Man I cannot wait for the module. I love all your dnd content and have really enjoyed these dragon videos. Lore dumps are amazing and you go above and beyond for yours. Thank you kindly for all the great work you do!
Wizard: I heard you knew forbidden fire magic, could you show me Great Dragon? Inferno: I can show you, but you won't survive it. **Reaches for his mix tape**
I still love the way you described him previously. "Inferno almost the direct opposite of Tchazzar. Tchazzar is a very outgoing dragon who seeks to spread his name as far as possible. His power lies in his plethora of magical items, and in his relationships with Tiamat, and the military country that he owns. Inferno doesn't have any of that. No country. No military. No overpowered magical artifacts. He doesn't like to come out and most people don't even know he exists. What Inferno *does* have, is pure. Unadulterated. Raw. Fucking. Power." It was such an effective F-Bomb XD
Inferno facts # 55: When encountering Inferno, He becomes the DM. Fact # 56 Inferno once created a firestorm by rubbing Ice together. # 57 Inferno's dad is known as Inferno jr.
Inferno is like the sorcerer counterpart to regular / other dragons being wizards. Instead of practicing, gathering magic items or having someone bless him with power, he just woke up, chose violence and decided "I'm the strongest now."
I like the idea of Inferno messaging an adventurer to send them on a quest that Inferno couldn't be bothered to do. "Go here, get this artifact (with the expectation of risking your life), and bring it to one of my lairs. If you don't, I'll burn you and everyone you know." Inferno regularly scries on them and watches their adventure for amusement as they work to increase his wealth.
Inferno watching : And on the next season of treasure hunt we will have our brave heroes venture into a dungeon with a demi lich waiting for them! Will they prevail?! Inferno : Oh joy!
@@RedSunUnderParadise Inferno has given the same threat to a second adventurer in a different party; adventurer 2 has orders to fuck up adventurer 1. Each adventurer has strict orders to keep their orders and relationship to Inferno an absolute secret :)
Smaug is a joke in comparison. Hes like an ancient red dragon at best. Even compared to dragons of his verse, he just kinda stands out as the last of the powerful ones
@hulm hochberg Yeah, compared to the dragons of earlier ages, Smaug is rather unimpressive. Ancalagon the Black, on the other hand, would probably be comparable to or even more powerful than the strongest dragons of Faerûn.
@Lonely Strategos Ancalagon is incredibly huge and powerful at the highest estimates, based on Tolkiens notes. I would argue, assuming these higher estimates, he'd dwarf Inferno
@@hulmhochberg8129 If you’re talking about the movie Smaug: he’s 1.5-2x larger than inferno. Oh, and by the way, Smaug’s horde would be about equivalent to 200 BILLION gold pieces in DND at an absolute minimum. WotC needs to start putting in the effort on their volumes, 100,000 GP for Inferno’s bed wouldn’t even be enough to hold him.
@@HorizonStronghold wow, how do you get to that number? I cant remember there beeing a number gor his horde besides some vague description of pretty huge.
@@Robosobojobo146471 He still can cast quicken Wish to screw you in various ways. Also considering he have CR even higher than Tiamat he most likely can stand toe-to-toe with a deity.
So basically Inferno is a prodigy of his kind and just naturally succeeds in being better than everyone else because he's just that badass. Damn even dragons have that dude that everyone low key hates a little. lol
As someone who got into D&D in 5th edition, I love learning about all of these interesting and unique dragons. It's also hilarious to me looking at Fizban's statblock for Great Wyrms and seeing how laughably childish the Chromatic Great Wyrm is compared to what Inferno's capable of.
Honestly listening to this I reached two conclusions. 1) This is the most dragon dragon who ever dragon'd. 2) Someone get this catch a mate lol. He's just living his best life, more power to him.
Now I wanna see other dragons focus on their own element like that. Ignoring that he would be a sorcerer, a white dragon would be the ultimate "lizard blizzard wizard".
Inferno!!!! It's my guy Inferno!!!!!!! It's interesting how two of the most powerful dragons (Daurgothoth and Inferno) don't really do much outside of their lair like Iymrith or Arveiturace. Inferno also, as you mentioned, breaks the tradition of Dragons being exceptional because of external factors. Inferno is simply the most dragony dragon out there.
It's funny how different Inferno is from the other dragons. Everyone else in this series has elaborate schemes and paranoia, whereas Inferno is just above all that because his overwhelming power means he has nothing to fear.
I love this dragon, he’s just so hilariously powerful and it’s beautiful, if he were allowed to I can just imagine him taking the most comically weak 1st level spell and casting it at 13th level just to show he can kill you with anything, casts catapult and fires a 70lb boulder at someone, casts destroy water and just destroys 140 gallons of water from a lake, or just for the sheer hilarity, casts fire ball at max level just for fun, he is truly the peak of what it means to be a sorcerer
Same, lol. In my setting, My parallel to Inferno solo'ed the 4 layers of Hell, barely leaving any for the Draconic legions under his command, allowed the Dragons to more efficiently set up staging grounds in hell and was generally pivotal to many a draconic extra universal invasion.
