You commented that Ancient Gold Dragons could only cast spells of 5th lvl or lower, but its CR is 24, so divided by three means that it could cast spells of 8th lvl. And since it has a CHA Modifier of +9, then that means it has 9 spells it can cast with 5E Monster Manual Rules. Did you mean to say Adult Gold Dragons?
@@AJPickett No problem. I had to somewhat memorize Ancient Gold Dragon abilities for the campaign I'm DMing. In the campaign I run, the king of the setting I created is an Ancient Gold Dragon named Geros Aurix. He's supposed to be the strongest of his kind in my setting, so I gave him both the Monster Manual spell casting abilities and 26 levels in Wizard. He's meant to have the kind of influence where if a small village is put into his territory, then most evil forces will avoid that town, even if that settlement only has a handful of low-level guards. Most forces of evil are too scared of Geros to make direct assaults on any of his territory, so the campaign is centered on dealing with evil forces that employ stealthier tactics until they can amass a force large enough to go to war with the king.
I usally do a younger gold dragon that got mixed up with powers they could have not control and ended up needing the adventurers help. Ancients in any capacity should blow the adventurers minds with the shear power over magic, especially wizards (even if they can cast 9th level spells).
@@HenriFaust (Be warned, this is long as I haven't had much chance to talk about this with others) Based on the explanation I gave, I can see why you'd make the comparison. How Geros actually runs his country is actually a Semi-Democratic Meritocracy. You see, the way he first became a king was that, after sleeping in his cave for ten years, he woke up to find a city had been built around his underground lair. He met the city's leadership and decided that he'd work as the city's protector, due to him having the same affinity for humanoids as the kindest of Silver Dragons. He also lent his aid to help manage the city's policies when the leaders felt overwhelmed. After a few years, the city's leadership and people decided to just ask Gero to be their official leader. As time went on, other settlements heard about the city run by an Ancient Gold Dragon and asked to join a protective alliance with them due to the dangers of this setting. Geros, due to his superhuman intellect, would provide his aid to the governing powers of these settlements as well. Eventually, they chose to bow to Geros and submit to his laws as well, due to his superior skills in actually running a society. The former rulers now took the positions of nobility under Geros' rule, still running their communities, but now enforcing Geros' laws. This pattern continued on for 200 years until Geros found himself running a country that was a third the size of the United States. With his nation officially formed, the dragon named the country after himself, calling it Aurix, and the first city now turned capital, called The City Of Geros. Like with his previous motivations, this naming convention was done to scare off evil forces and keep people safe, by letting the world at large know that this was his territory. By the time he'd founded the country, Geros had found that the noble families had grown self-important and self-indulgent. As such, Geros formed an Elite order of Eldritch Knights to first serve as his own personal guards. After the guard was formed, Geros passed a law to all settlements in his country. Every settlement must have clean water and food, proper housing for its people, and there had to be a minimum percentage of their population who were educated well enough to pursue their desired careers. Essentially, Geros wanted to make it so that those living in his country would have at least low-class 1st world living conditions. King Geros then explained that if any of the nobility failed to meet this standard within 5 years, then their family would be stripped of its power, and the settlement would hold an election for a new leader. If a noble failed, they still had the option to try to get re-elected, which would happen in settlements that liked their current nobility, and who just needed more time to get things up to standards. Quite often, leaders of famous adventuring groups would become candidates for these elections, as they were loved by the common person, had some leadership knowledge, and were strong enough to be viewed as their city or town's champion. These same laws would also apply to Geros within is own city. What Geros was trying to ultimately convey was that leadership lived to serve those they led, not the other way around. Geros would wind up stepping down from the thrown three times throughout his country's history, as even his title of King was just that, a title. The first time this happened was shortly after Geros had put his new laws into place. The nobility, upset with this new standard they had to live up to, rallied their citizens to demand Geros step down. Much to their surprise, Geros complied with his people's wishes and stepped down for one of the nobles to take his place while he went to sleep. He woke up ten years later to find the people of his kingdom rioting and the leadership unable to manage things. After having lived under such a truly benevolent ruler for so long, the common folk were in no way happy with their new, more self-centered rulers. The then king gathered the remnants of Geros' guards and presented them to Geros as a way to beg the dragon to come back as their king. He assured that the begging wasn't necessary and reassumed his place on the throne. After coming back, Geros eventually implemented a new system to determine the country's leader. If Geros would ever die or step-down again, an election to decide the next king or queen would be held. The candidates would be composed of the members of Geros' immediate court(essentially, his most trusted friends and allies), three candidate spots would be reserved for members of the nobility, and then three more invitations would be sent out to the leaders of whoever were the three most renowned adventuring parties at the time. Due to having as long a lifespan as he does, Geros decided that an election for rulership should be held every ten years while he's on the throne. His second time stepping down from the throne was 50 years after he established this election system. The Kingdom of Aurix managed to govern itself for roughly 20 years until a more tyrannical individual took the throne and abolished the election system Geros had established. This would mark the only time Geros would use force to take power, taking out this individual and reassuming his position as king at the behest of a rebel faction led by former members of his elite guard. King Geros put the election system back into place and held the throne for another few 150 years until he lost the election to one of his court's members. Geros would act as a personal aid to Aurix's kings and queens for the next hundred years, and the elite guards would serve them. Eventually, Geros was elected once again and has held the throne for so long that the Kingdom Of Aurix is 1,000 years old at the start of my players' campaign. He does currently have a human Cleric with an extended lifespan as his queen, and their half-dragon son holds the title of prince, but only the queen has any claim to the throne, and only as much as the other members of the court.
Playing a dragon's familiar could be interesting, as a scout or liason in humanoid society. Perhaps it gives you the task of diplomatic overtures to dwarfs to build a lair for it's children? Maybe it requires information about the plans in progress within the ranks of potential enemies? It might want you to seek a specific treasure it covets for it's horde?
I kinda like the idea they are lawful good but are still a beast a dragon...they will kill you if are too disrespectful , they just disinclined towards pointless violence , tbh I would feel safer around silver dragons , less pompous
I think a gold dragon would like to walk around polymorphed a lot around their lairs and not just when they need to, as they’re social creatures who interact often with smaller races, and they also would use these forms and furnishings fairly often on quests. They would probably have either small furnishings for their polymorph forms, or furniture built to do double duty to accommodate both of their forms in at least one or two of their rooms. For example, instead of a giant throne, a solid oval platform and a small throne built into the base for their polymorph form, and a heavily reinforced top that doubles as a lounge for their real form. Smaller, elaborate platforms and seats can be placed around the room for both draconic and humanoid to use. It would make sense if they had at least a formal dining room or a social room - or both, for richer dragons - furnished with double-duty or exclusively smaller furniture. Or some of them could have two types of dwellings that they use depending on which guests they have over. I would imagine that to unwitting humanoids they would appear to be just well off nobles or retired merchants living near small villages with a high peaked mountain nearby, and they help their neighbors, such as occasionally participating with the local militia to stamp out threats, or contacting clerics to help with a plague outbreak, or building a new bridge, a school, or a library. They’d have emergency dwellings, food, and supplies for the villagers on their property, in case a natural disaster or famine hits. They could even tend to these small communities as if they were tending a garden in their downtime, cultivating backwater villagers into educated communities over the centuries.
