I would to see a dive into the ferrous dragons, their kin, and maybe some thoughts on how to home brew the forgotten/lost types (and what they might have been).
Never enough dragons, for every metal, every color, every gem and every aspect of reality there’s a dragon with its name on it and they just keep getting better
Dragons have become the Rorschach test of D&D. Every seems to pick a birthstone and then proceeds to bring those 3rd grade last period doodles to life. I propose the lint dragon, next. Nemesis of the dryer sheet dragon. Or if you wanna stay earthy, the gypsum dragon. Has minimum hp per hd and breath weapon is drywall dust.
A massive glowing ancient dragon that just leaves a fight when it becomes bored. That could be a good background for a broken or possibly insane dragon slayer. Or both. All: "I spent my life trying to climb a mountain that grew. The further i ascended the smaller i became. We are all motes of dust to things that cannot be burned!?!? Are we insects or do we even exist? When will the mountain blow our worlds away!?!?"
this is making want to see a dragon party. A group of dragons with powers and abilities that compliment each other just like an adventuring party. This thing being like the low health glass cannon mage, a red dragon your dps, blue dragon crowd control, white dragon tank, ect. Or something like that. And then you'd need a good excuse for them to be together... maybe fighting some sorta demon or demi-god. Or maybe they are all grouping up in a one time fight against a dracolich This stuff is making wanna dm
Love all these videos. My campaign right now, is going to deal with almost every type of dragon out there. When my players say, I'm going to find out info on a green dragon in a library. I say well you have found a book by the Sage named Pickett.... again. And I let them listen to your videos, now most of us are seasoned players, but it's a cool way to not metagame. And by the way, campaign is set in a home brew, massive world about 3x the size of Toril where dragons have subjugated people like Mafia crime lords.... kinda... They're currently wading through a vast desert looking for browns. I might throw this little gem in there. Thanks for all the videos AJ! And if you don't like the name Sage Pickett, I'll change it to whatever you want lol.
Since we are getting to pretty exotic dragon types now, I'd love to see a video on Athasian dragons, even if they are not 'true' dragons. The magical metamorphosis angle is very interesting in my opinion.
Reminds me of the hyacinth dragon, who collects buckets, or bouquet, as she pronounces it. Always seeing cows everywhere when traveling with her manservant. She seems scared of dogs, and often annoyed by her spouse, which are often after her gold. She is capable of illusions, but seems to cast it on her own exclusively. Hyacinth dragons do love tea and biscuits, but only when served in quality china. She's truly the lady of the house, age 93!
This series will be the first time I've been excited to find out more about the cavalcade of True Dragons beyond the 'base ten'. This is a fantastic thing.
If your players complete a difficult quest without a reward, perhaps an overly talkative magic item finds its way into their possession in the night. When they wake up it could explain the Jacinth dragon that hoarded it grew tired of its constant talking.
I like this idea...since I saw your video on the hellfire wyrm I've been thinking about taking a particular dragon species and placing several of it's kind in the heavenly and hellish realms of D&D to generate a similar effect. Now I have my candidate. I'll have Jacinth and Pearl dragons be more populous in my setting and have a researcher interested in draconic physiology get their hands on some eggs of both species, implant them with the were-curse (because dragons that can shape change into different were creatures sounds dope) and scatter them to the planes. I'd do it for the elemental realms too but we already have the cataclysmic dragons for that.
I like that they can burrow in sand dunes, turn sand to glass and collapse the (glass) roof releasing tons of sand to bury the party. Imagine a giant glass chamber that looks like the lair but it's a trap and first the glass columns explode to shards the heavy glass ceiling shatters into sword spear like shards and blinding suffocating dust splinters and worse. Then a mountain of sand plops in immediately. Might as well have a giant fire elemental roll in below melt the whole thing again 😳
Old trick from AD&D2ndE, the spell Mud to Rock is holding the brick/stones in place, and a Dispel Magic spell will turn the mortal back to mud and collapse the roof onto the PCs.
So if chromatic dragons are based on colors, and color is just wavelengths of light, does that mean that there are ultraviolet and infrared dragons? What about microwave and radiation dragons?
I didn't know this was a gem let alone a dragon! Looking forward to the Jade Dragon as the dwarves in my setting are master jade craftsmen! Maybe I'll be shoving a new dragon into their lore?! 🐉
I was reading up on some lore today and came across this in 2e and decided you know what?, I'm gonna see if AJ did a lore videos on this and sure enough!! It makes it easier to create a story and background from lore when you describe it in better detail than I am reading in on paper. Plus you give more information the books don't, my group likes my stories and I get more lore out in the scape thanks to you.
