Dragon vaults then shape shifts into a new humanoid Fades to black Wakes up "Hey you, your finaly awake You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us."
...My god this is beautiful and sad. I can understand why they picked steel for this element. It's reflective, yet inexpensive. It's functional, but also decorative. It writes the histories of 'modern' mortals, yet is so easily overlooked as just background against magic and more flashy metals. It represents conviction. It represents protection and death. Its worth is made in the hands of those who use it, not by rarity.
Very well said! I didn’t think anyone could see the true beauty of this dragon type. Your words have enlightened me……I’m working on a campaign where each player is a steel dragon and will secretly meet with each player IRL to explain and teach them how to play one…I’m asking permission to use your words to help them see and understand the beautifully organized chaos that IS a steel dragon. Thank you for the inspiration 😊🙏🏼
@@fatguyinalittlecoat4695 Oh absolutely, by all means. Let your players hear what I said. As a DM for 21 years now, It's an honor to give this little bit I can. By ALL means, use them!
@@gohlincoln2570 ...it's not completely fluid. They try to live complete lives as one thing before being recast as another. That's a clear solid, metallic property.
@@NorthernWind0 21 years? Dang. I'm a fresh baby dm and a new player. Decided it would be a good idea to make my own campaign virtually from scratch. The main campaign hasn't happened yet, but been having some practice sessions. One thing I'm struggling with is I want to make challenging combat encounters, but I usually end up making it too hard or too easy. I want the players to win, but I want them to feel like they really earned the victory. Do you have any advice you could share?
@@yeahhi27 or perhaps IO doesn't give a single fwuwcwk (omit the w's) about human concepts like good or evil and instead appreciates life in all it's facets! Edit: apparantly swearing is a big no no now...
imagine beating a tyranical king to death only for his "corpse" to turn back into a steel dragon and fly off saying "holy shit this'd make a fire song"
Imagine a campaign where you are hired by the greatest king of all time to recover artifacts of amazing magical power or knowledge, and it turns out to be that the king was a Steel Dragon who lost everything in his Composition
1. Ballsy son bitch to steal even a single item from a steel dragons composition nevermind every single one. 2. Dont wanna be that guy when he gets caught, not gonna be a painless experience. 3. Excellent campaign idea
Imagine instead of the king being the Steel Dragon, instead you are, and you find your own Composition and all of the memories of these lives come flooding back to you.
Well then, I imagine this happening: Dave: *wakes up* Huh?... What happened? Kevin: You were an evil sorcerer and almost took over the world with your dark powers. Dave: Hm, okay, why didn't I? Kevin: Some ragtag group of adventurers stopped you. Dave: Cool cool, what did we decide I was going to be in this life? Kevin: Oh, you're gonna be a virtuous king. Dave: Cool cool, what if an evil sorcerer comes? Kevin: Then you'll just have a ragtag group of adventurers deal with him. Dave: Cool cool.
Sounds like a nightmare scenario for the Imperium. Likely send in the Black Templars to deal with this heresy. If that doesn't work, exterminatus would be next.
What about the babies they have with each other? Maybe that's how the planet eventually becomes populated by humans, steel dragons were all being reverse furries, had normal human babies with each other, rinse and repeat. What if *we're* that planet, and they all eventually left, and that's why there are no dwarves or elves
No, that's enabling god mode (go to your draconic life menu, and set debug mode to true, click F5 and type God = 1). that's cheating and not metagaming kkk. But still cheating tho.
This would be great. A threat that could force normally oppositional dragon types to unknowingly band together. Although at some point or another, I think one of their hoards would give them away.
Guild Lord: "Welcome back adventurers, today we will have a dragon slaying quest." Adventurer 1: "We give up a perfectly good opportunity to live life as something awesome to instead life as a part of your world and this is the thanks we get?" Guild Lord: …… Adventurer 1: "And just so you know, in my last life I fucked your mother. And I thought I raised you better." Also Guild Lord: ….. Adventurer 1 has left the surver. Guild Lord: *To the remaining 4 adventurers* "Did I mention this quest pays extra today?"
@@haylongwang3002 because so unique in the fact that it lives mortal lives, it seeks to create, to leave it's mark on the world. And that speaks to me.
@@williamwray2522 But they leave and forget there children or loved ones many many many times and probobly also some have killed someone they loved when they lead a diffrent life. If anything is aful is that you forget and leave people who love you and you love behind, expecialy your own children.
I really like how the steel dragons actually want their hoards to have meaning - not just for themselves, but as a legacy for the world as a whole. I'm not sure if even the good-aligned metallic dragons would be able to do such a deed, of giving up their treasure - and knowing that they would give it up from the very beginning.
I feel as though these dragons embody the spirit of DnD itself. As they create great art, we create great memories, good and bad. They spread their art so it can mean something. We do the same with our fun and exciting stories we make. And they're all overseen by Ao, who in turn serves the Luminous Ones, which would be the DMs themselves. Feels kind of amazing to think about.
@@Kalenz1234 There's little time magic in vanilla DnD, most if it you have to dig for in splat books. High level mages actually can do some awesome stuff like reverse aging, accelerate time for plots of land, and (in Pathfinder) my favorite, Mythic Time Stop, which lets your party do a bunch of attacks that all land all in the same second of time. (ZA WARUDO!)
The thing that made me fall in love with this dragon race is it’s vaulting ritual. The fact that it vaults it’s family life as a dragon is just so bitter sweet cuz the idea of having to hide away your memories before moving to a new life a few years later is intense
And that quote from a steel dragon "... It's better this way" it sounds almost reluctant and resigned. Like it doesn't want to go through with it but it know it must...
Kinda like an avatar from Avatar the last airbender. They reincarnate regularly and barely remember anything in their past life other than their friends and family.
@@DISTurbedwaffle918 *sniffle* "A-atleast i have a life" Says the dragon as he sadly walks away back to his home where his mom waits for him to come back from his LARPing session at jerry's house
Nah make it shrapnel breath, like the way grenades kill when they explode, a deadly concussive blast mixed with steel fragments flying at super sonic speeds.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 Sword breath but the swords also explode like grenades and still have the benefit of stabbing people, then exploding them
Came in prepared for some sort of incredibly badass metal creature. Wasn't prepared for the onslaught of heartwarming feels about transcendental friendship and the profoundly touching value of life and all the great experiences, lessons and achievements we should be aiming to make out of it like steel dragons do.
Book series: 20 volumes, each a different adventure, different life with an Elf or Dwarf as a reoccurring character. The 21st is the Reflection, linking the previous 20 volumes/lives together as the main character of each book was the steel dragon.
Sadly, no. I lack the knowledge due to being raised by a product of the Satanic Panic and I'm just now getting into D&D. That, and I have a plethora of other projects on my list.
@@SharowbladyeGaymerPorate There are a few concepts that you could play on for that. Perhaps the true friend is a homunculus or a human soul that had been transferred into a construct. Even further, baring that possibility in mind, this True Friend could be their first lover.
