just that it saved.

My favourite tactic while using a dragon has got to be grappling a party member and then next turn using a dash action and getting 100+ feet into the air and then dropping that party member.

My campaign contains a character who is a red dragon cursed into the form of a dragonborn and trying to break the curse. This video talking about red dragons is going to be helpful for how he acts

Imagine this: a red dragon's soul has been infused into a character's own, giving them the power of a draconic sorcerer. The dragon still exists in said character as a 2nd personality. The main soul, chaotic good is kind and humble and wants to live a quiet life; while the dragon's soul, lawful evil, is scieming and narcissistic with plains to reclaim its old power and wealth.

As a DM, I use varying levels of AI for monsters based on their CR and whether their are any leaders present. But with dragons, I get to fully inject my full knowledge, meta-game and all (within reason) into the the encounter. The PCs know if they see a dragon, I will unleash all of the fury I can muster.

Noticed that copy of Hero Quest in the back. I used to LOVE that game as a child. Probably what actually got me into fantasy and D&D, as playing that game is the youngest memory I have of playing games and fantasy literature. Man I wish I still had that game for my kid now when he gets a little older. Would have been an amazing family game.

My most memorable encounter with a red dragon was in 1984. Two of us made random characters and played them like bad medieval comedy relief. We were geased to kill a dragon... it was pretty young and we were a whopping 2nd level. I was given an arrow of dragon slaying by the local magistrate, and off we went, only to realize as we were sneaking up to the dragon's lair that neither of us had remembered to bring a bow. So I tied a rope around my waist and told my buddy to pull me out at the first scream. I then crept into the dragon's crib, where it lay sleeping. I jammed the arrow into his neck with everything I had... rolled a 20! The dragon reared up taking me with him and that was my buddy's queue. He yanked me off the arrow and through the corridor as hard as he could. He did so much damage trying to keep me alive that I died. Fortunately, he hauled me back to be revived by the town's healer and we made out like bandits. Pure idiotic hilarity. :D

When 4e and 5e removed the Great Wyrm category, I was very sad; the Great Wyrm is the ultimate "fuck you, here is death incarnate", and now all we've got is the Ancient. Therefore, I devised a monstrosity sprung from nightmares - a beast so terrible that even the greatest dragonslayer would tremble at its mention: The Primeval Red Dragon, the 5th age category, possessing enough power to take on a Tarrasque in a straight fight and win. There are only a few of them in existence, and most of them don't live on the Material Plane... but those who do are sleeping, waiting to awaken and bathe the world in fire. If anyone wants, I'll post the stats. ^_^

"I am fire, I am death!" XD

The fact that there is a copy of HeroQuest behind Jonthan in the close-ups makes me feel all warm and fuzzy

My group I am DMing is coming up to face Targanis, The World Eater. He is an ancient red dragon who can also cast spells. He took down the continent of Draconia and sundered the land into multiple part and his armies that follow him enslaved the races there. My party has been working up the past 2 months taking back lands, cities/outposts and freeing slaves and arming them. They also brought an army with them to hit the main city of Carteneux where the dragon sits. I cannot wait to see where it goes I am excited. They are 19th level and I have homebrewed the dragon extensivly. Cannot wait!

topic ideas for next season... 1. The lady of pain and all things plainscape 2.high level campaigning, keeping it fun and fresh 3. Conversions from one edition of dungeons and dragons to another. 4. Dice, What do ya like the standard dice or the oddball crystal ones? What color? What about the 30 sided or 100 sided special dice or big or baby size dice? Any techniques to share? 5. Maps and figurines... What do you recommend? Are they important? What can a broke person use as a substitute? 6. Alcohol and role playing? Snacks and etiquette at the roleplaying table , buy for one buy for all? 7.lets talk Athas or whatever your favorite, no longer produced campaign world, and how to convert it to 5th edition. I am sure I could find some more ideas ... those are jsut off the top of my head... 8. oooooh under water adventures !!!!!! 9. elemental and paraelelmental plains WEEEEE OOOOOZE 10. book of humonoids... converted to 5 edition... can monsters make good P.C. races?

The questioner gave me an idea for a plot , but also a way to keep the npc dragon alive permanently ,and in the story basically the dragon is a money lender to an entire region kingdom and even though the dragon is lawful evil , the Dragon seeing in the very long term can see the profits and advantages of keeping the local community pacified and using the local kingdom's laws to root out and jail adventurers attempting to trespass and steal the Dragon's treasure , and the laws on self defense.

I really like legendary resistance as a mechanic. If you catch on early enough, it can really help elevate the value of low level spells, particularly those that the dragon wouldn't want to be caught by (my favorite is Hideous Laughter, which would certainly not be something a dragon would want on them since being prone would put them in range of attacks).

I'm really intrigued by what they've done with Dragons - they're also in my top 5. Again, versatility.