They are social outside of their lair, it would be a rare thing for them to invite guests to the site they keep their most valuable possessions, and so, it is the location where they can relax and stay in their far more comfortable and enjoyable true form.
I love how you dropped that little tid bit about dragon's fear auras. Being able to exude fear at will usually weeds out the actual threats a dragon needs to deal with. I'd love to play a campaign where the players are stuck in the middle of a assassination plot schemed up by a Black Dragon, and a Green Dragon aided by a Lich targeted at a Great Wyrm Gold Dragon. The Gold Dragon having long established it's kingdom of benevolence over a wide area that "intrudes" upon the territories of Both chromatic Dragons as well as the Lich's attempts to establish a foothold in the nearest town.
I can imagine a gold dragon, inhaling to make a breath attack and there's a pause and a character cringes in preparation for the attack and the dragon proofing out a puff of smoke at the character and the dragon says, GOTCHA!!!, and the character faints
Gold Dragons are BA AF. I once wiped a party in a game using a Gold Red hybrid dragon who was sleeping in a magic volcano filled with molten gold. One of the most badass encounters ever as told by my players.
That's... That's an interesting combo. How did it come about? Usually gold dragons and red dragons don't get along for obvious reasons, but then there are always exceptions and D&D is full of strange things. Was it the offspring of a mated red dragon and gold dragon, or was it the result of a magical experiment? What was its alignment?
@@cornuschristi1814 Well, It was a Male Gold and a Female Red and well... She wanted to mate with the Strongest Dragon around- that happened to be an equivalent Teenager Gold Dragon. Hormones being what they are to all living creatures we got a hybrid. A very interesting, two natures warring against themselves in his mind hybrid. A Hybrid who essentially figured out that he was going to follow the stronger nature within himself (that of his Gold side) and therefore decided to put himself in a meditative/regenerative sleep inside of an enchanted volcano where the molten rock wasn't your typical lava but molten gold. Through an ancient draconic spell and inspired alchemy he was going to change his nature through this endeavor. Too bad some adventurers decided to wake up said Dragon despite repeated warnings that they should move on to the main quest or the handful of side quest. Waking up a Dragon is bad- waking up a dragon whom is undergoing a magical metamorphosis forcing him to start from scratch is worse.
A side note on dragon hordes: epic scale statuary & art that is "built in" to the lair (that's not gold leaf, that's inches thick) It's hard to move that life sized solid gold statue both because it's 120 feet long with a 135 foot wingspan (larger than the doors, yea?) but also because the living dragon weighed 580 metric TONS...... As for art that is built into the lair, things like pouring molten golds across the floor & polishing it to a mirror shine, having kobolds leave a particularly large gemstone in place and carving a room around it. Those "lava lakes" on either side of the sleeping area? Well the one to the left is molten gold, the one on the right is molten silver. Furnishings? Make them out of valuables, and size them for a storm giant: just leave the doors between areas man sized - (golds can polymorph) Magic items? Have the dragon use them at need, they have had centuries to collect and customize, as well as create them. for everything else, there's polymorph self. (they can be hidden at the bottom of the gold lake under a wall of force) Think everything tacky about a rap star's gold plated everything, then remember that a dragon wouldn't settle for gold plated anything, and it's an amusing way to deter potential thieves from forcing the dragon to kill them. (A Red dragon would use the molten metals as a trap and do the rest out of spite, knowing it's a last F.U. to the rival that beat him)
All dragons 🐉 have a nature in Common D&D and I think I have heard a couple of times that the Gold dragon is the magic/paladin dragon. Thanks for the video.
It could create a wonderfully unsettling atmosphere if unwelcome adventures were to wander through this Gold Dragons mist, seeing copies of themselves walking alongside them through the fog. Only to see the apparitions rot away as they approach the dragon's layer. Just a thought.
25:50 It seems to me that they would make "Claw Quils" a specially designed large quil that attaches to one of their claws so that they can write in their dragon form. It could have magic properties so that it never runs out of ink and does not need to constantly be dipped in an inkwell. Perhaps the ink itself is also magical, only able to be seen by lawful good people.
“They can make up their own sustained ecosystem” Give anything enough time and freedom in its habitat and it will too. Yes, I am saying a rat could eventually fill the niche of a wasp if you leave it completely by itself with no competition.
These guys are always shown as looking wise and kind. It'd be cool if a PC was able to resist the dragon's efforts at soothing them and its true, terrifying appearance was revealed to that character. I imagine they'd be horrifying.
Nice one AJ. I had a rogue Gold Dragon in one of my campaigns. He was still Lawful Good but abandoned the dragon hierarchy. He was the father of every half-dragon of Gold origin in that campaign. The laws he abided by were the "less restrictive" laws of his adopted hierarchy, the human nation ran by its Lawful Good Clerics. He was their resident avenger and often a diplomat of theirs. They were the most powerful nation despite being the poorest with the weakest military because of him alone, and he was only a couple centuries old.
I love gold dragons, made them a vocal point of my homebrew campaign. Every 100000 years or so the sun dies out and becomes a moon but the sun in my campaign is actually a sun dragon. A gold dragon that has mastered the ultimate light spell can become a sun dragon and be the light of the world.
