Worth.

Fuck I almost spit out my soup

I believe all dragons that get withing their final two or three age categories should break the mold from their stereotypical draconic personality... they are intelligent beings capable of learning, after all. And, they probably did a stereotype-breaking or two (I am using an understatement) to live as long as they did. Old dragon oddballs I created through my decades of gaming, a few of them. Many are too complicated for the comments section. My campaigns were very dragon-centric in my Dungeons & *DRAGONS* campaigns. A Copper Dragon that only had a very small group of friends, doing his Copper Dragon stuff through virtual isolation via them, and only super-social with them. A Green Dragon that had a very amicable alliance with local Druids and their forest allies. A Red Dragon and a Gold Dragon with a centuries-long non-aggression pact that was good for local Fire Giants, local Dwarf Kingdom, and kept the Human tyrannical monarchy at bay. A Black Dragon that ruled a local swamp who dialed back his behavior because of his friendship with an alchemist, later on becoming the family friend of his descendants who pursued alchemy... teaching them what his dearly departed friend taught him of the art. A Bronze Dragon that mainly kept in human form, making his lair a city, always assuming the identity of a man of importance.... usually a mayor, constable, sage, or commissioner. His human form ages at a human rate, he made sure of that. When the party met him, he was the mayor. The city's treasury (and gain) was what he considered his dragon hoard. A perverse group of dragons that formed a bit of a social club, now too old to reproduce but still command it, who are almost always shapechanged into a human/humanoid/demihuman form...they are the founding bloodline of that campaign's half-dragons. Other dragons in that campaign world saw them the same way we would see people who are into "loving" animals in the physical way. A Silver Dragon who, through one compromise after another, became his own worst enemy. A large portion of his body was living Clockwork. The heroes were born into a world similar to the Forgotten Realms, but magic and technology corrupted everyone, pollution of both what we know and of the magical nature saturated the planet, same with various diseases. That Silver Dragon introduced everything that caused all that by saving the whole planet as fast as possible from the Abyssal invasion he accidentally caused by making deals with Diabolic forces and creative madmen using arts and studies he himself learned to love. An Emerald Dragon who was the actual BBE behind the Knight Wings, airship-using pirates using Clockwork and Technomancy. Also, the same BBE behind a lot of the nobility and guilds. Taking that dragon by surprise was pretty much impossible.

She gives me Mr. Freeze vibes from Batman, she has her own agenda, longs for the return of her loved one, and is willing to converse with or aid someone should it potentially benefit her in the long run. Also like Mr. Freeze to earn a grudge from her you would have had to monumentally fucked up and negatively effected her in someway at some point.

@@SessionSakic I didn't see that until you mentioned the analogy, now I can't UN-SEE the Mr. Freeze/Nora relationship. Sharp mind, my friend.

He probably uses the reins like a leash.

​@@sunbreakerqueenofbronze621 ok , you just made me think of dragons doing some kinky bdsm shit , the hell bro 😂😂😂😂

@@Nox-eg3rq you should watch the porn that I watch. Something tells me you would be traumatized.

Her moaning the mage's name must be weird, but hey, that dragussy be good tho.

​@@Nox-eg3rqDragons live a long, long time. They have time to experiment with such things, and grow the subject in ways humans can only imagine. Now I am wondering about a dragon who makes studying sex among dragons their obsession, and may even share their findings with humans, maybe whether the humans care or not.

unless you de-age the body, it's going to get expensive very quickly as your chance of dying of old age increases with age. And if you can de-age there is no point in using raise dead to cheat death. If I'm not mistaken it is better to use Clone instead. It's a bit more expensive and higher level but you can create a younger version of the same body if desired. Boom, you have cheated death and angered a Marut inevitable somewhere

In earlier editions they were smart enough to put it in the core rules... Lol. At least they didn't 3rd edition it. It's not my beloved 2nd but this dumbed down version really works for getting it more popular.

False there is reincarnate!

@@eliotoole4534 Reincarnate is kind of its own thing though. It could be argued that it isn't in the same category as other resurrection spells.

