Dungeons and Dragons: Dragonkin
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
- Distant cousins to True Dragons, this ancient flying humanoid species is native to the planet Toril, but rarely seen on the continent of Faerun.
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Something about the Pulp fiction era writing referring to , " Woe to those who find themselves kin to dragons .."
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here'
@@rejvaik00 " Abandon hope," is from Danta's Inferno.
" Kin to dragons" may have came from Milton Paradise Lost, or some comic book I read over the past forty years written by Allen Moor.
I tried an internet search but came up with nothing. It could be from Danta's Inferno, ..
2.) My posting for the pass few videos have been word plays on the video titles. Something just to feed the algorithm.
What book?
@@thehillz726 I don't know, I read a lot of books over the years, I lost track.
@@krispalermo8133 I feel your pain. Whenever I can't remember what book I'm thinking of it can drive me crazy.
Dragonkin strike me as having a behavior set similar to mix of Kobold & Lizardfolk with draconic anatomy for flavor
I'm a simple kobold, I see dragon related RUclips content and I click
I just don't understand why they retconned the Dragonborn from earlier editions and didn't instead just use Dragonkin. I feel like Dragonkin are closer to what the 4e/5e Dragonborn ended up as.
I have the Third edition Draconomicon and all it had on these guys was barely a Footnote. I always love it when you put stuff like this together because it allows me to make a better story and encounter for my players. These guys could be really fun given that my current party has a dragonborn and their reaction to my mother's teifling with traits that could be considered draconic would be pretty fun.
I like your user name I to am a fan of old bob
Love both dragonborn and Conan the Barbarian? Here's your race! Now we just need art of this character as drawn by Frank Frazetta
Simon Bisley is the greatest artist on the face of the Earth when it comes to that vibe, and I will die on that hill.
@@AJPickett Oh wow! I'm not a comic enthusiast so never heard of the guy, but thank you for the spotlight as I'm looking over his amazing work right now!
PS I'm sure you've seen it but just in case it's flown under your radar, check out Eye of the Beholder a documentary on the artists of DnD going back to the beginning. Elmore was the stuff I grew up loving being a Dragonlance guy.
it would be darkly hilarious seeing a Gold Dragon trying and failing to teach a Dragonkin tribe a life that is more than just hunting and killing.
The obvious option would be to set itself up as a god and have them evolve threw cult influence. But that's not very moral and gold dragons are LG. A copper dragon might do that though.
Knowing them they would probably just try to exterminate them.
Note: I don't see Gold Dragons as the righteous good gals as others mey.
I'd like to make a mechanic that if a dragon kin or suitably dragon like creature (wyvern, hydra, liondrake ect) kills and eats a true dragon they become like a true dragon: more powerful, increased intelligence, breath weapon, hording/layer instinct, flight and the like. The problem is that requires a bit of home brewing and balancing for a cool little bit of lore and a transformation my players might not even witness. And I want to add a couple more dragon like species such as axolotl drakes if it wasn't enough work. I also think it'd be kinda funny to have the weakest dragon like moister (Cockatrice) have the most powerful ascension, like a magikarp to gyarados type transformation. The wretched little thing that can't even petrify a victim for more than a day becoming a hideous calamitous monster which constantly exudes a poisonous obscuring fog and breaths a mist that transforms it's victims into tortured moving statue servants (ala stone cursed) with an extendable neck for a long ranged peck/grapple attack.
Love it! Appropriated 😁
The more races in dnd the better. It gives new plots and new political shifting. Even if they are old races brought up again.
Lore on Osse! As an Australian I’m piqued :D
Also, a Dragonkin, a Dragonborn, a Kobold, a Draconian, a Half-Dragon, a Song Dragon, and an Athasian Sorcerer King all walk into a tavern.
No punchline, I just think it would be a funny situation
If it had a punchline, it would be of epic *scale?*
AJ's content's like a box of top shelf chocolates. You don't know what you're going to get, but it's definitely going to be good.
