The Elusive Three-Headed Horror - Dzalmus Dragon - Monster of the Week - Dungeons and Dragons Lore

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  • Опубликовано: 26 окт 2024

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  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 года назад +176

    Party: _Sees 9 cute little reptilian heads poking out of a bush_ "Ahh! Their so cute!"
    9 Heads: _Makes adorable baby lizard noises_
    Party: _Is drawn closer by irresistible cuteness_
    And then three Dzalmus Wyrmlings pop out of the bush, each unleashing a small cloud of miasmic gass that deals 1d3 Constitution damage each.
    Party: "NOT CUTE!!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!"

    • @witherslayer8673
      @witherslayer8673 5 месяцев назад

      you are EVIL
      have fun tormenting your party!

  • @maximillian1109
    @maximillian1109 2 года назад +24

    This is just King Ghidorah with extra steps, and I love it!XD

  • @barbatosmcmurderton4209
    @barbatosmcmurderton4209 2 года назад +93

    You know, it turns out that according to the 5E Monster manual, Hydras are counted as Monstrosities and they supposedly originate from the dawn of the Multiverse when another Dragon Goddess fought Tiamat. Tiamat killed her and each drop of the Goddess' blood that fell to the material realms became a hydra, carrying a bit of her endless hunger.
    I was thinking of trying to homebrew some type of Elder Hydras that has grown old enough and strong enough to both become intelligent, and "reclaim their proper status as Dragons". They carry faint memories of their progenitor's defeat by Tiamat, and seek to enact vengeance.
    I'm digging this thing about Dzalmus Dragons, what if they were also children of this forgotten Dragoness? Rather than her hunger, they instead embody her wanderlust.

    • @disgruntledbob2812
      @disgruntledbob2812 2 года назад +14

      That’s how I’m gunna spin it. Like in the yellow dragon vid, Tiamat had a sister (named her Lernea) that had the other coloured chromatics. Tiamat killed her and without a racial-purity obsessed goddess to patron em’ and with Tiamat targeting them, the other chromatics began to dwindle and become new subspecies. These bad boys are one of em’. Not “chromatic”, not aligned with Tiamat, but not good either. In desperation, mourning and seeking power they sought out her blood, gaining their three heads akin to the birth of hydras (making em’ kinda cousins and yet further mongrels to the chromatics).
      They propagated more rapidly than other dragons and hold their stretch of steppes against most outsiders of any draconic clade, their only real predator being the occasional grey dragon Tiamat sends, littering the hills sparsely with petrified three-headed dragons.

    • @princessmaly
      @princessmaly Год назад +8

      Dracohydras would fit in really well with your scenario. They're in the 2e Draconomicon, should look them up.

    • @digitaldritten
      @digitaldritten 9 месяцев назад +3

      "Rather than her hunger, they instead embody her wanderlust."
      that's so good, i love that!

  • @Nose4a2
    @Nose4a2 2 года назад +29

    For the word nerds: tertiary (pronounced TUR-she-airy) is the word for the priority level after secondary

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 года назад +240

    Is there a version with blue eyes and white scales?

    • @DungeonDad
      @DungeonDad  3 года назад +55

      There can be!

    • @keylimepython641
      @keylimepython641 2 года назад +15

      @@DungeonDad Can you cover Hecatonchiers from 3.5e's Epic Level Handbook? They do have interesting lore, and you haven't covered enough CR-30+ Monsters.

    • @L0n3star-D16
      @L0n3star-D16 2 года назад +2

      Are you thinking of the King from Orespawn?

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog 2 года назад +31

      @@L0n3star-D16 I was actually making a joke about the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh.

    • @hayu187
      @hayu187 2 года назад +13

      ​@@Im-Not-a-Dog I'm working on a game where the party meets a cyborg dragon. Was tempted to make one of these for a Cyber End Dragon reference

  • @offhandfoot5652
    @offhandfoot5652 3 года назад +56

    I like the idea of leading this thing to the lairs of other dragons to drain their HP to soften them up.

  • @AzraelThanatos
    @AzraelThanatos 2 года назад +33

    You know, I think this Dzalmus Dragon might be based on the Zmiy Gorynych and other slavic dragons

  • @ImLordDomo
    @ImLordDomo 3 года назад +33

    Dragon as a group patron... I like this idea. I like the idea of giving my players a weird shared origin and being form the lands of a three-headed draconic overlord sounds really interesting as a basis for a more mobile and probably combative campaign. Thanks for another great video!