@@bayoubilly5176 see but raise dead being able to bring back people who died of old age has some interesting story implications. You can totally use it for a bbeg, bringing him back from the dead, and he has to make constant Con saves to not die from old age again, and then his Minions bring him back every 10 days. They could spend the whole campaign either trying to become lich, vampire, take over someone's body, find a fountain of youth, steal the youth from others, etc. Or you could also have a boss fight with the party and just have the boss drop dead all of the sudden, just to see the look of disappointment on your players faces, and then he gets brought back again later.

Loneliness can do that to you.

Evil isn’t alien.

“Baka! Baka baka baka!” The mage that speaks draconian shrugs confused

awesome, the way it should be

My players are currently about to go down into Arauthator's lair. They are two levels above where the campaign says they should be for this chapter and they are a party of 6. Needless to say I've been theory crafting a way to make the fight not seem like a total easy knockout since just like you I thought the fight would be underwhelming. I hit them with a lot at the ice castle (And I mean A LOT, it was many more enemies than is originally at the ice castle), and they killed the white dragon there in only a few rounds. As of right now, there is going to be an animated breath hanging around already. He can cast Draconic Spirit, which he likely will do immediately to add another creature to the field, as well as Rime's Binding Ice which isn't as large of an area as a breath weapon but has the ability to make a characters movement fall to 0, which I thought had good potential for something devious. Not sure if I can make it work but better to give myself options. I originally thought to have Arveiturace there as well in order to add difficultly but decided against it. After watching this video I'm really glad I didn't have here there. I didn't know any of this stuff about her so it would have been a really watered down version of her and that's not fair when she's this cool. (No pun intended but now I'm stupidly laughing at it.)

@@shadowfoxgirl For the dragon fight itself, I recommend not waiting for the troll reinforcements to show up, just have them start there (it says to wait a few rounds, but the dragon didn't last that long when he's alone.) Or change the adult dragon to an ancient white, to be harder/more lore accurate for Arauthator himself. If someone is wielding Hazirawn they'll make mincemeat out of most things.

@@drewforchic9083 The party is already fighting the trolls right now, so I wasn't going to pull them in. And I already added some extra health to the dragon since I knew there was no way he would last that many rounds. Not against my party! haha. What I have instead is a party who let two kobolds go and one alerted the trolls and one went to a room of 8 kobolds who hadn't been discovered. The 8 kobolds are going to follow the party and the one is going to go alert the dragon down the other hole near Maccath's tent. This means the dragon will already be well aware of the party, so he will have his Animated Breath up and he will have a Draconic Spirit up. The draconic spirit will look like a white dragon and I suspect the party will go after it hard. Meanwhile the animated breath will hopefully get at least one good turn. The characters will be hopefully clumped together near one of the traps in either hallway, so that the real dragon can swoop down and freeze a bunch of them. The 8 kobolds will box them in from behind and lob ice balls at them with their crappy sling attacks. I doubt they will do much but it's a lot of fun to have them there. The dragon will probably Wall of Ice them at some point to split the party, have the dragon go behind it so that he can focus on one or two people at a time. Or it could all fall apart. lol I'm considering who in the party he would want to take down the most. I feel like he would be offended to have a Gold Dragon Bloodline Sorcerer in front of him, the monk is a Way of the Ascendant Dragon and has silver scales sometimes, and the paladin is a blue dragon born who is currently transitioning into a white half dragon due to eating the heart of the white dragon from the ice castle in Hoard of the Dragon Queen. They all have multiple features that show off the fact that they have killed dragons, so I feel like he will really hate them for that.

Ah yes! Some of the most satisfying DM experiences is writing such good lore that it legit scares the party. Not a second of that prep was wasted, friend.

White dragon relationships in a nutshell

“The wizard stays ON during sex”

I would go further and make an adventure based around recovering his Soul from one of the lower planes, so it could then be bound to his remains and make him either a Lich or Death Knight, perhaps with Cult of the Dragon help, with them subverting the process to attempt, or succeed, at controlling Arveiturace. Then the newly raised Undead Mage, outraged that his companion gave up her autonomy, could perhaps be convinced to help the adventurers fight the Cult and free her, ultimately sacrificing himself to do so, leaving her free, but distraught at his now permanent loss, but maybe becoming a potential ally for future adventures fighting the growing power of the Cult and turning her into actively hating Tiamat.