Might want to check out the Dragonrealm series from Richard A. Knaak. Has a world dominated by Dragon lords that enslave the populace and a hero who is prophesied to upheave the status quo and bring freedom to all the non-draconic races.
I think people hear "100 000 gold coins" and think "omg! That's a lot!" but if he's using it as a bed, that's like…1 to 3 layers of coins…he has a lot of surface area he'd need for a bed and coins are very small…
Wow the intro for the sands of doom is pretty cool! The hyena cackles sounded pretty scary too, gnolls are one of my favorite type of monsters because they are so brutal and barbaric that not even the orcs want to cooperate with them👍
I like the green as well. The fact that they enjoy lying I find entertaining. Black dragons do have coolest horns though. To bad there are none with spiral horns.
The table I'm running is about to hit Castle Naerytar for the first time. These videos plus the Dragon Hoard book from your store are really going to flush out our campaign. Your armor redesign is now table law. Your videos are the law and history of our tables. As the DM I have your DnD Lore playlist run at night. Your voice is perfect and the audio queues can be very relaxing. If I could tell RUclips any reason I pay for premium, it would have to be your Lore videos. Seriously, thank you for your work. I've made sidequest one shots based on your monster videos and my party will never look at black slime the same again.
This series of Dragons is making me reflect on the Dragon Overlords from Dragonlance. 5 massive Chromatic dragons ranging from 300 to 400 feet long. The strongest of the bunch, the red Dragon Malystrix has a CR of 39 if I remember correctly. They come from a different world, where Dragons rule and are the size of average adults as infants. The Overlords were supposedly SMALL compared to other dragons on their planet. If the "small" ones are that big, and their power is relative to the likes of Inferno and Tchazzar (off by one CR) then I'm terrified of what the large ones would be like. Heck. I'd be terrified of the AVERAGE ones.
@@bobbyrabii6119 Well Cyan wasn't one of the overlords, he was just a really powerful ancient dragon. But Khellendros is probably my favorite dragon in D&D period. As divisive as the New Age Trilogy was, it really made me love him, whereas before I just thought he was decent. It reached a point where I was actually rooting for him to succeed, and got genuinely mad at Takhisis for betraying him.
@@orangexlightning my bad I thought he was the green overlord. Who was the green dragon overlord? My dragonlance lore is a little rusty since it’s been a while since I read it. And yes by the end of that I was definitely routing for Khellendros.
@@bobbyrabii6119 Cyan controlled one of the dragon orbs, and destroyed the nation of the Silvanestri, which is probably why you associate him with Overlord status.
I’ve never played DND a day in my life… but man, your videos are always so interesting to me! I binge your stuff when I’m cooking, or going to sleep. I especially LOVE the dragon content lol.
Man, watching these videos and watching some of the things that were possible in 3.5 get reduced to 5e comparisons really hurts. Like I often wonder if 5e players (who didn't previously play 3e) can even comprehend the level of shenanigans this CR40 dragon could accomplish with it's Epic Level abilities. It's one of the things that I miss most from 3e era, the truly insane things Epic Level style creatures could do.
Tbf as a DM, you could make it part of the mythos of truly ancient creatures of high magic that they follow the rules of 3.5e rather than 5e - that way their primordial power seems almost incomprehensable/incomparable to newer creatures operating by the rules of lesser magics. It's kindof like how Courage the Cowardly dog would occasionally switch up the animation styles for some of its creepier villains to make them eldritch compared to the rest of the show. It's basically your way of saying 'you can't win this fight, your best hope is survival' that's can make even high level parties realise they're still small fish on a cosmic scale.
There's this fantastic little website that allows me to make statblocks for 5e. So far, it hasn't stopped me from making ridiculous CR leveled monsters
Like the force and prismatic dragons? Man, the prismatic dragons were something else. It's a good thing force dragons were aloof of everything and prismatic dragons were just so dang chill and amused by everything, or else they'd have ruined everything.
These stupidly powerful dragons are SO FUKING COOL They are at a level of power that put them nearly on par with lesser gods, and yet you might actually meet them. Even talk with them, having a pleasant conversation...all withouth knowing it. Or knowing it and turning a lot of pants brown in the process.
dont forget that he can 7 times a day choose to use wish to replicate ANY spell and not suffer the drawbacks of wish. so he could easily choose any radiant spell or otherwise to wipe out things that are resistant to fire.
13th level spell slots?!? Those are literal god level spells! How is Mystra okay with that? Okay, for quickened spells, but still insane! To make Inferno more dangerous I'd give his fire breath attacks the ability to turn immunity to resistance and ignore resistance, because it's so effing hot.
I agree, even 11th level spells are well into god tier. I believe a 13th level spell was used to permanently affect the entirety of the magic underlying the universe according to canon.
Mystra doesn't interfere directly with a magic user's power, she just doesn't allow the existence 13th level spells so at the end those 13th level spell slots only can be used to empower lower level spells
Thanks so very much once again dear Sir! Dragons, for me, are without a doubt the most incredible creatures in all of fantasy. To that end, I have built a pretty significant "hoard" of Dragon figures that I've been collecting for over 30 years ( if there's a significant Dragon carved in plastic, I own it. ) I'm once more cruising through your vids and since I consider you one of the most eminent scholars of D&D on the planet, I enjoy each and every vid you post both for entertainment and knowledge. With the far less than desired recent contributions by WOC, once again thank-you sincerely Sir, for keeping the true value of D&D in our hearts and minds! 🥰
i am building a campaign right now that revolves around powerful dragons so these videos are extremely helpful and i would love to hear about any dragon like things that are really powerful as well :D
The Bruce Lee of dragons. "I fear not the dragon that can do a thousand breaths weapons, but the dragon that has practiced his breath weapon a thousand times."