Can't wait to hear how you managed to survive the encounter. Perhaps your name precedes you and you are recognized as a great sage? In any case, I do enjoy these little stories that precede the monsters. Nice work!
Appreciate you crawling through the older books for some of your lore! The spines potentially being what provides blindsight is definitely interesting, thanks for the video!
I had a jacinth dragon that had a massive library as it's hoard. It's only companions were golems made out of scrolls and books that were destroyed before the dragon got them. I kind of miss that big lizard.
A Jacinth Dragon who specializes in enchantment/illusion magic would be a hell of an opponent. You'd be to scared to look at it without fear of being caught up in some fantastic mirage or led astray with some compulsion spell. Even though they're apt at divination spells and run when they need to, I wonder what chance encounters with Blue/Brown/Yellow/Brass Dragons are like? Do they respect or revere them for their rarity, or see them as territorial rivals?
Never heard of this one, before, but I like them! Welcome back, and I look forward to seeing more dragon lore from you in the hopefully not too distant future! Cheers
1.) Purple sand? How does that happen? 2.) isn’t that a bit small for a great wyrm, or is that normal for gem dragons? 3.) do they have intersphere/interplanetary communities, or do all of them just know a few handfuls of their kind? 4.) do dragons get divine magic in the same way as other creatures, or is it different since religiosity is rare among dragon kind, like treating it more like a warlock pact? 5.) would one be willing to let someone copy their books if they bring a new addition as an offering, or is it’s rarity part of the value so it would not want more copies? 6.) not that I don’t highly appreciate going through these 2e dragons, there are a lot of good ones and it can be rather hard to dig up info on them normally, but is the Orium dragon still on the list somewhere?
Many believe the purple sand of the Plains of Purple Dust are the leftover pulverized ruins of the mighty towers of Imaskar, reduced to barren desert thanks to the ancient artificer kings battling actual gods until the entire civilisation fled the prime material plane via portals located somewhere in the deep Underdark. The truth is, the purple dust is not native to Toril at all, the entire region was plane shifted and replaced with a chunk of land in one of the more remote outer planes. The ruins of the Imaskari are still out there somewhere....
Weird random note. I had never heard of Jacinth, and even autocorrect thought it was a made up word. I was thinking maybe the name was generated as a tribute to a fantastic political leader or something like that. Turns out it’s a real thing! So I got to learn of a new gem AND a new dragon. not a bad start to the day ;) Thanks
So this channel has covered Metallic, Ferrous Chromatic, Rare, Gem, Linnorms, and Lung dragons - thinking that leaves just Dragonets and maybe some of the more out there drakes - mostly just cuz you can get a few videos out of the later
Given how intelligent most dragons are, if you come into possession of something a dragon values, that they would want add to their horde, is it possible to barter or bribe your way for safe passage through their territory or valuable information or important relic the dragon may possess? I know that most chromatic dragons are never to be trusted and will only speak truthfully if it's advantageous to them or amuses them, but could you barter for something important from a neutral or good aligned dragons? Or is it dependent on the individual personality of the dragon, be they good, evil or neutral?
Its a simple question that just boils down to why dragons are fun to play as the DM, so yes, of course the dragon is open to a hefty bribe, a contribution to fund its greatness. A tribute, if you will.
AJ is there a way to email you? Id like to send some old stories from 70s D&D for you to read. They are so good and warhammer isnt scratching the itch.
Another dragon not in Fizbans :( I would look at "Lesser Gem Dragons" by Lenmos on DM's Guild its a pay what you want title with the Jacinth, however i have no idea how balanced the stat blocks are
Considering the Jacinth Dragon's love for knowledge and storing them in books, would the dragon perhaps keep this knowledge in enduring (spell)books? The fireproof quality of the books would help with hasty retreats through the elemental plane of fire, and their quality of not aging is a nice bonus as well, definitely worth the investment. Another way to solve the flamable book problem for the dragon's own spellbook, if it even requires one, is an Order of Scribes wizard's Awakened Spellbook, where the contents of the spellbook can be transferred to a new one, should the original be lost.
@@AJPickett I would have answered with, "How many? Yes. That many, maybe more." Then again, you aren't a bit like me when I am vague. People like you, and I am generally a bit of a (word deleted because kids watch these).
I don't think I have heard of the jacinth dragon before. I have heard of the pearl dragon. However that was through a deep dive in the Forgotten Realms wiki.
I've wanted to see the Athasian dragon for a long time. Even if it isn't a 'true' dragon, the magical metamorphosis more than makes up for the deficiency in my opinion. The same can be said for Avangions as well.