The high druid of the north in the High Forest is a gold dragon named Aerosplugpular or Aero for short......very surprised not to see him mentioned here...I believe if I remember correctly his nickname is "The Gilded Fire"
thanks AJ I've loved gold dragons since the third book of the War of the Lance series the amnesiac gold dragon Fizban carried with him was an awesome character
One of the most interesting situations involving a gold dragon that comes to mind comes from _The Rise of Tiamat_ campaign. (minor spoilers ahead) Toward the tail end of the campaign, the PCs have to go to a meeting of five ancient metallic dragons, led - of course - by an ancient gold one. Your mission is to convince the metallic dragons to work alongside the other factions of the Sword Coast (and possibly giants) to stop the Cult of the Dragon from bringing Tiamat to the Prime Material Plane. Each dragon has its own desires, attitudes and concessions it wants in exchange for cooperation, and unless you have an extremely unorthodox party in terms of races, there's going to be one or two of the dragons present that will have a beef with a PC's people and be difficult to convince. The gold dragon in question, Protanther, wants to attack the chromatic dragons immediately, and doesn't care if humanoids get hurt. He is in general neutral towards the party, but actually becomes hostile (as in unlikely to hear them out) if there is an elf in the party. The concession he demands for cooperation is for a formal apology - from someone who can speak for all elves - for the abomination that was the "Dracorage mythal", whatever that involved. Thankfully, the PCs should have met an elven king named Melandrach very early in the campaign, and should be able to get an apology out of him. His rage over the Dracorage mythal, created by the elves around -25,000 DR, is justified - every few decades or centuries, the ancient elven magic causes dragons in a given area to suddenly go insane, causing them to attack and kill indiscriminately. Each Dracorage doesn't last long - the longest of these was in 1373 DR and lasted only a year - but even one mad ancient dragon can cause untold damage in that time. Protanther himself was willingly put under a powerful Sleep spell to prevent himself from going mad, but he was woken up early when mutated giants, planar dragons and ice demons attacked his lair, and he spent the rest of that year fighting them off.
This is actually the plot of a series of three books written by Richard Lee Byers called “The Year of Rogue Dragons”. This is simply referred to as “The Rage” and follows a series of adventurers (one a human half-golem) and a Song Dragon who seek to discover the cause of the Rage and put a stop to it. If you are interested the three books are “The Rage”, “The Rite”, and “The Ruin”. These books take place in the year 1373 DR.
Creating a huge dragon sized palace-lair must take years to complete, even for the finest dwarven masons, no? Does the dragon assist them? What does it do while it waits? Are dwarves much faster workers than I'm thinking they are?
Dwarves use the divine power of Moradin to greatly accellerate their productivity, the hymms they sing to him and the work they do actually generates divine power, they can carve through stone like a hot knife through butter. The fine crafting details take the most time, but again, they are amazingly hard and competent masons, smiths and artists.
@@AJPickett Yeah, I figured that might be the case... Cant see a gold dragon hanging out in a cave/unfinished palace for 3 years. Thanks for the info, AJ! You're still the most responsive youtuber I've ever seen by a mile!
@@shamusfarmer I could see it. Considering their lifespan a year to a gold dragon probably feels like a few days to us. But patience of individuals would vary.
@@ada_of_aurora2682 patience is one thing, but there are still 24 hours in a day... I would imagine, though, that the golds would be more wise and less egotistical, so maybe they would be cool with it. If we were taking about a red, let's say, Im pretty sure it would balk at the dragon equivalent of living in your car for a few years while the dwarves worked...
So glad I rewatched this. I was in and out of consciousness when I first watched it, hahaha. Such a cool creature. Great video🤩 - Would there be specs for a player character build for a Good Dragon? Like a severely weaker version obviously. I was thinking something like a VERY young gold dragon going out and adventuring to understand the world better. Polymorphed as one of the other player races, they seem ridiculously naive and optimistic to the rest of the group. Or, conversely, ignorant, weary and untrusting. Without giving away the twist to the rest of the group they could say things like, "Father has told me stories of such things. . ."
Yeah there is a whole mini campaign for playing dragons back in ye day, I am sure it can be converted to 5E (probably already has been), the Council of Wyrms.
Great video! If I could just add I think that gold dragons would also serve as advisors for mortal royalty as well. Perhaps they also take human form to poke around in disguise and see how things are going.
Powerful beasties to be sure, I love the idea of them having holodeck style pleasure pockets in their lairs, and even more so the ones that are more functional lol can't wait to see what they could get up to with some of their magic and gear
Your videos are so calming. I don't play D&D due to time issues with work and other commitments that result in inconsistent schedule that playing a game especially difficult. But I love D&D lore and game mechanics even though I can never play the game until my schedule becomes consistent.
Wizards are essentially the scientists of the realm. They just use the most useful tool they have at their disposal for their quest for knowledge. Magic. So why would that differ depending on race? Schools of magic are just ways of focusing your scope so as to achieve mastery faster. I imagine a dragon can achieve true mastery of all schools if it so chose to. They just live that long.
I’ve always adhered to house rules as a DM. Among them is the idea that good and evil are evenly matched without bias. A red will be physically more imposing while the gold will be more arcanely skilled. There is no guaranty that a Gold will win a charisma battle no matter how likely.
Sure they descended from golds? I always saw it as bahamut directly making more to help the gold dragon to literally, interms of strength, be a compliment to each of the chromatics, thus why they are all weaker than golds.
The history and lineage of the dragons is so obscure and convoluted (and lets face it, wildly dependant on what dragon you ask), it really is hard to be absolutely sure, but here is my tip... when you are talking to a dragon.. They all descend from THAT dragons ancestors... I would rather be incorrect, than a pile of ash.
I like to think that alignment in monstrous races is only a baseline, there will be individuals that fall outside the norm in many of them. They may be very rare and get killed of within their own society's alot of the time, but they happen. I have a story in my head about a chaotic good aligned Yuan-ti I've always wanted to play.
Pet hate rant. It always bugs me when i hear of characters having dragon pets or companions. It is the other way round, dragons have PCs s pets. How do you think about your cat? That is how a metallic dragon thinks about your PC. If you dog found a $100 bill, would you let them keep it? Dragons fly. They breath the elements of creation. They have kids with pretty much anyone. They produce sorcerers. Their will effects reality. Petty things like physics and biology don't bother them. They are the closest thing we have to planars of the Prime. They are the lords of the Material and they know it. Even a gold dragon is going to have a deeply paternalistic relationship with any mortal it knows. They will be mildly surprised when people don't slavishly follow their orders. They will just assume that all treasure belongs to them because they are so glorious. They will not help in a fight, because every encounter is a learning experience for their pet. Anyway, mainly commenting to bump the youtube algorithm.
Bahamuts most common avatar is a old human wizard. When he manifests he his always accompanied by 7 yellow canaries that are actually all great gold dragons. As his proxies imbued with a fragment of his power, they have unique powers & each is easily as powerful as the king of gold dragons. Each is nearly a demigod but they choose to serve instead of rule
I suspected there were spells and items just for dragons. Neat. Without diving too deep could you make any recommendations where I should be looking for more information?
I wonder what a magic item using a shard of the crystal sun would be capable of doing? If it was real. I could image a crystal shard dagger that after killing an opponent or after you stab yourself creates a blood golem that is medium or small size in the shape of a dragon that can fly. In addition its breath weapon turns people's blood into a solid.
Even if it's not real, get a gold dragon to put you into a dream demi-plane and cast permanence on it and.... Look, I'm sure there's a way to make just about anything if you keep thinking about this. You want to start making infinity spindles and make the whole party demi-gods? Go for it.
