Why you should play a Dragonborn!
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2021
- Welcome back to the Arcane Forge!
In today's video, I talk about the Dragonborn; the fire-breathing lizard bois of your dreams!
** Half-Dragon Homebrew player species: homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/s... **
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From one Josh to another, I love the Dragonborn as a race. They've always been my favorites ever since I learned of D&D
Good evening from Australia Josh. I've got a thing in my homebrew world where Dragons and Giants are extinct and their descendants (kobolds, Goliaths, firbolgs, dragonborn, loxodon, etc) are left behind to work out what they want to do now.
In my world, dragonborn were created through ancient magic to be soldiers in a Giant Vs Dragon war
Oh that's a really nifty idea! I like it!
Not sure if im alone in this or not, but I would be really interested to get a dedicated video talking about characters you've played or played with and what made them memorable. Maybe sort of a walk through of how your play style has evolved over your d&d career. I think there is likely a lot that new players and dms could learn from something like that and your creativity is a huge inspiration for me at least so it would be really cool to get a peek inside your thought process.
Thank you so much Krystopher! I may actually make something like this. I do make videos to this effect for my patrons on Patreon, but so far we've mostly been covering my homebrew world's lore, so maybe it something I need to circle around to!
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I feel like ideas on why you should play "this player race" come very easily for the exotic races like warforged and dragonborn. So what I'm interested in is "Why you should play a human!"
I agree Styrax! So many of my comments have been along the lines of "oh god don't talk about humans, dwarves or elves" though, although I'm desperate to do it!!!
@@ArcaneForge You should. I for one usually start with the point that humans are variable. Quite literally they are the most diverse species in D&D. Where other species are stereotyped and have assumptions connected to them, humans can come from any culture or background without issue. They can come from cultures very much like any in our current world, to the utterly alien, and usually with little adjustment.
That little *Click* where it swaps from The Dragon Born to Dragonborn had me rolling.
The amount of time put into this “why you should play x” video is amazing, as with the warforged video! Not sure if you have a list of player races that you add to similarity to Monster Mondays, but I’d like to once again recommend kobolds for a possible next topic :)
Thank you so much Hopper! I'm so glad that you've been enjoying them so far.
I have got all of the player species in the pipeline, and I'm so excited to cover Kobolds, so thank you for your suggestion!
So many drawings this time around 😲
Really like that crystal texture on the gem dragonborn and that flexing dragonborn has some junk in the trunk lol, great work as always 👍
Haha! Thanks so much Dan!
Love the vid, Forge!
Thanks so much Shibo! Also congratulations on your first, first! Cheers for being here!
Yeah, out of the four D&D's I've actually played that include the fantasy world of normal D&D, I've always played Dragonborn. They are by far my favorite race, probably just because of my love for Dragons. Currently, on my fifth run of D&D I've decided to play yet another Dragonborn, I decided I wanted to play a Barbarian/Fighter and had to choose a 'color'. I spoke with my DM about an idea of having a Fang Dragonborn, someone who doesn't possess a breath weapon but makes up for it with a boost to the other stats, primarily strength.
Oh wow! You're a Dragonborn connoisseur! The Fang Dragonborn sounds like a great candidate for the "alternative background" custom player race found in Tasha's Cauldron of everything! I'm sure your DM would let you take a feat or something instead of the breath weapon!
I have a Black Dragonborn necromancer who was created in the palace of Tiamat, but Vecna freed him and turned him into an incredibly powerful necromancer. Dragonborns are some of my favorite races in D&D. I like your purple, yellow, and orange Dragonborns. I have an Elven wizard god who has a purple dragon as his familiar. Dragonborns need wings! It will complete that full look of Dragonborns. I've very impressed with the amount of time and effort that went into this video. You're art is absolutely fantastic!! keep up the good work and can't wait to see what you come up with next!
Thanks so much Merlin! There was so much time that went into this one but it was also incredibly fun as well thankfully! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it!
Your black dragonborn sounds awesome! So much power invested in a necromancer must make them incredibly terrifying! Your Elven wizard god also sounds super exciting. You know I've got a weak spot for elves!
Thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to comment!
This was a fantastic watch. Even as someone who has been playing a dragonborn for almost 2 years now this got my mind going about detailing out more things in my backstory and lorebuild with my DM for my village since we have yet to see it in game. It was really fun watching all of the options being shown as well in a swapping method with the horns and so on all on the same base dragonborn, very nice presentation style.
Thank you so much Frostmute! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it!
I really hope that this video helps you to flesh out your character's home town. Let me know how it goes and what ideas you guys end up coming up with together!
dragonborn has been my favorite race since i started playing 5e!
