What They Don't Tell You About Dracoliches - D&D

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    The cinematic pieces come from 3 different games, the dracolich attacking the city is from the Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG called "Neverwinter". Hence, that video is perfectly canon as to how the dragon looks and behaves; the woman accompanying the dragon is a lich hiding under magic.
    The cinematic with the adventurers defeating cultists is (i believe) also from the same MMO, but a particular expansion of the game. It is from the Hoard of the Dragonqueen and Rise of Tiamat storyline.
    The cinematic with the ice skeletal dragon is from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King cinematic.
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Комментарии • 1 тыс.

  • @freeweebhentai7304
    @freeweebhentai7304 5 лет назад +1692

    Step 1: DRAGON
    Step 2: LICH
    Step 3: ???
    Step 4: PROFIT

    • @defensivekobra3873
      @defensivekobra3873 5 лет назад +33

      They are cooler liches, perfect for an campaing with a lot of vampire mages, mummy lords, liches, death tyrant beholders for you to fight, or for a party who thinks liches are too lame

    • @kevinsuazo3251
      @kevinsuazo3251 5 лет назад +7

      @Free Weeb Hentai what inspired you to come up with that name, it's amazing!

    • @goldfish0616
      @goldfish0616 5 лет назад +1

      Explain the plan one more time.

    • @dragonballtalk8527
      @dragonballtalk8527 5 лет назад +2

      Giant two headed Cyclops werewolf mummy lich

    • @PisaMansodeCapoeira
      @PisaMansodeCapoeira 4 года назад

      *GROFIT

  • @gweenbean1905
    @gweenbean1905 5 лет назад +1097

    Dragonborn Undying Warlock, whose patron is a Dracolich that is also their Draconic ancestor.

    • @dovahkiin_brasil
      @dovahkiin_brasil 5 лет назад +126

      Well.... on the normal version of D&D dragonbornes hate to depend on others entitys powers. This means that you never see Dragonborne Warlocks or "totally not divine warlocks" AKA clerics
      But if the DM wants you can even impregnate a elemental soo nobody cares

    • @Boehr52
      @Boehr52 5 лет назад +38

      Stealing this and anti normal heros are the best kinda heros

    • @thesquish8657
      @thesquish8657 5 лет назад +51

      Too bad dragonborn arent related to dragon in anyway much like kobolds. Dragon borns were slaves of dragons in a alternate reality then came to our world.

    • @gweenbean1905
      @gweenbean1905 5 лет назад +9

      @@thesquish8657 Are you talking about Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms?

    • @bradleyprimeau8663
      @bradleyprimeau8663 5 лет назад +20

      @@thesquish8657 depends on the setting, according to the 3.5e book races of the dragon kobald are related to dragons, dragonwrought kobald even more so and dragonborn are created in a ritual by bahumat.

  • @Gollvieg
    @Gollvieg 5 лет назад +2412

    Human funeral: He died too young T_T
    Dragon funeral: Remember when he got so drunk he went crazy and flattened a mountain, dried up a sea and sired a hundred half-dragons? That was a great decade. ^_^

    • @StarboyXL9
      @StarboyXL9 5 лет назад +36

      XD

    • @chazmars78
      @chazmars78 5 лет назад +198

      Remember when he transformed into a cat and got so drunk he burnt the bar down with his breath weapon in cat form?

    • @THEOBSERVER-1
      @THEOBSERVER-1 5 лет назад +165

      @@chazmars78 just imagine explaining to the insurance company that your bar was burned by a fire breathing cat.

    • @dashiellgillingham4579
      @dashiellgillingham4579 5 лет назад +85

      @@THEOBSERVER-1 Well, I know what I'm doing to my party of Imperial Epic Economic Investigations (IEEI, pronounced like constipation) Agents next time we meet. Thank you internet, you have rescued me from writer's block.

    • @crownprince76
      @crownprince76 5 лет назад +5

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

  • @Nyghtking
    @Nyghtking 5 лет назад +896

    "A dragonoid body"
    Kobolds have dragon blood and I believe are considered dragonoid so...
    and any soul and inhabit a necromantic fueled dragon body so...

    • @ender_lord1202
      @ender_lord1202 5 лет назад +220

      I once had a character concept that a full grown dragon was polymorphed/reincarnated into a kobold but since he still had the mind of a dragon he would do things like jump off high places thinking he could fly or announce his totally intimidating presence when he entered a room.

    • @Sophia-vk5bq
      @Sophia-vk5bq 5 лет назад +60

      Some Kobolds have dragon blood, who often become sorcerers. They didn't universally or even as a majority descend from dragons.

    • @andrewthegeek6522
      @andrewthegeek6522 5 лет назад +69

      So make a campaign around a kobold who is on a quest to become a lich and the players must stop him

    • @Sophia-vk5bq
      @Sophia-vk5bq 5 лет назад +12

      @@andrewthegeek6522 sounds good to me.

    • @andrewthegeek6522
      @andrewthegeek6522 5 лет назад +8

      @@Sophia-vk5bq one-shot or full campaign?

  • @unoriginalumbrella8111
    @unoriginalumbrella8111 5 лет назад +410

    You know Dracolich's are secretive and badass when not even the Demonprince of Undeath knows how to make them.