For those wondering how insane Inferno would be in 5e. Just a rough conversion of a base Great Wyrm. CR 28, HP 714 (with average rolls honestly at this point I would do max HP for the creature 1020) Chance to hit +20, Breath Weapon 156 average damage. AC 23. Inferno would be a 42ish CR in 5e. So a +12 Prof, 1320 HP AC 30 is the best answer I can give you because he has a natural ac of 60 in 3.5 and a normal great wyrm has a 39. I would love an epic level book so that something like this is even an idea to fight.
I've been loving all the dragon lore though, with all the strong evil dragons we've seen recently it'd be cool to see a powerful metallic dragon like Nexus or something. Keep up the good work!
I built a Commander Deck with Inferno as the Commander. It's fun to come out of nowhere and shoot your opponent for a ton of damage out of nowhere. I am happy to find this video, I get to learn more about this powerfully mean dragon Edit: Inferno alone could destroy a entire economy with just the amount of gold he has.
Inferno is the final form for any blaster caster. He is like the DM's amplified Uno Reverse card to "I didnt ask how big the room is, I said I cast Fireball". But as a legitimately dangerous villain.
The people of Faerune should be much for afraid of Inferno than Daurgothoth in my opinion. Daurgothoth seems perfect content to advance and study magic, and only occasionally does he become a threat. Inferno is a red dragon without the downsides of being a red dragon. No pride to wound or play into, no allies or weak points to strike. Very little paranoia, but retaining the cunning and stratigic mind. The only reason he has never been taken seriously is because of his hermit nature. But now, as the video states, he is finding entertainment in the outside world. Who knows when he'll finally decide to become more...hands on...
This dragon is what I use as proof that my idea of someone accidentally getting a 12 wish spell in a spell gem that can handle such spells is possible because this bastard has access to 13th level spell slots. Admittedly, he can’t do them for anything but quicken spells but that still breaks the rules.
Would love to see a video covering Iron Dragons, more specifically the sovereign of ferrous dragons Gruaghlothor! If I remember correctly, some Iron Dragons can cast a ritual to be possessed by Gruaghlothor's power, but I know absolutely nothing else about him.
These Greatwyrm videos are giving me ideas for the Greatwyrms of my homebrew setting I'm reviving. Also the Alien Dragons from the latter Dragonlance books that Takesis recruited from other worlds to help her subjugate Krynn
I like that he will redirect adventurers to fight other evil forces. Presumably because he finds it funny? I'm also really looking forward to the Metallic dragon videos.
You know, rewatching this video gave me an idea, a red draconic sorceress or a dragon warlock from your book that wishes to serve Inferno and spread his name and infamy throughout not only the sword coast, but the whole a Faerun, not necessarily an evil character but just someone who wishes to learn from, at least in her mind, the mightiest red dragon in this side of Toril, thank you for the great lore content and making me into my true dragon nerd form that I always wished to be
The theme that plays as you're talking about his horde is haunting... like a warning, yeah he has all this wealth but good luck getting anywhere near it.
Imagine killing a dragon that has been alive for centuries and finding 12 million gold, just for that gold to collapse the economy from such a large influx at once. A final fuck you from ol Inferno
I’m thinking about using Inferno for one of my stories involving baldurs gate Would involve a child created using his essence. Already have a motivation.
This inspired my soccer character for the campaign I’m in, he’s a very fun fire sorcerer that carries around a red crystal that speaks to him in dragonic urging him to cause chaos or collect items for the crystal.
kinda funny protection from energy only protects up to 120 dmg. so unless they had some cheap polymorphing stuff, the party would need energy immunity to prevent most of his breath attack. 3.5 stuff.
Hello Rex! consider doing a video on the old white death, possibly the strongest white dragon. It's appereabce on Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf and Rise of the King are amazing.
Imagine being a dragon whose magic spells surpass that of everyone else's and you lose the ability to cast them because some cockroach. I would be mad.
Other dragons: through study, practice and intense concentration, I have exceeded my natural born limits to ascend in power Inferno: I'm just... B U I L T D I F F E R E N T
When the dnd mtg set first came out I got a collectors pack and went to a friends house. I opened it and got the foil inferno card from it and immediately made a commander deck around him. He’s my favorite dragon!
He only sleeps on 100,000 GP? I don’t really think WotC does much detailing here then, because that’s less than one tenth of one cubic meter of gold. I don’t think something his size would even fit on that little amount of material. Heck, I doubt that would encompass MY bed. When you see pictures of dragons sleeping on gargantuan piles of gold such as the one in the Hobbit, you’re FAR beyond six digits. Smaug’s horde in contrast weighs in at about 1.9 million tonnes or in DND terms: 209,439,149,100 gold pieces. That’s only the one chamber shown in the movie of about 200x200x5 meters. Now, granted, Smaug in that movie would actually have been larger than Inferno is depicted, but not by much and remember, this would be the equivalent on one of his BEDS, not his treasury. WotC needs to stop underselling these things.
