How I Run White Dragons - D&D
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- Hello! This video shows how I run white dragons in D&D. I provide four adventure hooks for the four stages of a dragon's lifespan. Crammed in between are tips, tricks, and suggestions.
I make videos with own personal tastes in mind. That said, I always encourage viewers to put their own spin on things.
Huge shoutout to Habit for the music and the white dragon pencil drawing, my friend Emily for the white dragon wyrmling art, and my amazing partner Kyla for the pirate ship art.
Thumbnail art is by Matt Stewart: www.artofmtg.com/artist/matt-...
Music by: Habit - @mynameishabit - / @mynameishabit
Chapters:
00:00 - 00:23 - So, you like dragons?
00:00 - 01:42 - Overview & Appearance
01:43 - 02:45 - "Intelligence"
02:46 - 04:00 - White Dragon Names
04:01 - 04:27 - YOUR White Dragon Name
04:28 - 07:05 - Encounter #1: Pack(ing) Snow Tactics - Wyrmling
07:06 - 08:34 - Treasure and Lairs
08:35 - 11:34 - Encounter #2: In the Lair of Rimeria - Young
11:35 - 14:58 - Encounter #3: The Frigid Fleet - Adult
14:59 - 18:51 - Encounter #4: The Shadow on the Summit - Ancient
18:52 - 20:51 - Dragon Combat
20:52 - 22:58 - Power Up Your White Dragon
22:59 - 24:06 - Putting it all together - Zábava
Letting you know, I'm taking that adult white dragon/pirate crew idea. That's golden!
Please do! Let me know how it goes
This was absolutely phenomenal. Start to finish. 10/10
I appreciate it! New video like this one out soon
“White Doom The Nightmare in Ivory”.. I like it! That Ranger in the Young White Dragon encounter should really count their blessings! Great work on the video!!
Yes they should!
As a dm, I let my party try to convince a very young white dragon wyrmling to come with them as a pet. They succeeded, because of course they succeeded. She was being attacked by diseased wolves and the party saved her. Her mother had fallen to the same disease which was demonic in nature. To keep things balanced she is terrified of combat, largely due to almost dying at the fangs of the wolves, and runs and hides at the first sign of real trouble. She’s mostly a cute npc for them to role play with.
@@davehendren4996 I like this for both balance and story reasons! Basically the party mascot without winning any fights for them.
Winter doom, the bane of summer
Frigid Jest the Alabaster Apocalypse. Honestly, as much as the Jest part perfectly fits me as a person, it's hard to imagine something with that name being considered any kind of apocalypse...
Honestly, they can’t all be winners.
Buuuut the backstory could be it was originally a silver dragon who told a rude joke about one of the gods, and was cursed for it?
Gelid doom, the bane of summer.... fun
Rimera crushes a human skull as they step forward. My Silver Dragon in disguise paladin. "oh you just fucked up, now prepare to meet tiamat in avernus"
*duel of fates*
@dmofmanyfaces actually how he got his white dragonborn apprentice XD, in this game Rimera was Narmer (in this case me making a joke saying Narmer means Cursed in draconic) ad a life cleric Ancients paladin, train him to be a Vengeance Hexadin
love this! im prepping for a fight where the white dragon has only 1 round to mess with the players before she rewinds time (its whole thing in my game) but i was wounding how to make it harder before and the suggestions u made will help so much before hand to slow them down and get them to blow there load before they have to figure out the time puzzle!
Always happy to help!
Your hard work really paid off in this video! I’m especially a big fan of the pirate section - such fun and interesting encounter ideas!
Avast :)
"Frigid Song The Freezing Storm" , that sounds terrifying. Thank you.
That chart literally gives me "Geilidon" LOL! The exact same name as Matt Mercer's LOL! That's the first day of spring btw...
Beautiful!
Man I could have really used this before introducing Greydolhyve XD
GREAT video as always! Can't wait to see what topic you tackle next ^^
Next campaign we can coordinate better :)
I recently moved to a snowy alpine region. So I sent my old D&D party an invitation to visit during the holiday period.
This invitation was sent in the form of a letter written as a quest to defeat a white dragon.
So I’m the middle of winter they came and I ran a long weekend long game themed around my new town under the control of a white dragon. The tavern the heroes met in was even the local pub we agreed to meet at for dinner and hammer out last minute game details
This all sounds lovely 😊
Vinthra, Winter's Herald, white dragon who hibernates during summer with her lair completely frozen over, but breaks open the ice and rampages as soon as winter starts. She rests little until the coming of spring when she returns to her lair and freezes the entrance again. The villages that live in the shadow of her hunting grounds have learned to use her presence declare the seasonal changes almost more than natural phenomenon.
“You can set your watch by that rampaging dragon”
"Blizzard Doom - The Bane of Summer" Already getting campaign ideas for that one. :)
That’s a legitimately good one!
These are such fun and creative encounters!!! This makes me wonder what I can do to make my campaign as dynamic as these... time for a brainstorming session!