I went to look up Jacinth stone to see how many ways I could make fun of its pronunciation. Jah' sin' th, .. and as such. Amusing thing is that the " -th " sound used in words of (that and with/ wif) are not part of the native Italian and German language branches. So a middle eastern or Jewish merchant always had fun listening to Italians trying to pronounce .. jacinth. Then you have the Germans trying to say " Jah or Ja 'yh/Ja'hy -cinth as a cin or cen/sen- f. Turn out the stone was used to protect the wear from plague, lightning, and strengthen the heart along with a few other things. A question would be with the 4th-level spell Protection from Elements will the Jacinth stone amulet absorb or deflect lightning energy ? Well the spell does says .. absord .. anyway. But the trick is trying to find the context in desert superstition regarding dry lightning during the wet season or such to desert herders or merchants losing their family tent or camel train during desert crossings. Since Jacinth dragons share the same environment locations of blue dragons, protection from lightning would really be useful to them. Or the reflecting sunlight from the jacinth gem dragon even .. dazzle .. blue dragons which cause them to admire and flirt with the jacinth and they regard each other as free range pets. Similar to the way humans regards foxes and bob cats living on the exterior sides of city limits. edit, I have no ideal as to why those sentences where cross out.
Oh I thought you did that deliberately, lol, yeah, the relationship between blue and Jacinth dragons goes like this *BLUE* "What Jacinth dragon?". the end.
Was the image you used for the peal dragon and one for the jacinth from an AD&D monster manual? Because they look awfully familiar. Has the art style of the planscapes monster manual if memory serves (but often doesn't lol)
Another true, great dragon that certainly because of WotC/ wizkids will take AGES to add and fleshed out to the alredy 5 established Gem dragons. Same for Metallic and Chromatic dragons. The latter by adding old Dragon magazines Yellow coast & salt, Orange sodium chloride & jungle, Purple underdark & energy ( no its NOT the same as deep dragon that one dpews fungi spores etc ), Gray fang and Brown acid & sand dragons, update the stat blocks+lore and their old concept looks to be more true dragon like would be so potentially awesome. The mind boggling inconsistency becauze of "reasons". They can change D&D editions regularily, decadly + minor updates. But to add + 5 more dragons and deepen, establish them more with new starter sets, a HUGE new Draconomicon for 5.5/ 6/ One?? Hah, you wish. Gosh forbid that! Gotta hinder that or reeeealy want to drag heels.. " cant add new chromatics and give the attention deserved becauze TiAMat qUUeen have only 5 heads!! " Well evolve her from queen to empress by some lore-canon reason THEN giving her heads of Yellow, Orange, Purole, Gray and Brown! BAM! Do I have to get a job at WotC in Seattle to get through at them the potential for not only more canon lore for adding + 5 more established/ official dragon types per category ( Gem/ Chromatic/ Metallic)?? Total of 30 established dragons, 10 per category of the main dragon families and also new options for Dragonborns, Half dragons, guard drakes, drake warden and ibe-shan. Sure make some balance tuning so they are on par with the existing ones, pros/ cons if needed. Think of the above and win-win for both fans and producers alike. They get more money outta material, products, merch by doing this and no excuses. Introductionary starter sets, figurines/ statues, books like a FAT new Draconomicon and much more for the upcoming D&D 5.5/6/One.
There's only 12 of these dragons in the multiverse and nobody has ever killed one huh? Perhaps one of the rarest creatures for sure, rarer than gods, rarer than almost anything in creation. quite a coincidence to ever stumble across one. One in a trillion.
@@gourdlord3064 Dragon magic is different from mortal magic. A dragon is an inherently magical creature, and they are the direct descendants of gods that are older than most pantheons. As such many true dragon species can cast both arcane and divine spells. Some are even able to cast druidic (primal) magic. Basically, all true dragons have a sliver of divinity.
@@Limrasson from what i remember they actually do not worship tiamat; but all dragons show respect for tiamat, as one should to someone so massively stronger than yourself and one of the first dragons created. but it is not worship for most dragons, a few dragons do actually worship Tiamat but most tiamat worshippers are not dragons or associated with actual true dragons ^^ ruclips.net/video/lRDa39nARHo/видео.html --also i don't know how it would get divine magic; but considering there is a dragon called the time dragon who literally controls time and can move millions of years in the future or past as it wishes, as an INNATE ability; divine magic doesn't seem above dragon nature ^^
Dragons are technically demigods by default. The first dragons were immortal. They gave up that immortality to be able to create life ( this is the origin of the kobold race ).
They spend their lives wandering the deep desert, of course they have a heavy spiritual aspect to their psyche, but what do they believe? I leave it up to you.