Please do the Drow Dragons too, I have played around with them in my game as an underdog faction in a war against the normal Drow society, really like the concept!
I think of inferno like I think of the main character in an anime. They are often interesting because of their flaws, find power in themselves, and break passed barriers with will power.
I always bit my tongue but I have to say it now: It's really awesome that people like you make new modules and stories for us normies to enjoy! The only thing I don't get is why almost all of them start at level 1. Level 1 just sucks. Hands down. :D
This series is awesome! Thank you so much. I hope you get to do Balagos, I think he is also very peculiar and complex for a Red Dragon! Keep up being awesome!
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Man I cannot wait for the module. I love all your dnd content and have really enjoyed these dragon videos. Lore dumps are amazing and you go above and beyond for yours. Thank you kindly for all the great work you do!
Which Draconomicon are you using? Can't seem to find it.
Hey, will you ever think about making videos on the shadow plain, the ice plain, or those other not so known plain?
@@jcm3949 I may be wrong, but I think it comes from the 3.5 "Dragons of Faerun" manual
@@angeloottolini7412 Thanks!
Wizard: I heard you knew forbidden fire magic, could you show me Great Dragon?
Inferno: I can show you, but you won't survive it. **Reaches for his mix tape**
The only thing Inferno uses the 13th Spell Slot for other then turning turning Meteor Swarm into a bonus action
Most underrated comment I’ve seen in a while😂
@@Overlordough1201 he cant really use it for anything else maybe upcasting staff
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I like to imagine that Inferno has shelves of orbs with recordings on them of adventurers falling into traps labelled Epic Fail Comp
I’m putting this is my dnd campaign
Now I'm imaging a core memory of the first time he dropped a big ass rock on a group of six.
I still love the way you described him previously.
"Inferno almost the direct opposite of Tchazzar. Tchazzar is a very outgoing dragon who seeks to spread his name as far as possible. His power lies in his plethora of magical items, and in his relationships with Tiamat, and the military country that he owns. Inferno doesn't have any of that. No country. No military. No overpowered magical artifacts. He doesn't like to come out and most people don't even know he exists. What Inferno *does* have, is pure. Unadulterated. Raw. Fucking. Power."
It was such an effective F-Bomb XD
Do you remember what that video was called?
@@Wyrm7774 "The Strongest Dragons in Dungeons and Dragons" at 13:44
Yep, that's the power of not being prone to swearing. Every utterance then carries the proper weight.
@@Washeek Darth Vader is good at that and Billy Butcher the worst.
Inferno facts # 55:
When encountering Inferno, He becomes the DM.
Fact # 56
Inferno once created a firestorm by rubbing Ice together.
# 57
Inferno's dad is known as Inferno jr.
Inferno is like the sorcerer counterpart to regular / other dragons being wizards. Instead of practicing, gathering magic items or having someone bless him with power, he just woke up, chose violence and decided "I'm the strongest now."
Being the strongest isn't something you attain, it's something you are. If you ask to attain it, only proves you aren't or something along that line
@@jay14nu trippin
@@jay14n A lot of story protagonists beg to differ. No one's a master at birth. Believing you are only proves you aren't or something along that line.
@@justasandvich7168 those are stories and i quoted yujiro by the way
@@jay14n Oh. Interesting. My bad, tho Yujiro is also a story
Ah Inferno, the dragon definition of "built different"
Has that Drag on him if you will
I like the idea of Inferno messaging an adventurer to send them on a quest that Inferno couldn't be bothered to do. "Go here, get this artifact (with the expectation of risking your life), and bring it to one of my lairs. If you don't, I'll burn you and everyone you know."
Inferno regularly scries on them and watches their adventure for amusement as they work to increase his wealth.
Inferno watching : And on the next season of treasure hunt we will have our brave heroes venture into a dungeon with a demi lich waiting for them! Will they prevail?!
Inferno : Oh joy!
Knowing Inferno, He probably did this as an intricate Joke or it is phase one of his plans to fuck with the realms.
@@RedSunUnderParadise Inferno has given the same threat to a second adventurer in a different party; adventurer 2 has orders to fuck up adventurer 1. Each adventurer has strict orders to keep their orders and relationship to Inferno an absolute secret :)
@@brentt6714
A certified Inferno moment.
Sounds like he takes Smaug's 'I am fire, I am death' line to a whole new level.
Smaug is a joke in comparison.
Hes like an ancient red dragon at best. Even compared to dragons of his verse, he just kinda stands out as the last of the powerful ones
@hulm hochberg Yeah, compared to the dragons of earlier ages, Smaug is rather unimpressive. Ancalagon the Black, on the other hand, would probably be comparable to or even more powerful than the strongest dragons of Faerûn.
@Lonely Strategos Ancalagon is incredibly huge and powerful at the highest estimates, based on Tolkiens notes. I would argue, assuming these higher estimates, he'd dwarf Inferno
@@hulmhochberg8129 If you’re talking about the movie Smaug: he’s 1.5-2x larger than inferno.
