Imagine the howling dragon’s lair being constructed to be extra sound reflective ,every time the dragon roars ,it echoes all over the lair deafening all in it’s lair and dealing extra Thunder damage each turn.
Maybe on the prime material 🤔, pandemonium it's self should already have reduced any glass to a powder by the time you find a howling dragon there though. I feel like a cloud of glass powder might be worse lol 😅
Interesting, I thought the Stygian Linnorm was another name for the Styx Dragon, but they are different species. Good to know. I once used a wyrmling Styx Dragon as a villain in my campaign setting, it had somehow found its way to the material plane, and settled into a major city's sewer system, it then started to prey on the populace of the city. The PC's originally thought it was an Otyugh, but they eventually tracked the beast to its lair, and dealt with it. It was a nice, simple adventure that was played out over a couple of sessions.
I honestly dont understand why youtube recommended you....I wasnt in to D&D at the time and you werent particularly big, but even then, I still am glad that youtube recommended you.
Howling Dragon is one of my favorite planar dragons to plan around. I had a campaign setting where someone (the campaign main villain) was making contact with planar dragons. Offering them free reign on the material plane if they would do a favor for him. Each was given an amulet that granted a shapeshifting power. The howling dragon became a court jester, a la The Joker, and was setting up a sonic network between two formerly warring nations. The idea was they would create a D&D version of a telephone that could connect the kings. At the ceremony activating it, the Howling Dragon would unleash it's full sonic power and devastate each kingdom, restarting the war. It would be up to the players to find and stop his schemes. Since it's a Joker like NPC, it couldn't help but mess with them over the course of the adventure even if only through it's twisted games.
I've always thought that wine made from grapes that are near the River Styx, perhaps an infernal vineyard, have a mindwiping tenancy. Maybe something used by demons and devils to forget their tortured existence, or something a trickster could steal and use in cons. However the dark energy in the wine would taint them over time.
One of my characters way back in the day back in 2nd edition in planescape expansion had figured out a moose devious weapon using the water from the River Styx he would fill small glass bottles like Potion bottles and then put food coloring in them how many adventurers do you know smell healing potions granted he was a thief and super paranoid and thought everybody was stealing from him even though he was stealing from the party
So would Styx Dragon's get along with the Black Dragons? Both mess up the environment pretty badly. Do they have any mortal enemies? Like how Silvers hate Reds, and Black and Greens don't like each other.
I really like the howling dragons. Years ago I dropped one on my players but the rogue insta killed it on the third round with a triple 20... Almost made me cry. Those were the days.
When i was an archmage. The party got me not to marry a Styx dragon. However, we did still date. Haha. It was a match made in styx. Ah. So many political prisoners to disappear so little time.
......batshit crazy,you forgot, gone yomping and sixs &sevens! Lolx2 great video man! My buddy wanted to capture a howling dragon and bring it home one time....i said sure and now everyone asks......"What ever happened to Aluicious the Wise?" Lol these creatures are sooo incredibly dangerous SOLELY because of their insanity! Love these draconic videos kiwi 😍 The thunder breath attack of the howling dragon to me,is akin to a Sperm whale clicking at a free diver at 10 ft......... 270 decibles will fuck you up!
"True evil is, above all things, seductive. When the Devil knocks at your door, he doesn't have cloven hooves. He is beautiful, and offers you your heart's desire in whispered airs. Like a siren, beckoning you to ruinous shore."
@@Daimon-X aye, the umbral dragon in our game was a seductress. She liked to indoctrinate you with serrupticious magics and whisper sweet nothings into your ear if you couldnt resist the mental invasion. Most who served her did so willingly having long since fallen to her whispers or giving in to a desire. Those few who did not serve willingly are drivin mad with a cacophonous threnody. Her choice victims, or most valuable servants, would be consumed and remade as shades to serve the Dark Lady for eternity or until her death.