Thank you so much :) when in doubt, add pirates
@@dmofmanyfaces I feel like if I had to summarize it, it would be having multiple variables! Such as, combine Dragon with Pirates. Or, combine Wyrmling with Wolves and town. Makes things more dynamic?
I remember a campaign where my group were in hunts near the peaks. We were there because our reputations were slandered by another group using them in criminal acts against the kings villages. Our search however led us to the worse area, and i fell in the blizzard. When my character came to the blizzard was gone but i was face to face with the oldest white dragon with a corpse riding its back. ( my friends were losing their shit at this reveal of the ancient white dragon and was hilarious. ) Dm said simply that she was debating if i was even worth eating or not, so with a calm demeaner, a nat 20 persuasion roll and charisma check that passes, we had a understanding that felt like lifelong friends speaking our philosophies of life. ( the suspense was thick when I rolled but even i knew fighting was out of question. ) by the time i made my return me and my new friend saved our group from a tpk ambush and froze our Bbeg alive. To this day too, we still visit each other to hang around and fly across the frozen tundras
Love this as a stand-alone scene. Good on your DM for honouring a nat 20
@dmofmanyfaces I got many stories to share, and this one was me being a drake ranger that recently lost his best friend so it wasn't out of the picture to have this interaction play out beautifully. So when we both spoke, it was just us realizing how much they truly mattered to us despite our standings. She needed a friend just as much as I, who always wished to soar freely in the endless skies, the truest form of freedom. The ironic thing was too was that I role-played a earth genasi who knew only the chains, branding and nothing else more til the group bought my freedom due to my tongue in calming young dragons
sounds like someone encountered Arveiaturace
@@dragonboyxyz2308yeah… had I not rolled the twenty, my guy woulda been dead and guaranteed tpk. Really just came down to sheer luck that we talked it out.
Glacialmouth, the Shadow on the Summit checking in ;)
Welcome aboard, friend
White dragons really are quite underrated, but you Made them Sound just as awesome as the rest. Great Video!
Thank you so much!
This is so awsome, pls do more!
Thank you so much, good feedback :)
Hey Josh, this video was great man thank you for the time and effort you put into making it. Liked and subscribed. Have a good one!!
Thanks you too!
Great video! Mic quality is very nice 👌
Underrated channel
😁
Hello, I came upon this video and I enjoyed it, though I’m running a magic less campaign(sci fi so technology) I can use your ideas for dinosaurs.
The breath weapon could be an erratic mutation that is radioactively induced and the environments, specifically ice boat were genius.
As a fellow DM you understand the reflavoring I’m gonna have to do, as my central planet for my campaign has no permanent ice caps or dragons.
As for dragon replacements I have mutation tables for my dinosaurs so that they can get anything between a small debuff- to tweaked mechanic- to becoming a straight up kaiju.
I could easily work in a “frost Rex” or something and have it just be the adult ice dragon stat block with no flight.
Thank you for the inspiration.
I also liked the video, and when I do that I let creators know as I don’t do it often.
I’m glad you enjoyed!
Frost Rex sounds super badass. Very cool idea
Great content! Subscribed!
Thank you!
I want to see on on the dragons I didn’t get 5e cut brown dragons fang dragons, purple dragons, yellow dragons,orange dragons etc
Maybe someday! I just wrapped up a campaign that featured homebrew versions of some of these.
@@dmofmanyfaces interesting
Really great ideas
Thank you kindly!
Glacial Haunt the frigid doom, awesome video!
Thank you very much! Stay tuned for more
Cryo Cry, the shimmering sound.
Thematic!
Another great video!! My white dragon name is Flurry Cry the Eternal Cold 🐉
Not too bad! I expect a lot of them to be lame XD
Frigid song: herald of hoarfrost
Ay I was born july 7 and my favorite class is paladin
It’s all coming together!
I usually get older dragons unique magical equipment (made for them). They would've acquired a lot of things over the years. Lots of dead adventurers leave lots of goodies.
And remember, the older the dragon the more tricks. These creatures would know what the party is going to do before they figure it out. You don't survive centuries living in a dangerous world without being able to handle scores of well equipped adventurers. Think about how many people have tried to kill them. This isn't the dragons first rodeo.
All of the easily slain dragons died eons ago.
Equipment is an interesting angle! Makes total sense
cryo slash the elegy of warmth
Awesome!
1:53 I’ve seen that video
artic song the eternal cold
Not bad!
Tundra Stare the Blizzard Made Flesh
A fellow Paladin enjoyer I see
@@dmofmanyfaces Yes tho so far stuck in a forever DM seat😄
BOT ACTUALY.
easy, why kill a White Dragon, They threatened the Groups favourite Npc, and we went into Powergame mode to Kill it No one hurts the bean and lives
This is simply miles above the black dragon video......that may be some racism on your part 😂
Thank you! I certainly hope not