Oh, and by the way, Smaug’s horde would be about equivalent to 200 BILLION gold pieces in DND at an absolute minimum. WotC needs to start putting in the effort on their volumes, 100,000 GP for Inferno’s bed wouldn’t even be enough to hold him.
@@HorizonStronghold wow, how do you get to that number?
I cant remember there beeing a number gor his horde besides some vague description of pretty huge.
Inferno: Opens his mouth.
The party: "Well, guess we'll die."
Unless facing Baradun & the Dickheads...then the chances are about even.
My 17th level forge cleric: “pathetic…”
@@Robosobojobo146471 He still can cast quicken Wish to screw you in various ways. Also considering he have CR even higher than Tiamat he most likely can stand toe-to-toe with a deity.
@@Robosobojobo146471
Inferno: Haha, Disintegrate go ZZZZAAAAAAAAP(Actual somatic comp, btw)
@@mardshima2070 the Cr 30 Tiamat is not her true form it’s just an avatar
So basically Inferno is a prodigy of his kind and just naturally succeeds in being better than everyone else because he's just that badass. Damn even dragons have that dude that everyone low key hates a little. lol
Imvaernarho: You see, you aren't dealing with the Average Dragon....
He's built different
@@RedSunUnderParadiseBlackstaff of Waterdeep: I feel like we've done this before, have we done this before?
As someone who got into D&D in 5th edition, I love learning about all of these interesting and unique dragons.
It's also hilarious to me looking at Fizban's statblock for Great Wyrms and seeing how laughably childish the Chromatic Great Wyrm is compared to what Inferno's capable of.
Forget about Great Wyrm this guy have even higher CR than Tiamat.
Honestly listening to this I reached two conclusions.
1) This is the most dragon dragon who ever dragon'd.
2) Someone get this catch a mate lol.
He's just living his best life, more power to him.
Other dragons are too scared of him and the female red dragons big enough to mate with him are no longer fertile.
@@Hektols The lady dragons gotta get on their game, be more confident, make gains, and invite Inferno for coffee while batting their eyes.
@@Hektols like that ever stopped this lad for getting some mad dragussy
Now I wanna see other dragons focus on their own element like that.
Ignoring that he would be a sorcerer, a white dragon would be the ultimate "lizard blizzard wizard".
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Only if they take the name King Gizzard, the Blizzard Wizard
@@litchqueenasenath5995gizzard the blizzard lizard wizard
@@interessant222 hahahaha!
@@interessant222 Dragonborn wizard with focus on ice spells in BG3
Inferno!!!! It's my guy Inferno!!!!!!! It's interesting how two of the most powerful dragons (Daurgothoth and Inferno) don't really do much outside of their lair like Iymrith or Arveiturace. Inferno also, as you mentioned, breaks the tradition of Dragons being exceptional because of external factors. Inferno is simply the most dragony dragon out there.
"No sir, not getting out of this chair."
If Inferno was a playable character, he wouldn't do DPS, His damage is measured in War Crimes per second.
Change My Mind.
@@RedSunUnderParadise I would maybe say that you could measure his damage in DPU (Damage per microsecond)
Inferno, “You wish to challenge me? I cast napalm… x2”
@@DanielMartinez-gs5tn
Ah yes, Inferno's basic light attack string.
It's funny how different Inferno is from the other dragons. Everyone else in this series has elaborate schemes and paranoia, whereas Inferno is just above all that because his overwhelming power means he has nothing to fear.
I love this dragon, he’s just so hilariously powerful and it’s beautiful, if he were allowed to I can just imagine him taking the most comically weak 1st level spell and casting it at 13th level just to show he can kill you with anything, casts catapult and fires a 70lb boulder at someone, casts destroy water and just destroys 140 gallons of water from a lake, or just for the sheer hilarity, casts fire ball at max level just for fun, he is truly the peak of what it means to be a sorcerer
Gross misuse of a spell slot.
@@dustinsmith2021 what does he care he has like 40 more
@@dustinsmith2021the flex tho
A 70-pound boulder would be smaller than a basketball, and 140 gallons of water is only a couple of bathtubs' worth, lol.
@@axiological5468stop talking.
This series of talking about dragons has inspired my homebrew worlds 7 dragon lords of magnificent power
Same, lol.
In my setting, My parallel to Inferno solo'ed the 4 layers of Hell, barely leaving any for the Draconic legions under his command, allowed the Dragons to more efficiently set up staging grounds in hell and was generally pivotal to many a draconic extra universal invasion.
You may also enjoy learning about mtg's 10 dragonlords if you haven't already.
Might want to check out the Dragonrealm series from Richard A. Knaak.
Has a world dominated by Dragon lords that enslave the populace and a hero who is prophesied to upheave the status quo and bring freedom to all the non-draconic races.
Despite being so powerful that dragon is suprisingly chill. He basically stay in very low populated area and sleeps.
That and laughs at all the adventurers climbing the highest mountain to find nothing but traps.
You wanna know why they are low to zero populated areas now?
He's also the best dancer. Ever heard of the disco inferno? That was him.