@@wobblefoot7607 cool, a DM styled umbral dragon? Nice. Your rarely hear about female dragons in campaign, becauses usually they are not given genders, or are mostly male. It's even rarer to see a dragon who is chaotic evil, and from a (video also) game, able to speak as if their alignment was lawful evil. Nice.
are howling dragons telepathic? like could they use their own madness as a sort of psychick wepon by beaming their own insanity into the minds of others, then following up with sonic attacks & sound and wind spells?
AJ Pickett ahhh... & planar dragons aren't "sorcerers..." either, AND only purple chromatic dragons can polymorph into a humanoid form, too many limitations in general despite the truelly boundless inspiration in straight d&d. create your own D&D like world & you can have critters perfected to fit out all their tropes & themes without having to bend the rules too much.
I can see your gnomes in a little thought experiment eventually getting enough components to make a Mythril Golem or an adamantium Golem which would easily kill their dragon problem perhaps that's their long-term solution you could have player characters help by sneaking them resources instead of directly taking on the Dragon
I’ve been trying to get into D&D and have no idea where to start or look, so this comment section seemed like an ok bet, tips and suggestions would be great
elijah potts well D&D 5th edition (current) is the easiest for new people to learn, if you have a local gaming store that sells board games and what not, or something like a Barnes and Noble. Or you can find the books cheaper on Amazon
elijah potts do you have people to play with, or know where there are people who play, because you need to know what the people you will hopefully be playing with want to play, that being said 5e is the most likely answer
there's adventurers league at game stores/there's Reddit to find groups/D&D beyond has a general board for finding a group/roll20 is an option but I'm sure if none of those work someone here is looking for another player. Good luck!
If you want to find a group to play with, then all you'll need at first is the player's handbook. The other books are very useful, but the player's handbook is the bible here. I'd say go to a local game shop to find the book to support them, but if not then amazon has them for 30 if you have prime. If you find that you have problems with the rules, there are several resources here to help with the details. Now if after that you decide that you want to DM... now we have you by the balls. Then all those other books start becoming more relevant.
I have a homebrew creature! the deathwing. Its a dragon that stores the souls of those it kills.....and after it has stored enough it can breath the souls of the men its killed, all of which trying to drag whoever is in the way of the breath toward the beast's maw.
have you looked at the dracolich in the 5e monster manual ? Its not the same but its a similar idea, essentially what happens when a dragon gets some necromancy spells.
Imagining the breath is like a stream of souls that gets sucked back to the dragon. How about "syphon styx". From the river of the same name in mythology. It also remenbers me of a chameleon tongue so "draleon-sucker of souls" :3. In flavor you could also give him some forme of cloacking.
Oooh. Try the Chromatic Pink Dragon. Which is a what happens when a pink ooze engulfs a red dragon egg. Basically A saccharine child like personality that enjoys using its breath weapon that makes everything its breath weapon touches deliciously addictive and delights in watching the carnage that ensues.
It has probably been known to happen, I could imagine Styx dragons being kept as captive pets of the lords of Baator, like Bond villains keep crocodiles in pools (or sharks, or Piranhas)
Wherever the styx touches thats where those dragons dwell so yes. But do keep in mind that even if predators territories overlap. They generally won't intrude on the other unless starving. Unless the Hellfire dragons are dumb enough to challenge a styx dragon within spitting distance of the styx. In which case, natural selection is in full force.
It would probably be a stalemate. Hellfire wyrm's breath weapons wouldn't have that much affect on the Styx Dragon while it's in or near water. And I don't think the "infernal" damage of half the flame would do much to it. They'd just pepper it with Fire Storm's from the air till it got annoyed and swam away.
That would be the best course of action. Assuming it stays well away from the river and out of jumping distance. Now i'm gonna include those two in a scenerio and try not to TPK. I'll let you know.
I know you've covered Spelljammer before, are there any dragons specific to that expansion, i.e. dragons that travel between worlds the way the characters do?