    • @sethkrueger5472
      @sethkrueger5472 4 года назад +43

      I'm pretty sure orcus probably could come up with his own way to make undead dragons, his hole thing is to fuck around with things with death

    • @thomasfarmer1730
      @thomasfarmer1730 4 года назад +2

      Its mindblowing that you guys take this fictional stuff way too..LMAO 😂🤣

    • @Dannyhota
      @Dannyhota 4 года назад +67

      @@thomasfarmer1730 dnd is literally for roleplaying, it's more fun when you put more into it, otherwise, we get guys like you '-'

    • @Suo_kongque
      @Suo_kongque 4 года назад +5

      Seth Krueger except for the fact That many dragons are already more powerful than he is

    • @IRQ17
      @IRQ17 Месяц назад

      @@sethkrueger5472 Made one for my campaign. Ancient female blue, known by the moniker of Azure Eminence due to being a leader of blue dragon pack with a territory so large it was considered a country in its own right and recognized as such by neighboring nations, locked in a pocket dimension in what was supposed to be a forever duel with the champion of the god of destruction, killed his opponent within days and then was left in basically a small cave for the rest of eternity. Orcus struck a deal, making her a dracolich - or at least something close to it - allowing her to wait for release while slowly going insane. Fast forward a couple thousand years and two out of the three seals closing the dimension were broken, and an adventuring party encounters the door, behind which there is one of five strongest dragons that ever lived in undead form, with an artifact axe of the champion embedded within her ribcage as a phylactery and behind her a shadow of a brave warrior, with unadulterated fury towards those who have just undone his sacrifice... AND THE FUCKS DECIDED TO LEAVE THE DOOR BE SINCE IT WASN'T PART OF THEIR CURRENT QUEST AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER WITH THE RIDDLE. I hate DMing sometimes.

  • @misakamikoto8785
    @misakamikoto8785 5 лет назад +540

    You'll hear that? Pick your own God now and start praying! Ain't nobody want to end up on the wall of shame!

    • @thejamman4070
      @thejamman4070 5 лет назад +31

      My Rogue keeps almost dying, so maybe I should.

    • @krimverse5903
      @krimverse5903 5 лет назад +36

      Well if they have something similar to a machine god, I'll pray the fuck out of machines to please the omnisiah! Though I wonder what you can do in that afterlife with said machine god?

    • @Espartano692
      @Espartano692 5 лет назад +23

      @@krimverse5903 There's Primus, but I'm not sure he is 100% a deity or just has the power level of one

    • @cavareenvius7886
      @cavareenvius7886 5 лет назад +17

      @@krimverse5903 Go with Primus. But I don't think he listens to prayer. And if he does, then good luck not to upset him, because he is the most picky God of them all.

    • @RabidlyTaboo
      @RabidlyTaboo 5 лет назад +18

      There's Primus but he wouldn't want anything to do with the will full and fickle souls of humanoids. He rules the plane of time I think and his minions are increadibly specific in form and function, each serving a particular role or task with a strict hierarchy of who can command who or perform specific jobs. Our souls wouldn't fit into that in 99.999% of cases, I don't think.
      But fuck it, this is d&d. Do w.e.

  • @truemind1018
    @truemind1018 5 лет назад +532

    "death is inescapable and all forms of longevity will stop working after a while"
    *laughs in clone spell*

    • @MystFox1314
      @MystFox1314 5 лет назад +62

      Except your soul just got yeeted by a greater being :(

    • @ezzardeyethief
      @ezzardeyethief 5 лет назад +70

      Laughs in True Polymorph: Draco Lich.

    • @dovahkiin_brasil
      @dovahkiin_brasil 5 лет назад +50

      *Laughs in ascended god/god's champiom*

    • @priamneville5899
      @priamneville5899 5 лет назад +97

      True Polymorph -> Ancient Gold Dragon -> Relearn Wizardry -> More Clones -> Becoming a 9th level Wizard-Dragon. Build an empire. Fight evil across the cosmos as an unstoppable being of good. Profit.

    • @theblazingcrusader6322
      @theblazingcrusader6322 5 лет назад +20

      Priam Neville my groups dm finds that when our characters are Demi gods at high levels so this little chart speaks to me on a spiritual level.

  • @pyronicdesign
    @pyronicdesign 5 лет назад +695

    dracoliches are so much more interesting in their creation than they are in actual gameplay.

    • @thatsnotgonewellatall5517
      @thatsnotgonewellatall5517 5 лет назад +26

      Unless you make them a good guy

    • @zacharyrodriguez4348
      @zacharyrodriguez4348 5 лет назад +25

      @@thatsnotgonewellatall5517 why would anyone do that?, There should be no nice liches

    • @thatsnotgonewellatall5517
      @thatsnotgonewellatall5517 5 лет назад +73

      @@zacharyrodriguez4348 think about it. Good dragon born forced to contain the soul. They come back. Still good but with that craving and not knowing what happened to them

    • @Grinnar
      @Grinnar 5 лет назад +9

      This comment can be applied to all lore.

    • @LargeAmoeba
      @LargeAmoeba 5 лет назад +46

      Use the lore and the creation to build it up over the course of a campaign. Than when your players finally face it all that lore and build up makes it super interesting to encounter. Just droping a Dracolich into your game and saying here fight this is going to make it boring. But same can be said for anything really.

  • @indignantlamentation6307
    @indignantlamentation6307 5 лет назад +180

    "Sounds like a terrible idea." -Klauth, Ancient Red Dragon

    • @arnox4554
      @arnox4554 4 года назад +8

      Was this in Neverwinter Nights?

  • @christerpherewilhite2019
    @christerpherewilhite2019 5 лет назад +318

    Could you just do a bulk episode of undead in D&D for October.They are one of the most intersting aspects of D&D to me

  • @billysbilbolag2050
    @billysbilbolag2050 5 лет назад +121

    I've been searching for info and stats for Draco-liches all day because I have plans on introducing one in the campaign I'm running. This was perfectly timed!

    • @Essex121514
      @Essex121514 5 лет назад +10

      Some adventurers are about to get a hurt REAL bad.

    • @Whatsthis848
      @Whatsthis848 5 лет назад +4

      I was actually thinking of using one in my campaign, but after hearing this it won't fit very well. Unless I give my necromancer an item designed to control it. May just have to go with an undead dragon though.