6:45 to 7:00 - we actually did this exact thing the other day in our planewalking campaign! A bunch of 7th level PCs on the Plane of Fire just trying to escort a bunch of azer to our geoengineering project, we come under notice that there was a hungry sun drake poking around eyeing up for some tasty dwarf-shaped snackage we just brought to it's attention. My character had a good enough knowledge roll to get a good grasp of the scope of what we were dealing with (CR 14-15ish by 3.5e standards I think?) and needless to say we're kinda shitting ourselves on our own behalves and that of the Azer. In the end though, when it did attack we managed to break through its spell resistance and land a ray of enfeeblement on it, then proceed to pierce it with a sudden stalagmite that it couldn't break free from, before encasing it in stone. And then summoning another stalagmite through its now stationary head. And then the barbarian gargoyle smashed it's head with his solid stone cross. JUST to be sure. One of the most exhilarating encounters I've had, just cause of the sheer "oh god we could all just die" nature of it.

Dragons, always try to lure it out of it's lair and get it damaged... when it retreats back into it's lair do not give it time to rest. As a DM, dragons are not stupid, they should use magic items, particularly protection and healing.

Good way to use up legendary resistance vs flying foes: spam earthbind.

Ben, we're still brain storming ideas for our next "season" and ideas for character generation are definitely on the table. Thanks for the suggestion!

Finally, I'm now a little better at dragon

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*It's me again .* *Just re-watching all the web MD videos from oldest to newest .*

One time I talked a young red dragon out of attacking our party. I had a charisma of 8. The party was level 2

NEWS FLASH ** Dragons hoard money because it's pretty comfy as a bed against their scales!

One of the things I like to try against Dragons is hideous laughter. Either you get a great moment of a dragon falling prone laughing hysterically (and they're prone, so not flying around for a while), or you get them to burn a legendary resistance on a level 1 spell slot. Those types of low-level status effect spells are perfect for getting value out of low level spells slots that would otherwise be pretty useless against a dragon.

These continue to be excellent, keep rocking it!

Dragon's Dogma Grigori progression/fight is really great inspiration for like, a mulit-stage, epic fight with a dragon.

Are you going to do any more episodes on character creation? I'd like to hear what you guys think about creating an interesting backstory for your character that avoids tropes like "my family died in a fire".

If dragons don't cast spells anymore, why does being descended from one give you magic? And the logistics of that interbreeding just became ridiculous.

Red dragons actually hate fighting in the air. They stick to the ground where they can pounce on their prey.

I like to think the Red Dragon is inspired and based on the character Smaug. They both have the same coloring and are among the most powerful of their dragon kind. Also, they are arrogant and greedy and can breathe fire.

the loanshark idea would work better for a blue dragon

I give elder dragons every advantage at their disposal. Multiple attacks with claw tooth and wing, spells, and intellect and guile are all coming to bear. I enjoy polymorph and disguise to interact with pcs as well. Its so disappointing that 5e limited these options.

Our first fight with a red dragon was memorable as hell. We were playing pathfinder. Our group had heard that a dragon was coming so we put our money together to get my ranger character as powerful a dragonbane bow as was possible. During the attack on the town lots of giants and ogres attacked and at one point the dragon also appeared on the sky, swooping down to grab and burn the defenders. I only had time for one shot at the dragon but it happened to be a critical hit so powerful that the gm decided that the dragon has to back down and escape. That was my Bard the bowman moment of the campaign, and even though the dragon was only wounded it was good enough that one attack was powerful enough to send him back to his lair. The next encounter was also memorable. Our rogue descended into the lair of the sleeping dragon and managed to shackle himself on the back of the dragon without waking him up! If you know the senses a sleeping red dragon has you know that the dice-gods were on the rogue's side on those stealth throws. So the dragon wakes and notices someone on his back and flies out of the lair in a rage to kill the intruder. Our party was at the mouth and we did all our attacks and the rest as the dragon swooped past. And the rogue also did his sneak attacks for a lot of damage. The dragon decided it was no match for us so he surrendered all the treasure in his cave in exchange for his life and we let him go.

Spell casting is just fine for 5E. I was gonna homebrew some stuff but look at it like this: Ancient red has (+6) CHA = 6 spells Spell levels no higher than 1/3 of CR = 6 x 8th level spells. Drop anti magic field on it. 1 hour duration. Watch your party try to escape the death trap. Dragon immunities aren’t cancelled out, and it can shred Do this in Rise of Tiamat She has 9 x 9th level spells and retains a ton of output. Anti magic field on Tiamat is a very nice tool.

I miss the voice over bits, I thought they were really atmospheric and a contrast to the rest of the show.