Quick question If i use a prepared spell and have four spell slots can i cast that same prepared spell 3 more times then use a cantrip or do those use a slot too?
Cantrips do not cost spell slots, Spell slots tell you how many times you can cast a spell at that level, so if you have 4 level 1 spell slots, you can cast magic missile (a level 1 spell) 4 times or you can cast Magic missile 2 times and shield 2 times, it's a shared resource. You can also use higher level spell slots to cast lower level spells, so say you have the four "1st level spell slots" and two "2nd spell slots" you can cast Magic missile as a second level spell instead which improves its power. (Some spells cant be cast at higher levels, but they are kind of rare.) Cantrips cost no spell slots, and as such you can always use any known cantrips. Don't know if this helps, spell casting in D&D is probably one of the harder things to wrap ones head around.
@@AJPickett The Everglades are a notorious body dumping area due to alligators and vast amount of disease-carrying insects, for one. Secondly, it's a non extradition State that criminals tend to flock to. Third, there is no bedrock (except Orlando and north from there, up the center of the state) hence the sinkholes. Also (and this is just a personal thing) the speed limit for most areas is 30-35 mph (about 50 kph) and usually never gets past double that on highways.
Why not? All creatures of the Skull Island are simply "fantastic" www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/syfy_image_gallery_full_breakpoints_theme_syfy_normal_1x/public/wire/legacy/020chacreatures150129tigerportraitv23bzbjpg-1.jpg?itok=zpsLm-nD×tamp=1497663261
Styx dragons are much better adapted to fighting in water, also the Green dragon would be vulnerable to the negative effects of the waters of the Styx itself.
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Imagine the howling dragon’s lair being constructed to be extra sound reflective ,every time the dragon roars ,it echoes all over the lair deafening all in it’s lair and dealing extra Thunder damage each turn.
Imagine a howling dragon filling it's lair with glass and shrieking filling the cave with broken glass everywhere
Maybe on the prime material 🤔, pandemonium it's self should already have reduced any glass to a powder by the time you find a howling dragon there though. I feel like a cloud of glass powder might be worse lol 😅
I'd love to hear more about Pandemonium. The idea of a prison plane seems like a very dramatic place to have PC's run around in.
Interesting, I thought the Stygian Linnorm was another name for the Styx Dragon, but they are different species. Good to know.
I once used a wyrmling Styx Dragon as a villain in my campaign setting, it had somehow found its way to the material plane, and settled into a major city's sewer system, it then started to prey on the populace of the city. The PC's originally thought it was an Otyugh, but they eventually tracked the beast to its lair, and dealt with it. It was a nice, simple adventure that was played out over a couple of sessions.
I honestly dont understand why youtube recommended you....I wasnt in to D&D at the time and you werent particularly big, but even then, I still am glad that youtube recommended you.
*puts away spell book* Yeah I have no idea either.
Howling Dragon is one of my favorite planar dragons to plan around. I had a campaign setting where someone (the campaign main villain) was making contact with planar dragons. Offering them free reign on the material plane if they would do a favor for him. Each was given an amulet that granted a shapeshifting power.
The howling dragon became a court jester, a la The Joker, and was setting up a sonic network between two formerly warring nations. The idea was they would create a D&D version of a telephone that could connect the kings. At the ceremony activating it, the Howling Dragon would unleash it's full sonic power and devastate each kingdom, restarting the war. It would be up to the players to find and stop his schemes.
Since it's a Joker like NPC, it couldn't help but mess with them over the course of the adventure even if only through it's twisted games.
10:50 Hello Lagiacrus, glad to see you taking a vacation from Monster Hunter to guest star in ANOTHER D&D video!
I've been binging on AJ lately and I love his awesome voice. So comforting.
Good. I needed a dope dragon for my 9 hells campaign.
You are the king of tangents.
I've always thought that wine made from grapes that are near the River Styx, perhaps an infernal vineyard, have a mindwiping tenancy. Maybe something used by demons and devils to forget their tortured existence, or something a trickster could steal and use in cons. However the dark energy in the wine would taint them over time.