"Aside from Dragons who are a head of state or own a city"
shows Chessenta
I see what you did there
I think people hear "100 000 gold coins" and think "omg! That's a lot!" but if he's using it as a bed, that's like…1 to 3 layers of coins…he has a lot of surface area he'd need for a bed and coins are very small…
Wow the intro for the sands of doom is pretty cool! The hyena cackles sounded pretty scary too, gnolls are one of my favorite type of monsters because they are so brutal and barbaric that not even the orcs want to cooperate with them👍
Ooh you liked my coment i’m so happy😀
So basically, Inferno is the pinnacle of what a Draconic Sorcerer could EVER hope to be.
Metallic Dragons specially golden ones would also be quite interesting to learn about, enjoying these dragon videos alot!
Did you know, that inferno is actually a gold/red dragon crossbreed
I love how unique and genuinely interesting these dragon are.
Dungeons & DRAGONS indeed. :)
Can't wait for the Black Death and the Rapacious Raider. Black dragons have always been my favorites.
The Black and Green are always my favorites.
Same. I’ve always loved the look of black dragons
I like the green as well. The fact that they enjoy lying I find entertaining. Black dragons do have coolest horns though. To bad there are none with spiral horns.
When a dragon is just literally "built different" from the others.
The table I'm running is about to hit Castle Naerytar for the first time. These videos plus the Dragon Hoard book from your store are really going to flush out our campaign. Your armor redesign is now table law. Your videos are the law and history of our tables. As the DM I have your DnD Lore playlist run at night. Your voice is perfect and the audio queues can be very relaxing. If I could tell RUclips any reason I pay for premium, it would have to be your Lore videos. Seriously, thank you for your work. I've made sidequest one shots based on your monster videos and my party will never look at black slime the same again.
This series of Dragons is making me reflect on the Dragon Overlords from Dragonlance. 5 massive Chromatic dragons ranging from 300 to 400 feet long. The strongest of the bunch, the red Dragon Malystrix has a CR of 39 if I remember correctly. They come from a different world, where Dragons rule and are the size of average adults as infants. The Overlords were supposedly SMALL compared to other dragons on their planet.
If the "small" ones are that big, and their power is relative to the likes of Inferno and Tchazzar (off by one CR) then I'm terrified of what the large ones would be like. Heck. I'd be terrified of the AVERAGE ones.
Khellendros and Cyan Bloodblane were my favorite overlords
@@bobbyrabii6119 Well Cyan wasn't one of the overlords, he was just a really powerful ancient dragon. But Khellendros is probably my favorite dragon in D&D period. As divisive as the New Age Trilogy was, it really made me love him, whereas before I just thought he was decent. It reached a point where I was actually rooting for him to succeed, and got genuinely mad at Takhisis for betraying him.
@@orangexlightning my bad I thought he was the green overlord. Who was the green dragon overlord? My dragonlance lore is a little rusty since it’s been a while since I read it.
And yes by the end of that I was definitely routing for Khellendros.
@@bobbyrabii6119 The green overlord was Beryllinthranox.
@@bobbyrabii6119 Cyan controlled one of the dragon orbs, and destroyed the nation of the Silvanestri, which is probably why you associate him with Overlord status.
I’ve never played DND a day in my life… but man, your videos are always so interesting to me! I binge your stuff when I’m cooking, or going to sleep. I especially LOVE the dragon content lol.
Man, watching these videos and watching some of the things that were possible in 3.5 get reduced to 5e comparisons really hurts. Like I often wonder if 5e players (who didn't previously play 3e) can even comprehend the level of shenanigans this CR40 dragon could accomplish with it's Epic Level abilities.
It's one of the things that I miss most from 3e era, the truly insane things Epic Level style creatures could do.
Tbf as a DM, you could make it part of the mythos of truly ancient creatures of high magic that they follow the rules of 3.5e rather than 5e - that way their primordial power seems almost incomprehensable/incomparable to newer creatures operating by the rules of lesser magics. It's kindof like how Courage the Cowardly dog would occasionally switch up the animation styles for some of its creepier villains to make them eldritch compared to the rest of the show. It's basically your way of saying 'you can't win this fight, your best hope is survival' that's can make even high level parties realise they're still small fish on a cosmic scale.
There's this fantastic little website that allows me to make statblocks for 5e.
So far, it hasn't stopped me from making ridiculous CR leveled monsters
Like the force and prismatic dragons? Man, the prismatic dragons were something else. It's a good thing force dragons were aloof of everything and prismatic dragons were just so dang chill and amused by everything, or else they'd have ruined everything.
@Velociraptors of Skyrim
What website is it that your talking about
At 17:44 the flaming skeleton is showing off his demon horns 🤘rock on skelly man I'll see you in Hell.
Inferno is just simply... built different
These stupidly powerful dragons are SO FUKING COOL
They are at a level of power that put them nearly on par with lesser gods, and yet you might actually meet them.
Even talk with them, having a pleasant conversation...all withouth knowing it.
Or knowing it and turning a lot of pants brown in the process.
fr the fact that they can take a human form and avoid magical detections is pretty scary
Dragon Tales, Dragon Tales
It's almost time for Dragon Tales
Come along, take my hand
Let's all go to Dragon Land
So glad to see another entry so soon! Love your work MrRhexx, keep it up!
dont forget that he can 7 times a day choose to use wish to replicate ANY spell and not suffer the drawbacks of wish. so he could easily choose any radiant spell or otherwise to wipe out things that are resistant to fire.