It sounds like a Warlock with a beefed up Eldritch Blast would be extremely useful in fighting the dragon, throwing damage cantrips at him every round to wear down that magical resistance, especially with the multi blast

I'm currently doing up a unique dragon for a main campaign villain, who doesn't belong to any of the color archetypes, and from making his stat block, I really think dragons are more of a threat than I originally thought. Keep up the good work guys! See you next season!

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4th ED Chromatic red dragonborn barbarian scion of arkosha demigod with a greatsword or 3, Almost broken character, Watching one handily beat up an adult black dragon( Hunted for a "Dragon" for 1 year game time) was an awesome moment. Ended a campaign, Epic.

It’s crazy to me that their claws and bite aren’t considered magical weapons. Get an iron golem and it can kill ancient red dragons all day

When I DM instead of just giving a dragon 3 auto passes I roll a d6 and secretly assign that number so my players never know when he is out. Maybe he only gets one auto pass maybe he gets 6

still not as deadly as a beholder hive :P

Where did Pruitt get that t shirt? Is that from Jason and the Argonauts?

I had bit of crazy get up with my red dragon, he is elder senior but has got to be the luckiest bastard in of Faerun, his lair is smack dab in the middle of the dwarven fortress, Karak in their tongue, a funny thing the region he......well.....residents has become somewhat of safe haven for some people while for others its lucrative place to find yourself, especially during the War of the Beards, a dwarven civil war, this fortress and many of its nearby cities, were all abandoned when the Duergar a& the Drow made a move to strike on it, long story short they ended up trying to kill each other, dragon swoops in kills them gets their stuff, he is King of the Mountain, and the only way to get there is via the main pathway which only works in summer and late spring, but for the most part the local new inhabit who after the dragon decided to hibernate 100 years and still does, took the opportunity to make themselves a home in the abandoned cities, every so often when he does show up, people look at him mor like devine omen rather than dread since he cleared the bad guys out, he even has several local brads of mead named after him, At one time the Terqs, Persians, wanted to invade Cormmyr, the kingdom rallied its defences and sent for its armies, but before the battle, the dragon roosted the Terqs, sp yeah he is often more wealthy than most other monarchs, but here is the funny parts he from time to time turns human just to get wasted,

I need to know where that castle dm screen is from! ?

I definitely prefer my dragons as forces of Nature, not scheming criminal masterminds.

High level booming blade helps maybe? Against it flying away that is.

an adult dragon is level 17 meaning a party of 4 level 17 characters will find it a worthy opponent... who is fighting a dragon and winning? what does a dragon have to worry about? it has so many attacks, lair attacks and legendary actions it could just single handedly wipe out almost any party...

the intro song... hahahah

Opinions on a Young Red Dragon at the end of a one-shot encounter?

Thee things to consider One... the standard alignment of a red dragon is chaotic evil (not really mob boss material), but if you have a lawful evil red dragon, it could be very very cool to actually have him not be a complete and total ass... give him some actual limits on what he thinks is a step to far, and this opens the red dragon up to the possibility of him being a reluctant and of course greedy ally, of the players... Maybe you could run him as Lawful Evil most of the time, but make it so that he has a really bad temper and becomes Chaotic Evil when his temper gets the best of him Two, another lawful evil archetype. Perhapse you could have a vulcanic island of Kobolds who worship the red dragon who lives on the island as their God King, and the Dragon actually considers the Kobolds of the island to be part of its hoard Three, You could actually have a singular red dragon be a Good aligned creature, in your campaign, but you could have someone who has a grudge against red dragons perhaps a paladin, a knight, a nobleman, or even royalty,, going out of his way to frame the dragon, based on its racial reputation, in an attempt to have someone drive out, or kill him. Perhaps committing arson, and paying his subordinates to damage walls and roofs with what look like claw marks... maybe if the person is or formerly was good aligned, he fakes scene of carnage using animal blood, and paid off eye whitnesses... In summation, you can actually do a lot of really cool things with the red dragon, you can do a lot of really cool things with any dragon, and don't let yourself be limited by the alignment in the book.

I loved your overview, but I've never been fond of the nerfing of what is supposed to be the pinnacle of adventuring challenges. I would harken back to a past article, Dragon Magazine #50...Self Defense for Dragons.

About time he trimmed that neckbeard off, looks a million times better :3

One campaign I was playing a dwarf barbarian and I leapt from a bridge onto the head of a green dragon as it flew past. He was holding a lasso that was tied off the to the bridge. One he landed he looped the rope around it's throat and wrestled it to death!

In the campaign im running a red dragon was the first "boss" i threw at my group took a while to defeat it but they got him

in 2nd ed older red dragons did ridiculous damage with their breath weapons

Gather the towns wealth and give it to the red dragon and maybe he will create jobs.

I'm new to DnD and I got ideas for some campaigns. Would a Red Dragon be a good final boss?

I`m making this Red Dragon that is really big and strong for his age. For example he is young, but has the stat block of an adult. Thus if he was an adult he would have the stat block of an ancient. Is this broken or is this within the rules?