My Therapist: Don't worry, Derpy Howling Dragon isn't real. He can' hurt you
Derpy Howling Dragon: 4:30
DOUBLE DRAGONS OF INSANITY AND DEATH!! hmm wonder if the yugoloth boatmen partly need bribes so they can bribe local styx dragons
Nice. Two dragons I knew next to nothing about and more information about the lower planes. 5/5 stars, would upvote again. 😃
Yesss, moar draconic lore. Dragons are the most iconic and badass monsters/creatures of all time.
One of my characters way back in the day back in 2nd edition in planescape expansion had figured out a moose devious weapon using the water from the River Styx he would fill small glass bottles like Potion bottles and then put food coloring in them how many adventurers do you know smell healing potions granted he was a thief and super paranoid and thought everybody was stealing from him even though he was stealing from the party
Back to dragons! I thought you had run out. I was wrong. Thanks for the lore wise Sage.
Brillant but insane. I can totally relate to about half of that statement. Lol.
Also you need tshirts that say "warning :: female monster nipples".
timestamp?
So would Styx Dragon's get along with the Black Dragons? Both mess up the environment pretty badly. Do they have any mortal enemies? Like how Silvers hate Reds, and Black and Greens don't like each other.
they would hold equal animosity toward all other dragons
Well at least they hate everyone equally.
I really like the howling dragons. Years ago I dropped one on my players but the rogue insta killed it on the third round with a triple 20... Almost made me cry. Those were the days.
When i was an archmage. The party got me not to marry a Styx dragon. However, we did still date. Haha. It was a match made in styx. Ah. So many political prisoners to disappear so little time.
Dragon lore!! Woot!
ohh that was filthy
do it again.
Will you talk about the river of Styx how it runs for all the lower planes.
I have, in a few videos
Your description of the Styx Dragon and their home was so good that I feel filthy... and I just got out of the shower.
*gargles Windex* Try writing that stuff for a few hours.
this is a nope dragon from the land of dont go their
......batshit crazy,you forgot, gone yomping and sixs &sevens! Lolx2 great video man! My buddy wanted to capture a howling dragon and bring it home one time....i said sure and now everyone asks......"What ever happened to Aluicious the Wise?" Lol these creatures are sooo incredibly dangerous SOLELY because of their insanity! Love these draconic videos kiwi 😍 The thunder breath attack of the howling dragon to me,is akin to a Sperm whale clicking at a free diver at 10 ft......... 270 decibles will fuck you up!
there was an episode of Preacher that had Charon in it, he seemed like a pretty chill guy
My two favorite planar dragons, what are the odds
Yay more dragons!
14:14 lovely, so it's worse than a komodo dragons bite? 12:12 that constitution better be high then. XD
Great lore video. I always love to get good info on some of the less-often highlighted planes like Pandemonium and Carceri.
Gosh, I think my favorite dragon variant comes from Pathfinder
The Umbral Dragon . . Such evil buggers.
"True evil is, above all things, seductive. When the Devil knocks at your door, he doesn't have cloven hooves. He is beautiful, and offers you your heart's desire in whispered airs. Like a siren, beckoning you to ruinous shore."
@@Daimon-X aye, the umbral dragon in our game was a seductress. She liked to indoctrinate you with serrupticious magics and whisper sweet nothings into your ear if you couldnt resist the mental invasion.
Most who served her did so willingly having long since fallen to her whispers or giving in to a desire.
Those few who did not serve willingly are drivin mad with a cacophonous threnody. Her choice victims, or most valuable servants, would be consumed and remade as shades to serve the Dark Lady for eternity or until her death.
@@wobblefoot7607 cool, a DM styled umbral dragon? Nice. Your rarely hear about female dragons in campaign, becauses usually they are not given genders, or are mostly male. It's even rarer to see a dragon who is chaotic evil, and from a (video also) game, able to speak as if their alignment was lawful evil. Nice.