Couple things to keep in mind; Your exp and class are all your character's total years training and putting the skills to work. By lvl 5 your a folk hero in your 20s. By the time a dragon hits the adult stage it's lived long enough to gain that amount of experience 50 times if my math isn't wrong. Second. They built different. They are massive lizards. There brains are big, with many wrinkles stewed in old magic that blurs the line of the different kinds. Bc of these factors they have a different relationship with there gods ( that parallels the Halflings religion kinda). Tldr: they are in born sorcerers that live so long there old reptile gods give them spells too Like a paliden more then a cleric Apologies, I'm weird.
What about druidic magic? That is also divine magic, and doesn't require dedicating themselves to a deity, just a connection and understanding of nature. The green dragon Claugiyliamatar in 5e has druid spellcasting.
Look at vampire the masquerade’s initiative rules for a better understanding. They already assume that initiative works the way AJ suggested and they explain it far better than I could.
As always never stop. ❤️👍 That said this is pretty much perfect for a world i'm building for a desert culture of spell swords that fear dragons. The dragon that is a wizard and cleric that you can't look at directly. Is only interested in eating you and is drawn to a specific gem. That is relatively omniscent. Meaning that seeing jacinth is synonymous with getting gnommed. 👀💎🟠🐉🔮🤤
I would to see a dive into the ferrous dragons, their kin, and maybe some thoughts on how to home brew the forgotten/lost types (and what they might have been).
Doesn't he already have the ferrous dragon and the rare dragon breeds video in his playlist?
@@sterquiliniis7583 He sure does
Yeah he did that a long time ago. I would like to see an updated vide since it's been a while and everyone grows over time.
Never enough dragons, for every metal, every color, every gem and every aspect of reality there’s a dragon with its name on it and they just keep getting better
Gem dragons are under utilized imo. Thanks for the video AJ!
Dragons have become the Rorschach test of D&D. Every seems to pick a birthstone and then proceeds to bring those 3rd grade last period doodles to life. I propose the lint dragon, next. Nemesis of the dryer sheet dragon. Or if you wanna stay earthy, the gypsum dragon. Has minimum hp per hd and breath weapon is drywall dust.
A massive glowing ancient dragon that just leaves a fight when it becomes bored. That could be a good background for a broken or possibly insane dragon slayer. Or both. All: "I spent my life trying to climb a mountain that grew. The further i ascended the smaller i became. We are all motes of dust to things that cannot be burned!?!? Are we insects or do we even exist? When will the mountain blow our worlds away!?!?"
A welcome surprise after waking up with a wine hangover!
this is making want to see a dragon party. A group of dragons with powers and abilities that compliment each other just like an adventuring party. This thing being like the low health glass cannon mage, a red dragon your dps, blue dragon crowd control, white dragon tank, ect. Or something like that. And then you'd need a good excuse for them to be together... maybe fighting some sorta demon or demi-god. Or maybe they are all grouping up in a one time fight against a dracolich
This stuff is making wanna dm
This is a actually a very good idea.
@@thedarkmaster4747 thanks
Love all these videos. My campaign right now, is going to deal with almost every type of dragon out there.
When my players say, I'm going to find out info on a green dragon in a library. I say well you have found a book by the Sage named Pickett.... again. And I let them listen to your videos, now most of us are seasoned players, but it's a cool way to not metagame.
And by the way, campaign is set in a home brew, massive world about 3x the size of Toril where dragons have subjugated people like Mafia crime lords.... kinda...
They're currently wading through a vast desert looking for browns. I might throw this little gem in there.
Thanks for all the videos AJ! And if you don't like the name Sage Pickett, I'll change it to whatever you want lol.
Oh by all means :)
Since we are getting to pretty exotic dragon types now, I'd love to see a video on Athasian dragons, even if they are not 'true' dragons. The magical metamorphosis angle is very interesting in my opinion.
A study in gemology and ecology would be awesome for dragon makers.
Reminds me of the hyacinth dragon, who collects buckets, or bouquet, as she pronounces it.
Always seeing cows everywhere when traveling with her manservant. She seems scared of dogs, and often annoyed by her spouse, which are often after her gold. She is capable of illusions, but seems to cast it on her own exclusively.
Hyacinth dragons do love tea and biscuits, but only when served in quality china. She's truly the lady of the house, age 93!
This is a lovely Blue Dragon rival and a great Red Herring story element to make adventurers believing it's a Blue Dragon vs. Red Dragon rivalry.
This series will be the first time I've been excited to find out more about the cavalcade of True Dragons beyond the 'base ten'.
This is a fantastic thing.