Imagine the final years of the soulbind (elf or dwarf or such). They've had this friend who's been a constant, even though they keep changing their personalities completely around every century or so. But then after hundreds of years together, they tell you that their time has come...and then go into a reflection for hundreds of years, while their soulbind just comes every so often to check on them, one day to find the reflection over and their friend has finally passed away. And now the responsibility of their lifesworks is still to come.
Lol, I kinda imagined them as great actors of their time or great kings or even advisors to a king. I imagine them doing something that would be in the best interest of humanoid kind if they are a good dragon that is . I think they would want to do something with all of the knowledge that they have accumulated over time they've lived.🤓🤓🤓
Now I'm thinking of Dragons that sit around and have turned themselves into humans/humanoids as they roleplayed H&H DM: "Ok so far Sarah and Mike graduated into the local university, Tommy was recruited to the armed forces, Amy entered a trade program to become a electrician, and then John... ...you failed high school. What Do You Choose Between These Choices Of Either: Repeat the grade or drop out... Interupting John: I burn the highschool down! *Rolls* *D20* DM: *heavily* *sighes* "You've successfully burned down the highschool" John: Awesome, I start to dance with the school burning behind me DM : Ok so as you boogey down before the burning campus, the local authorities appear in front of John as you open your eyes to the surprise of handcuffs on your hands... ok your in custody by the police officers who were once your seniors
My DM and I loved this lore so much we found a way to fit one into our game. I can't wait for it to be revealed as we go. Thank you so much for all your research and work for our benefit and enjoyment. Keep up the good work.
@@sheldonbuchanan9484 we took a break from the campaign, our group has 2DMs that switch off so each also has a chance to play. We're in decent to Avernus now but will switch back to the campaign with the steel dragon later this quarter. So far though he's functioned as a guide and a great resource.
For some reason the stuff about the steel dragon's composition really got to me. The idea that these dragons, instead of stealing and hoarding to fill their lair, creates things to decorate its home and then spreads it to society at large when it dies is amazing. Added to that the idea that only one person will ever recognize the accomplishments of a specific steel dragon in its entire lifetime and even its own children won't remember it until they are about to die. This is kind of a beautifully tragic creature.
Okay, so who's down to go Four levels deep, and play as Steel Dragons (in D&D) playing as humans, that get together and play their in universe version of Dungeons and Dragons every week.
Please! You need to add a few more layers with your characters being dopplegangers pretending to be human playing Offices and Bosses, playing as Steel dragons, pretending to be humans playing D&D.
Okay now we need an NPC that is a Half-dragon with his mother being a Steel Dragon that had feel in love and married unknowingly with a Silver Dragon trying to play a part think it would be an interesting character
I think it would be cool for a steel dragon to soul bond with a human and because the human cares so much for the dragon he becomes a lich in order to be able to live long enough to help the steel dragon achieve its goal. It could be a possible twist reveal to a party that kills a lich.
This dragon is literally one of the Imperium of Man's nightmares made real. A nonhuman intelligent being that hides amongst humans and crossbreeds with them. That is funny.
Well, more like a nonhuman intelligent being wants to be human so much that they discard their own species to be human, but yes, the Steel Dragons would give the Imperium so many heart attacks...
MiningwithPudding fuck heart attacks, they'd supuku the entire hive city THEN THEMSELVES in order to make sure they kill every single nonhuman. It would be a witch-hunt to end all witch-hunts!
I am so happy to see you doing the Steel Dragons, my favorite for years now. I've even had a recurring NPC Steel for many campaigns. Argh, so awesome. You even including the lesser known things, too. But I will say there are several things missing from the info. For example, their polymorphed forms always have some sort of Steel-colored aspect to it, be it hair, nails, or even a trinket. Its just something they do, and allows only other Steels to tell what they truly are. They also leave into the wilds far away once a month to go a feeding frenzy, as while they prefer to eat while human, it can't sustain itself that way. The reasons it gives for leaving depends on it's current life. And two last things; there are notes of several Steels actually having several lives at a time, notably one of the ones you mentioned living in Waterdeep. Lastly, they have a 'unbound curiosity', which is it typically leads it into its life choices. These are just extra tidbits, as the lore you stated goes way beyond those little things. Good God I loved the video, made me love them even more.
I think I have a new favorite dragon, they're SO complex (a true masterpiece of a character). Although, what would happen if a steel dragon decided to not clean their memory? or wrote to their future self something and how all those past lifes are one? What if their soul bound was to get killed? Could a soulbound be their couple every single lifetime? And imagine how hard it must be for a long lived humanoid to find out that their old friend was a steel dragon, to go through hell itself to find them and that they don't remember them? (Add more drama by being their spouse/descendant) Could their soulbound guide them to stick to a certain morality? What if they ended being in opposite sides of the law or a war?
It is all explained in a video. Dragon will not forget his soulbond. Dragon chooses his soulbond with two major factors in mind: longevity and ability not to judge, aka true neutral. Dragon choses a friend, so not a love interest for soulbound, because this person will have to outlive and say goodbye to said dragon. Steel dragon knows himself in between those lives, it does not loose awareness of being steel dragon after vaulting, otherwise it would have to learn vaulting again after each vaulting. It does leave notes to itself in form of masterpieces it creates after each life and it carries them all to its lair, so it does not forget its lair, its dragon abilities or awareness of one self. What would be better question is what kind of masterpiece they create after living a life of a peasant or pirate, how about lawyer?
@@Cheshiremd But do all steel dragons in the end have to vault? (is it the decision or the pain of the lost ones that make them vault?) If during the twilight years of a steel dragon it remembers everything, then imagine the emotional storm it may be suffering during their sleep
@@Randomdudefromtheinternet, it is a decision, but the one they have to make in order to lead a new life. Imagine if steel was a pirate and next life he started as an admiral. If steel didn't vault memories of his pirate's life than his judgement and morals as an admiral will be compromised. He might pardon his friends from past life or be very lenient to pirates in general and hard on his officers. Such inconsistencies will prevent his full immersion in the life he chose and, maybe even will prevent him from making a masterwork. What then? Hard to tell, but consequences might be disastrous. So this is why steel HAS to vault.
@@TheLostArchangel666 I think it would just be like playing any other race except you have the steel dragon's racial traits, draconic heritage, and a high strength, charisma, constitution, and armor class.
@@TheLostArchangel666 He did say that a polymorphed silver dragon had the same strength and toughness as a silver dragon, with the vaulting they do lose their memories making their knowledge limited to their background. At least that is how I am interpreting it.
@@erisstewart4236 Good point. At the same time; according to most other sources I found, steel dragons are /far/ more inclined towards more intellectual pursuits than anything else? Not sure just how accurate my sources are tho.
Holy cow!!! This is an amazing video! It is one of the most beautiful concepts I have ever heard about in D&D! I could write whole campaigns around this! Thank you for these videos :D
Nice video! There is actually one steel dragon in 5e that shows up in Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, but it doesn't have all the cool abilities discussed here.