13th level spell slots?!? Those are literal god level spells! How is Mystra okay with that? Okay, for quickened spells, but still insane!
To make Inferno more dangerous I'd give his fire breath attacks the ability to turn immunity to resistance and ignore resistance, because it's so effing hot.
Immunity -> Resistance, Resistance -> Normal, Normal -> Vulnerability, Vulnerability -> Massive Damage Effect
I agree, even 11th level spells are well into god tier. I believe a 13th level spell was used to permanently affect the entirety of the magic underlying the universe according to canon.
@@Retaferyr No, that's _just a mere 12th level_ spell.
@aleph0540 my bad, how silly of me.
Mystra doesn't interfere directly with a magic user's power, she just doesn't allow the existence 13th level spells so at the end those 13th level spell slots only can be used to empower lower level spells
Thanks so very much once again dear Sir!
Dragons, for me, are without a doubt the most incredible creatures in all of fantasy. To that end, I have built a pretty significant "hoard" of Dragon figures that I've been collecting for over 30 years ( if there's a significant Dragon carved in plastic, I own it. )
I'm once more cruising through your vids and since I consider you one of the most eminent scholars of D&D on the planet, I enjoy each and every vid you post both for entertainment and knowledge. With the far less than desired recent contributions by WOC, once again thank-you sincerely Sir, for keeping the true value of D&D in our hearts and minds! 🥰
Dude I fucking love these named dragon videos, and the fantastic frequency is delightful
i am building a campaign right now that revolves around powerful dragons so these videos are extremely helpful and i would love to hear about any dragon like things that are really powerful as well :D
The Bruce Lee of dragons.
"I fear not the dragon that can do a thousand breaths weapons, but the dragon that has practiced his breath weapon a thousand times."
For those wondering how insane Inferno would be in 5e. Just a rough conversion of a base Great Wyrm. CR 28, HP 714 (with average rolls honestly at this point I would do max HP for the creature 1020) Chance to hit +20, Breath Weapon 156 average damage. AC 23. Inferno would be a 42ish CR in 5e. So a +12 Prof, 1320 HP AC 30 is the best answer I can give you because he has a natural ac of 60 in 3.5 and a normal great wyrm has a 39. I would love an epic level book so that something like this is even an idea to fight.
I've been loving all the dragon lore though, with all the strong evil dragons we've seen recently it'd be cool to see a powerful metallic dragon like Nexus or something. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for covering my favourite red dragon since 2010.
Keep up the great work both with your manuals and your videos
Excellent video! I say Inferno is my favorite dragon in faerun. And thanks to this video, I came to that conclusion.
Thank you!
I built a Commander Deck with Inferno as the Commander. It's fun to come out of nowhere and shoot your opponent for a ton of damage out of nowhere.
I am happy to find this video, I get to learn more about this powerfully mean dragon
Edit: Inferno alone could destroy a entire economy with just the amount of gold he has.
Inferno is the final form for any blaster caster.
He is like the DM's amplified Uno Reverse card to "I didnt ask how big the room is, I said I cast Fireball". But as a legitimately dangerous villain.
This feels like a proper legendary dragon with a lot of power. Got and easy to remember name too
heh, a dragon with raw talent, honed to an absurd degree. Nothing flashy or Fancy just 'built different'
I can dig it.
These videos on specific dragons have been great. I'm usually not a huge fan of dragons, but these guys are interesting.
The people of Faerune should be much for afraid of Inferno than Daurgothoth in my opinion. Daurgothoth seems perfect content to advance and study magic, and only occasionally does he become a threat.
Inferno is a red dragon without the downsides of being a red dragon. No pride to wound or play into, no allies or weak points to strike. Very little paranoia, but retaining the cunning and stratigic mind. The only reason he has never been taken seriously is because of his hermit nature. But now, as the video states, he is finding entertainment in the outside world. Who knows when he'll finally decide to become more...hands on...
For people in Faerun both Inferno and Daurgothoth are pretty much never exist, not even as lore. Both did really good job at hiding their existence.
This dragon is what I use as proof that my idea of someone accidentally getting a 12 wish spell in a spell gem that can handle such spells is possible because this bastard has access to 13th level spell slots. Admittedly, he can’t do them for anything but quicken spells but that still breaks the rules.
Inferno just hit the fire element jackpot, he's that one friend with good upper body and punching genetics, except he's a boxer.
9:10 he is simply “Built Different”
That’s a fitting name for a Red Dragon.
That Sands of Doom promo was amazing.
When your fire breath does 14d10 more than the regular Great Wyrm Red Dragon.
Practicing magic or sleeping for decades at the time
Who knew a giant lizard of death could be so relatable
Would love to see a video covering Iron Dragons, more specifically the sovereign of ferrous dragons Gruaghlothor!
If I remember correctly, some Iron Dragons can cast a ritual to be possessed by Gruaghlothor's power, but I know absolutely nothing else about him.