  • @lincolnrayes6464
    @lincolnrayes6464 5 лет назад +129

    That Tiefling in that cinematic is the real mvp, what a power move

    • @kaiandresrussomunne5319
      @kaiandresrussomunne5319 5 лет назад

      What is that from? I want to watch it

    • @lordeiswolf
      @lordeiswolf 5 лет назад +6

      @@kaiandresrussomunne5319 its from a game intro, just search after neverwinter mmo

    • @lincolnrayes6464
      @lincolnrayes6464 5 лет назад +6

      @@kaiandresrussomunne5319 From Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG called "Neverwinter" his got them in the description if you want to know the other ones :)

  • @TerrariaGolem
    @TerrariaGolem 5 лет назад +169

    We should have a *Video of Every Known Werecreature* for Halloween.
    Were Rats, Were Bear, & Were Ravens have cool lore.

    • @youtubingjaguar5082
      @youtubingjaguar5082 5 лет назад +5

      Where are the stats for wereravens? They sound AWESOME and could be extremely fun to play. ;)

    • @tautau1a
      @tautau1a 5 лет назад +3

      Yes, but only if there's a screenshot of the talking mudcrab of Morrowind talking about weresharks. Because comic relief.

    • @breadlyweapon9612
      @breadlyweapon9612 5 лет назад

      @@youtubingjaguar5082 Curse of Strahd

    • @1228carlito
      @1228carlito 4 года назад

      @@youtubingjaguar5082 the original was Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts (AD&D 2nd Edition, Ravenloft Accessory). they had wereravens listed there

    • @TerrariaGolem
      @TerrariaGolem 4 года назад

      @@youtubingjaguar5082 like the guy above said, curse of strahd

  • @sanddry738
    @sanddry738 5 лет назад +83

    Liches are some of my favorite monsters in D&D. It’s great to know how different yet alike Liches and Dracoliches are in terms of rituals

    • @luizhenriquealves9755
      @luizhenriquealves9755 5 лет назад

      But since his video on mummies, is there such thing as dragon mumies or dracomumy lords?

    • @sanddry738
      @sanddry738 5 лет назад

      Luiz Henrique Alves
      dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Centaur_Mummy_(5e)
      So apparently Tales from the Yawning Portal had a centaur mummy...
      So yeah perhaps a dragon *could* be possible? As long as draconic magic doesn’t interfere or a new process has to be done like with dracolichdom rituals. You’d also have to have literal metric tons of salt and herbs for the embalming process though...

    • @krispalermo8133
      @krispalermo8133 5 лет назад +1

      AD&D2e lick was at lest a 18th-level wizard or cleric.
      In 3.5e they are 11th-level spell caster, and it does not say what spells are needed. They just need something to hold their Soul in.

    • @FinallyAlone
      @FinallyAlone 4 года назад

      Yeah undead monsters burn up very nicely.

  • @rachdarastrix5251
    @rachdarastrix5251 3 года назад +3

    You know, I love how the music is calming, peaceful, and melodious.
    Mean while you are describing what is literally the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to me.

  • @probablynotasith5355
    @probablynotasith5355 4 года назад +6

    Personally i love the idea of someone like Strahd having a black market deal with the Cult, sending out bottles of his blood with the vistani to trade for things like spell tomes(He IS a wizard after all.), magic idems, and assorted other things to pass the eons in Barovia. Sudoku maybe. :P

  • @benikenbenniken760
    @benikenbenniken760 5 лет назад +93

    MrRhexx, every one of you videos fuels a new D&D plot point in my campaign. Your research is astounding and much appreciated. Please continue with these histories and expound upon us more secret knowledge.
    (I just hope my players don't start watching your videos :P)

  • @missdeadite9696
    @missdeadite9696 5 лет назад +17

    also the dragon could just use a legendary action and a legendary success to make the process work. they did give ancient dragons those abilities in 5th ed.

  • @WalrusWinking
    @WalrusWinking 4 года назад +20

    I know one thing if I lived in D&D's world I'd be a true church goin' boi.

    • @James11111
      @James11111 3 года назад +9

      Especially when you're fully able to bitch slap people with the power of your god.

    • @jarlaxle3588
      @jarlaxle3588 2 года назад

      As a moral nihilist and egotistic hedonist I would probably be the only human servant of Lolth.

  • @TheSaintMystic
    @TheSaintMystic 5 лет назад +136

    I would love to hear about a normal lich too. Ive wondered what the manual left out about them

    • @singularity1130
      @singularity1130 5 лет назад +3

      Until then maybe Dawnforgecast can satiate your lust for knowledge of the forbidden arcane?
      ruclips.net/video/TwCk_HKsPM8/видео.html

    • @mauriceanderson5413
      @mauriceanderson5413 5 лет назад +4

      Manannan anam slavic mythology has this concept. Koshi or something like that its called. Its a dark mage that tied his soul into the needle and hidden it in some mythical place and is technically immortal because of that.

    • @iamdream2562
      @iamdream2562 5 лет назад +1

      @Manannan anam Koschei the Deathless is who he's talking about

    • @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571
      @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571 4 года назад +2

      @@mauriceanderson5413 He had baba yaga put his soul inside a needle, put the needle in an egg , the egg in a duck , the duck in a hare , the hare in a locked iron chest and the chest on a magical island that changed location.

    • @fuckoffannoyingutube
      @fuckoffannoyingutube 4 года назад

      @Manannan anam LotR did it first :D and that is mostly based on mythology.

  • @misakamikoto8785
    @misakamikoto8785 5 лет назад +123

    MrRhexx
    actually watch Overlord!!!

    • @heitorpimenta6504
      @heitorpimenta6504 4 года назад +4

      In the case of overlord those dragons were skeletal dragons, not dracoliches, would skeletal dragons have the same resistance to magic?