The " river of lamentations "
Conan likes that one
mr. kojak “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their rivers.”
Would you be able to talk about the River Styx and how it connects to all the lower planes and it's affect on events including the blood war?
I just did?
are howling dragons telepathic? like could they use their own madness as a sort of psychick wepon by beaming their own insanity into the minds of others, then following up with sonic attacks & sound and wind spells?
as a general group, no, but individuals may be.
AJ Pickett ahhh... & planar dragons aren't "sorcerers..." either, AND only purple chromatic dragons can polymorph into a humanoid form, too many limitations in general despite the truelly boundless inspiration in straight d&d. create your own D&D like world & you can have critters perfected to fit out all their tropes & themes without having to bend the rules too much.
Its so nerdy! i love it.
Ever since the Year of Rogue Dragons trilogy I’ve been fascinated by the plannar dragons. Awesome to to see you’ll be doing more videos on them!
are you going to do pathfinder lore/creatures and other DND base games?
that would be cool . he might not have the fan base for it yet tho
I can see your gnomes in a little thought experiment eventually getting enough components to make a Mythril Golem or an adamantium Golem which would easily kill their dragon problem perhaps that's their long-term solution you could have player characters help by sneaking them resources instead of directly taking on the Dragon
that's a really cool idea. 👍
I liked the Draconamacon book
i would like a 5e draconamacon
It would be nice to see a Dragon from Mechanus :)
Mechanus has the Axial Dragon. Total assholes.
I’ve been trying to get into D&D and have no idea where to start or look, so this comment section seemed like an ok bet, tips and suggestions would be great
elijah potts well D&D 5th edition (current) is the easiest for new people to learn, if you have a local gaming store that sells board games and what not, or something like a Barnes and Noble. Or you can find the books cheaper on Amazon
elijah potts do you have people to play with, or know where there are people who play, because you need to know what the people you will hopefully be playing with want to play, that being said 5e is the most likely answer
there's adventurers league at game stores/there's Reddit to find groups/D&D beyond has a general board for finding a group/roll20 is an option but I'm sure if none of those work someone here is looking for another player. Good luck!
If you want to find a group to play with, then all you'll need at first is the player's handbook. The other books are very useful, but the player's handbook is the bible here. I'd say go to a local game shop to find the book to support them, but if not then amazon has them for 30 if you have prime. If you find that you have problems with the rules, there are several resources here to help with the details.
Now if after that you decide that you want to DM... now we have you by the balls. Then all those other books start becoming more relevant.
Hope you're having a great summer AJ! Have you ever played Icewind Dale for PC?
I have a homebrew creature! the deathwing. Its a dragon that stores the souls of those it kills.....and after it has stored enough it can breath the souls of the men its killed, all of which trying to drag whoever is in the way of the breath toward the beast's maw.
Good concept.
Better change name.
Nova Aush any suggestions for a new name?
have you looked at the dracolich in the 5e monster manual ? Its not the same but its a similar idea, essentially what happens when a dragon gets some necromancy spells.
Imagining the breath is like a stream of souls that gets sucked back to the dragon.
How about "syphon styx". From the river of the same name in mythology.
It also remenbers me of a chameleon tongue so "draleon-sucker of souls" :3. In flavor you could also give him some forme of cloacking.
Oooh. Try the Chromatic Pink Dragon. Which is a what happens when a pink ooze engulfs a red dragon egg. Basically A saccharine child like personality that enjoys using its breath weapon that makes everything its breath weapon touches deliciously addictive and delights in watching the carnage that ensues.
Thanks for the vid A.J.. any dragons left?
If he wanted to poke around Pathfinder there are Umbral and the various planar dragons
Tarterus dragon, Chole dragon, Sun Dragon, Stellar Dragon, Elysium dragon, Battle dragon... yes, plenty more to go yet.