What do you guys think of pathfinders red dragon

Where can I get that sweet skeleton shirt?

i would like to see a multi classing video

As always with 5th red dragons are now terribly weak, but no matter the dragons age, a dragon should never fight to the death. It is the apex pretator and will grow only stronger with age. He looks towards year without end. And most importently: It knows that it is better then some (demi)humans that might come for it, therefore it can always come back for them. Its like when a human fights a cat, you will not fight it to death if it hurts you...

Spellcasting dragons in 5e are nasty. Use the main action for spells and legendary actions for other attacks. Doesn't even need to be a red dragon to be scary.

If a party or a player had a red dragon egg for whatever reason, do you think they could raise the red dragon to be an ally and a friend? Like could they breed the evil out of the dragon?

What level party should I throw an adult red dragon at? Group of about 6 people.

the hole time im thinking of thordak from critical role

would't the dragon let himself be hit if he knows that the party is holding back and waiting for legendary resist to drop, I'd probably make it so that stops the first major spell but not the second major one etc etc

I don't think Red Dragons are nearly as scary as Blue Dragons. Blue Dragons live in the middle of massive wastelands, usually filled with their own dangers. They enjoy having servants and manipulating lower creatures, and may have powerful diviners or artificers at their disposal. Red Dragons are ferocious and vain, but Blues are reserved and cunning. Plus, how many parties actually pack lightning resistance? Fire's one of the most common types of magical damages.

yall insulting dragons like this??? bitch ima give that good big fire boy a nice hug

What if a dragon purposefully failed saves that couldn't kill it

WTF? When did dragon breath weapons become weak...?

I made a red dragon as character

Huh, weird actuallly my best friend is a Red Dragon, also my finacial benefactor, nice guy really, but hard to visit unless you can fly, not a problem for me but..its hell on my friends feet.

Wonder wound rolled 000 got wish wall fighting dragon made it under my control and now my dm says well crap

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I'm sad that 5e dragons are so simple. They can't have as many tricks up their sleeve. The biggest joy of dragons in Pathfinder, and pre-4e D&D, is their spellcasting. I would use that spellcasting to fill the centuries of downtime with divination (info gathering) or spells to customize and reinforce the lair.

I'm fairly new, so bare with me. One of my characters I'm creating is a Dragonborn, and I want him to be a red Dragonborn but LG for his background story purposes. My question is, does the colour of the Dragonborn HAVE to reflect on what alignment it has? To give a brief overview of the back story; Armash is a sorcerer who serves and worships Bahamut and basically wants vengeance or justice if you will, for his parents. They were killed by a Priest who used to be a close friend of his family's. He eventually learns that Nadarr, the priest, is under Tiamats control, and because Armash's colour of skin is red, Tiamat wants him to serve her. When he goes to confront Nadarr, Armashs mothers sorcery his harnessed within him and during the process, Nadarr flees. He hasn't been seen since. So because of what happened, questions himself on whether or not he can trust anyone anymore, but also wants to find common ground between his enemies to see if they actually believe in what Tiamat stands for. I want to see if he can gel nicely in the two Tiamat campaigns and see if I can get my GM to tweak my conflict in the actual plot. (He wasn't actually intended to be apart of it to begin with). I just find Tiamat and Bahamut incredibly interesting. Anyway, apologies for my long comment, I just want to seek help for wherever I can. This channel seems to be just as helpful with the videos, I thought I'd actually try and get some direct help. Thank you, and greetings from Australia :).

5e fucked everything up. In my personal opinion. If you’re great dragons not ruling over a great span of land with armies of other creatures. You’re doing something wrong. Dragons are not some dumb creature who sleeps under a rock waiting for an adventurer to come around to slay the damn thing. Dragons are very intelligent, methodical, charismatic beans that has a great deal influence. Tons of experience and knowledge over the years they have lived. Able to cast insane amount of spells without the need to prepare or need material components for. Commanding great armies to protect their land and the dragon itself. Dragons are made more for role playing, building an adventure around the dragon. Not a stupid boss fight at the end of a level. But if you want to play your campaigns that way, more power to you. Just don’t tell people how dragons are dumb powerful creatures. Then again 5e is just dumb down and streamlined.

kill my first red dragon when i was 11

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You do NOT have to use all 3 saves at once it is the DM's discretion on when they are used this 4th spell stuff is bullshit.

Ya like that dude Christian's are trying to get to jesus christ so they can take all of his moolah but he refuses to because he hates them for their flaws sees them as inferior and weak, and sees himself as the guy who earned everything. Imperial in star wars

on my very first time playing D&D on the first adventure we killed a ancient red dragon we were all level 1

I was kind of sad to see you approving of and encouraging meta-gaming. Normally you seem to favor not meta-gaming. Why do you believe it is OK when facing a dragon?