    • @THEOBSERVER-1
      @THEOBSERVER-1 4 года назад +1

      @@heitorpimenta6504 Yes, they have the same magic resistance.

    • @sinnerthesinful552
      @sinnerthesinful552 4 года назад +2

      @@heitorpimenta6504 it's funny, because in Overlord people can only cast spells up to level 5

  • @endma100
    @endma100 5 лет назад +30

    17:09 that’s a really good adventure time lich fan art

    • @frog4880
      @frog4880 4 года назад

      That lich it's one of the most cool cartoons (not anime) villans

  • @nielsdejong
    @nielsdejong 5 лет назад +33

    Yes! I simply love this series of yours. They way you describe the lore always makes it so interesting :)

  • @pickleproductions2010
    @pickleproductions2010 5 лет назад +41

    7:30 "Seduce the dragons"
    *Dragonborn Bard Joins the chat*

    • @FinallyAlone
      @FinallyAlone 4 года назад +2

      I don't want to see his browser history.

  • @Saffy226
    @Saffy226 5 лет назад +67

    What if the old body of the dragon was in a different plane?
    Example: The protodracolich is on the material plane while the draconic body is in the plane of water?

    • @RevengeofGothzilla
      @RevengeofGothzilla 5 лет назад +15

      The same as if the dragon's body was disintegrated, they would have to seek out powerful magic to get it back, and would feel an overwhelming urge to do so.

    • @andresmarrero8666
      @andresmarrero8666 5 лет назад +1

      What if the body was completely consumed by magic or transformed into something that can't be eaten?

    • @eugenehoitt3250
      @eugenehoitt3250 5 лет назад +4

      @@andresmarrero8666 treat the body the same as if disintegrated. PDL would be driven to bring the body back someway, luke a wish spell.

    • @andresmarrero8666
      @andresmarrero8666 5 лет назад +1

      @@eugenehoitt3250 now that brings to mind a somewhat devious setup.

    • @MoonMoverGaming
      @MoonMoverGaming 5 лет назад

      Better find a portal.

  • @ethanotoroculus1060
    @ethanotoroculus1060 5 лет назад +53

    This is a huge coincidence- in one of my most recent campaigns, the main antagonist was titled _"The Draconian Necrobear."_
    It was just as terrifying as it sounds. I loved every minute of it.

  • @Boomken76
    @Boomken76 5 лет назад +20

    has to eat to refuel its spell breath, Now im wondering if the DK starter quest in WoW when you ride a "dracolich" was smart or just dumb luck as you had to eat mobs when you ran out of its fire breath.

  • @StarboyXL9
    @StarboyXL9 5 лет назад +64

    17:58
    Ahh, I see you are a man of culture as well...
    ALL HAIL THE SURPEME ONE! ALL HAIL THE GREAT TOMB OF NAZARICK!

  • @originalShorai
    @originalShorai 5 лет назад +51

    So theoretically if a Spiritgorger, a humanoid lich stuck in it's Phylactery, was placed near a Dragon Skeleton for long enough it could become a Dracolich? So my question becomes: Does it keep the powers that a Lich has, other than reconstitution, that a Dracolich doesn't? The same question for if a willing living dragon lets the Lich possess them? What would happen if a Vampire, Mummy, or other powerful Undead(including a full Dracolich) are thrown into the mix? Is it possible for a Dracolich to become a Demi-lich? So many questions.

    • @WordChemical
      @WordChemical 5 лет назад +3

      Why would a full dracolich want to become a lich?
      To answer you actual question. ( Yhisbis mostly what I take away from spiritgorgers) I’d say that that as long as the creature has an intelligence of at least 1 (Don’t know how it would offer it’s body to the lich if it had 1 Int) it would have the process of becoming a lich (the effects the ritual has, not the ritual) happen to its body. This would result in the offerer’s body replacing the lich’s in the whole “body gets recreated” thing, linking its body and soul to the lichs phylactery. And when regenerated having the offerers and the lichs soul in the body.

    • @originalShorai
      @originalShorai 5 лет назад +7

      @@WordChemical The concept that the souls could exist cooperatively means that a Dracolich, who can't automatically reform their body, would see an advantage to gaining that power by working with a normal Lich. Mechanically they would act as one unit and any spellcasting ability or power the Lich has that the Dracolich doesn't would be applied, though I understand that this is only an advantage for physically focused Dragons like the Fang Dragon.

    • @WordChemical
      @WordChemical 5 лет назад +2

      originalShorai in that situation the lich would have to to offer its body. In the end it would depend on which is offering to who. The lich offering to the dragon, would just have the dracolich knowledge. But the deacolich offering to the lich... a multitude of things could happen; the lich could be compelled to eat the dragons body and wish its back if it’s gone, or it could be the same as dracolich offering to lich, if the race isn’t draconic in nature it could... make one thing bad happen? Or good depending if it destroys the body’s. In this case it would be likely the dragon would return to the phylactry, but if the lichs body still regenerates it would most likely severe the connection and regenerate its body with a mind of its own. Also while they COULD cooperate, he does say that it almost always drives the host mad

    • @originalShorai
      @originalShorai 5 лет назад +2

      @@WordChemical I've always liked playing with the idea of character clones so I was just curious about making a merged Lich/Dracolich. To be fair though I think crazy is a given to begin with.