Do Hellfire Wyrms ever come into contact with Styx Dragons? I thought they were the most prodigious dragons in those places?
It has probably been known to happen, I could imagine Styx dragons being kept as captive pets of the lords of Baator, like Bond villains keep crocodiles in pools (or sharks, or Piranhas)
Wherever the styx touches thats where those dragons dwell so yes. But do keep in mind that even if predators territories overlap. They generally won't intrude on the other unless starving. Unless the Hellfire dragons are dumb enough to challenge a styx dragon within spitting distance of the styx. In which case, natural selection is in full force.
It would probably be a stalemate. Hellfire wyrm's breath weapons wouldn't have that much affect on the Styx Dragon while it's in or near water. And I don't think the "infernal" damage of half the flame would do much to it. They'd just pepper it with Fire Storm's from the air till it got annoyed and swam away.
That would be the best course of action. Assuming it stays well away from the river and out of jumping distance. Now i'm gonna include those two in a scenerio and try not to TPK. I'll let you know.
I know you've covered Spelljammer before, are there any dragons specific to that expansion, i.e. dragons that travel between worlds the way the characters do?
Absolutely, there is the Sun Dragon and Stellar dragon.
good video AJ
Nice fan art at 4:40, good thing that's not how it actually looks.
Second only to undead dragons are my favorite monsters
Then what's your first fav. Monster?
The Styx dragon needs to spoon clank
The ferryman of the River Styx his name is spelled with a c but pronounced with a k Latin is a funny language
When New Zealanders and Australians pronounce it that way, it sounds like "Karen"... Karen, ferry lady of the Underworld.
@@AJPickett yeah I kind of understood that but I also noticed that a lot of people don't understand that c and k are used interchangeably with Latin
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Quick question
If i use a prepared spell and have four spell slots can i cast that same prepared spell 3 more times then use a cantrip or do those use a slot too?
Cantrips do not cost spell slots, Spell slots tell you how many times you can cast a spell at that level, so if you have 4 level 1 spell slots, you can cast magic missile (a level 1 spell) 4 times or you can cast Magic missile 2 times and shield 2 times, it's a shared resource.
You can also use higher level spell slots to cast lower level spells, so say you have the four "1st level spell slots" and two "2nd spell slots" you can cast Magic missile as a second level spell instead which improves its power. (Some spells cant be cast at higher levels, but they are kind of rare.)
Cantrips cost no spell slots, and as such you can always use any known cantrips.
Don't know if this helps, spell casting in D&D is probably one of the harder things to wrap ones head around.
That actually helps alot thanks for the help
Glad to help.
its that way a bit diffrent at older editions tho
Florida, then?
Matt Lynn So Florida is a plane of the abyss. Yeah I can see that.
The further you go from the coast?
@@AJPickett
The Everglades are a notorious body dumping area due to alligators and vast amount of disease-carrying insects, for one. Secondly, it's a non extradition State that criminals tend to flock to. Third, there is no bedrock (except Orlando and north from there, up the center of the state) hence the sinkholes. Also (and this is just a personal thing) the speed limit for most areas is 30-35 mph (about 50 kph) and usually never gets past double that on highways.
RIP Chrono :(
I would go crazy for a video of ratfolk
Styx Dragon would be at home in nurgles garden
Is the kong Skull Crawler DND WORTHY?
Why not? All creatures of the Skull Island are simply "fantastic" www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/syfy_image_gallery_full_breakpoints_theme_syfy_normal_1x/public/wire/legacy/020chacreatures150129tigerportraitv23bzbjpg-1.jpg?itok=zpsLm-nD×tamp=1497663261
Rich pickings for D&D I think.
If it's not too much trouble would you talk about it in one of your videos?
Could a Styx dragon beat a green dragon?
Styx dragons are much better adapted to fighting in water, also the Green dragon would be vulnerable to the negative effects of the waters of the Styx itself.
Daaaaayum 😎
Well there's still more a****** dragons to deal with