Great now I want to create a region dominated by a war between a Red Dragon, it's Dragon-kin and Lizardfolf minions who live on and in a Volcano
Against a Silver Dragon and its Dragonborn, and Kobold followers who dwell in a near by Mountain.
What is it now; like, 4 dragon person races at this point? Maybe 5?
Dragonkin seen a lot like Lizarmen, as they have a culture of not being intelligent, Lizardfolk more on the religious side.
And they get magic users from birth: Lizardfolk born sterille hermaphrodite shamans, and Dragonkin as born Sorcerers, guess that is closer to Kobolds.
I guess if a Dragon master whom want more intelligent minions could make them study, as they got near human intelect it would not be so hard.
Just a minor correction. Dragonkin appear in Monstrous Compendium ANNUAL Volume One, published in 1994.
Ah! Thank you Curt.
It's always a treat to be a student in your classroom. ✌️
10:00 about the comment of a happy warlord about having a minion that can dispose of a corpse, well a necromancer would be a bit upset about not having even a skeleton to raise.
Imagine a glum necromancer with a horde of bumbling skeletons which all have no heads. "You make do with what you can get".
@@AJPickett Current modern movie zombie lore, you take them out with head shots.
Player PC one, " These guys have No Heads, now what ?!"
Wizard, " The negative energy being which animates the dead still has a spectral head to notice your location with. So if head shots don't work, punch for their heart center of being."
Rogue wearing shin boots of kicking does a strait between the legs kick and the undead hits the ground .. groaning.
" Yup, they still have them."
With that attitude and how one note they are it is a miracle that they even managed to live at all. Their culture sounds incredible inflexible and if one is unwilling to learn and adapt then they are as good as dead.
Imagine a mindflayer and a Dragonkin fighting over brains for food.
THOSE ARE MY YUMMY BRAINS NOMNOMNOM!!!...
:P
I want to hear more about Halruaa now. Its so difficult finding information about anything other than the Sword Coast.
They're a really fascinating read as the non-evil heirs to Netheril and how their magocratic society has evolved since then. Also in their interactions with their neighbour Dambrath, a nation that was actually ruled by a noble caste of half-Drow that had great potential for social dynamics between them, humans, and their theoretical superiors beneath them the Drow.
I'm a little surprised there hasn't been much history of Half Dragons or Dragon Kin bread from superior stock, Dragons are not the only immensely powerful shape changers in D&D; Imagine a minor deity or god with a lowercase g breeding with Dragons, really anything of comparable power and magic would be interesting.
That's where Tiamat comes in.
@@AJPickett Sure, I was thinking double down on Elemental, like a Djinn and Dragon trying to make a new race, throw some time control in and you've got a mutliverse spanning event.
In my games, I always rp Dragons as having vastly differing opinions on Dragonkin, Draconians, and Dragonborn. Sometimes they see one or all of these groups positively, usually they think they're abominations though. I do however emphasize they are more likely to be favorable to a Dragonkin out of all the humanoid Draconians.
My go-to bull an end-of-campaign level enemy out of a bag, for things like one shots and such, is a black dragon necromancer who turns himself into a Dragonlich, along with turning his Dragonkin minions into Death Knights.
Wonderful timing, I just got off work and can listen to this as I walk back home
You'd think the legs would be the the way around.
Half dragons with the legs like there humanoid parent
And Dragonkin with the crooked legs
Ahhh The first video of the coming dragon invasion is upon us Glorious 😁
Would have loved to get these rather than the dragon born, even though I know why we didn't (flight). However there's another part of me that thinks they could actually get slowly shifted to at least lawful evil through exposure to more rigid, hierarchical versions of might-makes-right. Especially if someone could explain the concept of political power to them. They actually seem quite simple to introduce to other forms of societies if you couch the explanation in their own power dynamic lenses.
A culture that predates elves, dwarves, and dragons would certainly know how to survive just about anything.
Seriously missed and took for granted the regularity of your lore content! So very satisfying at night
I'd love to see a fight between Dragon Kin and Dragonborn. I'm guessing the insults that would be thrown back and forth will be rather spicy.