  • @derrickshade4547
    @derrickshade4547 5 лет назад +39

    Almost like holcruxes . Voldermot did the same thing by binding his soul into seven or more pieces so he can be immortal

    • @reverie5760
      @reverie5760 5 лет назад +4

      i hope those spelling errors were on purpose

    • @derrickshade4547
      @derrickshade4547 5 лет назад

      @@reverie5760 i know. I miss spelled

    • @JoshKnoxChinnery
      @JoshKnoxChinnery 5 лет назад +2

      WOAH SPOILERS BRO

    • @yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907
      @yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907 5 лет назад +3

      @@JoshKnoxChinnery The final movie has been out for more than 5 years now

    • @rashakor
      @rashakor 4 года назад +6

      Not almost like Horcruxes. JKRowling completely poached that entire part of the HP mythology from D&D. Voldemort is a pseudo or semilich with 7 phylacteries depending on the edition.

  • @Nocturnal_talon
    @Nocturnal_talon 3 года назад +1

    Honestly you should turn these into podcasts, I love using your videos to chill or to sleep since I've watched almost all of them already, your voice is super calming and all the podcasts I can find are super aggressive or high energy

  • @kidyomu89
    @kidyomu89 4 года назад +5

    Yo imagine being a little peasant child and seeing an undead T-Rex sprint up to a dead dragon and devour its body and then start using magic. Protodracolich.

  • @DCBruinsMedia
    @DCBruinsMedia Год назад +1

    The next time I start a campaign it won't be in a tavern.
    It'll be at a great dragon's funeral. That kinda party sounds dope as hell and rich in opportunities for story hooks.

  • @LazerLord10
    @LazerLord10 5 лет назад +118

    What was the part at 20:00 from? It's always neat to see those big dragons fully animated.

    • @MrRhexx
      @MrRhexx  5 лет назад +59

      It's from the Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG "Neverwinter". It is a cinematic representing the climactic end moment of the 5th edition adventure Rise of Tiamat.

  • @WarhavenSC
    @WarhavenSC 5 лет назад +23

    One weird trick to live forever that deities don't want you to know about!

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 5 лет назад

      Tiamat is a deity... that's actually her shown in the scenes where he's talking about The Well of Dragons, the 5-headed dragon

    • @LordMortanius
      @LordMortanius 4 года назад

      The dozens of gods of undeath would say otherwise. The draconic pantheon has a god of undeath, after all.

  • @AlexJohnson-eb6wl
    @AlexJohnson-eb6wl 5 лет назад +81

    "The falactory will provide a new body"
    So its a falactory factory?

    • @TwentySeventhLetter
      @TwentySeventhLetter 5 лет назад +17

      I wonder if they make phylactaid, I'm phylactose intolerant

    • @cantthinkofname7291
      @cantthinkofname7291 5 лет назад +5

      Puns...you gotta love em.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 5 лет назад +2

      @@germangamer7377 bad enough there are ppl plotting to make REGULAR armies of undead, now we have to deal with an army of liches? undead mages? there will be some major paranoia in that army, if the world isn't destroyed by it they'll destroy each other and maybe the world in the process

    • @James11111
      @James11111 3 года назад +1

      Phylactory*

  • @jackofalltrades6061
    @jackofalltrades6061 5 лет назад +6

    I don’t play D&D but I love watching these videos because I have always found mythical creatures interesting. Watching the video made me wonder is there a way to turn a dracolich back into a normal dragon or is it a permanent change.

  • @MacyMay4669
    @MacyMay4669 5 лет назад +4

    I just started D&D with a Paladin and can’t wait to play next week 😍

  • @fourfours9928
    @fourfours9928 5 лет назад +9

    Nabe vs Khajit
    If you have coin, he has wares!

  • @DracosDiabolis
    @DracosDiabolis 5 лет назад +7

    So, a ettin is wondering some ruins of a cave/fortress looking for food. unknown to them as they find a "pretty rock" inside a "metal box" ……. One gets the rock and rubs it fondly. "Petty Roc....." After a few days and not finding a lot of food anywhere. "Roc... Why you talkin" to me?" after a couple more days of unable to find food. "Roc?? If me agree to help you, you can help stop our belly pains?" after a few moments "Don't tell the other guy, but me agree."
    the poor Ettin found and made the deal with a Soulgorger.

    • @senorali
      @senorali 5 лет назад

      Would the lich only be able to possess one of the two heads, I wonder?

    • @DracosDiabolis
      @DracosDiabolis 5 лет назад +2

      @@senorali I would say the one that agreed to the term. the other is basically along for the undead ride. but be a lich himself.
      double your lichdom, double your DM fun.

    • @DracosDiabolis
      @DracosDiabolis 5 лет назад +2

      @@senorali or at least comes back a death knight. lol a death knight that's connected to a dracolich. lmao

  • @jeremyvalderrama9867
    @jeremyvalderrama9867 5 лет назад

    @MrRhexx I'm certain I've watched all your DnD vids, I don't think I could get tired of learning from you. Something about how you make everything so easy to understand is just satisfying. Thnx.

  • @TheRaiden316
    @TheRaiden316 5 лет назад +31

    Important question: can a dracolich become a demi-lich? That would be truly epic.

    • @UmekCrafter
      @UmekCrafter 5 лет назад +3

      Normal demi-lich or Acererak type of Demi-Lich?

    • @thedarkmaster4747
      @thedarkmaster4747 5 лет назад +2

      Yes.

    • @empoleonmaster6709
      @empoleonmaster6709 5 лет назад +2

      @hien le don't click that link, it's to some kind of porn site as I just found out. time to run a virus scan now, instead of learning about demi-draco liches

    • @TwentySeventhLetter
      @TwentySeventhLetter 5 лет назад +4

      @@empoleonmaster6709 I'm glad I don't see that comment anymore

    • @TheBayzent
      @TheBayzent 4 года назад

      Technically nothing prevents it.

  • @cmoor8616
    @cmoor8616 5 лет назад +3

    That darned puppy,
    always up to mischief,
    digging holes,
    chewing on fingers,
    Gaining the vengeful ire of a DRACOLICH

  • @PineappleBombs
    @PineappleBombs 5 лет назад +3

    I just got the thought of giving your player's a dracolich's phylactery and treating it like the stone of golorr but instead of wanting to be released it could be wanting to make a pact with the one that is attuned to it at the time.