Wow, knew a little about Steels before but all this....the dramatic, poetic, tragic potential for storytelling with these guys is immense! In the time it took to watch this video I have developed the plan for an entire bloody campaign in my head, off to the notebooks methinks!
The Steel Dragons are my new favorite! When I started this video I had no idea what I was about discover. These videos are awesome, keep up the excellent work.
This is my all time favorite dragon and my all time favorite video on said dragon. At least 2 times a year I come back to this video and give it a rewatch. Thank you so much for this expose'
You should check out AJ picket’s video on the steel dragons, they seem better sourced and there’s some specific stories told about notable steel dragons.
These are some of the most amazing/interesting creatures I've learned about since I started watching your channel a few months back. They are living in quantum leap for whole lifetimes at a time
I appreciate your videos. I eat up all the lore for the sessions I host. My sessions aim for the tone that the players are indeed heroes with self determination and world consequence, while being a single reflection of a great crystals' last enchanted throe - the last cries of a passing age. The easily accesible material you provide made that possible.
Great idea for a high level PC steel dragon pretending to be an adventurer. See how long you and the DM can keep the secret whilst dropping subtle hints. Gonna have to try this some day
Currently playing as a half elf sorcerer, but am actually a silver dragon wyrmling (with sorcerer levels). Was going pretty well until we settled for camp one night, and the dark powers that rule Ravenloft thought itd be funny to trigger the lycanthropy half the party got infected with about a week early while we were on our way to go find a macguffin to trade in return for getting the curse removed. Unfortunately, the ones infected were the Fighter, Cleric, and Monk, leaving Me (the sorcerer), Wizard and Bard in a tough spot and I had to shift so I could fly up with the gnome wizard on my back. The bard got his ass beat but somehow beat the DC and didnt get infected.
Steels are, without question, my favorite dragon subtype. Between their servitude to IO and the crazy mental abilities, they're so crazy to make use of and a ton of fun to think about. I love these crazy buggers.
Steel dragons are now my official favourite! So much that i wanna become one in real life just for the drama! I love it and thank you for sharing MrRhexx!
seems like the steel dragon was made for the PC's. can't think of a background for your character? boom! you're a steel dragon! nothing else needed. though if not used in a lazy way you could have stories from your past vault that creates obstacles, treasure cashes, and have created opportunities like chipped away at a wall that helps cut a way to a dungeon boss.
An interesting idea would be a Steel Dragon with a faulty, "leaking" Vaulting Process. Old memories resurfacing at random, in dreams or as nightmares. Or, if you roll really bad, the Steel Dragon completely blanks out and just stands there as it re-lives past events unless a companion snaps it out, or it breaks out of it itself. Steel Dragons are really interesting creatures, depending on how it is handled.
I would love this so much, except that it's probably very difficult to pull off playing what essentially amounts to the Avatar. But if I was a more skilled player and had an experienced DM, this would be fucking awesome. Another great concept would be that you are a Steel Dragon's soulbond and either need to help them transition into a new life or (my favorite one) need to help them spread their knowledge into the world. Now that's an emotional hook if I've ever seen one.
the soul bound friend would trust his descendants and their friends to spread the knowledge of the steel dragon across the four corners of the world. but they need to be careful that they don't fall into the hands of a knowledge-destroying inquisition. each recipient of knowledge would have long lasting effects on the next campaign, some would be catch 22's, some would be crucial for the birth of the next campaign, and others would simply drastically change the landscape of the future game. have the players debate, fight, and go behind the backs of the other players to whom they deem worthy of the riddle of steel.
I love this so much, this is 100% my favorite type of dragon and it gives me so many ideas to play with some day, thanks for sharing the knowledge of it's existence!
What if a Steel Dragon soul bonded with a family instead of an individual? (I’m trying to see the plausibility of Speedwagon as a steel dragon. Roll with it)
wait what so like king: bob its time to meet your ancestor bob: uem what you mean ancestors, i dont need books. steel dragon: omg god is that little bobby, my its only been what 30 years, come and show grandpa how stronge you have become. bob: is this why i am a sorcerer? king: yea your grand ma loved him very much
I think you're mixing up Ao and Io. Ao is the god of gods in Forgotten Realms, who created the universe and all that. Io was the ancient dragon god who later split into Tiamat and Bahamut
Here a year later to say: while this might be the mistake, I'm pretty sure Io is sometimes credited with creating the multiverse, so in some sense "god of gods" might still be appropriate
Song Dragons too are a lot like steel and silver dragons. For instance, though they can have children with humanoids. These children, while looking like their humanoid parent, are actually half-dragons (and most cases don't know it). Aj Pickett YT creator has a whole series of D&D vids on monsters in 5e manual and beyond. It is were I learned about song and other dragons. Granted there are things revealed about steel dragons or other dragons here that Aj Pickett did not talk about.
WOW, this one was.. outstanding! I knew Steels before, but with not half the information provided here. I knew about soulbound, I knew about living of the lives, but didnt know about a voulture. This made the whole chain of lives even more sad, if they are to be forgotten by its own dragon children, and forgots them also. For now I have couple ideas to work with, how to incorporate Steel to my future (and previous) campaigns... For example players will met in each campaing a different npc, who will incorporate their (or memories about all my players) stories into his work. They will didn't know this, until someone, once day, will give them a magic scrying orb. Orb that looks for first impression as broken, because shows only emotions, no images etc. But if one of the players touches it the vision became clear, and recognizable only by this player. A glimpse of memory from story of his one previous character... And the note with information, that out there are more of these kind of items. And the pursuit for the memories will start. Maybe if players will successfully collect some part of the collection it will lead them to dreaming dragon in a very moment before IO will "Judge " him. This could be very good legacy of my players, especially because I have copies of all theirs characters ever played in my DM history. Thanks for the video!
Crystal is fuckin amazing. The only dragon that sees other intelligence beings as equal and both sides knowing it's a dragon. No tricks, no hidden motives, just hospitality, friendship, and the best game of snowball fight in a castle of ice so majestic that it makes Elsa jealous.
Oh man this is were my dm got the info for a steel, we didn't meet the dragon but the soul bonded, who was a elf had opened a library/school free to any. Your videos have helped improve our over gameplay thank you for the time and effort.
Now I want to DM a campaign where my players are confronted to a master criminal and his elf acolyte. When they finally dismount his organization and defeat him, they witness a flying shape leaving whatever was their final encounter area, understanding that the threat might still be real and that they might have to confront a dragon. When they arrive to his lair after some quests, they meet his elf minion, his soulbond, who explains them that his friend was living a crimininal life to expand his composition, and that he is now vaulting and will forever forget that life and might begin a new one, perfectly virtuous. Now the players must choose : will they defeat the elf and kill the dragon during his vault, or will they let him finish his composition ?
I now pray for the opportunity to DM for a Draconic sorcerer so their dad turns out to be that king that took over the kingdom 25 years ago and also a steel dragon So much inspiration here!!!