Just used a gold dragon which my players trapped without trouble (we switch dm every session and we are 24th level) and killed but on the bright side my wizard/artificer took its elemental organ.
How does a dragon read a book? Like, how does it turn the pages, open it, close it, most books would be extremely tiny and equally fragile to a dragon.
The psionic and magical abilities of a dragon are above 99% of any creatures and thus even minor psychokinetic abilities would be an extremely minor task for them. Having a slave/friend turn a page at their telepathic nudge would not be out of place however. I also used their "tentacles" around their mouths for delicate tasks.
It would be interesting to have a D&D setting where the local gold dragon King Of Justice marries into a human royal family for a draconic bloodline and alliance with the gold dragons.
Did anyone catch what "prescription" as a punishment means in practice? I am familiar with it in terms of morés and values but not as a specific, singular act.
Excellent video as always! Question though? What would happen if a gold dragon found orphan Red Dragon? Would it kill it or leave it alone? Ps also could you do a video on demon lord Codricuhn? If not it fine I'm sure your viewer request list is like a light year long.
Codricuhn, his exarch, aspects and demon minions are on the list of future videos. As for Gold adopting reds? Most likely they would not, they would leave it alone.
Probably Blues since they’re the type of Dragon most likely to insert themselves as rulers of other races. Also gold just looks really good on Blue Dragons.
@@AJPickett if said gold was humble,doubt most dragons pride would allow it to willingly submit. Though im sure there are individuals who deviate from the norm
Well in the red dragons case. There are only two non epic dragon species greater than it. Just two. The gold dragon who can wipe them. And the lord of the lost colors. The one and only true purple dragon. So yes that boasting is warranted unless it was unlucky enough to lair near one of those. That boasting isn't empty.
@@AJPickett Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. - Sun Tzu I'm pretty sure Gold Dragons would read enough to instinctively understand The Art of War.
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You commented that Ancient Gold Dragons could only cast spells of 5th lvl or lower, but its CR is 24, so divided by three means that it could cast spells of 8th lvl. And since it has a CHA Modifier of +9, then that means it has 9 spells it can cast with 5E Monster Manual Rules.
Did you mean to say Adult Gold Dragons?
Whoops, sorry, I gave the stats for the Adult dragon, my bad, you are totally correct Kyle, thanks for catching that.
@@AJPickett No problem. I had to somewhat memorize Ancient Gold Dragon abilities for the campaign I'm DMing.
In the campaign I run, the king of the setting I created is an Ancient Gold Dragon named Geros Aurix. He's supposed to be the strongest of his kind in my setting, so I gave him both the Monster Manual spell casting abilities and 26 levels in Wizard. He's meant to have the kind of influence where if a small village is put into his territory, then most evil forces will avoid that town, even if that settlement only has a handful of low-level guards. Most forces of evil are too scared of Geros to make direct assaults on any of his territory, so the campaign is centered on dealing with evil forces that employ stealthier tactics until they can amass a force large enough to go to war with the king.
I usally do a younger gold dragon that got mixed up with powers they could have not control and ended up needing the adventurers help. Ancients in any capacity should blow the adventurers minds with the shear power over magic, especially wizards (even if they can cast 9th level spells).
@@ShineDark That setting sounds like Thomas Hobbes' _Leviathan._
@@HenriFaust (Be warned, this is long as I haven't had much chance to talk about this with others)
Based on the explanation I gave, I can see why you'd make the comparison. How Geros actually runs his country is actually a Semi-Democratic Meritocracy.
You see, the way he first became a king was that, after sleeping in his cave for ten years, he woke up to find a city had been built around his underground lair. He met the city's leadership and decided that he'd work as the city's protector, due to him having the same affinity for humanoids as the kindest of Silver Dragons. He also lent his aid to help manage the city's policies when the leaders felt overwhelmed. After a few years, the city's leadership and people decided to just ask Gero to be their official leader.
As time went on, other settlements heard about the city run by an Ancient Gold Dragon and asked to join a protective alliance with them due to the dangers of this setting. Geros, due to his superhuman intellect, would provide his aid to the governing powers of these settlements as well. Eventually, they chose to bow to Geros and submit to his laws as well, due to his superior skills in actually running a society. The former rulers now took the positions of nobility under Geros' rule, still running their communities, but now enforcing Geros' laws. This pattern continued on for 200 years until Geros found himself running a country that was a third the size of the United States.
With his nation officially formed, the dragon named the country after himself, calling it Aurix, and the first city now turned capital, called The City Of Geros. Like with his previous motivations, this naming convention was done to scare off evil forces and keep people safe, by letting the world at large know that this was his territory.
By the time he'd founded the country, Geros had found that the noble families had grown self-important and self-indulgent.
As such, Geros formed an Elite order of Eldritch Knights to first serve as his own personal guards. After the guard was formed, Geros passed a law to all settlements in his country. Every settlement must have clean water and food, proper housing for its people, and there had to be a minimum percentage of their population who were educated well enough to pursue their desired careers. Essentially, Geros wanted to make it so that those living in his country would have at least low-class 1st world living conditions. King Geros then explained that if any of the nobility failed to meet this standard within 5 years, then their family would be stripped of its power, and the settlement would hold an election for a new leader. If a noble failed, they still had the option to try to get re-elected, which would happen in settlements that liked their current nobility, and who just needed more time to get things up to standards. Quite often, leaders of famous adventuring groups would become candidates for these elections, as they were loved by the common person, had some leadership knowledge, and were strong enough to be viewed as their city or town's champion. These same laws would also apply to Geros within is own city. What Geros was trying to ultimately convey was that leadership lived to serve those they led, not the other way around.
Geros would wind up stepping down from the thrown three times throughout his country's history, as even his title of King was just that, a title. The first time this happened was shortly after Geros had put his new laws into place. The nobility, upset with this new standard they had to live up to, rallied their citizens to demand Geros step down. Much to their surprise, Geros complied with his people's wishes and stepped down for one of the nobles to take his place while he went to sleep.
He woke up ten years later to find the people of his kingdom rioting and the leadership unable to manage things. After having lived under such a truly benevolent ruler for so long, the common folk were in no way happy with their new, more self-centered rulers. The then king gathered the remnants of Geros' guards and presented them to Geros as a way to beg the dragon to come back as their king. He assured that the begging wasn't necessary and reassumed his place on the throne.
After coming back, Geros eventually implemented a new system to determine the country's leader. If Geros would ever die or step-down again, an election to decide the next king or queen would be held. The candidates would be composed of the members of Geros' immediate court(essentially, his most trusted friends and allies), three candidate spots would be reserved for members of the nobility, and then three more invitations would be sent out to the leaders of whoever were the three most renowned adventuring parties at the time.