  • @laffuntilucry
    @laffuntilucry 5 лет назад +1

    This went over the afterlife, linked to your other video with info I may need when running a dracolich. You have yet again exceeded expectations. I learned even about the afterlife which I did not expect! Seriously love your work, it pushes my DMing and lore knowledge to the next level :)
    Thank you, you are my favorite lore master.

    • @ThePhilipish
      @ThePhilipish 5 лет назад

      Thats actually oretty much how it works irl too if your talking about the intro

  • @007stareye
    @007stareye 5 лет назад +10

    15:47 "Настойка" means "tincture"... So, does this mean I can make boose out of dead drakoliches? This sounds quite in a russian style.

  • @shamusfarmer
    @shamusfarmer 4 года назад

    Man, it boggles my mind how well informed you are... Even my best googling doesnt turn up 1/10th of the info you have on these subjects... Doesnt matter how many words you mispronounce, you amaze me!

  • @iericlopez8354
    @iericlopez8354 5 лет назад +3

    I’m loving these videos everyone I see one I watch it as soon as possible and it makes my games so much better! Thanks for all the work you do and keep up the awesome content!

  • @intelli-gent9863
    @intelli-gent9863 4 года назад +1

    That story about the museum , I am definitely using that in my campaign.

  • @carlosn9080
    @carlosn9080 5 лет назад +19

    Man, you have the BEST Lore videos, but. Have you think on make Pathfinder ones. Thanks for tour wonderfull work

    • @TriMarkC
      @TriMarkC 5 лет назад +1

      Don Uni Cornio Yes please!
      another way to achieve this, since so much of Pathfinder is based on D&D3/3.5, is to simply comment on additional Pathfinder sources for your lore. “Alternatively, if you include Pathfinder lore, X & Y can happen.”
      I’m a firm believer in using lore & abilities from all sources, & mixing them together to throw off my stats-memorizing players. “Hey, that’s not what X is supposed to do!”... “I never said it was X; you assumed that from my description.” They generally learn quick!

  • @greeninferno1339
    @greeninferno1339 5 лет назад

    Came for undead dragons, learned way more about death and post-death processes than I’ve ever known! (Awesome!)

  • @Primordial_Radiance
    @Primordial_Radiance 5 лет назад +818

    That awkward moment when you find out your wife/husband is actually a pollymorphed dracolich...

    • @gufosufo337
      @gufosufo337 5 лет назад +171

      Thats why she is so cold in bed

    • @TerrariaGolem
      @TerrariaGolem 5 лет назад +51

      @@gufosufo337 *this*

    • @zacharyhawley1693
      @zacharyhawley1693 5 лет назад +55

      So you laid them so hard their soul left their body?

    • @ogrefeet6077
      @ogrefeet6077 5 лет назад +68

      If the husband gets an erection is it a Boner

    • @NoOne-mj2gj
      @NoOne-mj2gj 5 лет назад +68

      That would just make me love her more cuz tht means wifey is a bad ass ...never mind the ego boost tht so powerful a being chose to keep me lol

  • @andrewthemaroon8608
    @andrewthemaroon8608 5 лет назад +41

    Anyone else hear him say LICHerally rather than literally

  • @omega311888
    @omega311888 5 лет назад

    well done, sir! love your videos! as to the current monster manual not mentioning the dracolich's immunity to level 5 spells or lower, its just another example of the current writers "pussing down" many of the more dangerous monsters.

  • @jordanfleming7022
    @jordanfleming7022 4 года назад +3

    The wall of souls sounds cool. Imagine a campaign where an extremely powerful Lich and it’s undead army rip through the planes in an attempt to raid the city of judgement to eternally fuel it’s phylactery with the souls the city is built from.

    • @louiesatterwhite3885
      @louiesatterwhite3885 Год назад

      Kelemvor, Jergal, and Myrkul would destroy them before they even get close.

  • @hunterotte4085
    @hunterotte4085 5 лет назад

    Having flashbacks to one DnD campaign, the final boss (we didn't know he was the final boss yet, and my character befriended him over time) made me a potion that bound my soul to the bottle, like how he had done to himself thousands of years ago. I needed red dragon scales, pheonix feathers, and shrooms from his long lost kingdom... Was hard as hell to do as a level 6 rogue, but got em done. Basically if I died my soul was cast into the bottle and I could possess anyone who smelled or inhaled my soul, the bottle itself had ruins on it making it artifact level durability.
    The phylactery deal just really reminded me of the process, except I didn't die. My afterlife just became a bottle until I yoinked some other guy's meat suite. Basically his kingdom was built off necromancy and he was the royalties chief alchemist, so in that regard it makes sense now that I know all of this.

  • @DoctorWrecks
    @DoctorWrecks 5 лет назад +15

    that Overlord reference XD

    • @MrRhexx
      @MrRhexx  5 лет назад +10

      they have a lot of d&d references in there, i love it.

    • @DoctorWrecks
      @DoctorWrecks 5 лет назад +5

      @@MrRhexx you have good taste my friend ;)

    • @simoncasady-kahler1528
      @simoncasady-kahler1528 3 года назад

      @@MrRhexx ya the entire mechanics of ygdrassil is based on dnd

  • @HishUnderscore
    @HishUnderscore 4 года назад

    22:22 "it's only a matter of time until the soul has attacked sufficient control of it's new body" well I think you've just given me a long term underlying plot for my campaign that I can sprinkle in small hints that dont really anything until its basically too late

  • @detektivespooder4609
    @detektivespooder4609 5 лет назад +67

    You can bind your own soul into a golem or somekind armor, or with this you count lich to?