The Dragonborn kind of got bits and pieces of the Draconians from Dragonlance melded into them with that modified slaves to chromatic dragons I feel, especially considering the big jump in lore between 3.5 Dragonborn and 4 ed. If I remember right, the official 4th ed Dragonlance stuff even used modified Dragonborn stats for their various Draconian types. It gave me half an idea to write up a quick campaign set similar to Caverns of Time from Warcraft, where the main party was sent back in time to various events in the Dragonlance timeline from far in the future to make certain they go according to plan and that other outside influences do not alter them to greatly. I figure it would have eventually turned into Time Squad in a way. I never did end up expanding on it, but was a fun thought.
Now you're speaking my language! The caverns of time were always some of my favourite dungeons (especially getting to fight alongside Arthas as he descends into madness)! I hope that you get to use this in future, and if you do, make sure to let me know how it goes! I'd love to hear about how your players reacted!
Thanks so much for watching!
I'm a fan of your Monster Mondays, but I definitely appreciate these videos as well! Always a pleasure to be here, Josh!
I'm so glad you enjoy them! Thanks so much for watching!
@@ArcaneForge I religiously watch all of your videos, not just because I know how hard it is to please the CZcams algorithm, but because I genuinely like your content.
Loved it, as always!! The idea, that wool or silk would be hard for them to wear is amazing!!
Thank you so much Max! I hope this helps with your future Dragonborn characters!
Question for the community (this is Dragonborn related/adjacent and would love to hear people's thoughts). What would happen if a Dracolich's phylactery were to come into contact with Tiamat???
The reason I ask is due to a character idea I have.
A Topaz Gem Dragonborn is forced into the service of a cult of a Dracolich. A ritual is performed on him but oddly enough seems fine and isn't sure what this cult actually did. Turns out they had fused the Dracolich's Spirit Gem to his gem covered body. A group of Adventurers attack the cults base and slay the Dracolich. When it's soul travels to it's phylactery, the process turns the Dragonborn into a Undead Warlock. In the chaos the Dragonborn flees the cults base. Think it could be fun to have the group of Adventurers be "antagonists" hunting down the Dragonborn and also having the cult secretly help the Dragonborn out due to their loyalty to their master. Was thinking from there the PC can be RPing the Dracolich's Soul trying to take over the Dragonborn. Would you think if a Dracolich were to inhabit an adventurer's body, would they go on a grand quest to try to take Tiamat's body (would it work due to Tiamat being considered a Fiend, if it did work what type of undead monstrosity would rise)? Or would it have more short term goals/want to get out of a Dragonborn's body due to it being "lesser"? Appreciate anyone who read this, can't wait to hear folks thoughts. Hope everyone has a blessed day!
Oh damn! I can't wait to hear the responses for this one!
I'd never thought of a gemstone dragon becoming infused with a phylactery before, and now I so badly want to put that into one of my campaigns!
thanks so much for watching! I'll be popping back to read the reactions to this!
Very great video series im excited to see the next race😁.
Thank you so much! I'm so excited for the next one! It may be a multi-part episode but I'm not sure just yet!
This series is just amazing! Really looked forward to this thank you for going through all the effort to make these because honestly they’re the best. I agree with the why you should play a human,elf etc too it would be just as entertaining I’m sure :)
Thanks so much Anime Thoughts! This vide took ages but it was well worth it; especially to receive lovely comments like this!
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Yuuusss more votes for humans and elves! Thank you!
Excellent video as always!
Thanks so much Moonring!
In my world, Dragonborn are unnatural beings created from magic rituals from both Bahamut and Tiamat's worshippers who wanted to create a people for each of them as they thought it would be the greatest gift you could possibly give a god. However, they weren't created during the great with the giants, contrary to what most people would assume. Unlike Metallic Dragonborn Chromatic Dragonborn can hatch Dragonborn of different colours as long as each parent is the right type of colour, purple from red and blue, green from yellow and blue etc. Since they are an unnaturally occurring species, there is no consistency between an individual's appearance and their parents besides their scale colour, so one that closely resembles either of their parents is incredibly rare.
BTW: I would really love a deep dive on Orcs. Even though you've already done a Monster Monday video on them.
That's some really cool lore! Thank you so much for sharing!
I can't wait to do a player-side video on Orcs. There's so much cool stuff to talk about!
Mechanically they feel lacking, but I still love them because of what they are, not because of what they do
Awe- thanks for showing your drawing process. Very inspiring! I need to get back into it!
@24:18 what where you doing there? What tool is that? Symmetry split over 5 lines? My casters are going ot be hex all the way!!!
i just found this and it is interesting, but can we also have like a monstrous pc race version of this? Cause i really would like one of the Aranea which sadly aren´t official in 5e as far as i know but the 3.5 version of them with the monstrous pc rule was interesting though they may also fall beneath the monster monday banner.
There's more to official canon than forgotten realms. Eberron dragonborn seem content to live under dragon rulers, and most worship draconic gods.