I've always liked these guys. Find them much more interesting than the 4e/5e Dragonborn. Hopefully WotC will update these monsters in the current edition as well as other old monsters of past editions. It would be interesting if they were presented as being bitter rivals to the Dragonborn; as they might regard them as off-world invaders and interlopers taking possession of territories that ought be theirs (like in the land of Tymanther).
The artwork in the Monstrous Compendium Annual One also gave them an interesting look with reddish skin, vaguely crocodilian head with a thick mane of hair, large but lean body but with a slightly hunched figure. I hope if WotC decides to update this monster, they respect that style, because it's a distinctive look that would help separate them from other dragon-related races and creatures.
Love these guys as a beefier eveil draconic race that can actually fly unimpeded
i wonder if the dragonkin and dragonborn have ever gone to war since their arrival on toril, i mean it seems perfectly reasonable that they would at some point since from the images seems they may not be too far from where the dragonborn capital is
By the end of this month, you will have a VERY good answer to that pondering.
9ft tall flying barbarian dragon man... yeah no thanks.
Good to see you back making content. I know you said that any humanoid that dragonkin deem as weaker than them is very likely to wind up on the menu. So my question is, do dragonkin practice cannibalism amount themselves eating weaker members of their tribe, captured members of other tribes, defeated leaders of their tribe or is it simply a taboo that they won't cross?
Only if they are starving, same as humans.
I've been going through all your dragon stuff recently, this is great timing
Oh you are in for one hell of a good time this month!!
I rewatched white dragon
I think the dragon kin would be fascinated with the draconians because of there ability to see magic seeing how draconians are full of unstable magic.
Seriously uploading til the end finally happens; i love you dude thank you for your content, my group died like litterally 2 people left alove irl, and your videos really help fill the nitche that my group used too. Just know you ever need a place too stay in America/ an American reference i totally gotcha
artificer just rolls into a dragonkin camp and starts firing off his guns XD
A smart artificer would first use his field guns loaded with canister shot or grapeshot from an elevated position that's a couple hundred yards away from the camp.
Have you considered taking the audio from these videos and putting them in a podcast format? I think you’d get a lot of mileage out of that as you are the best and most entertaining person I’ve come across as far as dnd lore and I think a lot of people would appreciate it.
How about I just make audiobooks instead?
@@AJPickett I think that would be excellent actually. Either of those options
I had forgotten these guys were in my Draconomicon. Time to whip them out and send them at my players. I noticed the illustration of you had the book on your shelf. Made me happy.
I love the dragon lore of any kind that is gone over by him
Pleasant evening for such thoughts. May Tiamat add you to her hoard.
At 4:02 is a lizard guy who has wings his name is Raz. He is the main character in the book series called the Child Of DayStar. Really good book series you should read. If you love lizard people fantasy and magic.
Somewhere out in the multiverse is a planet populated entirely by dragon-kin, dragonborn, half-dragons, kobolds, draconians, dracotaurs, spellscales, lizardfolk, and dray. If you land your spelljammer there, you'll be shunned and hunted as some kind of freakish mammal-monster.
many many places like that exist in the multiverse.
Like how everything evolves into crabs,eventually,matey,actually...
Another great video. Hope you had a great vacation.
Do they realise what the magic items they steal do or do they not care? If not magic items could be used as bait in a trap.
Had no idea these guys even existed! Thank you!
So from what ive heard is dragonkin are absolutely badass i also believe that the reason dragon kin are growing in numbers and living closer to civilized races is because they are either planning to attack them in a mass invasion or are trying to join those societies.
I'd assume it's more of the slow growth and spread in the number and amount of magic and magical options. Since they can see magic, them observing spellcasters and similar might be a major reason for more of their sorcerers as there are a lot of sorcerers who's power derives from draconic ancestry, and might be able to replicate some of it and pass it on to their tribe, plus more magical items would also be a beacon for them coming closer.