If your players complete a difficult quest without a reward, perhaps an overly talkative magic item finds its way into their possession in the night. When they wake up it could explain the Jacinth dragon that hoarded it grew tired of its constant talking.
That is entirely possible,
I like this idea...since I saw your video on the hellfire wyrm I've been thinking about taking a particular dragon species and placing several of it's kind in the heavenly and hellish realms of D&D to generate a similar effect. Now I have my candidate. I'll have Jacinth and Pearl dragons be more populous in my setting and have a researcher interested in draconic physiology get their hands on some eggs of both species, implant them with the were-curse (because dragons that can shape change into different were creatures sounds dope) and scatter them to the planes. I'd do it for the elemental realms too but we already have the cataclysmic dragons for that.
I like that they can burrow in sand dunes, turn sand to glass and collapse the (glass) roof releasing tons of sand to bury the party.
Imagine a giant glass chamber that looks like the lair but it's a trap and first the glass columns explode to shards the heavy glass ceiling shatters into sword spear like shards and blinding suffocating dust splinters and worse. Then a mountain of sand plops in immediately. Might as well have a giant fire elemental roll in below melt the whole thing again 😳
Old trick from AD&D2ndE, the spell Mud to Rock is holding the brick/stones in place, and a Dispel Magic spell will turn the mortal back to mud and collapse the roof onto the PCs.
So basically, if you want to run a creature that's smarter than a human, write it like a jojo character.
So if chromatic dragons are based on colors, and color is just wavelengths of light, does that mean that there are ultraviolet and infrared dragons? What about microwave and radiation dragons?
radiant dragons are a thing, yes.
A little bit of breakfast, a little bit of dragons. Perfect Saturday morning!
I didn't know this was a gem let alone a dragon! Looking forward to the Jade Dragon as the dwarves in my setting are master jade craftsmen! Maybe I'll be shoving a new dragon into their lore?! 🐉
I love the flavor of this dragon. The exotic gem dragons are such a cool idea, can't wait to hear about them!
Great Vid, loved the 4th wall break at 0:28
I was reading up on some lore today and came across this in 2e and decided you know what?, I'm gonna see if AJ did a lore videos on this and sure enough!! It makes it easier to create a story and background from lore when you describe it in better detail than I am reading in on paper. Plus you give more information the books don't, my group likes my stories and I get more lore out in the scape thanks to you.
Thank you :D
Can't wait to hear how you managed to survive the encounter. Perhaps your name precedes you and you are recognized as a great sage? In any case, I do enjoy these little stories that precede the monsters. Nice work!
Appreciate you crawling through the older books for some of your lore! The spines potentially being what provides blindsight is definitely interesting, thanks for the video!
I had a jacinth dragon that had a massive library as it's hoard. It's only companions were golems made out of scrolls and books that were destroyed before the dragon got them. I kind of miss that big lizard.
He lives with me now. No you can’t have him back. Or is it a girl? I don’t know, I never bothered to ask.
What is the name of this dragon?
@@AJPickett Calabraxus. PCs called him Cal.
But not to his face.
@@heathharris2545 excellent
Please, do Forest Dragons! (Love your videos)
A spicy morsel to be sure. Delicious glue!
I love the pithtiness of the merchant comment you opened this with this with.
Great video AJ
Thanks Chris!
Hey AJ, great video! I like part about the Dragon knowing that arcane spells are being casted in its lair.
Thanks AJ you have a wonderful day!
Glad your back AJ!!
👍👍
And thank you for doing these videos
@@KS-PNW My pleasure!
What a cool dragon!
I love your Draconic videos!! I learned something new all the time!!! And it helps me with a campaign that I'm working on!!!
I generally prefer his videos in Common.
Bless the Mighty GlueStick
another great video, Pickaroon!!
3:04 well that got retconned
11:00 wouldn't that be more along the line of tremor sense instead of blind sight? Although I would boost its perception based on hearing.
Good point
A Jacinth Dragon who specializes in enchantment/illusion magic would be a hell of an opponent. You'd be to scared to look at it without fear of being caught up in some fantastic mirage or led astray with some compulsion spell. Even though they're apt at divination spells and run when they need to, I wonder what chance encounters with Blue/Brown/Yellow/Brass Dragons are like? Do they respect or revere them for their rarity, or see them as territorial rivals?
Another amazing show from AJ. I might use this one just as lore in my world being that there so smart. Can't wait for the next ones.
Great upload! I always listen to your videos while I run. This is a long time coming, but thanks for the hours of entertainment!!
Pack animals if aren’t dead have blood in them that you can drink to avoid dehydration your animal can then also feed you
Aj back at it again with another spicy video.
