Dracoliches | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep.156

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  • čas přidán 26. 10. 2019
  • Will and Brian are bringing their Halloween Spooktacular to a close while simultaneously honoring the Year of the Dragon AND celebrating the third year of hosting the show! Come learn about the horrifyingly dangerous Dracolich and what remains of it's dragon-hood this week on The Dungeoncast!
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Komentáře • 73

  • @cameronpearce5943
    @cameronpearce5943 Před 4 lety +43

    I like the idea of their lairs being twisted versions of what they once where. Extinct Volcanoes, Toxic Coves, Desiccated Swamps, Deserts glassed by constant necrotic lighting, and Haunted Forrest infested with blights.

  • @fracros95
    @fracros95 Před 4 lety +30

    The idea of a dracolich is both simple and brilliant.

  • @CharlemagneSupernova
    @CharlemagneSupernova Před 4 lety +13

    This month is hands down my favorite batch of episodes. From the Banshee dying in the middle of town to the fireball rave party to the possessed Froghemoth corpse I have never laughed harder when listening to this show.

  • @JR-cm7dq
    @JR-cm7dq Před 4 lety +16

    Good laughs in this one.

  • @NamelessKing1597
    @NamelessKing1597 Před 4 lety +6

    Gotta get it done as a Wyvern, damn, giant crocodile, nope, Firenewt, come on, Tortle? ends up scuttling away as one of those little anole lizards that gather by your porch light eating bugs in the summer.

  • @siyarg.4900
    @siyarg.4900 Před 4 lety +10

    Can i just say, thank you? I've learned so much of D&D lore through this channel, and as a DM this helped me set up the lore of my game for my players. Any time anyone asks where they could go to learn the lore i always point them this way.
    So thanks, you've genuinely made my life a lil bit easier

  • @Rageaxe195
    @Rageaxe195 Před 4 lety +9

    Honestly, this show needs more love and attention,

  • @mrericsupreme
    @mrericsupreme Před 4 lety +17

    One of the funniest episodes ever!

  • @NdustrialN8
    @NdustrialN8 Před 4 lety +10

    Hell yea! I was hoping we’d get a dracoliches episode for Halloween considering it’s the year of the dragon.

  • @jjmeyer74
    @jjmeyer74 Před 4 lety +4

    Setting up a drocolich undying warlock patron. Just in time! Thanks for setting the mood for this backstory.

  • @andyh2783
    @andyh2783 Před 4 lety +3

    I've always imagined that Orcis would have several powerful liches and drakoliches in his employ

  • @Jak_tnt
    @Jak_tnt Před 4 lety +3

    The first thing I think of when I hear dracolich, Durnaviir the cursed guardian of the soul cairn

  • @justincarlozmaxino1100
    @justincarlozmaxino1100 Před 4 lety +5

    first time i’ve seen Will crack up

  • @andyh2783
    @andyh2783 Před 4 lety +2

    I always give my drakoliches and even very old dragons spellcasting......and adjust lair and regional effects for the drakolich using the normal lich ones... works like a charm

  • @Born-Bitter
    @Born-Bitter Před 4 lety +8

    I would use your channel as my falactory... it never drops in value.

  • @DeedeeDirt
    @DeedeeDirt Před 4 lety +3

    I can't wait to ride a Dead dragon through the desert of demonic dangers!

  • @kal-el702
    @kal-el702 Před 4 lety +4

    spoopy dragon

  • @destonlee2838
    @destonlee2838 Před 10 měsíci

    The froghemoth swallow you whole and passes you 3 turns later. Congrats you are a ghoul.

