Dungeons and Dragons: Beljuril Dragon
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- From Dragon Magazine issue 265, the Volcanic Gem Dragons of Faerun, the Beljuril's are seemingly the most ancient line of dragons, or are they?
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Funny enough I have already included you as a sage. You were kidnapped by pirates who were lead by a wereshark. You were an invaluable source of information.
I read this and could not stop laughing 😂
Was going to say he is already a known sage in my games. Lol
Sages of Pickett. Their symbol is a picket fence to recognize sages, tall thin figures with pointy hats embracing creating a boundry containing all knowledge, and sharing it to those that wish to come within.
There used to be aluminum dragons, but due to their low melting point, red dragons destroyed them long ago by melting them down with their breath weapons.
I had never heard of these guys!
I like that they have valuable gems that can come out of their lava-breath! It carries with it a delicious level of irony when the greedy fall victim to it. “You want gemstones, mortal? Come here and I’ll give you your weight in it!”
"Tell your players I said hi. I want them to know it was me."
So we got 3 gems dragons that like volcanic areas now. Ermerald, Obsidian, and now the Buljuril dragon.
On another note, could we get videos about Death and Eldritch giants?
The Death Giants are very interesting
More dragons? You'd think it was half the title of the game or something.
Hmm a dragon that relies on its environment instead of dominating it like other dragons. No wonder they are less aggressive.
This takes me back to the heady, wonder-filled days just before 3rd edition's launch (I still kick myself for not buying up all the 2nd edition materials they had at clearance price back in 99). The fandom had elemental planes, demi-elemental planes, quasi-elemental planes, and a dragon type or three to go with each one.
My library is nearly complete because of that. You would not believe how many books you can still find in used book stores.
Yay. A new dragon release from Mr Pickett. Let's gooooo
wouldn't its favorite plain would be the earth plain for its never ending earthquakes ?
Their certainly is lots of lava themed dragons!
I wonder if every element gets this much representation haha.
I'm certain this list isn't complete, but some of the dragons that I believe you haven't covered yet include:
Battle, Chaos, Ethereal, Oceanus, Radiant (Draconomicon 3.5e)
Blight (Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons (4e))
Concordant (Dragon 321)
Chole, Elysian, Gloom (Dragon 344)
Hex, Tome (Dragon 343)
Dzalmus (Dragon 349)
These are just ones from mainstream sources that I could remember. If you do some digging, I suspect you'll find it's a bottomless well. Cheers for all of your great work so far, Sage!
An onyx dragon with great command over necromancy would be neato. :D
for every environment, there's at least one type of Dragon. it's almost as if they were the Elemental energies of the Material Plane made flesh.
funny that.
"Beljuril?"
"Yep, that's what I said bejeweled"
"OK, we'll print it. Thanks for taking the call during lunch."
Only reason I'm watching this is I first ran across Beljuril in a Dragon magazine in 1983. Likely a back issue. Something b/w 156 and 162. However, you're doing fine.
I think I would use one as Rodan was depicted in Godzilla King of Monsters. The dragon has remained dormant instead a volcano for many centuries and something has caused it to awaken bringing untold destruction to the city below.
If you have a copy of Volo's Guide to All Things Magical you could just turn to the section on materials and start homebrewing dragons from the listed traits.
"I should say roughly the size of a human (fist)"
The "fist" in that was so quiet I actually had to rewind the video to make sure you didn't say it was the size of a human, period.
AJ have you done a video about Abeir? The reason I ask is because I thought I remembered you or Mr. Rhexx or Jorphdan(the PH is silent) talking about it saying that this is where the primordials went after AO split the world and that it was a natural landscape full of dragons.
I call you guys the big 3 of D&D.
I should really get around to it right?
@@AJPickett, I know that I would love to see a video about Abeir. I always wonder if it has the same species of dragons as Toril, since Bahamut and Tiamat have no influence there.
This makes me think of making other dragons, like octarine dragons and uru dragons. Unfortunately, I almost never finish projects, so I'm throwing these out as ideas for others.
Are octarine dragons visible to all casters, or only Wizards?
LOVE A NEW DRAGON ECOLOGY. AJ, you are brilliant. Always. I have a few good ecologies you might consider for future videos - the Mihalli and the Vriyagga. Both debuted in Dragon magazine #4. Great stuff.
Keep up the great work.