These guys are pretty nifty
No you
naw, all y'all!
@@AJPickett hey aj guess what!
@@elginsmith2234 what?
@@AJPickett no you
Never heard of this one, before, but I like them!
Welcome back, and I look forward to seeing more dragon lore from you in the hopefully not too distant future! Cheers
Its all dragon lore this month! 😎
Wow. They sound really cool.
1.) Purple sand? How does that happen?
2.) isn’t that a bit small for a great wyrm, or is that normal for gem dragons?
3.) do they have intersphere/interplanetary communities, or do all of them just know a few handfuls of their kind?
4.) do dragons get divine magic in the same way as other creatures, or is it different since religiosity is rare among dragon kind, like treating it more like a warlock pact?
5.) would one be willing to let someone copy their books if they bring a new addition as an offering, or is it’s rarity part of the value so it would not want more copies?
6.) not that I don’t highly appreciate going through these 2e dragons, there are a lot of good ones and it can be rather hard to dig up info on them normally, but is the Orium dragon still on the list somewhere?
Many believe the purple sand of the Plains of Purple Dust are the leftover pulverized ruins of the mighty towers of Imaskar, reduced to barren desert thanks to the ancient artificer kings battling actual gods until the entire civilisation fled the prime material plane via portals located somewhere in the deep Underdark. The truth is, the purple dust is not native to Toril at all, the entire region was plane shifted and replaced with a chunk of land in one of the more remote outer planes. The ruins of the Imaskari are still out there somewhere....
@@AJPickett interesting, thanks.
Weird random note.
I had never heard of Jacinth, and even autocorrect thought it was a made up word.
I was thinking maybe the name was generated as a tribute to a fantastic political leader or something like that.
Turns out it’s a real thing! So I got to learn of a new gem AND a new dragon. not a bad start to the day ;)
Thanks
Today D&D Taught me...
So this channel has covered Metallic, Ferrous Chromatic, Rare, Gem, Linnorms, and Lung dragons - thinking that leaves just Dragonets and maybe some of the more out there drakes - mostly just cuz you can get a few videos out of the later
Oh, there are a fair few dragons left to cover yet.
@@AJPickett Lemmie think what's left Vishaps, Hex & Tome, Starlight, Sun & Moon, Dzalmus, and ... Air dragons - did I miss any?
@@masonabbey6353 a few
@@AJPickett LMAO! And the thing is, once you're finished more will be invented, possibly even by you.
@@thedarkmaster4747 Certainly, I have no problem making up new monsters all day long.
Really looking forward to your video on the pearl dragon
it's here!
@@AJPickett thanks! Greatly enjoy your content!
Given how intelligent most dragons are, if you come into possession of something a dragon values, that they would want add to their horde, is it possible to barter or bribe your way for safe passage through their territory or valuable information or important relic the dragon may possess? I know that most chromatic dragons are never to be trusted and will only speak truthfully if it's advantageous to them or amuses them, but could you barter for something important from a neutral or good aligned dragons? Or is it dependent on the individual personality of the dragon, be they good, evil or neutral?
Its a simple question that just boils down to why dragons are fun to play as the DM, so yes, of course the dragon is open to a hefty bribe, a contribution to fund its greatness. A tribute, if you will.
Great Video as always AJ, looking forward to the video on the Pearl Dragon.
Very cool AJ, one I've never heard of before! Thank you for all the great content
AJ is there a way to email you? Id like to send some old stories from 70s D&D for you to read. They are so good and warhammer isnt scratching the itch.
my email address is on the ABOUT tab here on RUclips
Excellent video as usual aj! Also do you think Jacinth dragon could use imaskar artifacts?
Absolutely.
Keep em coming aj keep em coming...I love these videos
Could you have a gem dragon of every valuable gem? I want a Rogue Stone Dragon.
Tiger eye jasper dragon or jade dragon
It is to be done. 🐉🏛️🙏😞🔔🎼
So how did you survive your encounter with the dragon and get out of the desert?
I ran away, really, it was one dreadful thing after another, the Yrthak, the Dragon Beetles...
Another dragon not in Fizbans :( I would look at "Lesser Gem Dragons" by Lenmos on DM's Guild its a pay what you want title with the Jacinth, however i have no idea how balanced the stat blocks are
I tried finding this document but the only one I found was very incomplete
@@reachcole514 I unfortunately didnt look at all of it :( gonna see and reply if i find another resource
Wonder how they eggs taste like.
Considering the Jacinth Dragon's love for knowledge and storing them in books, would the dragon perhaps keep this knowledge in enduring (spell)books? The fireproof quality of the books would help with hasty retreats through the elemental plane of fire, and their quality of not aging is a nice bonus as well, definitely worth the investment.