  • @cameronpearce5943
    @cameronpearce5943 Před 4 lety +5

    sombody make Froghemoth Skeleton stats please

  • @dorianrobinette9712
    @dorianrobinette9712 Před 4 lety +4

    THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON CONTINUES ONWARD! just as I do in continuing to serve the dungeoncast by liking and commenting!!!
    yes! hahaha! I freaking called it! I knew we'd get dracoliches this week! I can predict the future! I've been waiting for this episode. I absolutely love dracoliches. they're just so badass. then again I'm already very partial to dragons and undead. heck my favorite deities in dnd currently are vecna and bahamut. though weirdly I don't care for tiamat. though I'm surprised will didn't bring up proto dracoliches since they are so important to the creation of a dracolich. also just wanna say this was one of the funniest videos I've seen from you two. my only complaint is that it wasn't longer. I need more dungeoncast lol. I know I've said all of this before but Brian I just have to say don't you dare ever let any of those people who occasionally comment something like "the guy on the right is annoying" get to you. because that bit about the stock market ruining a dracolich ritual was absolutely fucking hilarious! that joke alone proves that not only are you freaking funny but just plain fucking awesome man. there's just no other way of saying it but being that blunt about it. also will saying how one would be terrified at the froghemoth coming out of nowhere was also hilarious. I guess all I'm trying to say Is thank you both so much for doing this and giving us all good laughs. I know I make jokes by referring to will as the lord of knowledge and brian the Lord of laughter but in all honestly, I think your both very funny when you want to be and you both show that your legitimately intelligent when you want to. like for example, look back to the moradin video when brian was talking about the idea of dwarves being reincarnated drawing the parallel between dwarves and the earths mantle and stuff. I can't remember exactly what he said I need to rewatch that episode but I do remember thinking that analogy was genius. in fact it inspired me to create a character in my own fantasy world I write stories of for my friends. the basic idea is a dwarven avatar who gets reborn in times of great need to save the dwarven people. anyway I think I've kissed enough butt. lol time for a short rest. :)
    hey everybody welcome to the short rest where I just wanna say I love you! dont worry about what'll happen if you decide to become an undead abomination to escape death! because I'm still going to be sending you all the love I can! but I'm going to cut the short rest short and finish this weeks comment!
    as I said before dracoliches are just awesome.also forgot to mention above but it's also a thing that only evil dragons are capable of becoming dracoliches. it's also a little coincidental this video would come out now as I just recently slew the ur Dragon in dragons dogma for the first time, as that is essentially a dracolich. it was offline and took at least a couple hours but it was great.
    as for dracolich regional effects I'll try to give some decent ideas.
    ok so maybe the monsters lair could be filled with a toxic miasma.
    everything that dies to close to the lair automatically gets raised as an undead death tyrant style.
    maybe all undead who enter the monsters domain automatically fall under some kind of mind control of the dracolich.
    if you had one living near a volcano maybe the lava could turn purple and black and also do necrotic damage. if it lives in a swamp maybe the water turns toxic. maybe rains becomes acid rain if it was a black Dragon in life. the toxic water could also apply to snow if it's a white Dragon.
    that's all I can think right now. have a good day all. :)

    • @dorianrobinette9712
      @dorianrobinette9712 Před 4 lety +1

      forgot to say this as well but a really funny way for a group of players to prevent a dracolich from being created would be for the group's wizard to use a wish spell to create an ungodly amount of gold or something along those lines to crash the economy to make the ritual fail.

  • @aleplayer1712
    @aleplayer1712 Před 4 lety +1

    Bahamut: YOU GOT THE TOUCH! You got the power!!!!

  • @davidlummus4833
    @davidlummus4833 Před 4 lety +4

    Hey guys! I just wanted to say hi and thank you for making this show! I have been listening for a week or so using this podcast to build a foundation of DND knowledge for my first upcoming DM adventure. I've been bouncing around for specific videos and I really appreciate how focused you guys are, and how organized all this is. Itd be so much harder to find this information if you guys didn't document it the way you do. I truly love the way you guys talk about this stuff. It's easy to understand and I like how well you guys connect other things to it and give imagery as well. It's fantastic. And I also want to say how surprising it is that you have kept the same theme song for the entire time you've recorded this show!
    I wanted to ask, if I decide to shout you out for one reason or another, what places work and what places don't. I use Facebook mainly and sometimes Instagram, but I'm a bit more disconnected than most. And then just as well, if I want to ask you guys a very broad question, what's the best place to ask that? Email? Or a comment on a post? Thanks so much for all this useful information!

  • @Revengerist
    @Revengerist Před 4 lety +7

    My initial thought was that the dracolich was similar to Pain from Naruto.