    • @quynlanvuorensyrja5484
      @quynlanvuorensyrja5484 2 года назад +2

      Now I’m imagining a party where everybody is subclasses into draconic pact warlocks, except the sorcerer, who naturally has the draconic bloodline. And naturally, being a direct descendant of the dragon means they’re probably pretty high up in the tribe. Probably a priestess or warrior. Possibly even the group leader or face.

  • @chasebanis7601
    @chasebanis7601 Год назад +6

    For an added challenge, maybe give the head breath attacks that compliment each other, like one spits oil the others ignite it, or one speed jets of water and the other two electrocute the puddles, etc. (got the idea from How To Train Your Dragon)

  • @NegatveSpace
    @NegatveSpace 3 года назад +35

    I was thinking about young versions of it still having a dangerous breath weapon. You said the con damage can go away easily so I was thinking young versions could still do 1d8 con damage but have smaller aoe's.

    • @DungeonDad
      @DungeonDad  3 года назад +12

      That would be a good way to balance it, you could even make it so that it can only effect one player at a time. You could also scale it back to 1d6, or do both!

  • @DungeonDad
    @DungeonDad  3 года назад +11

    Apologies that we were a bit late this week! Big things in the pipeline!

    • @tomkerruish2982
      @tomkerruish2982 3 года назад +4

      Getting more fiber in your diet might help that problem.

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog 3 года назад +2

      8:24 it would be secondary and tertiary.
      Im not trying to correct you, just letting you know for future use.
      Also, great pick for Monster of The Week. That breath weapon is just awesome.

  • @PozerAdultRacingTeam
    @PozerAdultRacingTeam 3 года назад +19

    Reminds me of Ghidorah from the Godzilla movies.

  • @nickmagrick7702
    @nickmagrick7702 2 года назад +13

    2:38 "I don't know why dragons are always associated with breathing things..."
    Thats because dragons were always iconically fire breathers, thats their whole identity. It makes a lot of sense to switch up that identity to make it more interesting.

  • @madocmayhem
    @madocmayhem 3 года назад +13

    The D is silent, and its three heads combine into one, and has a special grapple, toss off ability! Enough said about any monster. Enough joking, great video thanks for posting.

  • @Kaiju-Driver
    @Kaiju-Driver 3 года назад +4

    I'm new to this channel but I can tell from just a couple minutes in that you this guy is funny and informative I can see why my friends sent me here

  • @HereticalKitsune
    @HereticalKitsune 3 года назад +12

    King Ghidorah!
    It's tertiary. ;)

  • @tobiasholm2717
    @tobiasholm2717 3 года назад +7

    Hi Dungeon Dad,
    I recently found your channel, and I really admire the quality and content of your Monster of the Week videos. Though there is one thing that bugs me, and that is how quite a few of these are so high CR that most campaigns will never feature them. Plus, there is already a ton of videos talking about super powerful creatures. I hope you will feature more lower CR monsters - eg. the Ascomoid and the Ghaunadan were really useful videos.

    • @DungeonDad
      @DungeonDad  3 года назад +3

      Welcome to the channel, thanks for being here! I definitely do my best to try and keep things varied up, so don’t worry, the next monster or two will be something a lot more low-mid level. Thanks!

  • @ramuk1933
    @ramuk1933 Год назад +1

    8:24 The world you're looking for is "tertiary".

  • @ArronRatliff
    @ArronRatliff Год назад +2

    Seriously? Damn i cant believe i never heard of the Dzalmus Dragons before now. It's the legendary and fearsome King Ghidorah! I am totally gonna try to talk my DM into using a Dzalmus Dragon as a child of King Ghidorah. OMG i may get to combine D&D with my love of the Godzilla-verse.🤯

  • @johndoyle7370
    @johndoyle7370 Год назад +1

    Cool DND Creature concept & I'd mix it up to have each head have a different breath weapon. Also maybe have three different colored heads. You could easily just create the creature how you wish. I would also allow it to have arms and multiple tails that can be used as weapons in combat.

  • @gageabdul
    @gageabdul 3 года назад +10

    Any monsters that can induce thalassophobia that AREN'T a kraken or some sea serpent?

    • @DungeonDad
      @DungeonDad  3 года назад +9

      I will see what I can find!

    • @gageabdul
      @gageabdul 3 года назад +3

      @@DungeonDad I can't wait! 😆

    • @TheDraconicBard
      @TheDraconicBard Год назад +1

      A merrow grabbing your ankle in the middle of a deep, dark sea, too murky below
      Or a kelpie!