Cheshire but we don't care about goblins right now, we wanna know what they don't tell us about kobolds. I have a stake in this since two of my characters were turned into kobolds!! They need to assimilate into their new lives as adventurer fodder. (Ok this is a joke of course. My kobold sorceress managed to aid in the end game fight with an army of united kobolds and post game founded an enclave for the new City Kobolds. While my kobold rogue is currently ok with his new form and is just living his life as he would as his old Half-Elf form helping out his elven mother now and then.)
By far, the most complex and amazing dragon so far... and it does that by choosing to be incredibly simple... humility as a form of greatness. What a fucking beautiful creature.
It's amazing how there's all these cool dragons and monsters who, for reasons, enjoy humans seemingly more than even their own species or any other species
There is, in fact, a steel dragon in 5th edition...sort of. In the Dungeon of the Mad Mage module there is an encounter with a steel dragon that polymorphed into a dueregar and leads an army of dueregar. Granted when it comes to stats it was just a reskinned silver dragon with poison instead of cold breath
Phiro 00 my bad, the module actually gave it an acid breath, I changed it to poison in my own campaign because I thought it was more thematic and there aren’t any metallics that have poison breaths yet. From what I could find though steel dragons were said to be able to breathe acid and poison gas, so I don’t know exactly if Wizards made it acid on a whim or not
Steel dragons would love a good old session of H&H (Houses and Humans)
Lordm09 libraries and lawyers anyone?
I chortled.
@@seDrakonkill it is I who nuts to that
I love that Cute'bold comic image.
First I thought it's a "meh" joke and then I watched the video
Steel dragon: *reads about steel dragon*
Still steel dragon: woah!
Dragon vaults then shape shifts into a new humanoid
Fades to black
Wakes up "Hey you, your finaly awake You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us."
About a month later: YOL TOOR SHUL!
Honestly I was expecting Morrowind. Don't know why.
...My god this is beautiful and sad. I can understand why they picked steel for this element. It's reflective, yet inexpensive. It's functional, but also decorative. It writes the histories of 'modern' mortals, yet is so easily overlooked as just background against magic and more flashy metals. It represents conviction. It represents protection and death. Its worth is made in the hands of those who use it, not by rarity.
Very well said! I didn’t think anyone could see the true beauty of this dragon type. Your words have enlightened me……I’m working on a campaign where each player is a steel dragon and will secretly meet with each player IRL to explain and teach them how to play one…I’m asking permission to use your words to help them see and understand the beautifully organized chaos that IS a steel dragon. Thank you for the inspiration 😊🙏🏼
@@fatguyinalittlecoat4695 Oh absolutely, by all means. Let your players hear what I said.
As a DM for 21 years now, It's an honor to give this little bit I can. By ALL means, use them!
I think steel is the wrong metal to use. I think Mercurial Dragon would be perfect given its fluid nature.
@@gohlincoln2570 ...it's not completely fluid. They try to live complete lives as one thing before being recast as another. That's a clear solid, metallic property.
@@NorthernWind0 21 years? Dang. I'm a fresh baby dm and a new player. Decided it would be a good idea to make my own campaign virtually from scratch. The main campaign hasn't happened yet, but been having some practice sessions.
One thing I'm struggling with is I want to make challenging combat encounters, but I usually end up making it too hard or too easy. I want the players to win, but I want them to feel like they really earned the victory. Do you have any advice you could share?
"Don't be mad at him, he just became a tyrant and invaded the world so that he could create a work of art about the dangers of evil"
Or perhaps about the perspective of evil and the ways to prevent tyrants from becoming tyrants.
@@yeahhi27 rules for rulers?
@@yeahhi27 or perhaps IO doesn't give a single fwuwcwk (omit the w's) about human concepts like good or evil and instead appreciates life in all it's facets!
Edit: apparantly swearing is a big no no now...
imagine beating a tyranical king to death only for his "corpse" to turn back into a steel dragon and fly off saying "holy shit this'd make a fire song"
Sounds like God Emperor of Dune...
Imagine a campaign where you are hired by the greatest king of all time to recover artifacts of amazing magical power or knowledge, and it turns out to be that the king was a Steel Dragon who lost everything in his Composition
That's an excellent plot.
I might use that, thanks!
1. Ballsy son bitch to steal even a single item from a steel dragons composition nevermind every single one.
2. Dont wanna be that guy when he gets caught, not gonna be a painless experience.
3. Excellent campaign idea
Love it
Imagine instead of the king being the Steel Dragon, instead you are, and you find your own Composition and all of the memories of these lives come flooding back to you.
Well then, I imagine this happening:
Dave: *wakes up* Huh?... What happened?
Kevin: You were an evil sorcerer and almost took over the world with your dark powers.
Dave: Hm, okay, why didn't I?
Kevin: Some ragtag group of adventurers stopped you.
Dave: Cool cool, what did we decide I was going to be in this life?
Kevin: Oh, you're gonna be a virtuous king.
Dave: Cool cool, what if an evil sorcerer comes?
Kevin: Then you'll just have a ragtag group of adventurers deal with him.
Dave: Cool cool.
"Hey, you. You're finally awake. You walked right into that ragtag group of adventurers, same as us, right?"
Melon Collie Dave: *wakes up* “Huh? What happened?”
Ralof: “Hey you, you’re finally awake”
The egg2 GODAMNIT, YOU GOT HERE FIRST
@@rynemcgriffin1752 The dovakin is a steel dragon?
@@shadowjezzter so that horse thief is our soul bond?
Imagine a city made up of only steel dragons but each one thought that they were the only steel dragon around
I thought of that as well
What if there are no humans at all? Just a planet of steel dragons roleplaying as humans, all unaware that they're surrounded by reverse furries.
Sounds like a nightmare scenario for the Imperium.
Likely send in the Black Templars to deal with this heresy.
If that doesn't work, exterminatus would be next.
What if all the steel dragons are dittos and they don't know it ?
What about the babies they have with each other? Maybe that's how the planet eventually becomes populated by humans, steel dragons were all being reverse furries, had normal human babies with each other, rinse and repeat. What if *we're* that planet, and they all eventually left, and that's why there are no dwarves or elves
@@Gruntvc AVENGE ME BROTHER!!!
@Brandon Pride, You shall be avenged, brother!
*Flips Steel Dragon's picnic table and burns it with heavy flamer*
^_
They're just really big fans of RP. No meta gaming allowed
You didn't pay attention. They metagame like fuck. They literally get their draconic powers 1 month into polymorphing.
No, that's enabling god mode (go to your draconic life menu, and set debug mode to true, click F5 and type God = 1). that's cheating and not metagaming kkk.
But still cheating tho.
A fully realized Steel Dragon Sounds like a GREAT Warlock Patron for good and neutral characters
Sounds a bit like the Seeker patron. I really like that idea!
Okay, whoever came up with Steel Dragons is a freaking boss!
They sound so cool.
whoever retconned them is uncool tbh.
"So last time I saw you, you were trying to kill everyone. Where are you at these days?"
"It varies from moment to moment."