    • @andyh2783
      @andyh2783 Před 4 lety

      Kinda but instead of a person putting his soul or energy into corpses the dragon or spellcaster puts his soul or energy into a object.... and in D&D such an act is permanent in nature

    • @Revengerist
      @Revengerist Před 4 lety

      @@andyh2783 I was thinking about the part where pain can exchange bodies when the corpses he uses as puppets are destroyed.

  • @nickabsent958
    @nickabsent958 Před 4 lety +1

    Great episode guys! Many laughs and a few campaign ideas even!

  • @D1LLDozZer135
    @D1LLDozZer135 Před 4 lety +3

    YES IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!

  • @rickyl3136
    @rickyl3136 Před 4 lety

    Just found you guys and just need to say I love the stuff I've seen so far.

  • @ErinWi
    @ErinWi Před 3 lety

    Back on this ep for the Froghemoth. Froghemolich for life.

  • @zionthedragon8866
    @zionthedragon8866 Před 4 lety +2

    What about vampire dragons? You forgot about those undead dragons!!

  • @gmanbo
    @gmanbo Před 2 lety

    How to stop a dragon from becoming a lich. Dump gold into the market. 8:00

  • @artcircle4099
    @artcircle4099 Před 3 lety

    Mists that spawn wisps is one that I do with my black dracolich.

  • @Agreus-WolfsbaneYT
    @Agreus-WolfsbaneYT Před 3 lety

    This is why I love the Dracolich from 4e it was so imposing and awe inspiring but also super scary to face becuas eit wasn't a template and it could do some serious damage

  • @destonlee2838
    @destonlee2838 Před 10 měsíci

    Becoming a dracolich is blaspheme unto IO Azgorath. Becoming dracolich changes the dragons fealty to Orcus, and is frowned on by IOAzgorath, tiamat, et al. Dragons are patient, but punishment is inevitable.

  • @EternalDeath14
    @EternalDeath14 Před 4 lety +3

    sp00ky scary skeletons

  • @spacewarsfight281
    @spacewarsfight281 Před 4 lety +2

    Cool zombie dragon dracolitch skulllord that needs to exit

  • @Goofykid3435
    @Goofykid3435 Před 4 lety +1

    Do you think Black and Green dragons be more likely to become Dracoliches? The Black dragons seem like they try to avoid death at all costs and the Greens are the most scheming and magic sensitive. Or on the flipside, White, Blue, and Red seem the least likely. Whites are just too primal. Blues and Reds seem like they're too prideful to think that they could be better than what they currently are.

    • @james739123
      @james739123 Před 3 lety

      I'd say so, in my home brew the whole campaign is about stopping a powerful green dragon from becoming a Dracolich, killing or stopping his allies from providing it the resources needed for the ritual, pulling down his power base, gathering friends and allies of our own to kill him before can find new ways to gather the resources or escape to try again elsewhere, I even got a type of clock to count down the time we have and ever manger victory, I'd turn the clock back to we knew we had more time to stop him

  • @lupusarcana3890
    @lupusarcana3890 Před 4 lety +2

    Spooky scary almost skeleton

  • @paulh3892
    @paulh3892 Před 4 lety +1

    The people demand a Froghemo-Lich episode next Spooktober!

  • @Mattlewis91
    @Mattlewis91 Před 4 lety +1

    So I plan on running a dracolich as part of the endgame for my group...are you saying to combine the dracolich and lich stat blocks togather?

  • @fobbles_
    @fobbles_ Před 4 lety +1

    Do y’all know how many Draco-lich rituals fucked up when the stock market crashed... a lot

  • @user-mz2ow4ky7v
    @user-mz2ow4ky7v Před 4 lety

    Looks like the year of the bong was felt heavily in this episode

  • @SpidermanandhisAmazingFriends

    Night Dragon is what I want airbrushed along the side of my El Camino. Also, I want an El Camino.

  • @dingdong5212
    @dingdong5212 Před 3 lety

    I know im a little late, but Hero Forge is awesome

  • @franknova987
    @franknova987 Před 4 lety +1

    I mean, if Fire Emblem let you have weapon made out of dragon bones, idk why you can't in dnd

  • @eduardobruno7310
    @eduardobruno7310 Před 4 lety

    Hey guys, great show! I've been binge watching you for months, and i'd like to make a request. Pls make a "Aberration" and a "Construct" episodes, like you did with the fey, talking about generic features, lore and most prominent creatures. It would be awesome! Thnx !