  • @morrigankasa570
    @morrigankasa570 2 года назад +1

    I have a Lvl 1 Drow Feylost Death Domain Cleric sworn to the Raven Queen. She currently only has 10 Constitution so only 8 HP but her AC is 17 currently so she isn't totally a Glass Cannon but definitely adjacent to that.

  • @cylver3593
    @cylver3593 2 года назад +2

    That breath weapon is rough.

  • @eliotoole4534
    @eliotoole4534 Год назад +2

    You should cover the hunting horror from pathfinder, they are epic to fight!
    (Any/all)

  • @growthisfreedomunitedearth7584
    @growthisfreedomunitedearth7584 2 года назад +4

    The reason why breathing elements is associated with dragons:
    dragons, serpents, represents the third stage of manifestation, the "wind realm", realm of "pre-matter", realm of electricity/magnetism/gravity, and therefore color and elemental forces before they are locked into earth and substance.
    this comes from the ancient tradition of great flowing serpents representing WAVEFORM. Dragons manifest the destructive powers of waveform.
    This is why they fly and many like water. This is why they are associate with whatever is in the air around them. This is why they can shift magic around.
    If you study quantum physics, you will come to better understand how and why dragon magic works in fantasy.

    • @growthisfreedomunitedearth7584
      @growthisfreedomunitedearth7584 2 года назад +2

      If you're wondering, this knowledge comes collectively from ancient traditions (symbolic psychology) plus modern science, dashed with an interest in dragons over the years.

  • @Anew522
    @Anew522 Год назад

    Incredible dragon for an idea I have. May use it but we'll have to see how the party acts leading up to my idea.

  • @nicolaezenoaga9756
    @nicolaezenoaga9756 3 года назад +2

    Thanks.

  • @herobane6488
    @herobane6488 Год назад

    imagine if the toss ability had a thing where if the dragon hadn't moved yet, it could start the grapple, move, and then toss the creature up to 30 feet at the end of its turn. imagine it grabbing someone, carrying them off into the sky, and then throwing them back down

  • @atarichild81
    @atarichild81 Год назад

    "Tertiary" head is the word you're searching for.

  • @EksaStelmere
    @EksaStelmere 7 месяцев назад

    The D is "silent" only insofar as it's meant for you to put your tongue to your teeth. So "dz" is basically the sound you make at the end of "kids".

  • @koopaking6148
    @koopaking6148 2 года назад +1

    This thing seems like it would be perfect if you wanted to do a "Godzilla" campaign...

  • @sandorfalusi3486
    @sandorfalusi3486 Год назад

    I would imagine the culture of this dragon to be sort of territorial, and forming packs when younger. The adults roam the land with their barbarians, and the numerous young ones form packs of their own. This provides safety for the young dragons from the older ones, and as they grow, they start fighting among themselves, or collectively go after an older one, try to kell them and take over, and then duke it out amongst themselves survival of the fittest style. This would also answer the question of why doesn't this monster overpopulate if it reproduces so frequently. And I would describe them with battle scars on each and every one. The older the specimen, the more brutal the scars. Maybe even one that only has two heads, but those two are so fierce, they make up for the lost one.

  • @PozerAdultRacingTeam
    @PozerAdultRacingTeam 3 года назад +1

    Sounds interesting.

  • @joshuazane3210
    @joshuazane3210 Год назад +1

    The word for a third thing is "tertiary" 😉

  • @iratami
    @iratami 2 года назад +1

    To be fair on the pronunciation the "D" isn't silent is Dzalmus it's a "/d͡z/" kind of like the "Ts" in Tsunami is a "/t͡s/" so the "/d͡z/" is pronounced like a Z but with the tongue back and up where the D is usually pronounced. phonetically similar, though it does push the pronunciation of the whole word farther back in the mouth. "/d͡z/" though isn't really ever used in any dialect of English. Edit because for some reason half of why I typed was erased.

    • @bkane573
      @bkane573 Год назад +1

      Although you’re absolutely correct and clearly explained it….
      A lot of people can’t hear it, or consciously make the sound difference.

  • @Mr.Smiley_J
    @Mr.Smiley_J 2 года назад +1

    It's primary, secondary, then tertiary.

  • @pyrobob5724
    @pyrobob5724 2 года назад

    8:24 The word you're looking for is "tertiary"

  • @excalibursaurusm5701
    @excalibursaurusm5701 2 года назад

    Such an awesome dragon

  • @jamesmichael5
    @jamesmichael5 2 года назад +1

    You should do the amber dragon

  • @17joren
    @17joren 2 года назад +4

    1d8? That means this dragon needs to breath at least twice just to drop a commoner! Except poor leper Jim, he and his 6 con can get fukt.
    Seriously though, maybe it should be 2d4 or even 1d10. Or is it their hitpoints actively drop with the con damage?
    Edit also since they mate frequently, did you find out if a wyrmling deals the same con damage in a smaller area or would it deal like 1d4?