OMIGAWD LOKI WAS LOWKEY A STEEL DRAGON
the life of a steel draaon sounds like a sad one. especially at the reflection. all those memories, at once, it sounds like a bittersweet experience
Parents literally teach their kids to forget about them :'(
What if they were cursed to remember.... everything.
That would drive you insane I think.
@@Porkslap83 yeah, probably
This series is tempting me to make a homebrew campaign where the whole party consists of dragons
Imagine playing multiple dnd campaigns with your closetest friends for years only for them to choose to soulbind at the same time. . .
You could call it "Dragon quest"
This would be great. A threat that could force normally oppositional dragon types to unknowingly band together.
Although at some point or another, I think one of their hoards would give them away.
@@RexTiredAF Red and Silver would apparently be the one exception since they try to kill each other on sight.
Guild Lord: "Welcome back adventurers, today we will have a dragon slaying quest."
Adventurer 1: "We give up a perfectly good opportunity to live life as something awesome to instead life as a part of your world and this is the thanks we get?"
Guild Lord: ……
Adventurer 1: "And just so you know, in my last life I fucked your mother. And I thought I raised you better."
Also Guild Lord: …..
Adventurer 1 has left the surver.
Guild Lord: *To the remaining 4 adventurers* "Did I mention this quest pays extra today?"
Re: *Reflection.* 300yrs of cramming for an exam...imagine getting an F...
And wind up repeating the grade all over again.....
I wouldn't mind doing it again. Get to live another thousand lives.
Holy shit I've found my new favorite dragon
Same
Why?
Same.
@@haylongwang3002 because so unique in the fact that it lives mortal lives, it seeks to create, to leave it's mark on the world.
And that speaks to me.
@@williamwray2522 But they leave and forget there children or loved ones many many many times and probobly also some have killed someone they loved when they lead a diffrent life. If anything is aful is that you forget and leave people who love you and you love behind, expecialy your own children.
I really like how the steel dragons actually want their hoards to have meaning - not just for themselves, but as a legacy for the world as a whole. I'm not sure if even the good-aligned metallic dragons would be able to do such a deed, of giving up their treasure - and knowing that they would give it up from the very beginning.
What if we're all steel dragons, just too immersed to tell each other.
... Waaaitttt... Are you trying to... Confess to something, here?
Nils Vos
Of course they aren’t…
Are you?
I'm totally a bronze dragon.
@@Abdega Naturally not! I'm human. Completely, mundanely human.
if I was a steel dragon, why wouldn't I just drop the charade? being a dragon sounds awesome!
I feel as though these dragons embody the spirit of DnD itself. As they create great art, we create great memories, good and bad. They spread their art so it can mean something. We do the same with our fun and exciting stories we make. And they're all overseen by Ao, who in turn serves the Luminous Ones, which would be the DMs themselves. Feels kind of amazing to think about.
Wow, so they're dragon TIME LORDS! They mentally regenerate into new personalities while retaining the core of their being, fantastic!
LordManda2 •Dragon•Who•
I'm glad I wasn't alone with that thought.
There also exists time magic in DnD right?
@@Kalenz1234 Sort of, there is a slow/stop time magic, but what it does is basically just makes you so fast time appears to halt.
@@Kalenz1234 There's little time magic in vanilla DnD, most if it you have to dig for in splat books. High level mages actually can do some awesome stuff like reverse aging, accelerate time for plots of land, and (in Pathfinder) my favorite, Mythic Time Stop, which lets your party do a bunch of attacks that all land all in the same second of time. (ZA WARUDO!)
The thing that made me fall in love with this dragon race is it’s vaulting ritual. The fact that it vaults it’s family life as a dragon is just so bitter sweet cuz the idea of having to hide away your memories before moving to a new life a few years later is intense
And that quote from a steel dragon "... It's better this way" it sounds almost reluctant and resigned. Like it doesn't want to go through with it but it know it must...
Kinda like an avatar from Avatar the last airbender. They reincarnate regularly and barely remember anything in their past life other than their friends and family.
So what you're saying is, they're basically in-universe LARPers.
Imagine a Steel Dragon trusting someone enough to reveal he's a dragon and the character just responding with "lol LARP"
@@DISTurbedwaffle918 or "BEHOLD I AM THE MIGHTIEST AND GREATEST OF LARPERS, You Party of Adventurersare nothing compared to My Radiance!"
@@TheBeastr
*The Steel Dragon rolls for his intimidation check*
*1*
*the adventurers laugh and call him a nerd*
Yes
@@DISTurbedwaffle918
*sniffle* "A-atleast i have a life"
Says the dragon as he sadly walks away back to his home where his mom waits for him to come back from his LARPing session at jerry's house
These dragons are so immersive MxR would be proud
I am severely disappointed that steel dragons don't have a breath weapon that's just spewing up a bunch of swords.
Nah make it shrapnel breath, like the way grenades kill when they explode, a deadly concussive blast mixed with steel fragments flying at super sonic speeds.
@@IammeoramI
Far more effective, probably looks cooler, and is most likely more realistic.
Not as fun though.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149
Sword breath but the swords also explode like grenades and still have the benefit of stabbing people, then exploding them
@@IammeoramI
You genius! You you made the perfect compromise between stupidity, coolness, and effectivity. I salute you good sir!
Blade Breath!
*BLAAARGH!*
Came in prepared for some sort of incredibly badass metal creature. Wasn't prepared for the onslaught of heartwarming feels about transcendental friendship and the profoundly touching value of life and all the great experiences, lessons and achievements we should be aiming to make out of it like steel dragons do.
This comment does not have as many likes as it damn well ought to!!!
Ok, Steel Dragons are now without a doubt my favorite D&D dragon. They sound facinating :)
same
Why?
@@haylongwang3002 if you're a DM than it's amazing of a player you shall never know
@@r-c2082 oK, that I can agree with.
I wonder how often steel dragons have killed their own descendants, maybe even children in their next lives.
This is so tragic and poetic. Immediately and forever my favorite Dragon. Thank you for making such a great video!
Book series: 20 volumes, each a different adventure, different life with an Elf or Dwarf as a reoccurring character. The 21st is the Reflection, linking the previous 20 volumes/lives together as the main character of each book was the steel dragon.
this would be a incredible idea
You going to write it?
Sadly, no. I lack the knowledge due to being raised by a product of the Satanic Panic and I'm just now getting into D&D. That, and I have a plethora of other projects on my list.
I'm thinking of some thing there the true friend is a lich (not evil and keep the arts safe and all)
@@SharowbladyeGaymerPorate There are a few concepts that you could play on for that. Perhaps the true friend is a homunculus or a human soul that had been transferred into a construct. Even further, baring that possibility in mind, this True Friend could be their first lover.
Imagine the final years of the soulbind (elf or dwarf or such). They've had this friend who's been a constant, even though they keep changing their personalities completely around every century or so. But then after hundreds of years together, they tell you that their time has come...and then go into a reflection for hundreds of years, while their soulbind just comes every so often to check on them, one day to find the reflection over and their friend has finally passed away. And now the responsibility of their lifesworks is still to come.