    • @nes819
      @nes819 5 лет назад +18

      Most dietys of good alignment view such actions similar to lichdom. But the ones who dislike this the most are the ones asociated with death and the act of dying.

    • @detektivespooder4609
      @detektivespooder4609 5 лет назад +8

      @@nes819 Aaaaahh... I see
      But then you can do it

    • @nes819
      @nes819 5 лет назад +10

      @@detektivespooder4609 Indeed. A state of semi imortality can be achived in manny whays. The important question is if one is willing to suffer the conseqwences.

    • @erickchristensen746
      @erickchristensen746 5 лет назад +6

      sem semmi Similar but not the same. The difference being that you become something different in the end, one is an undead and the other a construct.

    • @aarons2306
      @aarons2306 5 лет назад +5

      Alphonse?

  • @TheAtomicdust
    @TheAtomicdust 5 лет назад +1

    I believe Spellfire was a Forgotten Realms novel and that was the first time I ever heard about Dracoliches. It was in the 90's, so I've never heard this story of creation.

  • @tautau1a
    @tautau1a 5 лет назад +39

    "Why evil? Because they say that you have to be insane (chaotic neutral) to want to go through this process."

    • @tyrant4492
      @tyrant4492 5 лет назад +13

      so most player groups?

    • @absolstoryoffiction6615
      @absolstoryoffiction6615 5 лет назад +1

      Rise of the Nekrons (Warhammer 40k)

    • @wasteoftime5848
      @wasteoftime5848 5 лет назад +5

      Bruh, no alingnment is a measurement of sanity.

    • @Hetsu..
      @Hetsu.. 4 года назад +1

      @@wasteoftime5848 The only people who choose chatic neutral are insane lmfao

  • @ZombieFood1337
    @ZombieFood1337 5 лет назад +1

    Kelemvor changed the rules of death so that the Faithless and False no longer had to fear going to the wall or being tortured in the afterlife. They just existed in the City of the Death, grouped together with others of similar beliefs/alignments.

  • @Torhrimr
    @Torhrimr 5 лет назад +3

    So happy to see another video in this serie. you do an amazing job catching my interest and delivering the information in such an entertaining way.
    Is it just me or haven't you done a video on pixies?

  • @stonedsimian2871
    @stonedsimian2871 5 лет назад +1

    Great video. I love Lich, Necromancer, and any undead lore.

  • @entothechesnautknight1762
    @entothechesnautknight1762 5 лет назад +10

    21:35 um, exCuse you?
    It's called archeology when their grandkids are dead too

    • @WordChemical
      @WordChemical 5 лет назад

      It would depend on when it was removed.

    • @cheesaliciousable
      @cheesaliciousable 4 года назад +1

      Undocumented profitable archeology. 😏👍

  • @frozeneevee
    @frozeneevee 3 года назад

    This seems like a great monster to have as the main villain of a campaign, could also serve as a cool surprise for the players that now have to fight the dragon they defeated a while ago but now as a dracolich.

  • @geoleo965
    @geoleo965 5 лет назад +8

    *_[Insert Joey Wheeler's creepy chin ad-modum.]_*

  • @Greenotron
    @Greenotron 5 лет назад

    Love your recent D&D videos @MrRhexx!! Please keep it up! I sense that you have a strong calling for this! You have my blade!!

  • @pr0meteus
    @pr0meteus 5 лет назад +3

    Good inspiration and content as always! Thanks man! :)

  • @Xcron
    @Xcron 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you so much for making this, man! Appreciated.

  • @Argonak1
    @Argonak1 5 лет назад +4

    11:54-12:10 Could a necromancer reverse engineer that magic to extend his life? Instead of becoming a lich, imbibe himself with the souls of others?

  • @lordvader9072
    @lordvader9072 5 лет назад +2

    Been waiting for this too long. Finally some insight on these dragon liches.

  • @SinerAthin
    @SinerAthin 4 года назад +5

    Given how awful so much of the afterlife is in DND, I suddenly got a lot more sympathy for villains seeking eternal life.
    Hell, when you know that the obliteration of your eternal soul or eternal torture possibly awaits you, then all bets are off!

  • @Yurikan
    @Yurikan 5 лет назад

    I know in my own game I expanded the lore a bit on humanoid liches to include proto liches. Mainly to close the gap between draco lich and humanoid ones. Basically, the humanoid version would form when the wizard trying to perform the ritual failed only slightly, like forgetting cinnamon in a pumpkin pie, and end up trapped in a flesh eating zombie or ghoul until it consumed the soul of another humanoid. It made the players stay on guard when fighting the bog standard zombies since killing the proto lich would cause it to reform in a semi random location after a long rest.

  • @TheHornedKing_27
    @TheHornedKing_27 3 года назад +4

    Just go write the runes in the stomach of a dragon then you’ll really be immortal...until the dragon dies that is but they live for thousands of year so you should be fine
    Edit: and you could make the dragon a dracolich and then they would be immortal as well

  • @volconis
    @volconis 2 года назад +1

    What they don't tell you about dracoliches.... is the legend of Marook the half orc rogue that saved his adventuring comrades. The dracolich had surprised the group and opened with his breath weapon bringing several of the party to their knees. Thankfully Marook was climbing upon the ceiling being a stealthy half-orc rogue. Upon seeing his group almost die to the surprise round of the dracolich.... Marook knew that he needed to taunt the dracolich to draw it's attention. (since taunting is not really a skill of a rogue) Marook did the only thing he could think of... He lowered his pants and gave out the most fierce battle cry, "You're about to wish you had eye lids!" as he grabbed onto the skull of the dracolich. It was in this moment Marook saved his group valiantly as they escaped to live on to tell the legend of Marook.