    • @officersoulknight6321
      @officersoulknight6321 Год назад

      The hit points actively drop

    • @17joren
      @17joren Год назад

      @@officersoulknight6321 only to the bonus HP from your CON modifier, but a commoner’s HP is completely from their hit die so would not drop. Their CON score is 10 though, the breath would make it a 2 at best.
      Next, you or someone will say: “but they’re a freaking dragon, they can just kill remaining creatures with bites, claws, and gravity!”
      To which I say: yes but unless it gets to breath at least twice, the gas is still useless if it only reduces CON score and has no other negative effects, nor does the dragon have other abilities to capitalize on low CON. It won’t be able to sweep over a crowd of NPCs and take a bunch out with one pass. There aren’t many beasts it can efficiently hunt with its breath either, it takes too long.

  • @duanebradway1627
    @duanebradway1627 Год назад

    I'm going to be creating an NPC Ranger with a Dzalmus Drake as a companion.

  • @carlborneke8641
    @carlborneke8641 Год назад +2

    I think creating a Dragonborn character based on this could be hilarious. 🤣

    • @barbatosmcmurderton4209
      @barbatosmcmurderton4209 9 месяцев назад

      *Takes furious notes for homebrew boss with levels in Artificer*
      Gas grenades that do CON damage for all you sods!

  • @FairyRingRAW
    @FairyRingRAW 2 года назад

    Title fight was dope they reached zero constitution I heard tho.. wish spell may be in order if we want a new album

  • @naomicoffman1315
    @naomicoffman1315 11 месяцев назад

    8:24 Tertiary!

  • @diegovega3459
    @diegovega3459 2 года назад

    The wizard's worse nightmare

  • @scoots291
    @scoots291 2 года назад

    Me with my child mind: you said dragon do do

  • @HappyAspid
    @HappyAspid 2 года назад

    Reminds me Zmey Gorinich from slavic mythology.

  • @Helmet_enthusiast
    @Helmet_enthusiast 2 года назад +1

    I think the D is more for the Z to be a zzt instead of a z~s type sound

  • @quynlanvuorensyrja5484
    @quynlanvuorensyrja5484 Год назад

    Have an amazing idea for a story start! The party are all members of a barbarian tribe ruled by an elderly Dzalamus. The dragon has ruled and protected the tribe for so long that their culture has a heavy draconic influence.
    So one day, the ancient and powerful elder dragon foresees a great threat to the continent (worldwide threats are extremely overdone in my opinion).
    So the dragon summons the tribe’s greatest champions, tasking a member of the priesthood and a sorcerer descended from the dragon itself as their leader.
    I’m imagining a party of barbarians, fighters, maybe a warlock/ranger and of course a sorcerer; each with a single level of warlock as a blessing of power from the dragon.
    After striking out, I imagine the sorcerer communing with their lord through meditation, where phantasmal representations of the two side heads appear on their shoulders to speak into their ears.

  • @drizztiley8740
    @drizztiley8740 2 года назад

    Ah my favorite action. The YEETICUS

  • @tower_sigma2831
    @tower_sigma2831 7 месяцев назад

    What about a dzalmus dragon is an offspring of Tiamat with a random chromatic dragon? A three headed red dragon could be a cool campaign boss.

  • @eggmug562
    @eggmug562 2 года назад

    Tertiary. The word you were looking for is tertiary

  • @LukmanJuan
    @LukmanJuan 2 года назад

    I could see different stats draining depends on the color of this dragon...

  • @torazely
    @torazely Год назад

    The word you were looking for is tirtiary.

  • @thatoneguywiththevoice328
    @thatoneguywiththevoice328 2 года назад +5

    If you ever wondered why dragons "breathe" fire
    It's because the church believed dragons were agents of Satan
    They were like walking portals to the underworld, so when they open their mouths hellfire leaves their mouths
    It's actually very similar to the thing the Mummy does in the Mummy movie, opens it's mouth and a swarm of scarabs flow out
    It's like that but with hellfire. Later version would add this ability to non fire dragons asking "why can't a dragon breathe out water or acid" which evolved the concept into more than just hellfire

    • @thepastmaster5643
      @thepastmaster5643 Год назад +4

      That explains the European dragons but other cultures also have dragons that can breathe stuff.