  • @MrBiloxifireman
    @MrBiloxifireman Před 4 lety

    13:51. Break Ends

  • @martinpat94
    @martinpat94 Před 3 lety

    Hello just started listening to all your guys stuff and this got me thinking with the mention of Eberron. There is a half dragon, half elf Lich and this got me thinking. Would she require bodies like a dracolich or souls like a regular Lich? Perhaps some combination of both?

  • @kyleellis9177
    @kyleellis9177 Před 4 lety

    So since my dragons are more like dragonflies so insectoid, how do i make a dracoliche? would it look normal since skeleton is carapace or would it be a goo dragon?

  • @heavy5013
    @heavy5013 Před 2 lety

    What if a dracolich cloned it's original body to use as extra bodies in case it dies? Would that work?

  • @timothywootton5331
    @timothywootton5331 Před rokem

    Go dracolichs

  • @DinaMancini
    @DinaMancini Před 3 lety

    Grungolich

  • @kyleellis9177
    @kyleellis9177 Před 4 lety

    Spectober

  • @tk3venestros697
    @tk3venestros697 Před 4 lety +1

    hey guys i dont know if ill get a response from this but im attempting to put a half- dragon- (High) Elf Sorcerer (mother was highborn elf and dad was gold dragon and my character's magic origin is draconic origin obviously) together but ive never really played DnD except with premade sheets or fudged rules to play simple campains and would really like to be able to make a character but dont really understand all the ins and outs of creating one except backstories. Any help and advice would be nice. btw love superquest saga and am spreading the word about it!!

    • @t2av159
      @t2av159 Před 2 lety

      Half elf draconic gold bloodline, charisma/constitution followed by dex for ac.

  • @wraithreaper22
    @wraithreaper22 Před 4 lety +1

    Just came on for something to watch and I get a new video ❤️ when's the next super quest saga?

  • @tishabyte
    @tishabyte Před 4 lety

    You forgot the Rosemary now the dracolich went rogue and now he's eating the princess. Lol
    Why did it go wrong? Guys I'm looking at the stock market right now it's not good we done goofed man we shouldn't have put so much into Amazon.
    Guyss this Emerald isn't real! oh shit!
    A terrible body hopping dracolich would be hilarious.

  • @t2av159
    @t2av159 Před 10 měsíci

    Neat

  • @TaoScribble
    @TaoScribble Před 4 lety +2

    So...can they still transform? Can you be fighting a humanoid lich that suddenly transforms and reveals itself to be a dracolich?

  • @bendover460
    @bendover460 Před 4 lety +1

    So when's the white dragon coming?

  • @Killhunter1996
    @Killhunter1996 Před 4 lety

    The Dragon Videos are really good, but is there a possiblity you will go further on Giantkin.
    I am pretty shure Cyclops are Guantkin too.
    I want too write a campaign that is very focused on the War between Dragons and Giants.

  • @javunteharris2725
    @javunteharris2725 Před 4 lety

    Hay how would I make sun wukong in dnd.great video its amazing

  • @disunsnogoot3319
    @disunsnogoot3319 Před rokem

    Do you guys ever delve into the older 3.5e content?

  • @Drak976
    @Drak976 Před 3 měsíci

    Thanks for keeping the ad short I understand ppl gots to make $ but there's such a huge difference between a 30 second ad at the beginning of a 30 minute video and a 3 minute ad. 1.6% of the video or 10% of the video. 3 minute ad break I might as well turn the tv on and not have to click around.

  • @alexandersmith9144
    @alexandersmith9144 Před 4 lety +1

    Bahamut=Optimus Prime.
    Gold Dragon=Ultra Magnus.
    Silver Dragon=Bumble Bee.
    Bronze Dragon=Arcee.
    Tiamat=Megatron.
    Green Dragon=Starscream.
    Blue Dragon=Soundwave.
    Black Dragon=Laserbeak.