Due to having as long a lifespan as he does, Geros decided that an election for rulership should be held every ten years while he's on the throne. His second time stepping down from the throne was 50 years after he established this election system. The Kingdom of Aurix managed to govern itself for roughly 20 years until a more tyrannical individual took the throne and abolished the election system Geros had established. This would mark the only time Geros would use force to take power, taking out this individual and reassuming his position as king at the behest of a rebel faction led by former members of his elite guard.
King Geros put the election system back into place and held the throne for another few 150 years until he lost the election to one of his court's members. Geros would act as a personal aid to Aurix's kings and queens for the next hundred years, and the elite guards would serve them. Eventually, Geros was elected once again and has held the throne for so long that the Kingdom Of Aurix is 1,000 years old at the start of my players' campaign. He does currently have a human Cleric with an extended lifespan as his queen, and their half-dragon son holds the title of prince, but only the queen has any claim to the throne, and only as much as the other members of the court.
Conjure Humanoid Familiar, you say? Well, that sounds like a warlock backstory if I've ever heard one.
or a bard backstory imagine the possabily!
More like how your player character got isiekaied.
The origin of a line of draconic bloodline sorcerers?
A good excuse for having a dragon pal... "wait how you got a dragon ally again?" He summoned me of course!
Playing a dragon's familiar could be interesting, as a scout or liason in humanoid society. Perhaps it gives you the task of diplomatic overtures to dwarfs to build a lair for it's children? Maybe it requires information about the plans in progress within the ranks of potential enemies? It might want you to seek a specific treasure it covets for it's horde?
I kinda like the idea they are lawful good but are still a beast a dragon...they will kill you if are too disrespectful , they just disinclined towards pointless violence , tbh I would feel safer around silver dragons , less pompous
I think a gold dragon would like to walk around polymorphed a lot around their lairs and not just when they need to, as they’re social creatures who interact often with smaller races, and they also would use these forms and furnishings fairly often on quests. They would probably have either small furnishings for their polymorph forms, or furniture built to do double duty to accommodate both of their forms in at least one or two of their rooms. For example, instead of a giant throne, a solid oval platform and a small throne built into the base for their polymorph form, and a heavily reinforced top that doubles as a lounge for their real form. Smaller, elaborate platforms and seats can be placed around the room for both draconic and humanoid to use. It would make sense if they had at least a formal dining room or a social room - or both, for richer dragons - furnished with double-duty or exclusively smaller furniture.
Or some of them could have two types of dwellings that they use depending on which guests they have over. I would imagine that to unwitting humanoids they would appear to be just well off nobles or retired merchants living near small villages with a high peaked mountain nearby, and they help their neighbors, such as occasionally participating with the local militia to stamp out threats, or contacting clerics to help with a plague outbreak, or building a new bridge, a school, or a library. They’d have emergency dwellings, food, and supplies for the villagers on their property, in case a natural disaster or famine hits. They could even tend to these small communities as if they were tending a garden in their downtime, cultivating backwater villagers into educated communities over the centuries.
They are social outside of their lair, it would be a rare thing for them to invite guests to the site they keep their most valuable possessions, and so, it is the location where they can relax and stay in their far more comfortable and enjoyable true form.
@@AJPickett I think it would be a "Guest house" that would have the above ideas.
Obviously they wouldn't put their valuables in a risky position.
I love how you dropped that little tid bit about dragon's fear auras. Being able to exude fear at will usually weeds out the actual threats a dragon needs to deal with. I'd love to play a campaign where the players are stuck in the middle of a assassination plot schemed up by a Black Dragon, and a Green Dragon aided by a Lich targeted at a Great Wyrm Gold Dragon. The Gold Dragon having long established it's kingdom of benevolence over a wide area that "intrudes" upon the territories of Both chromatic Dragons as well as the Lich's attempts to establish a foothold in the nearest town.
I can imagine a gold dragon, inhaling to make a breath attack and there's a pause and a character cringes in preparation for the attack and the dragon proofing out a puff of smoke at the character and the dragon says, GOTCHA!!!, and the character faints
I have a tiefling sorcerer with a gold draconic bloodline. this has provided some valuable insight
Goldmember's favorite Dragon. "I love goooold"
It should have been Goldmember's final form lolxd!!.. 😂
Lol
Gold Dragons are BA AF. I once wiped a party in a game using a Gold Red hybrid dragon who was sleeping in a magic volcano filled with molten gold. One of the most badass encounters ever as told by my players.
That's... That's an interesting combo. How did it come about? Usually gold dragons and red dragons don't get along for obvious reasons, but then there are always exceptions and D&D is full of strange things. Was it the offspring of a mated red dragon and gold dragon, or was it the result of a magical experiment? What was its alignment?
@@cornuschristi1814 I'd also like to know the back story there :)
@@cornuschristi1814 Well, It was a Male Gold and a Female Red and well... She wanted to mate with the Strongest Dragon around- that happened to be an equivalent Teenager Gold Dragon. Hormones being what they are to all living creatures we got a hybrid. A very interesting, two natures warring against themselves in his mind hybrid. A Hybrid who essentially figured out that he was going to follow the stronger nature within himself (that of his Gold side) and therefore decided to put himself in a meditative/regenerative sleep inside of an enchanted volcano where the molten rock wasn't your typical lava but molten gold. Through an ancient draconic spell and inspired alchemy he was going to change his nature through this endeavor. Too bad some adventurers decided to wake up said Dragon despite repeated warnings that they should move on to the main quest or the handful of side quest. Waking up a Dragon is bad- waking up a dragon whom is undergoing a magical metamorphosis forcing him to start from scratch is worse.
@@MrRedFoxorMrelzorrorojo Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
@@MrRedFoxorMrelzorrorojoYea, they deserved that
Gold dragon: Is just an elegant badass in general
My character: ThAt’S a VeRy BoOpAbLe SnOoTaBlE yOu GoT tHeRe.
Name checks out.
I can imagine an assassination attempt on a gold dragon would play out a lot like Loki attempting to stab Thanos in Infinity War.
Depends on the weapon.
A side note on dragon hordes: epic scale statuary & art that is "built in" to the lair (that's not gold leaf, that's inches thick)
It's hard to move that life sized solid gold statue both because it's 120 feet long with a 135 foot wingspan (larger than the doors, yea?) but also because the living dragon weighed 580 metric TONS......
As for art that is built into the lair, things like pouring molten golds across the floor & polishing it to a mirror shine, having kobolds leave a particularly large gemstone in place and carving a room around it. Those "lava lakes" on either side of the sleeping area? Well the one to the left is molten gold, the one on the right is molten silver.