  • @murunbuchstanzangur
    @murunbuchstanzangur Год назад

    King Ghidorah!
    Take me to your leader
    This may not be the right place for mf doom via kaiju references...

  • @Fromaginator
    @Fromaginator 3 года назад +2

    'ungeons and 'ragons

  • @kennethhall7177
    @kennethhall7177 2 года назад

    Tertiary: third in order.

  • @teseutressoldi3972
    @teseutressoldi3972 Год назад +1

    King ghidorah!

  • @patrickwilkerson1728
    @patrickwilkerson1728 2 года назад

    Hehe, perhaps it is Ghidra from Godzilla.

  • @josephiraggi2423
    @josephiraggi2423 Год назад

    Is there a vampirism dragon

  • @samgafford2371
    @samgafford2371 2 года назад

    Dijonmus

  • @WOLFKW1
    @WOLFKW1 11 месяцев назад

    can 3 players play the same dragon 1 for 1 head and de ned 2 rolls for it to make a decision (example the first head wants 2 eat an npc the 2 head wants 2 use its tail attack and the 3 head wants 2 fly away) love for the monster :)

  • @ConstantChaos1
    @ConstantChaos1 Год назад

    I dont get how 5e has draconic bloodlines but not intrinsic spells

  • @skistorm739
    @skistorm739 2 года назад

    are their true dragon that doesn't look like dragon?

  • @MorallyGrey5043
    @MorallyGrey5043 3 года назад +1

    Your friend is thrown to his death your turn what do you do with your broken armor and low constitution

  • @grigori9061
    @grigori9061 Год назад

    2:46 I can answer that. While the modern depictions of dragons, specifically true dragons as we know, them are amalgamations of birds, snakes and feline predators the earliest known dragon, the pictures were almost universally, snakelike, and spat, poison leading to the theory that the earliest the pictures of dragons were more or less just souped up versions of regular animals, over time due to the story, spreading the word of mouth oh and being influenced by the other people, they encounter the original giant snake dragons, eventually became wyvern’s in later on the true dragons window today the exact origin of the fire breath is not truly known, but from what I’ve heard the main theories are that it either happened because of a miss translation, with someone, not fully translating the poison spit and only the burning part, so they just assumed it was fire breath, rather than poison that burned or due to western dragons becoming associated with the Christian devil. The poison breath was eventually replaced with fire breath. Since fire was considered to be more closely demonic we linked to Satan and hell, rather than just the poison again the exact reasoning is not truly known but last I heard those are currently the leading ideas
    TLDR the earliest dragon spat poison in their stories since they were just giant snakes, and while their form has changed the idea of them spitting something has not

  • @ineedgaming7162
    @ineedgaming7162 2 года назад

    Is this the dragon that Will painted in stranger Stranger things? 😉😜😂

  • @justsometroglodyte4056
    @justsometroglodyte4056 2 года назад

    heh, he said dodo

  • @robertjovicic7455
    @robertjovicic7455 2 года назад

    You said do-do heheheheehe!

  • @christophergrovender3593
    @christophergrovender3593 3 года назад +2

    I love Stat damage as much as the next guy - but it's a bit too punishing for most games, and we've had a couple monsters now where that's their main gimmick. I still love these monsters, but they're not as useful to me as a DM - can we hop back to Grey Renders & Hoary Hunters with dynamic gimmicks?

    • @DungeonDad
      @DungeonDad  3 года назад +3

      I noticed that literally as I was editing the video, totally not intentional lol. I usually try to keep things varied but I sure you the best couple monsters will not have stat damage. Plus worst case Ontario if you want to still use these guys you could always swap it out for something less punishing like a green dragon’s breath or something.

  • @banicle3835
    @banicle3835 6 месяцев назад

    GHIDORAH

  • @haraldalan8711
    @haraldalan8711 8 месяцев назад

    Tertiary

  • @parkershaw3753
    @parkershaw3753 4 месяца назад

    Niche thought way too late in this video's life, but I feel like you could structure these dragons to behave like elephants: specifically multigenerational matriarchal groups with more "loner" males

  • @AncientRylanor69
    @AncientRylanor69 4 дня назад

    🐷🦙🦐🧈

  • @grandmasterrodimus1480
    @grandmasterrodimus1480 Год назад

    Note: you do not lose the associated Hit Points with temporary Con damage in 5e.

  • @Bake-kurijra
    @Bake-kurijra 13 дней назад

    Lucky my ho,e drow character has 30+10 co statasutiom so I’m good

  • @betteryou7hanme
    @betteryou7hanme 2 года назад

    Tertiary