Another way to solve the flamable book problem for the dragon's own spellbook, if it even requires one, is an Order of Scribes wizard's Awakened Spellbook, where the contents of the spellbook can be transferred to a new one, should the original be lost.
Never heard of this type. Great video😁🍿
Bookwyrm
Giant scaly death lizard go brrr.
More fun fodder to kill my players with!! Woop!
Cool. how many dragons are there to begin with? This is all dragons all the time 🙂.
lots of dragons
@@AJPickett I would have answered with, "How many? Yes. That many, maybe more." Then again, you aren't a bit like me when I am vague. People like you, and I am generally a bit of a (word deleted because kids watch these).
Great vid.
This is definitely an interesting dragon. I wonder how they would be used in a modern D&D edition.
Is jacinth a real gem or is it fictional?
Quite real
I like these dragons, beautiful loners.
Cool AJ loved the vid
Yay!
Thank you! I needed more dragons to throw at my players!
How am I supposed to get to comment first when you post at six am my time!? Lolol
Yay! Modern Firestarter¡
Some say that the greatest curse of the Jacinth Dragon is to say "Jacinth Big Head" in the portuguese language...
I don't think I have heard of the jacinth dragon before. I have heard of the pearl dragon. However that was through a deep dive in the Forgotten Realms wiki.
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Ain't it strange we are all listening to your mouth hole make noise and streaming it off RUclips.
Always good though haha
Where I am from, we call it 'talking'.
@@AJPickett you do some fine "talking" my man! Haha
Do you have actual stat blocks, or would one subscribe to your patreon and translate your scripts into a stat block of our own?
That would be one option.
I Would like to see athasian and quaser dragons in the series
Even tho they aren't "true" dragons
I've wanted to see the Athasian dragon for a long time. Even if it isn't a 'true' dragon, the magical metamorphosis more than makes up for the deficiency in my opinion. The same can be said for Avangions as well.
@@daniell1483 yes all of them look fun
I think breath weapons dealt a lot of sand damage
Oh boy new dragon type
Load different dragon types besides what a big two like the chromatics and the metallics
I went to look up Jacinth stone to see how many ways I could make fun of its pronunciation.
Jah' sin' th, .. and as such.
Amusing thing is that the " -th " sound used in words of (that and with/ wif) are not part of the native Italian and German language branches. So a middle eastern or Jewish merchant always had fun listening to Italians trying to pronounce .. jacinth. Then you have the Germans trying to say " Jah or Ja 'yh/Ja'hy -cinth as a cin or cen/sen- f.
Turn out the stone was used to protect the wear from plague, lightning, and strengthen the heart along with a few other things. A question would be with the 4th-level spell Protection from Elements will the Jacinth stone amulet absorb or deflect lightning energy ? Well the spell does says .. absord .. anyway.
But the trick is trying to find the context in desert superstition regarding dry lightning during the wet season or such to desert herders or merchants losing their family tent or camel train during desert crossings.
Since Jacinth dragons share the same environment locations of blue dragons, protection from lightning would really be useful to them. Or the reflecting sunlight from the jacinth gem dragon even .. dazzle .. blue dragons which cause them to admire and flirt with the jacinth and they regard each other as free range pets. Similar to the way humans regards foxes and bob cats living on the exterior sides of city limits.
edit, I have no ideal as to why those sentences where cross out.
Oh I thought you did that deliberately, lol, yeah, the relationship between blue and Jacinth dragons goes like this *BLUE* "What Jacinth dragon?". the end.
RUclips doesnt like you talking about certain groups in comments apparently lmao
"-" using these can cause it.
Was the image you used for the peal dragon and one for the jacinth from an AD&D monster manual? Because they look awfully familiar. Has the art style of the planscapes monster manual if memory serves (but often doesn't lol)
yep
@@AJPickett Thanks for the confirmation AJ. I gave most of those books to my nephew many moons ago but they're still ingrained in my brain.
Would a Jacinth Dragonborn be a fire gem dragonborn?
Basically, yes.
So would an obsidian dragonborn.