Furnishings? Make them out of valuables, and size them for a storm giant: just leave the doors between areas man sized - (golds can polymorph)
Magic items? Have the dragon use them at need, they have had centuries to collect and customize, as well as create them. for everything else, there's polymorph self. (they can be hidden at the bottom of the gold lake under a wall of force)
Think everything tacky about a rap star's gold plated everything, then remember that a dragon wouldn't settle for gold plated anything, and it's an amusing way to deter potential thieves from forcing the dragon to kill them. (A Red dragon would use the molten metals as a trap and do the rest out of spite, knowing it's a last F.U. to the rival that beat him)
All dragons 🐉 have a nature in Common D&D and I think I have heard a couple of times that the Gold dragon is the magic/paladin dragon. Thanks for the video.
The Summon humanoid familiar spell is amazing. :3
Automatic kobold army.
"I summon my familiar, Bruce Lee"
It's a fact that, after every great extinction vent there is always a bizarre bloom of diversification to occupie open habitats and niches.
True.
Finally, a rebooted video of the most common Dragons in DnD. I like it.
Now I know how to use these guys. Ive always been uncertain on what angle to take with Golds. I needed this vid. Wow. Thank you, AJ.
It could create a wonderfully unsettling atmosphere if unwelcome adventures were to wander through this Gold Dragons mist, seeing copies of themselves walking alongside them through the fog. Only to see the apparitions rot away as they approach the dragon's layer.
Just a thought.
There would have to be an evil creature nearby for that, although a dragon would probably have enough experience with illusion magic to fake it.
I very much love the DnD take on dragons, their lore, and their society. Thanks for this great resource AJ, I look forward to seeing what comes next!
Dragons cast Find [humanoid] Familiar.
Damn.
25:50 It seems to me that they would make "Claw Quils" a specially designed large quil that attaches to one of their claws so that they can write in their dragon form. It could have magic properties so that it never runs out of ink and does not need to constantly be dipped in an inkwell. Perhaps the ink itself is also magical, only able to be seen by lawful good people.
“They can make up their own sustained ecosystem”
Give anything enough time and freedom in its habitat and it will too.
Yes, I am saying a rat could eventually fill the niche of a wasp if you leave it completely by itself with no competition.
Rat wasps... that is a horrible... oh wait... bats with venom, yeah that could totally work.
AJ Pickett That form hiveminds.
@@purplehaze2358 that form hive minds by biting humanoids.
Did someone say *Wasps* ???
These guys are always shown as looking wise and kind. It'd be cool if a PC was able to resist the dragon's efforts at soothing them and its true, terrifying appearance was revealed to that character. I imagine they'd be horrifying.
Nice one AJ. I had a rogue Gold Dragon in one of my campaigns. He was still Lawful Good but abandoned the dragon hierarchy. He was the father of every half-dragon of Gold origin in that campaign. The laws he abided by were the "less restrictive" laws of his adopted hierarchy, the human nation ran by its Lawful Good Clerics. He was their resident avenger and often a diplomat of theirs. They were the most powerful nation despite being the poorest with the weakest military because of him alone, and he was only a couple centuries old.
"... which sounds like somebody ripping the soul out of a supersonic jet engine, by the way."
That might be my favorite description of anything, ever
I love gold dragons, made them a vocal point of my homebrew campaign. Every 100000 years or so the sun dies out and becomes a moon but the sun in my campaign is actually a sun dragon. A gold dragon that has mastered the ultimate light spell can become a sun dragon and be the light of the world.
When I played.... this was very much the way a Gold Dragon was treated in my game. You did them regal honor. A plus indeed....
Super amazing love it very much!! Definitely looking forward to silver dragon details to.
The high druid of the north in the High Forest is a gold dragon named Aerosplugpular or Aero for short......very surprised not to see him mentioned here...I believe if I remember correctly his nickname is "The Gilded Fire"
Dude, i love your content!!!!!!
What I really want to know is whether or not the design of gold and brass dragon wings provide a benefit due to their unique design
they are a link (homage) to the lung dragons. but also provide a larger surface area to provide lift.
“You see Mr. Powers....I love gooooold!”
thanks AJ I've loved gold dragons since the third book of the War of the Lance series the amnesiac gold dragon Fizban carried with him was an awesome character
"Nothing but Drakes" sounds like a specialty outlet
One of the most interesting situations involving a gold dragon that comes to mind comes from _The Rise of Tiamat_ campaign. (minor spoilers ahead)
Toward the tail end of the campaign, the PCs have to go to a meeting of five ancient metallic dragons, led - of course - by an ancient gold one. Your mission is to convince the metallic dragons to work alongside the other factions of the Sword Coast (and possibly giants) to stop the Cult of the Dragon from bringing Tiamat to the Prime Material Plane. Each dragon has its own desires, attitudes and concessions it wants in exchange for cooperation, and unless you have an extremely unorthodox party in terms of races, there's going to be one or two of the dragons present that will have a beef with a PC's people and be difficult to convince.
The gold dragon in question, Protanther, wants to attack the chromatic dragons immediately, and doesn't care if humanoids get hurt. He is in general neutral towards the party, but actually becomes hostile (as in unlikely to hear them out) if there is an elf in the party. The concession he demands for cooperation is for a formal apology - from someone who can speak for all elves - for the abomination that was the "Dracorage mythal", whatever that involved. Thankfully, the PCs should have met an elven king named Melandrach very early in the campaign, and should be able to get an apology out of him.
His rage over the Dracorage mythal, created by the elves around -25,000 DR, is justified - every few decades or centuries, the ancient elven magic causes dragons in a given area to suddenly go insane, causing them to attack and kill indiscriminately. Each Dracorage doesn't last long - the longest of these was in 1373 DR and lasted only a year - but even one mad ancient dragon can cause untold damage in that time. Protanther himself was willingly put under a powerful Sleep spell to prevent himself from going mad, but he was woken up early when mutated giants, planar dragons and ice demons attacked his lair, and he spent the rest of that year fighting them off.
This is actually the plot of a series of three books written by Richard Lee Byers called “The Year of Rogue Dragons”.
This is simply referred to as “The Rage” and follows a series of adventurers (one a human half-golem) and a Song Dragon who seek to discover the cause of the Rage and put a stop to it.
If you are interested the three books are “The Rage”, “The Rite”, and “The Ruin”.
These books take place in the year 1373 DR.
"Spell casters of the waters edge" ... we dont deserve you 😂
Creating a huge dragon sized palace-lair must take years to complete, even for the finest dwarven masons, no? Does the dragon assist them? What does it do while it waits? Are dwarves much faster workers than I'm thinking they are?