This is your tail pass, if you want a tail, you can have a tail sweetie.
(given to you by someone who was not allowed a tail D:)
Lol! Oh no!!! I hope that your next Dragonborn has the most majestic tail ever!
@@ArcaneForge Thank you, I'm sure they will! xD
I would love the Gith
Most excellent
Thanks so much Goblin!
This is nice
Thanks so much Nate! So was this comment!
hey have you done any map drawing videos?
I love the Passover reference. I am Jewish and I love this idea.
Oh no way! You'll have so much influence to draw on with your Dragonborn!
I'm glad you liked it! I love how something so tragic has been completely owned by the Jewish people and how it's been turned into this family tradition.
It feels like the biggest "Screw you, I'm going to turn this into something we love", while also honouring and teaching about the past.
@@ArcaneForge "Screw you, I'm going to turn this into Something we love." I love it.
They definitely are a cool race, but need a serious buff to level out with other races in terms of usefulness.
Am I the only one who was rather disappointed when finding out that they didn’t canonically have tails? Like I can understand not having wings but tails? It doesn’t even have to have an attack attached to it, it just seems like it’s a given aesthetically
I needed a closed system to kick my campaign off, because this one is going to be about “reclaiming what was lost” in a sort of points of light campaign. So, I have a city underneath an impossibly tall mountain that closed it’s gates during a long-ago apocalypse, a la Fallout. The game starts two days after those gates open again for the first time in over 600 years. (And if anyone is worried about how a city survived in a massive cavern for so long; there’s lots of mystech - magical technology like a false sun - in there that was built by whoever originally built the place. Basically - a wizard probably did it? Maybe?)
Thing is, I was aware that this sort of knackers freedom of choice for race and class for my players. Sort of. A single city with every race in it? That’s been locked away for centuries? With every species maintaining a discrete culture the whole time? Really?
Yeah, didn’t like the idea. Feels forced - putting a “nationhood” aspect in sounded silly. Much more likely the culture was homogenous, regardless of race, due to having to work so closely together for survival in those first years.
So Dragonborn, for me, are a throwback (we would probably call it a case of recessive genes) that can occur amongst any mortal race. A couple can just have one of these as a kid, and they - along with genasi, aasimar and tieflings - are considered a blessing from the requisite deity. (Yes, even tieflings.)
This is because I didn’t want to sandbag the races into behaving in a certain way. This way, they can be anyone and anything they want to be. For me, therefore, the Half-dragons have the background of the canonical Dragonborn. Don’t worry, none of us in my game are Loremasters who worry about this; like I say, this is purely to give my players freedom to play whatever they liked however they liked with no feelings of expectations set for them to do it “the right way”.
And yes, they can have tails. Some do, some don’t. They can also be whatever colour they like. And they don’t have to be good or evil or anything else; they’re people, like everyone.
Amazing video, boss. And it was nice to see your Bahamut again - still one of my absolute favourite pieces of yours. Loved the switches between the colours with the breath weapons in this one!
Thanks so much Steve!
I absolutely loved your lore here! You've really thought through what you need to and discarded everything that overcomplicates things or limits options for your players! Definitely working alongside the creativity of your players and I'm here for it! Well done!
Thanks so much for watching!
So I play a red and gold Dragonborn with wings and tail, however I don't enjoy the loss of human features as I went for broad chest, and hugely muscular, but 2 sets of pectoral melding into one, but still a keeled chest, however I did imagine the females with a more feminine design like human females as there are stories of collecting wyvern milk, but that's what works for me, imagination allows the mind to go wild
Can't say I'm a huge fan of winged dragonborn, as I've always envisioned them as bipedal drake humanoids. I'm fine with aesthetic choices made by players, but now I'm gimping myself if I don't fly...
What art program do you us Josh?
Hey Grant! I use Photoshop CC! I'd highly recommend it, but it's eye-wateringly expensive so if you're just wanting to check it out, there are plenty of free alternatives that work very similarly!
@@ArcaneForge Yeah £25 a month is a kick in the wallet. What tablet do you use? I recently got a Wacom but I cant get it to work correctly with Krita.
@@granttrain3553 I use a wacom intuos pro, but I only got that after years of using a hand-me-down which had been used so much that it's cable caught fire. In my experience...tablets are largely the same no matter how much or little you spend on them.
That's frustrating about the lack of compatibility! Maybe check online for some older tablet drivers. Sometimes the tablet will update itself before the software can keep up. I'm always see-saw-ing between needing to get older drivers and having to get new drivers!
First!
Holy deal, this is my first "first!". I know it isn't that big of a deal but wow. It feels pretty good.
I like Dragonborn being basically genderless looking.
My new, non-binary player loves them for it. ☺️
There are so many D&D species that this should work so well for and I'm so excited that your player gets to see more of themselves in their characters!!!