  • @borisvandenbrink756
    @borisvandenbrink756 5 лет назад +7

    my dude can u do one on false hydras? love ur content btw

  • @jonathanshirley4366
    @jonathanshirley4366 5 лет назад +1

    I really enjoyed how you explained all of this like it is real life science. Because in D&D magic IS science. If I could give two thumbs up I would so I'll do it here
    👍👍

  • @MainDwarf
    @MainDwarf 5 лет назад +3

    I love your lore videos do much! When do you think that you'll do another video on Giants?

  • @dawsonhelf7922
    @dawsonhelf7922 5 лет назад +1

    OH, I just came up with a creature for Dungeons and Dragons:
    .Name: Futoiko (that’s Japanese for fat child)
    .Classification: Outsider
    .Size: varies
    .Special Abilities: ground pound, instant digestion, reanimate dead(mostly skeletons)
    -Double D
    P.S.
    I got the idea from Msbreezy’s Fat Kid videos😅

  • @beblobthesquid3372
    @beblobthesquid3372 5 лет назад +4

    great video as always but I'm still curious about the other kinds of true giants other than the hill giant of course, will we get those too just like we got all the true dragons?

  • @AJarOfYams
    @AJarOfYams 4 года назад

    Perfect Ad placement after the introduction. 10/10

  • @project4061
    @project4061 5 лет назад +10

    I am curious as to where you get your sources. I know you directly reffer to some articles, and not others. I want to know what you see as still "cannon."

  • @chaskaconcar-tavares1358
    @chaskaconcar-tavares1358 5 лет назад +1

    Love your lore videos from skyrim to dnd, make the sessions i play with my friends alot more fun when I know all the ins and outs of lore. I was also wondering if you're planning on doing a goliath video anytime in the future, as they're a race with little explored on them and lots of interesting lore. But that aside i hope you continue making videos for a long time and thank you for doing it

  • @Wraithlet
    @Wraithlet 5 лет назад +5

    3:18 What about boneclaws? Just curious.

  • @mudkipspwnurface
    @mudkipspwnurface 2 года назад

    I’m starting to put together a campaign inspired by DragonVale, with the party collecting different dragons for an eccentric “Dragonborn” wizard. This video has convinced me that the overarching plot is that he is a proto-dracolich trying to capture the dragon that ate his original remains. I love when the generous benefactor turns out to be the bad guy.

  • @Skin1in
    @Skin1in 5 лет назад +4

    We need more dragon's !

  • @louiemercado5595
    @louiemercado5595 5 лет назад +1

    Nice video clip on Sindragosa man!

  • @justingibson4417
    @justingibson4417 5 лет назад +5

    Got any art credit for the Devil with the red chalice? I've been looking for it but can't find the artist.

  • @yakovweinreb1921
    @yakovweinreb1921 3 года назад +1

    I imagine the Tome of The Dragon is like:
    In the event the dragon body becomes unusable (killed, destroyed, ect..), Please consult the Proto Draco Lich section (Pg. 137).

  • @genericprofile2381
    @genericprofile2381 5 лет назад +8

    All im told about dracoliches is that I am going the wrong way, thats the final boss, im being begged to stop, please I am too low a level.

  • @craigbailey7558
    @craigbailey7558 3 года назад

    Im very glad someone clarified that these dracolich's were not produced to be worshipped. Sammaster designed this process to weaponize only the most powerful specimens who after the process the potion of dragon control (ingredient of the potion for the process), and the amulet of the dragon were implemented. The dragon could later figure out it was under control, but helpless to do anything about it. Cult of the Dragon handbook original text supplies this info. Thank you for clarifying this.

  • @gustvanlooy3741
    @gustvanlooy3741 5 лет назад +3

    hi I'm a big fan and I was hoping if you could do some video's about gem dragon

  • @alexandersmith1777
    @alexandersmith1777 4 года назад +1

    Now I just got an epic vision of a Death Knight riding a Dracolitch into battle!

  • @JD-mh8be
    @JD-mh8be 4 года назад +4

    First time Dm trying to make a dragon lich my BBEG and I need those other ingredients or cool ideas for ingredients to have adventures be made around any tips?

    • @redpandah3309
      @redpandah3309 4 года назад +1

      Every single dragon has a treasury. So probably the most valuable object in treasury would nice. Buckets of dragon blood. It has to come from the same type of dragon that the one who wants to be a dracolich. Powdered dragon eggshell.

  • @seanziegler477
    @seanziegler477 3 года назад

    Would love to see a video on Lady Illmarrow, aka Lady Vol, from Eberron.
    Half green dragon, half elf lich.
    I’m sure there’s some interesting lore there.

  • @Amishhellcat
    @Amishhellcat 5 лет назад +5

    can we get one on shadow dragons?`:D

  • @ianvincible111
    @ianvincible111 5 лет назад

    Hi! I started watching your content about two months ago and I love it! You and A.J. Pickett greatly help me be a better D.M. and storyteller, so thank you!
    If I may, I'd like to request a topic. Could you please outline the difference between and ecologies of wyrms, wurms, and worms?
    Keep doing what you do, it's fantastic!

  • @joserenatomigliorini4627
    @joserenatomigliorini4627 5 лет назад +7

    Where are those clips from? I love the tiamat rising from the well

    • @empoleonmaster6709
      @empoleonmaster6709 5 лет назад +1

      I too want to know

    • @mercedes6153
      @mercedes6153 5 лет назад

      They're from Neverwinter and World of Warcraft :)

    • @Laff700
      @Laff700 5 лет назад +2

      @@mercedes6153 Shame Blizzard sold its soul to the Chinese government.

  • @TzarBomb
    @TzarBomb 4 года назад +1

    1:00 Wall Of The Faithless, nostalgic over 9000... NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer has one of the best chaotic evil endings ever, I used to love this game back in the day. Is the Spirit Eater canon in D&D?