Dwarves use the divine power of Moradin to greatly accellerate their productivity, the hymms they sing to him and the work they do actually generates divine power, they can carve through stone like a hot knife through butter. The fine crafting details take the most time, but again, they are amazingly hard and competent masons, smiths and artists.
@@AJPickett Yeah, I figured that might be the case... Cant see a gold dragon hanging out in a cave/unfinished palace for 3 years. Thanks for the info, AJ! You're still the most responsive youtuber I've ever seen by a mile!
@@shamusfarmer I could see it. Considering their lifespan a year to a gold dragon probably feels like a few days to us. But patience of individuals would vary.
@@ada_of_aurora2682 patience is one thing, but there are still 24 hours in a day... I would imagine, though, that the golds would be more wise and less egotistical, so maybe they would be cool with it. If we were taking about a red, let's say, Im pretty sure it would balk at the dragon equivalent of living in your car for a few years while the dwarves worked...
@@rachdarastrix5251 lol, yes
Saw you jump in on the live broadcast for how to d&d. Came and subbed. Watching several of your videos. Well done sir
Gold dragons are like the kung fu movie mentor of the forgotten realms.
Wax on Wax off... yes, keep polishing my treasure.
@@AJPickett ohh myy
So glad I rewatched this. I was in and out of consciousness when I first watched it, hahaha. Such a cool creature. Great video🤩
- Would there be specs for a player character build for a Good Dragon? Like a severely weaker version obviously. I was thinking something like a VERY young gold dragon going out and adventuring to understand the world better. Polymorphed as one of the other player races, they seem ridiculously naive and optimistic to the rest of the group. Or, conversely, ignorant, weary and untrusting. Without giving away the twist to the rest of the group they could say things like, "Father has told me stories of such things. . ."
Yeah there is a whole mini campaign for playing dragons back in ye day, I am sure it can be converted to 5E (probably already has been), the Council of Wyrms.
@@AJPickett 🤩
Great video! If I could just add I think that gold dragons would also serve as advisors for mortal royalty as well. Perhaps they also take human form to poke around in disguise and see how things are going.
Powerful beasties to be sure, I love the idea of them having holodeck style pleasure pockets in their lairs, and even more so the ones that are more functional lol can't wait to see what they could get up to with some of their magic and gear
New condition
heebie-jeebies: Your character pisses themselves and has disadvantage on all charisma checks and saving throws against frightened.
yes the fabled gold dragon looking forward to this one Aj
Incredible work!
Thank you 😊
Would a half dragon dragonborn be able to attune to that amulet that immolates all non-dragons???
yes
@@AJPickett Thank you sir 😁
Yes! I've been waiting for this one ! Great video as always. Thank you AJ
Wow! And just when I was about to let the weight of yesterday throw off the balance of today. Professor, thank you so much.
Your videos are so calming. I don't play D&D due to time issues with work and other commitments that result in inconsistent schedule that playing a game especially difficult. But I love D&D lore and game mechanics even though I can never play the game until my schedule becomes consistent.
Next video sounds amazing. Great sense of what’s wanted and needed for home brew fun
One has to wonder. Are Gold Dragons are proficiency in dunamancy? Also, wouldn't a gold dragon dabble into scientific studies as well?
Certainly.
Wizards are essentially the scientists of the realm. They just use the most useful tool they have at their disposal for their quest for knowledge. Magic. So why would that differ depending on race? Schools of magic are just ways of focusing your scope so as to achieve mastery faster. I imagine a dragon can achieve true mastery of all schools if it so chose to. They just live that long.
Great video!
I’ve always adhered to house rules as a DM. Among them is the idea that good and evil are evenly matched without bias. A red will be physically more imposing while the gold will be more arcanely skilled. There is no guaranty that a Gold will win a charisma battle no matter how likely.
Seconds after I was wondering if you were going to be remastering your old dragon series vids to be more in line with your current content I see this!
Sure they descended from golds? I always saw it as bahamut directly making more to help the gold dragon to literally, interms of strength, be a compliment to each of the chromatics, thus why they are all weaker than golds.
The history and lineage of the dragons is so obscure and convoluted (and lets face it, wildly dependant on what dragon you ask), it really is hard to be absolutely sure, but here is my tip... when you are talking to a dragon.. They all descend from THAT dragons ancestors... I would rather be incorrect, than a pile of ash.
@@AJPickett lol, true, but I didn't think metallics would kill you for that? Jesus!! I guess the gods aren't as "good" as I thought!
Sooo... Odysseys of Theros? Also thank you for this one, I needed more info on Goldy bois.
an update video on Theros now the book is released? Hmmm, I can take a look.
Do you think kobolds that worship good aligned and dragons are also good aligned, neutral aligned or evil aligned?
Kobolds are Kobolds, they wish to please their masters, thus, will do good, in order to please a good dragon.
I like to think that alignment in monstrous races is only a baseline, there will be individuals that fall outside the norm in many of them. They may be very rare and get killed of within their own society's alot of the time, but they happen. I have a story in my head about a chaotic good aligned Yuan-ti I've always wanted to play.
Well the Gold Dragon is less assholes like the chromatics but there still cont metallic dragons are sometimes but Silver's dragons are the best
Ok AJ i cant predict my players for 5 minutes much less what these dragons can do. I'm just gonna drop some rocks.
after the dream demiplane part, I'm sure D&D must make the Sanity Attribute part of the vanilla game.
Madness is a variant rule option in the DMG.
@@AJPickett & I learned it from an answer of yours!
Fear & Madness would work so much better if they were linked to Sanity instead of Wisdom.
@@AJPickett could U make a video on the Sanity, Honor & Madness optional rules?
Pet hate rant. It always bugs me when i hear of characters having dragon pets or companions. It is the other way round, dragons have PCs s pets.
How do you think about your cat? That is how a metallic dragon thinks about your PC. If you dog found a $100 bill, would you let them keep it?
Dragons fly. They breath the elements of creation. They have kids with pretty much anyone. They produce sorcerers. Their will effects reality. Petty things like physics and biology don't bother them. They are the closest thing we have to planars of the Prime. They are the lords of the Material and they know it.
Even a gold dragon is going to have a deeply paternalistic relationship with any mortal it knows. They will be mildly surprised when people don't slavishly follow their orders. They will just assume that all treasure belongs to them because they are so glorious. They will not help in a fight, because every encounter is a learning experience for their pet.
Anyway, mainly commenting to bump the youtube algorithm.
My Warlocks patron is a particularly nasty Black Dragon! he's working to try and break said pact, without having his face and beard burned off.
Exactly. Just make sure you're house-broken!
High level adventurers are not a joke, and thats not counting archmages.