Working on a necromancer orphanage for a old undead i just found out about the slaymate
I actually have quite a few "sages and experts" based on you, Jorphdan, Mr Rhexx, the respective crews of DungeonCast, Dungeon Dad and the Nerdarchy mascot (who in our campaign is portrayed as a composite of the Nerdarchy crew) all of whom are contributors for my party's "Enhanced" Mimir, which can function anywhere except the Astral Plane, Negative/Positive Energy planes and the Lady of Pain's Mazes (iirc Mimirs normally could only function on the outer planes).
I don't remember who we gave what, but *all* of you were given room to comment from the Spell Plague from the perspective of different parts of the world.
The draconimicon expands ever more.
Friggin awesome. It has the Jango Fett Seismic Bomb for a breath weapon.
I remember that issue of Dragon. The primitive campaign article was some pretty good food for thought.
The article about the dragon wasn’t as good. I always think there are too many varieties to choose from. It detracts from the awe inspired by them when there are a thousand different types to populate your world with. I tend to use them very sparingly, so they are more like major NPCs.
I am of the same mind concerning dragons, there are so many. How do they feed, mate and fight with so many of their kin around while the world is not in a semi-apocalyptic state?
@@KimKimeraKimes this has been true of ALL monsters in the game, if all these things exist at once of course it wouldn't be possible
Splendid, AJ! These aren’t even on the wiki.
Could you do some more on the Outer Planes, please?
Oh boy a New dragon video 🤩
I've got a party heading into a volcanic area to investigate draconic activity and I might switch it from a red dragon to one of these bad boys as they don't know what is actually there yet. Awesome video!!
I haven't thought about utilizing your likeness in my actual campaigns.
I have used philosopher Alan Watts as a mage. Tosin Abasi (super cool 😎 guy) and other musicians as a bard, etc. Zak Wylde was a lycanthrope.
Yet, I could totally see myself watching a series in a cross between "Kung Fu" and "Twilight Zone," where the Sage is just traveling and writing all of these things down.
I'm not opposed to making an AJ Pickett NPC , yet I would rather you actually be in a game with us and play what you want.
🤔💭 Wonder if there's a Garnett dragon?
Great stuff and right on time. Thanks for making my birthday weekend special.
Happy birthday
@@AJPickett thank you, Sir
Darn that Baldur's gate for skimping on wands of lightning for all those spare gems
Put you in my world as an NPC Sage? Yes, I believe I will. In fact, Alejandro Juan Pickett shall be the sage to whom Lhaeo refers adventures, when they come bothering Elminister.
These guys must love the elemental plane of magma
Yeah in my world you are a member of the great library and one of the greatest sages in the sphere being on par with the head librarian
Hay I had that issue of DM. The Lava druid was tight! I also remember a pretty cool ash elemental from that.
I never did like the simplification of age and size categories. Dragons should be very unique and not easily categorized.
In reflection, proper magic for fire and heat protection, some pick axes in the general area and one could walk away wealthy without angering the dragon encouraging the gem growth.
I go one step farther. Dragons are major NPCs, so most of them could be the rare Unique category of frequency by the seriously old-school players & DMs.
Dragons and dragons and more dragons, oh my ❤🔥🐲😍
Does Toril have a similar mostly molten core like earth? These dragons could have a vast deep realm open to them, all the while the people of the 'Shallow Lands' think they are extremely rare in these isolated and tiny environments.
Toril does, the Underdark is extensive, but it still just occupies the mantle of the planet.
Weird that I never saw this before. I just popped up in RUclips home page
I have yet to put you in a game as NNPC but my wizard who seems to know much more than he really should, Says that hes listening to many of your speeches Via magic.
The messeger cantrip all the young makes are using these days "Tripper"
Thanks AJ.
Not sure how much lore there is about them but blight dragons are interesting
Hope you do more sub species of dragons!
Love your content AJ. Always engaging and love the way you tell us the lore!!
Ah... should I DM a game within the foreseeable future, I will have a Sage of great repute named "AJ Pickett". Thanks for the green-light on that.