@@AzraelThanatos hmm a interesting hypothesis
You're right on the money Jacob, some huge stuff is about to throw down in the realms and the natural instincts of the Dragonkin is to follow the flow of the weave (they can see the flow of magic!) to a huge concentration of Dragons in the regions of Murghom, Semphar and Durpar! The Dragon princes have come and the age of dragons is about to return to the entire continent... there are a couple of videos talking about this coming up.
@@AJPickett ah so then we may have another dragon war coming...
If you're a wise sage in medieval tech era with a pet dragon and still writing with a quill, then WHERES YOU GET THAT HAT?! That's a kick ass hat, A.J.. Gimme that hat. AY JAY!
Literally from Wish dot com.
Is there a playable dragonkin race document you know of for 5th edition?
Thanks for the video master sage!
Your videos are always interesting/entertaining, but for some reason your delivery on this subject made me laugh a lot more than usual. Great script😂🍿
A comment for the Algorithm. 4:05, that's Raz. He's a winged lizardfolk, but they do call him the dragon of the north. Wings of War, good ongoing book series.
Hey AJ, it's nice getting your videos at 8 pm at night. This is probably one of most brutal races you have ever covered. As always really appreciate the artwork you use in your videos. With Spelljammer and Dragonlance dropping this year. It's going to be an epic year for videos. I seen another YT saying, Dark*Sun is coming. Going to buy Dan's 4e Blackmoor, have Spelljammer on order, if I get Dark*Sun, I'm set for life, lol!
Thanks AJ you have a wonderful day!
Christ. You could actually make one an adventurer. They'd be a barbarian or druid but an adventuring party doesn't have to intrude on it's culture as much as other organizations would, in order to get their goal done.
Was their 1st appearance the Dragon Mountain boxed set?
A long awaited video my friend! Thank you as always!
Funny enough, I'm playing a Wildemount Campaign right now as a dragonborn warlock who is actually a scientifically engineered dragonkin by a former noble of the floating city-state of Draconia. He had wings, but they kind of got torn off by other some drunken dragonborn. Hopefully in the future the druid in the party is able to restore the wings since my boy loved to fly
AD&D2ndE and D&D3rde or 3.5e, had a Cloak of Flying which could be created by a 6th-level wizard/sorcerer.
If you low ball and bend the rules of 3.5e with Item Creation feat/ Craft Wonderous Item a 3rd-level wizard could pull off Feather Cloak of Flying with Levitate and Alter Self. Since Alter Self could give a PC studded wings for gliding that spell in my gaming group was added to magic short swords to create dagger/long swords like seen in the 1980's cartoon Thunder Cats Lion-O sword of Omens or Link's sword from the Zelda video game/ cartoon series.
A light weight self size adjusting backpack wing glider, if created by a 8th-level wizard that can cast Polymorph Self then the Feather Cloak will just turn a PC with said item into a bird, .. or a large size dragon. With or without fire breathing up to the DM .. Tongue Ring of breath weapon is cool to have too.
Hell yeah, I love characters like that! Once my buddy Brad played an Arakockra with mechanical wings... total badass.
@@AJPickett This pass week I have recently drawn three cave system pictures which for me is impressive. But I need to get back to drawing chess pieces.
So should I give a try at the next two weeks pissing myself off trying to draw five pictures of mechanical wing characters ? In short I do not draw comic book characters.
As for trying to write a short adventure side quest involving wing creatures, well .. that will be a bit of a problem, let along drawing the landscape/ battle map.
After around six pictures I am just getting my shading skill down to do an eight to ten hour landscape picture.
Maybe a short adventure revolving around mountain martial arts video game 16bit Saga visual style picture about a monk monastery took over by ghouls and some form of wing fiend.
I love to watch this channel while I am gaming or just sitting around
If Dragonkin do have a rich oral history, why would they tell anyone but baby Dragonkin?
Good point.
Hah, this one I'm catching fresh from the kitchen! Thanks, AJ, this gluestick will be a delicious dessert!
See title. Thumbs up.
Like Klingons but more badass indeed lol
Half dragons, dragonkin , Dragonborns, kobolds and so on.
I find it all confusing, in my homebrew they are all one people of lesser Dragonic creatures, just more or less gifted with magic or wings.