I like your point and I think you'd find my comment interesting... Playing the dragon's "pet" could be fun.
@@Zasek2112 I pity the poor dragon that tries to make Halaster Blackcloak a pet.
Amazing as always AJ. Thank you.
If you see a platinum haired old man with 7 golden canaries, you might be in the presence of Draco Paladin, Bahamut& his 7 great companions
Or the guy he stole the image of.
Woah. Can you explain that more? I am interested but kind of new to DnD. I read a lot of Dragonlance in my youth.
Bahamuts most common avatar is a old human wizard. When he manifests he his always accompanied by 7 yellow canaries that are actually all great gold dragons. As his proxies imbued with a fragment of his power, they have unique powers & each is easily as powerful as the king of gold dragons. Each is nearly a demigod but they choose to serve instead of rule
Outstanding as always
Loving the updated dragon videos :) if I remember correctly the dragonic pantheon/divine realms are destroyed but I would love to hear about them!
i love gold dragons and baby gold dragons is so cute
Great, as always!
But I'm still waiting for a video on that "Pixies' Mafia on Sigil" thing :D
Thank you AJ.
request undying court and the unicorn god
There is info on Lurue in the Faiths and Clerics video, but I can go into more detail on that faith for sure, they are interesting.
I suspected there were spells and items just for dragons. Neat. Without diving too deep could you make any recommendations where I should be looking for more information?
I'll be diving into that lore soon Corey, I don't know all the details yet.. part of the fun of making these vids is learning as I go :)
3.5 has a few pdf books you can find for free on dragons, draconomicon is one.
This video is pure gold itself 👍
i wonder if there is mutations in dragonkind.. like genetic ones
and if they have the hybrid vigor effect in crossbreeds...
14 minutes
I can fathom it but I can feel a hunk of my brain cussing the rest of it out because of the pain.
Ow, AJ. Just ow.
In the lineup of dragons time mark @2:44 who punched in the red dragon's face?
MORE DARGONS PLS ty :)
Thanks for video. Do you rest ? Your productivity terrifying me.
I do sleep :)
@@AJPickett ok, I will believe, but don't overwork.
@@Skin1in I make no promises.
very nice video
Please do a video on the Monk class please
Flurry of no's. (sorry, could not resist, I'll get there eventually, I average about one class video per year)
I wonder what a magic item using a shard of the crystal sun would be capable of doing? If it was real.
I could image a crystal shard dagger that after killing an opponent or after you stab yourself creates a blood golem that is medium or small size in the shape of a dragon that can fly. In addition its breath weapon turns people's blood into a solid.
Well, one might have to venture inside the body of Dendar the Night Serpent in order to find a shard.
@@AJPickett Oh!? Well this sounds like some really interesting lore. Do pray tell or point me in the right direction.
Even if it's not real, get a gold dragon to put you into a dream demi-plane and cast permanence on it and.... Look, I'm sure there's a way to make just about anything if you keep thinking about this. You want to start making infinity spindles and make the whole party demi-gods? Go for it.
Its here!
Oh, they're good dragons? Opps, guess I'm evil now. But it's such a shiny head in my bag of holding.
Just put a blanket over it if a Paladin comes over for dinner.
@@AJPickett Or put a bucket over the paladin's head. Depending on the paladin's intelligence.
Just used a gold dragon which my players trapped without trouble (we switch dm every session and we are 24th level) and killed but on the bright side my wizard/artificer took its elemental organ.
Uhm how wouldn’t it just dimension gate
@@charlottewalnut3118 the dragon they used is a individual
Could you image a gold dragon sending the party on quests to get books or art for it
Yes.
Great Video AJ
Does the Renegade spawn of Asgorath mentioned at 6:05 have a name?
i got 3 seizures listening too this, but its crazy informative
How does a dragon read a book? Like, how does it turn the pages, open it, close it, most books would be extremely tiny and equally fragile to a dragon.
Shapeshifting, I guess.
Mage hand, or shapeshifting into a humanoid form.
@@AJPickett what if they just made a really big book?
@@reptilprinceoflizardpeople5797 yeah they most just record stuff via magic, into gems and such. Books are a novelty.
The psionic and magical abilities of a dragon are above 99% of any creatures and thus even minor psychokinetic abilities would be an extremely minor task for them. Having a slave/friend turn a page at their telepathic nudge would not be out of place however. I also used their "tentacles" around their mouths for delicate tasks.
It would be interesting to have a D&D setting where the local gold dragon King Of Justice marries into a human royal family for a draconic bloodline and alliance with the gold dragons.
Simply *Y E E T* the enemy out of there
Did anyone catch what "prescription" as a punishment means in practice? I am familiar with it in terms of morés and values but not as a specific, singular act.
Not prescription, PROscription. ie: banishment or execution
Gold Dragon's are basically those Wholesome TV presenters who fall from grace after getting sued for sexual harassment.
Excellent video as always! Question though? What would happen if a gold dragon found orphan Red Dragon? Would it kill it or leave it alone?
Ps also could you do a video on demon lord Codricuhn? If not it fine I'm sure your viewer request list is like a light year long.
Codricuhn, his exarch, aspects and demon minions are on the list of future videos. As for Gold adopting reds? Most likely they would not, they would leave it alone.
@@AJPickett Thanks !
"Draggin' its tail." Warn a bloke, hey?
gold dragons do sometimes run around as humanoids tho
Oh AJ, shine your light of knowledge on us little d&d moths! :DDD Always very interessting and informativ.
I AM LAMP
@@AJPickett fiat lux
@@AJPickett *insert holy acapella choir music right here*
Yay!
Hey question what dragon do you think is most likely to wear jewelry as a status symbol.
Probably Blues since they’re the type of Dragon most likely to insert themselves as rulers of other races. Also gold just looks really good on Blue Dragons.
It's true, blues do love their bling. Golds also wear a lot of expensive jink.
Dragons are flat earthers
so in theory the red dragons were right, Their boasting to a degree is justified.
The Gold dragons might just be perpetuating a myth to mollify the ego of the Reds.
@@AJPickett if said gold was humble,doubt most dragons pride would allow it to willingly submit. Though im sure there are individuals who deviate from the norm
@@fistimusmaximus6576 Let's face it, where there is sapience, there is the capacity to be a weirdo.
Well in the red dragons case. There are only two non epic dragon species greater than it. Just two. The gold dragon who can wipe them. And the lord of the lost colors. The one and only true purple dragon. So yes that boasting is warranted unless it was unlucky enough to lair near one of those. That boasting isn't empty.
@@AJPickett Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. - Sun Tzu
I'm pretty sure Gold Dragons would read enough to instinctively understand The Art of War.