Another true, great dragon that certainly because of WotC/ wizkids will take AGES to add and fleshed out to the alredy 5 established Gem dragons. Same for Metallic and Chromatic dragons. The latter by adding old Dragon magazines Yellow coast & salt, Orange sodium chloride & jungle, Purple underdark & energy ( no its NOT the same as deep dragon that one dpews fungi spores etc ), Gray fang and Brown acid & sand dragons, update the stat blocks+lore and their old concept looks to be more true dragon like would be so potentially awesome. The mind boggling inconsistency becauze of "reasons". They can change D&D editions regularily, decadly + minor updates. But to add + 5 more dragons and deepen, establish them more with new starter sets, a HUGE new Draconomicon for 5.5/ 6/ One?? Hah, you wish. Gosh forbid that! Gotta hinder that or reeeealy want to drag heels.. " cant add new chromatics and give the attention deserved becauze TiAMat qUUeen have only 5 heads!! " Well evolve her from queen to empress by some lore-canon reason THEN giving her heads of Yellow, Orange, Purole, Gray and Brown! BAM! Do I have to get a job at WotC in Seattle to get through at them the potential for not only more canon lore for adding + 5 more established/ official dragon types per category ( Gem/ Chromatic/ Metallic)??
Total of 30 established dragons, 10 per category of the main dragon families and also new options for Dragonborns, Half dragons, guard drakes, drake warden and ibe-shan.
Sure make some balance tuning so they are on par with the existing ones, pros/ cons if needed.
Think of the above and win-win for both fans and producers alike.
They get more money outta material, products, merch by doing this and no excuses. Introductionary starter sets, figurines/ statues, books like a FAT new Draconomicon and much more for the upcoming D&D 5.5/6/One.
Where would I be able to see this stat block? I’d love to put one of these guys in my game
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There's only 12 of these dragons in the multiverse and nobody has ever killed one huh? Perhaps one of the rarest creatures for sure, rarer than gods, rarer than almost anything in creation. quite a coincidence to ever stumble across one. One in a trillion.
Wait, where do they get the divine magic?
Most if not all dragons are deeply religious and worship Tiamant, Bahamut or one of the other draconic gods.
@@gourdlord3064 That's literally the opposite of what official rules state.
But sure, I guess that makes sense in a way.
@@Limrasson Do they? Can you tell me which ones? If I'm wrong I don't wanna keep spreading misinformation.
@@gourdlord3064 Dragon magic is different from mortal magic. A dragon is an inherently magical creature, and they are the direct descendants of gods that are older than most pantheons. As such many true dragon species can cast both arcane and divine spells. Some are even able to cast druidic (primal) magic.
Basically, all true dragons have a sliver of divinity.
@@Limrasson from what i remember they actually do not worship tiamat; but all dragons show respect for tiamat, as one should to someone so massively stronger than yourself and one of the first dragons created.
but it is not worship for most dragons, a few dragons do actually worship Tiamat but most tiamat worshippers are not dragons or associated with actual true dragons ^^
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--also i don't know how it would get divine magic; but considering there is a dragon called the time dragon who literally controls time and can move millions of years in the future or past as it wishes, as an INNATE ability; divine magic doesn't seem above dragon nature ^^
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How can dragons use devine magic if they don't dedicate their lives to a spirit/god or ideals like a cleric or paladin?
Dragons are technically demigods by default. The first dragons were immortal. They gave up that immortality to be able to create life ( this is the origin of the kobold race ).
They spend their lives wandering the deep desert, of course they have a heavy spiritual aspect to their psyche, but what do they believe? I leave it up to you.
Couple things to keep in mind;
Your exp and class are all your character's total years training and putting the skills to work. By lvl 5 your a folk hero in your 20s. By the time a dragon hits the adult stage it's lived long enough to gain that amount of experience 50 times if my math isn't wrong.
Second. They built different. They are massive lizards. There brains are big, with many wrinkles stewed in old magic that blurs the line of the different kinds. Bc of these factors they have a different relationship with there gods ( that parallels the Halflings religion kinda).
Tldr: they are in born sorcerers that live so long there old reptile gods give them spells too
Like a paliden more then a cleric
Apologies, I'm weird.
What about druidic magic? That is also divine magic, and doesn't require dedicating themselves to a deity, just a connection and understanding of nature.
The green dragon Claugiyliamatar in 5e has druid spellcasting.
@@stankmcdankton6204 I find it more likely for that to just be they're creation myth and not actual historical fact.
Did anyone else have trouble understanding the initiative order option at 4:40? Can someone clarify this idea. It seems worth getting.
Look at vampire the masquerade’s initiative rules for a better understanding. They already assume that initiative works the way AJ suggested and they explain it far better than I could.
My dude, I adore your content and have for years, but someone needs to buy you a better microphone.
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As always never stop. ❤️👍 That said this is pretty much perfect for a world i'm building for a desert culture of spell swords that fear dragons. The dragon that is a wizard and cleric that you can't look at directly. Is only interested in eating you and is drawn to a specific gem. That is relatively omniscent. Meaning that seeing jacinth is synonymous with getting gnommed. 👀💎🟠🐉🔮🤤
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