So ... Steel Dragons are just dragon-roleplayers? 😂😂😂
I was thinking the same thing. Are they playing Houses & Humans?
Lol, I kinda imagined them as great actors of their time or great kings or even advisors to a king. I imagine them doing something that would be in the best interest of humanoid kind if they are a good dragon that is . I think they would want to do something with all of the knowledge that they have accumulated over time they've lived.🤓🤓🤓
The Weeb Drake
So that's why the game is called Dungeons & Dragons
Now I'm thinking of Dragons that sit around and have turned themselves into humans/humanoids as they roleplayed
H&H DM: "Ok so far Sarah and Mike graduated into the local university, Tommy was recruited to the armed forces, Amy entered a trade program to become a electrician, and then John...
...you failed high school. What Do You Choose Between These Choices Of Either: Repeat the grade or drop out...
Interupting John: I burn the highschool down! *Rolls* *D20*
DM: *heavily* *sighes* "You've successfully burned down the highschool"
John: Awesome, I start to dance with the school burning behind me
DM : Ok so as you boogey down before the burning campus, the local authorities appear in front of John as you open your eyes to the surprise of handcuffs on your hands... ok your in custody by the police officers who were once your seniors
My DM and I loved this lore so much we found a way to fit one into our game. I can't wait for it to be revealed as we go. Thank you so much for all your research and work for our benefit and enjoyment. Keep up the good work.
So, now that two years have passed... how did it go? What happened? Im super curious how this played out.
@@sheldonbuchanan9484 we took a break from the campaign, our group has 2DMs that switch off so each also has a chance to play. We're in decent to Avernus now but will switch back to the campaign with the steel dragon later this quarter. So far though he's functioned as a guide and a great resource.
Loved the Steel Dragons! If you have enough call for it, Gem Dragons might make an interesting addition to the series.
Cant wait for WOTC to add gem dragons to 5e once they get psionics worked out
Definately
On Mount Celestia don’t they have adamantine dragons as well?
Most definitely since my homebrew world is heavily linked to the elemental planes, makes sense that gem dragons would be in my world.
this idea is absolutely beautiful to me.... especially the soul bonds last mission...to spread its composition. absolutely poetic.
Dude, milk these pupies all the way to the bank. Cant get enough of your DnD content.
Ahmad Nieves delicious
For some reason the stuff about the steel dragon's composition really got to me. The idea that these dragons, instead of stealing and hoarding to fill their lair, creates things to decorate its home and then spreads it to society at large when it dies is amazing. Added to that the idea that only one person will ever recognize the accomplishments of a specific steel dragon in its entire lifetime and even its own children won't remember it until they are about to die.
This is kind of a beautifully tragic creature.
Okay, so who's down to go Four levels deep, and play as Steel Dragons (in D&D) playing as humans, that get together and play their in universe version of Dungeons and Dragons every week.
Please! You need to add a few more layers with your characters being dopplegangers pretending to be human playing Offices and Bosses, playing as Steel dragons, pretending to be humans playing D&D.
Both of you stop, you're making my brain hurt.
Alright, that settles it. Steel Dragons have become my favorite type of dragons. It's so tragic yet beautiful at the same time.
Okay now we need an NPC that is a Half-dragon with his mother being a Steel Dragon that had feel in love and married unknowingly with a Silver Dragon trying to play a part think it would be an interesting character
The cool part is that this is in-rules possible, since just like in the video, they can have full humanoid children. Just play a draconic sorcerer!
@@vinifalleroliveira true the and flavoring a dragonborn can simulate the Half-dragon aspect
@@michaelbalcom5233
Perfection!
With no human input wouldn't it just end up a silver/steel dragon hybrid instead of a half dragon or human?
@@tulkdog Well, Steels basically become full human, so they would be a half dragon still.
I think it would be cool for a steel dragon to soul bond with a human and because the human cares so much for the dragon he becomes a lich in order to be able to live long enough to help the steel dragon achieve its goal. It could be a possible twist reveal to a party that kills a lich.
This dragon is literally one of the Imperium of Man's nightmares made real. A nonhuman intelligent being that hides amongst humans and crossbreeds with them.
That is funny.
But, the children are still human. At least physically.
Well, more like a nonhuman intelligent being wants to be human so much that they discard their own species to be human, but yes, the Steel Dragons would give the Imperium so many heart attacks...
I'm gonna need the HEAVY flamer for this kind of herasy
MiningwithPudding fuck heart attacks, they'd supuku the entire hive city THEN THEMSELVES in order to make sure they kill every single nonhuman. It would be a witch-hunt to end all witch-hunts!
*inquisitorial screeching*
I am so happy to see you doing the Steel Dragons, my favorite for years now. I've even had a recurring NPC Steel for many campaigns. Argh, so awesome. You even including the lesser known things, too.
But I will say there are several things missing from the info. For example, their polymorphed forms always have some sort of Steel-colored aspect to it, be it hair, nails, or even a trinket. Its just something they do, and allows only other Steels to tell what they truly are. They also leave into the wilds far away once a month to go a feeding frenzy, as while they prefer to eat while human, it can't sustain itself that way. The reasons it gives for leaving depends on it's current life.
And two last things; there are notes of several Steels actually having several lives at a time, notably one of the ones you mentioned living in Waterdeep. Lastly, they have a 'unbound curiosity', which is it typically leads it into its life choices.
These are just extra tidbits, as the lore you stated goes way beyond those little things. Good God I loved the video, made me love them even more.
I think I have a new favorite dragon, they're SO complex (a true masterpiece of a character).
Although, what would happen if a steel dragon decided to not clean their memory? or wrote to their future self something and how all those past lifes are one?
What if their soul bound was to get killed? Could a soulbound be their couple every single lifetime?
And imagine how hard it must be for a long lived humanoid to find out that their old friend was a steel dragon, to go through hell itself to find them and that they don't remember them? (Add more drama by being their spouse/descendant)
Could their soulbound guide them to stick to a certain morality? What if they ended being in opposite sides of the law or a war?
Miguel Angel Rangel sounds like a Dungeons and Dragons Doctor Who plot.
It is all explained in a video. Dragon will not forget his soulbond. Dragon chooses his soulbond with two major factors in mind: longevity and ability not to judge, aka true neutral. Dragon choses a friend, so not a love interest for soulbound, because this person will have to outlive and say goodbye to said dragon. Steel dragon knows himself in between those lives, it does not loose awareness of being steel dragon after vaulting, otherwise it would have to learn vaulting again after each vaulting. It does leave notes to itself in form of masterpieces it creates after each life and it carries them all to its lair, so it does not forget its lair, its dragon abilities or awareness of one self.
What would be better question is what kind of masterpiece they create after living a life of a peasant or pirate, how about lawyer?
@@AmaryInkawult Imagine that a steel dragon has descendants, and after vaulting, it marries them
@@Cheshiremd But do all steel dragons in the end have to vault? (is it the decision or the pain of the lost ones that make them vault?)