I love these dragons you just introduced me to, but I already have in my home brew a Volcanic Dragon, it's a proto-dragon whose descendants became the Stone Dragon and the Red Dragon. It's a dim (human intellect) dragon with not-so-great magical ability compared to other dragons, but its breath weapon is devastating. It's a cone of flaming soot, as big of a blast as a Red Dragon bellow. You can reduce its effect if you dodge it while holding your breath and protecting your eyes (Save vs. Breath Weapon). Fail the Breath Weapon save... your entire being is incinerated and replaced with volcanic minerals (turned to stone, no save vs. petrification). Pass the Breath Weapon save... and get heat and chemical damage... reduce to 0 or less HP via that and still turn to stone like the save failure. The HP damage from passing the Save vs. Breath Weapon is a lot of HP of damage only in comparison to passing the save of other dragon breath weapons. They are immune to heat, fire, earth, and magma damage. They are also immune to any weapon damage done by any attacker not in contact with the earth, unless they are also not in contact with the earth. Their bite attack has a swallow chance for any target significantly smaller than them, swallowed targets are obliterated unless immune to all these: heat, earth, magma, petrification, acid/chemicals/corrosion, and edged weapons. Their claws, when attacking (and digging), have a magma enhancement. If something like Earthquake is used on them, and they are hurt, they WILLINGLY fall into the ground to get swallowed up... that restores them completely and reloads their breath weapon as well as being buried under even sheer granite does not stop them from just popping back up at the beginning of the next round. Their wings are a bit of a joke compared to other dragons. They can use their link to the elemental earth to levitate non-magically, making their wings go from almost useless to letting them be able to move through the air at the same speed they do on the ground. They have a LOT of the defenses of Stone Dragons. Since they are proto-dragons, their Draconic Fear is very low... despite them being devastatingly more lethal in some of their base attacks and defenses than their descendants. Their lair awareness is frightenly acute, like the best of a modern dragon and an Abyssal spider within its web. Their tail lash is like their modern versions. They only do that when on open ground, reluctantly, because they are not used to doing it save for in territorial fights against their own kind.
Why did these diverge into the two modern dragons with their primary form going extinct? Sages argue to this day, dragons argue more. The pseudo-consensus is that Volcanic Dragons tended to be cannibalistic when territorial fights and-or mating failed. There is some evidence they ate their young when offspring when they didn't leave ASAP. Red and Stone Dragons seem to be the divergent extremes of this insane proto-dragon, theoretically speaking. Both those dragons have their own versions of these ancient dragons, really talking about how their own species is superior and that ancestor is far more like the other species. Both scorn the very idea that this proto-dragon links them as kin in any way.
Damn last time I was this early Sammaster was still working on breeding wyvern drakes
Awesome obscure lore, thanks!
Also, I found a spider dragon, is that legit?
With the Drow and Lolth existing I wouldn't be surprised.
A very rare treat, this arcane gluestick. I'm impressed!
Just warched your video on dragon kin I have to agree with you that that is what they are. You are truly a lore master
Thanks for the video AJ
I could definitely see an NPC based on you as being invaluable to our campaigns. A sage definitely, but perhaps also as something of a Lore Merchant? Knowledge for knowledge. A tale for a tale.
If I were a better story teller, I'd have this NPC be introduced in some inexplicable way as a friend to the Lady of Pain herself and just watch the players' minds melt at the sheer impossibility.
Isn't loremaster an older class?
Hold on Obsidian dragon? Now we need a video on these guys.
There already is one.
@@TheHornedKing Where? I don't remember that video
@@zacharyweaver276 I just went to his channel and searched "obsidian".
ruclips.net/video/nLD0FQzVjxM/видео.html
Bless the Mighty GlueStick
This is not the channel I would expect to see this comment on.
@@brianroberts783 fixed it, thx for pointing out my mistake
I happen to have already added u and a few others of my favorite forecasters from yt as a sage Council in a great library in my table's world. It's my omage to those who help me flesh out my d&d lore.
Of which I owe u much more than my thanks 🙏😎💯
I would absolutely love be part of any of your campaigns in any capacity the stories of yours I've had the joy of hearing have be exclusively entrancing another amazing vid man
He'll yeah new dragon video
Are there different types of wyverns? That could be a video!
So, do these dragons get into conflict with Reds a lot? Fighting over the volcanic real-estate?
Or maybe coming to an agreement since the Beljuril creates it.
They are probably easily driven off by red dragons, so they would go somewhere even more remote.
AJPickett I'm a very very traditional Roman Catholic, my family basically doesn't even count Vatican II as practically heresy. That said you are in my prayers and almost every year during Mass when the priest asks to pray for anyone ill, terminal or not there, I get up and say 'Pray for AJ Pickett and his business!?' Enmass the congregation prays for your business(channel).
Why though?