I find it more interesting and it also make for good conflicts ideas.
I liked the original version of the Dragonborn (The Dragonborn of Bahamut) which were created via ritual and one of the two LA+0 templates that I remember from 3.5 (The other being the Necropolitan), and were heavily aimed towards the Paladin or Cleric classes with the ability for Sorcerer and Divine Soul (and a few other Divine classes as options) with their abilities.
Half-Dragons were basically one off creatures where each was supposed to be, basically, their own thing, how they came into being varied heavily since you could mix dragon with just about anything (The really nasty one was the Half Black Dragon War Troll...which was very hard to put down if not impossible for its CR).
Kobolds were the little guys who obsessed over dragons (And only confirmed their actual connection as of Races of the Dragon which gave them the dragonblooded subtype and the Dragonwrought which took it further in activating said blood), while dragonkin were the basic draconic humanoid that covered everything but the standard breath weapon (which they did have ways to use).
It's the spellscales that left a lot of people wondering why they existed though
Well, I'm here to inspire, not confuse, you can pick and choose what you want in your games, perhaps these dragonkin inspire some ideas for your cohesive culture of Dragon folks.
@@AJPickett I done a homebrew were the dragon patheon were they either killed or merged until their was only three gods left. they did a great ritual that transformed kobold, dragonborn, dragonkin and half dragons into a new race that has the benifet traits of all four races, they breed like and are basically winged kobolds when they young. they grow into dragonkin size at adulthood.
after 200 year at the end of their lives they do a ritual were they commit ritual suicide in devotion to one of their gods if that god thinks they are worthy they are transformed into young true dragons. as you can understand they are a magor threat to everyone, so much so that the gaints finally get their act together in the hopes of stopping the dragons from conquer the world.
this video remind me of that.
When you mention dragonkin I think of dragon bait AKA champion from curse of the Azure bonds.
The Saurian humanoid (dinosaur-folk) who communicate by scent, yeah I do wish we had a stat block and some lore for them, they would be a great species for Chult instead of Pterodactyl people.
@@AJPickett I played the old SSI games and read the books.
How do the Dragonkin get along with the various Dragonspawn? Or are these the same thing?
Dragonspawn are typically very nasty creatures that don't get along with anyone.
@@AJPickett Well the Cult forced Dragonkin intu submission, Dragonspawn might join the big happy familly as well.
Thanks for the video, I almost got these and dragonborn confused
Klingons??? They remind me more of Predators, than anything else.
Fair
Sounds like on average their alignment is Chaotic Neutral?
Oh no, they are evil for sure.
I wonder if this video was inspired by a recent video game expansion release.
By the way great video love you AJ Pickett smooches and hugs.
:D
Nope, just methodically bringing the lore to the people, one video at a time. As the old saying goes, "how do you eat a whole elephant? One bite at a time".
@@AJPickett
Just so you know.
If it was inspired by WoW Dragonflight.
I would not judge you.
:D
I legit was going to ask this on your next live stream awesome vid AJ keep on rocking
Dragonborne, Draconians, Half-Dragons, and now Dragonkin. How many other dragon-like humanoids (or human-like dragons) are there?
Dragons:
Also dragons: I'm a rub my cloaca on that!
Spellscales, and Kobolds too.
Basically the every draconic bloodline sorcerer.
And so the month of the dragon begins
These boys are true dragons in all but form.
This better not have scalie bait in the thumbna- *dammit*
So big flying cave lizards that can see magic if I was a powerful arch mage these would be very useful and I can see why they didn't get breath weapon,s it would make them to OP.
Some of them did, in 3.5 they were upgraded to have the dragonblood subtype, meaning that they could have the feats for the dragonblooded that gave a breath weapon.
@@AzraelThanatos God bless 3.5 they really did just give it there all wonderful
3.5 had a wealth, a glut, an overabundance of templates that could be applied to pretty much anything.
@@AJPickett image also making them half golums ?