If during the twilight years of a steel dragon it remembers everything, then imagine the emotional storm it may be suffering during their sleep
@@Randomdudefromtheinternet, it is a decision, but the one they have to make in order to lead a new life. Imagine if steel was a pirate and next life he started as an admiral. If steel didn't vault memories of his pirate's life than his judgement and morals as an admiral will be compromised. He might pardon his friends from past life or be very lenient to pirates in general and hard on his officers. Such inconsistencies will prevent his full immersion in the life he chose and, maybe even will prevent him from making a masterwork. What then? Hard to tell, but consequences might be disastrous. So this is why steel HAS to vault.
I love this video, not only is it great as a dnd lore video. Its actually one of my favorite stories on the entire platform. 😊
So your telling me that steel dragons are the physical manifestations of reincarnation
There's something so somber and morose, yet so inspiring and hopeful, about steel dragon lore. It almost made me cry to just listen to you talk.
I now want to play a Steel Dragon in my next Campaign.
Same.
@@TheLostArchangel666 I think it would just be like playing any other race except you have the steel dragon's racial traits, draconic heritage, and a high strength, charisma, constitution, and armor class.
@@erisstewart4236Above-average intel would make more sense than strength I think, at some level? Not 100% sure.
@@TheLostArchangel666 He did say that a polymorphed silver dragon had the same strength and toughness as a silver dragon, with the vaulting they do lose their memories making their knowledge limited to their background. At least that is how I am interpreting it.
@@erisstewart4236 Good point. At the same time; according to most other sources I found, steel dragons are /far/ more inclined towards more intellectual pursuits than anything else? Not sure just how accurate my sources are tho.
Holy cow!!! This is an amazing video! It is one of the most beautiful concepts I have ever heard about in D&D! I could write whole campaigns around this! Thank you for these videos :D
Steel is now my favorite kind of dragon. Keep up the good work, I love the ones about dragons especially!
Fascinating! D&D dragonkind is one of the most interesting pieces of lore in existence of roleplaying.
Nice video! There is actually one steel dragon in 5e that shows up in Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, but it doesn't have all the cool abilities discussed here.
Yeah I read it and it said it has the stats of silver dragons with acid breath, but forgot to mention immunity to acid.
Wow, knew a little about Steels before but all this....the dramatic, poetic, tragic potential for storytelling with these guys is immense! In the time it took to watch this video I have developed the plan for an entire bloody campaign in my head, off to the notebooks methinks!
The Steel Dragons are my new favorite! When I started this video I had no idea what I was about discover. These videos are awesome, keep up the excellent work.
This is my all time favorite dragon and my all time favorite video on said dragon. At least 2 times a year I come back to this video and give it a rewatch. Thank you so much for this expose'
Yes you are now my favorite dnd youtuber. I was so hoping you would do more of the lesser known dragons. Keep up the good work man.
the campaign i am running has changed drastically with ideas i got while watching this, thank you.
These videos are amazing man well done !! GIMME MORE DRAGONS
I find myself getting all excited as soon as a new video drops. Love the voice, love the info. Best videos on the web.
You should check out AJ picket’s video on the steel dragons, they seem better sourced and there’s some specific stories told about notable steel dragons.
These are some of the most amazing/interesting creatures I've learned about since I started watching your channel a few months back. They are living in quantum leap for whole lifetimes at a time
Io is just a DM in Feyrune, he just made some PCs into dragons
I appreciate your videos. I eat up all the lore for the sessions I host. My sessions aim for the tone that the players are indeed heroes with self determination and world consequence, while being a single reflection of a great crystals' last enchanted throe - the last cries of a passing age.
The easily accesible material you provide made that possible.
Great idea for a high level PC steel dragon pretending to be an adventurer. See how long you and the DM can keep the secret whilst dropping subtle hints. Gonna have to try this some day
Currently playing as a half elf sorcerer, but am actually a silver dragon wyrmling (with sorcerer levels). Was going pretty well until we settled for camp one night, and the dark powers that rule Ravenloft thought itd be funny to trigger the lycanthropy half the party got infected with about a week early while we were on our way to go find a macguffin to trade in return for getting the curse removed. Unfortunately, the ones infected were the Fighter, Cleric, and Monk, leaving Me (the sorcerer), Wizard and Bard in a tough spot and I had to shift so I could fly up with the gnome wizard on my back. The bard got his ass beat but somehow beat the DC and didnt get infected.
Steels are, without question, my favorite dragon subtype. Between their servitude to IO and the crazy mental abilities, they're so crazy to make use of and a ton of fun to think about. I love these crazy buggers.
Drop a like if you would go fishing with your male Steel Dragon neighbors.
Is that what they're calling it now
@@JamesTheCelestial no they call it making Dragon blooded sorcerers
They are supposed to hone some artstyle, brewing a good beer is an art. No go fishing with friends without bringing a couple of beers!
@@michaelpettersson4919 funny because I brew beer
I’d even do it with the female ones!
Found this gem of a video in my home page and I'm not disappointed.
Mithral dragons next! ever since I read about them in my tome of beasts I really wanted to know more!
Steel dragons are now my official favourite! So much that i wanna become one in real life just for the drama! I love it and thank you for sharing MrRhexx!
Time Lord = Steel Dragon
Steel Dragon = Time Lord
"I ...I don't want to go"
Discuss
Yes
Draxis Blackwood it’s unanimous
This gave me soo many ideas for campaigns revolving around the dragons! Such a cool creature!
seems like the steel dragon was made for the PC's. can't think of a background for your character? boom! you're a steel dragon! nothing else needed. though if not used in a lazy way you could have stories from your past vault that creates obstacles, treasure cashes, and have created opportunities like chipped away at a wall that helps cut a way to a dungeon boss.
An interesting idea would be a Steel Dragon with a faulty, "leaking" Vaulting Process. Old memories resurfacing at random, in dreams or as nightmares. Or, if you roll really bad, the Steel Dragon completely blanks out and just stands there as it re-lives past events unless a companion snaps it out, or it breaks out of it itself.
Steel Dragons are really interesting creatures, depending on how it is handled.
like all elements in story telling, the concept matters little if the execution is done poorly.
I would love this so much, except that it's probably very difficult to pull off playing what essentially amounts to the Avatar. But if I was a more skilled player and had an experienced DM, this would be fucking awesome.
Another great concept would be that you are a Steel Dragon's soulbond and either need to help them transition into a new life or (my favorite one) need to help them spread their knowledge into the world. Now that's an emotional hook if I've ever seen one.
the soul bound friend would trust his descendants and their friends to spread the knowledge of the steel dragon across the four corners of the world. but they need to be careful that they don't fall into the hands of a knowledge-destroying inquisition. each recipient of knowledge would have long lasting effects on the next campaign, some would be catch 22's, some would be crucial for the birth of the next campaign, and others would simply drastically change the landscape of the future game. have the players debate, fight, and go behind the backs of the other players to whom they deem worthy of the riddle of steel.
@@Ed_man_talking9 fantastic!