@SilvrWingsDragon To benefit and bring him good will. Don't you cheer on and hope for the best for this wonderful and kind man?
Since Dragons are elemental energy made into flesh (oversimplification) is there a dragon that harnesses far realm energy? Again, thanks for the video AJ!
aberrant dragons, but i think they're fan made
@@scratthesquirrel5242, there are Brainstealer Dragons and Elder Brain Dragons which can be classed as Aberrations officially. However, whether or not they are connected to the Far Realm in any way depends on your understanding of Ilithid origins.
Well, the brainstealer.
I believe there was a pseudonatural template as well, so you could make a pseudonatural brainstealer.
Man AJ I love when you drop a dragon vid... been waiting awhile for this one too..woot wooooot
Great video AJ always love a new dragon video
How about a video on the dragon of dark Sun the formerly human warlord known as Boris
I am more of a Dregoth fan.
Loved the books!!! Rikus, Sadara, aegis and Tithian was the best!!!
New dragon video AND verbal permission to include the dire halfling sage in my games? Is it Christmas?
Well you be posting monster lore videos from the Oriental Adventures and Dark Sun realms?
I have a few already, there will be more, also a lot of third party content.
Nothing is more erotic than a new dragon video.
What would happen if my character drank dragon's blood? Being magical in nature it surely has many uses besides being a rather strange aperitif. But would my guy, say, maybe gain some immunities or some sort of damage resistance? Would he gain some aspect of its awesome power maybe?
You’d probably have to do something to it to drink it first. I remember it being stated in one of his previous videos that eating something like a red dragons meat would be akin to eating meat soaked in the spiciest things in the world. It could cause you damage if not prepared correctly. In addition to that you have to take into account the fact that since dragons are typically elementally charged creatures you probably would get some sort of temporary resistance boost. I think a blood transfusion would be better for longer lasting effects.
If you're interested in exploring potential effects in third-party material, I'd recommend giving E.E. Knight's "Age of Fire" series a read. The first three books can be read in any order and the third (Dragon Outcast) explores a community of dragons who have taken steps to overcome their territorial instincts in order to live alongside each other and other species. I won't spoil too much in case you want to read, but there are events within that lead to the characters discovering that dragon blood has effects similar to anabolic steroids when ingested by humans, but obviously much more potent and fantastical. Excellent series and all told from the POV of three dragon siblings.
I don't recommend it.
We need a video on the adamantine dragon
Yes, needs its own video, not just be a mention in the bytopia video
YEEEEES... another dragon video. 😭🕺
Sweet!
Very curious
I was wondering if you were going to continue the deep dive into lolth you started sometime ago?
Yes, its the crown wars stuff, its a lot to do but i will get there eventually
@@AJPickett Is that the next subject in the of the History of the Elves? That was a great video.
@@D--FENS indeed, the five crown wars
I wonder how they'd fare against a pyroclastic dragon...
Avoidance.
12:13 Here where? I don't see a link, and I'm not finding anything about a size chart from you with a quick google search.
sorry, check the community tab, I will post that chart immediately.
@@AJPickett Community tab where? Your RUclips page? The Piazza? Candlekeep site?
My dm homebrewed steam dragon back in 3.5, but sadly i don't remember which crossbreed that was. Kind of op tho.
Do you consider the sorcerer kings that transform dragons ? If not what are they? ive always called them dragons on Athos. No troll just wondering.
Yes. they are dragon kin, not true dragons, but pretty close. I have to do more research on them
Thanks AJ
Damn another banger
you know the rules and so do I, can we please have the etherial filtcher?
Did I not already do that one?
@@AJPickett no unless on patron as I have never seen it, plus you can double up with the temporal filtcher.
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Hay AJ if I made an MPC based of of you what would it's race and class be?
Dire Hobbit, Scholar 🥂
Dire Halfling, Sage level 13.
Halfling Bard or mage. He collects stories, so it could be either.
@@AJPickett Sage isn’t a real class. You belong in every edition.
Sounds awesome thank you. Love the chanel I have been binge watching all the dragon videos.
☕
The fact that you included to add you in as a sage has me believing you want to be despite also saying that you don't care. 😑
it's my actual occupation :)
@@AJPickett’s a certified sage who’s kitted out with a 5e stat block to boot!
What's wrong with the sound/voice?
Nothing, just receded this later at night.
ht
Anybody play Neverwinter on ps I'm dragonbloodbud on it g.green