These Greatwyrm videos are giving me ideas for the Greatwyrms of my homebrew setting I'm reviving. Also the Alien Dragons from the latter Dragonlance books that Takesis recruited from other worlds to help her subjugate Krynn
I like that he will redirect adventurers to fight other evil forces. Presumably because he finds it funny?
I'm also really looking forward to the Metallic dragon videos.
Congratulation on your achived kickstarter goal!
You know, rewatching this video gave me an idea, a red draconic sorceress or a dragon warlock from your book that wishes to serve Inferno and spread his name and infamy throughout not only the sword coast, but the whole a Faerun, not necessarily an evil character but just someone who wishes to learn from, at least in her mind, the mightiest red dragon in this side of Toril, thank you for the great lore content and making me into my true dragon nerd form that I always wished to be
11:10 **Quicken Teleports Behind You**
"Nothing personal adventure this is just personal entertainment in my endless pageant"
🥳🔥🔥💀🔥
I would love to hear about Balagos, Dragonsbane. We talk about him a few times at my table and your videos suck me in every time!
Sounds like a job for a party entirely composed of 20th level Forge Clerics.
DM: You have a breath weapon that will kill almost anyrhing!
Inferno: I don't care. I. Cast. Fireball.
I really hope you go over Asharladon! He got a game named after him even!
The theme that plays as you're talking about his horde is haunting... like a warning, yeah he has all this wealth but good luck getting anywhere near it.
Imagine killing a dragon that has been alive for centuries and finding 12 million gold, just for that gold to collapse the economy from such a large influx at once. A final fuck you from ol Inferno
I’m thinking about using Inferno for one of my stories involving baldurs gate
Would involve a child created using his essence. Already have a motivation.
Great Content bro Great Guy 🔥🔥🔥💪🏼
This inspired my soccer character for the campaign I’m in, he’s a very fun fire sorcerer that carries around a red crystal that speaks to him in dragonic urging him to cause chaos or collect items for the crystal.
kinda funny protection from energy only protects up to 120 dmg. so unless they had some cheap polymorphing stuff, the party would need energy immunity to prevent most of his breath attack. 3.5 stuff.
Loving these dragon videos!!
Im loving this series so far
Hello Rex! consider doing a video on the old white death, possibly the strongest white dragon. It's appereabce on Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf and Rise of the King are amazing.
Been loving the stream of uploads. Just wanted to say I appreciate your work and have been watching since the Skyrim days. You're awesome 👍
I doubt that Inferno would tolerate any other red dragon in the entirety of the Star Mounts, making the whole range essentially his lair
Imagine being a dragon whose magic spells surpass that of everyone else's and you lose the ability to cast them because some cockroach. I would be mad.
who knows maybe the mfs training to throw hands with Mystra 💀
Other dragons: through study, practice and intense concentration, I have exceeded my natural born limits to ascend in power
Inferno: I'm just...
B U I L T
D I F F E R E N T
When the dnd mtg set first came out I got a collectors pack and went to a friends house. I opened it and got the foil inferno card from it and immediately made a commander deck around him. He’s my favorite dragon!
I love this series. Thanks again.
I can't believe you're not doing the patron thanks anymore, lol, that's always been such a consistent part of your videos.
Inferno: I would like to cast fireball! At thirteenth level.
Inferno: I'm stronger I'm smarter, I'm better. I am better!
He only sleeps on 100,000 GP? I don’t really think WotC does much detailing here then, because that’s less than one tenth of one cubic meter of gold. I don’t think something his size would even fit on that little amount of material. Heck, I doubt that would encompass MY bed.
When you see pictures of dragons sleeping on gargantuan piles of gold such as the one in the Hobbit, you’re FAR beyond six digits. Smaug’s horde in contrast weighs in at about 1.9 million tonnes or in DND terms: 209,439,149,100 gold pieces.
That’s only the one chamber shown in the movie of about 200x200x5 meters.
Now, granted, Smaug in that movie would actually have been larger than Inferno is depicted, but not by much and remember, this would be the equivalent on one of his BEDS, not his treasury.
WotC needs to stop underselling these things.
Please do the Drow Dragons too, I have played around with them in my game as an underdog faction in a war against the normal Drow society, really like the concept!
This series is pure fire !!
MrRhexx subs been eating really well lately
Awesome work as allways
I find all these videos super fun thanks.
I love his personality the most. Even though he stands atop all true dragon's he's not as condescending or rude. In fact he's more whimsical and funny
Imagine if Daurgothoth and Inferno breed somehow, imagine what they could do combined
Odd that so many of the older and most powerful dragons dislike momma and her silly little cult.
I think of inferno like I think of the main character in an anime. They are often interesting because of their flaws, find power in themselves, and break passed barriers with will power.
I always bit my tongue but I have to say it now: It's really awesome that people like you make new modules and stories for us normies to enjoy! The only thing I don't get is why almost all of them start at level 1. Level 1 just sucks. Hands down. :D
I don't even play DND ever but I love to hear and listen and watch all of your videos one day if it's ever do play I'll know what to do😂
Effective ad, great narration
This series is awesome! Thank you so much.
I hope you get to do Balagos, I think he is also very peculiar and complex for a Red Dragon!
Keep up being awesome!