I had been aware of Steel dragons before, but now they are my new favorite type of dragon! Thank you.
I love this so much, this is 100% my favorite type of dragon and it gives me so many ideas to play with some day, thanks for sharing the knowledge of it's existence!
I'm currently in the works on a homebrew steel Dragonborn race, and this has helped me a ton.
What if a Steel Dragon soul bonded with a family instead of an individual?
(I’m trying to see the plausibility of Speedwagon as a steel dragon. Roll with it)
Speedwagon's breath weapon is just screaming
Is that a Jojo reference? 😑
wait what so like
king: bob its time to meet your ancestor
bob: uem what you mean ancestors, i dont need books.
steel dragon: omg god is that little bobby, my its only been what 30 years, come and show grandpa how stronge you have become.
bob: is this why i am a sorcerer?
king: yea your grand ma loved him very much
SPEEEEDOWAGOOOON!
This is perhaps the most beautiful expression of life I have ever heard of; just wonderful.
I think you're mixing up Ao and Io. Ao is the god of gods in Forgotten Realms, who created the universe and all that. Io was the ancient dragon god who later split into Tiamat and Bahamut
Thank you. Someone else remembered this. Was really bugging me.
I'm sure that's not confusing at all. Lol.
Here a year later to say: while this might be the mistake, I'm pretty sure Io is sometimes credited with creating the multiverse, so in some sense "god of gods" might still be appropriate
I hate when D&D youtubers get. Io and Ao mixed up.
My favorite one you have done (that I have seen) thus far. Bravo.
LMAO! Was searching for your videos of sphinxes and found out that you made a new vid. Great Work!
I love the idea of a dragon soulbounded to a Vampire... Would be an intresting twist
Song Dragons too are a lot like steel and silver dragons.
For instance, though they can have children with humanoids. These children, while looking like their humanoid parent, are actually half-dragons (and most cases don't know it).
Aj Pickett YT creator has a whole series of D&D vids on monsters in 5e manual and beyond. It is were I learned about song and other dragons. Granted there are things revealed about steel dragons or other dragons here that Aj Pickett did not talk about.
I love AJ Pickett
WOW, this one was.. outstanding! I knew Steels before, but with not half the information provided here. I knew about soulbound, I knew about living of the lives, but didnt know about a voulture. This made the whole chain of lives even more sad, if they are to be forgotten by its own dragon children, and forgots them also.
For now I have couple ideas to work with, how to incorporate Steel to my future (and previous) campaigns... For example players will met in each campaing a different npc, who will incorporate their (or memories about all my players) stories into his work. They will didn't know this, until someone, once day, will give them a magic scrying orb. Orb that looks for first impression as broken, because shows only emotions, no images etc. But if one of the players touches it the vision became clear, and recognizable only by this player. A glimpse of memory from story of his one previous character... And the note with information, that out there are more of these kind of items. And the pursuit for the memories will start. Maybe if players will successfully collect some part of the collection it will lead them to dreaming dragon in a very moment before IO will "Judge " him. This could be very good legacy of my players, especially because I have copies of all theirs characters ever played in my DM history.
Thanks for the video!
CRYSTAL DRAGONS FROM 1rst-3rd
WHOS WITH ME
*raises hand*
AYE IO
Crystal is fuckin amazing. The only dragon that sees other intelligence beings as equal and both sides knowing it's a dragon. No tricks, no hidden motives, just hospitality, friendship, and the best game of snowball fight in a castle of ice so majestic that it makes Elsa jealous.
Yees
Oh man this is were my dm got the info for a steel, we didn't meet the dragon but the soul bonded, who was a elf had opened a library/school free to any. Your videos have helped improve our over gameplay thank you for the time and effort.
The steel dragon sounds like it could be a very cool character race for a high level build.
Now I want to DM a campaign where my players are confronted to a master criminal and his elf acolyte. When they finally dismount his organization and defeat him, they witness a flying shape leaving whatever was their final encounter area, understanding that the threat might still be real and that they might have to confront a dragon. When they arrive to his lair after some quests, they meet his elf minion, his soulbond, who explains them that his friend was living a crimininal life to expand his composition, and that he is now vaulting and will forever forget that life and might begin a new one, perfectly virtuous. Now the players must choose : will they defeat the elf and kill the dragon during his vault, or will they let him finish his composition ?
What did they pick?? How’d the campaign end?
I now pray for the opportunity to DM for a Draconic sorcerer so their dad turns out to be that king that took over the kingdom 25 years ago and also a steel dragon
So much inspiration here!!!
At 3:08 there's a voice change where he says "which is usually the coolest stuff..." It sounds great! Gave me a good grin.
What They Don't Tell You About Kobolds
And goblins.
Actually there is even whole series dedicated to goblins.
Cheshire but we don't care about goblins right now, we wanna know what they don't tell us about kobolds. I have a stake in this since two of my characters were turned into kobolds!! They need to assimilate into their new lives as adventurer fodder.
(Ok this is a joke of course. My kobold sorceress managed to aid in the end game fight with an army of united kobolds and post game founded an enclave for the new City Kobolds. While my kobold rogue is currently ok with his new form and is just living his life as he would as his old Half-Elf form helping out his elven mother now and then.)
Don't take the candle!
By far, the most complex and amazing dragon so far... and it does that by choosing to be incredibly simple... humility as a form of greatness. What a fucking beautiful creature.
I live for these videos man their so cool
It's amazing how there's all these cool dragons and monsters who, for reasons, enjoy humans seemingly more than even their own species or any other species
So it's basically a Dragon Time Lord.
Whoa... Pretty much. Except Timelords remember most of what they do in their lifetimes. But holy shit.
The eternal dragon of time! AQW reference sorry.
One of the most interesting stories about D&D I've ever heard! Great video!
Now i'm imagining to steel dragons accidentally mating and when the girl lays an egg they're like: oh shiz
This is probably my favorite creature in all of fantasy lore. Ty for the awesome video.
Now I'm imagining my next draconic sorcerer being a steel dragon disguised as a human noblewoman
Back after Fizban's just decided "oh yeah those were just silver the whole time"
players are Canonically (not actually) Steel Dragons!
That's a fun thought.
So I would like to say as a Dungeon master who just finished a campaign and is now working on a new one, this info is VERY useful.
There is, in fact, a steel dragon in 5th edition...sort of. In the Dungeon of the Mad Mage module there is an encounter with a steel dragon that polymorphed into a dueregar and leads an army of dueregar. Granted when it comes to stats it was just a reskinned silver dragon with poison instead of cold breath
is poison their natural breath weapon or did they pull that out their ass?
Phiro 00 my bad, the module actually gave it an acid breath, I changed it to poison in my own campaign because I thought it was more thematic and there aren’t any metallics that have poison breaths yet. From what I could find though steel dragons were said to be able to breathe acid and poison gas, so I don’t know exactly if Wizards made it acid on a whim or not
this some comfy conetnt m8 thanks for still doing this, thanks for all the lore videos of other topics too.