@@AJPickett - Will you do a video on the dragon horse types? Kirin, Pegasus, etc. I don't think anyone has done one in the Dragon Horse yet. It's an old creature from 40 years back.
figures, i start talking about massive dragonborn pecs for flight and new zealand it the same day and you post this
What is it about the world of toril that keeps causing thing to evolve into humanoids? (anthropoids specifically)
Magic i guess
There is an image I found of a four-armed Dragonborn and I was like "Makes perfect sense, Draconic beings have six limbs, so this is not far fetched." Anyway, the simple answer is, this planet is AWASH with non-radioactive transuranic metals pumping out titanic fields of magical force... Earth is the weird place where heavy metals are lethal and explode in large concentrations.
All snarky replies aside, I think this is a great lore related question 🙂
@SickCall Ranger I can dig it daddyo
I think I read somewhere, that dragonkin also hate Dragonborn, because, although the dragonborns appearance is clearly a mocking of their draconic heritage, they have a breath weapon, which the dragonkin, despite their clear superiority, lack.
Yep.
How do you think they taste? 🤔
Like spicy alligator hopefully
Yeah, unpleasant.
@@glorbojibbins2485 yum. Gator nuggets are delicious
Thanks for the video it helps out a lot!!!! Now to find some players to play the campaign with!!!! How are you doing there A.J.?
Yee Yee 😎 , glad your back doin us all good!
Ahh. Dragon kin ya back from vacation. Better than ever.. Ik
So, basically dragom- orcs...
did you say dragon orks waaagh green is best
Just in time for WoW to do what WotC wouldn't.
Wow! Thank you, AJ, and welcome back.
Any chance to learn more about the ancient races?
Good to see!
dragonborn basically with more dragon and less honor
Oh they have honor, its just, it only applies to them.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Hmmm, we know sorcs get their power from a draconic heritage, combine that with the dk ability to see magic, I wonder how much of their society are sorcerer's. Such a being would be much more likely to hit that 200 mark, not to say anything of the learning that could go on in that time whilst the tribe sees the sorc constantly glowing . Thanks as always AJ!
are dragonkins hybrids?
No.
There are Werewolves, Werebears, Wererats, etc. Are there WereDragons???
Song or Steel Dragons, also a form of Drow dragon.
@@AJPickett But they are not really Were-"Dragon". They are Dragons who can polymorph into Humans.
My WereDragon I mean humanoid who are cursed with Lycanthrophy and can turn into half-human half Dragon form.
@@LuluTheDuck33 Then, no.
So there's Dragonborn, Dragonkin, Lizard men, and Half Dragons. I feel like the lizard men are acceptable but the others should be combined
Humans, Elves, Half Elves, I mean, they are all the same right?
Glory to the Dragon Lords! 💪🐲
... yes, bow down so you can get devoured. I bet the docile admirers taste even better than those who see them for what they are ...
@@saymyname2417 chill mate! I'm just having fun and you're being pissed of by something that doesn't even exists...
that's not a way to go
sooooo in short dragonkins are the barbarian dragonborns of toril while the dragonborns are the noble dragonkins of abeir ? like twin mirror reflects races ?
Not exactly. Dragonborn were born under dragons, kobolds were born from the first dragons, half dragons were born of humanoids and dragons, draconians were born of experimentation on dragon eggs, and dragon kin were born beside dragons.
@@s0ph053 So, the dragonkin are like the metaphorically "siblings" to the actual dragons. Does that mean that they're on equal footing with dragons or are dragons still superior to the other draconic/dragon-like races and creatures?
@@ghostface490 while related to true dragons, dragonkin only gain large size, wings, and some sorcery. They can’t match dragons in presence, intellect, or elemental affinity.
Are you planning on doing half dragons and spell scales?
He did do spell scales already but not half dragons yet iirc
@@zacharyweaver276 If I did one on half dragons, its so long ago I have forgotten it, so, time to make another one!
@@AJPickett Sounds good to me. I think you did do something similar to one but it wasn't focused on them as a race/species in Toril
Oh boy. Just saw this pop up
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Could you maybe do a Video about the dracorage?
Hmmm, good idea.