@@mikesemus9773 He's very likely in the Wall of the Faithless, if you really do intend on making the adventure. Would be interesting to see her turn into some kind of vengeance, hate-filled dragon, that works with others that also hate the Cult solely for the reason of destroying them, and makes an active effort not to kill someone if they prove that they hate the Cult or that they have been wronged by them as well, or, on a parallel, she goes around destroying things in the name of the Cult of Dragons so that more people will hate them and seek their destruction. Just some ideas, feel free to use them.

@@ic3hell520 Honestly, I could see that working quite well

ı dont know ıf a wish would work but maybe an artifac? or thos weird wish ultipotence from dragon magazine in ad&d

In which event does he canonically show up?

"It ain't much but it's honest work"

As much as I love athas based novels I take it you don't read Faerun or krynn novels... Borys is covered fairly well but there is an entire series based on dragons in both of the latter.

@@bayoubilly5176 ¹¹

Ahh, Borys Johnson

@@kylenieman3444 yep , considering I've read every one... That's an extremely generous number to say it's "about" him. But even given that... Yep still not the most prolific...(not to mention if we're going to be that lenient , than the dark sun version of "dragon" isn't even a dragon... It's just a Kaiju ripoff when they mixed the Godzilla franchise with DnD and Conan's world...). Preservers becoming Mothra...

They like how "doom" sounds, that's all

Most were named when the writers were rather "young" and amateurish to be fair. Think us when we were teens.

well so far its only the chromatic, traditionally evil aligned, dragons. metallic might be similar or vastly different.

"Death". Don't forget Death. I mean there are so many dragons that has nicknames with the word "Death".

@@rapharloaquino4310 *The Doom of Death, Reaper of Souls and Overlord of Demise*

you know what? Cats might actually awaken something in this old lady.

@@zyztem8775 cue crazy cat dragon lady

Ahhahahahhahahs "we offer cats" that's great

"Crazy cat dragon lady" That is simultaneously the cutest and the scariest thing I've read...

oh no another Xanathar situation about to be made

I really liked the old white death in the Drizzt novels. Such a ruthless mercenary. Loved him.

“What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”

There also needs to be taken into consideration another trait that all dragons posses, pride. Not only pride in what they are but pride in their ways, this creatures are older than civilizations, they are older than pretty much any other mortal and they believe to a fault in their ways and how they see the world because after all their ways made them live for so long. Why would someone like Arveiturace become a protector when for centuries she's been on a semi neutral standing with the locals? Nobody can beat her, she has the belief that nobody can beat her and from experience this remains true. She has no reason to change her ways. This can apply to most dragons, old age combined with living among extremely territorial creatures and a disease like thirst for valuable items keeps them enemies. Their pride makes them thing of themselves as vengeful gods. Also there are some dragons who became rulers like Tchazzar.

They ESPECIALLY have booty calls. They’re like… the horniest creatures in existence.

Extremely nerfed. Though the video gives me some good ideas for when she would show up in random encounters!

Wait, how is she nerfed? I'm running that module right now and reading the book it says she's an ancient white dragon and the players have no hope of killing her. It doesn't provide a stat block either so you could honestly use your own that includes her special enchantments..

@@Sellesion she is near sighted and Meltharond can get knocked off her back easily to get her distracted. You can find the stat block of an ancient white dragon in the Monster Manual. You are obviously not supposed to go all out on the players with her as they might encounter her when they're as low as level 5. My group managed to best her by using suggestion after she expanded her 3 legendary resistances, and sent her off far away. I didn't know about Meltharond's body enhancements, so after he fell the second time (the first time my monk helped her and mounted him back by her request in the hopes that she'll let them go, but she obviously didn't so they knocked him again) the monk just crashed the skeletal remains. So she had to leave the them on the ship and fly away for 8 hours. You can always decide to bring her back after the spell ends to get revenge on the group, but seeing as she is more of a foot note in the campaign and over leveled, I decided she won't return. In a different setting or if my group had any plans on keep playing with these characters by the end of the campaign, bringing her back could be a great option (she would still be over their level though).

@@orandor6249 That's mildly disappointing. But I suppose it makes sense for an early level encounter. If I ever use use her, I might disregard the nearsightedness and give the players the option to talk their way out.

Or a scholar of Candlekeep