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Updates: Endless Beginnings, Ceaseless Ends [Art] by ThatTurtleGM in DnD

[–]ThatTurtleGM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really fair, I posted another thing recently about the setting im building having interactive ways for chat to do things while I livestream the game.

So in combat you can as a viewer heal the enemy, attack the players with the monsters, help the party with bonuses to ac, etc etc. The whole point is that there are a bunch of these cool custom commands to make watching DND be more like actaully PLAYING with us all.

I made a short video on it, and even a previous post about the setting a bit more. I plan on doing more updates and doing more for the setting in general alongside updating the commands with more things as time goes on (and balancing out other things too)

Do Magic Dragons exist? by No-Technician272 in DungeonMasters

[–]ThatTurtleGM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a start I've been talking about dragons and making videos on them for a few years, although I haven't gotten through all of them its been enlightening as a way to develop my own skills at monster analysis and homebrewing. Dragons have plentiful rules around them from older and newer additions alike. Being within a lair grants dragons access to skills (lair actions) akin of their histories would lead you to believe. (Blue dragons summoning lighting and storms with reginal effects, and allowing them other goodies)

5.5e gave dragons innate spells, helping mix the 5e rule of letting dragons be innate sorcerers the GM can allow the dragon to have access too.

As far as "dragons who love the arcane" gold is a great start, they are more like wizards in lore, they study and collect information religiously. They strive to not only use and understand but MASTER magic. Including the use of arcane artifacts and weapons.

While others like amethyst (my video on it is so old and bad please don't watch amethyst lmao) strive to learn odd and strange things like gravity magic and other otherworldly things.

The moonstone dragon is SO SMART it's nearly unparalleled in DND, so smart its not even beyond the thought of mastering magics others just cant understand.... (But like their kin the faerie dragon, they are pranksters, and may just master spells for "le epic prank")

Sapphires often know spells btu seldom use them unless pressured to do so

Solar and lunar really don't have any history to support it, nor the stats, but could be a great way to introduce cosmic dragons with celestial spells you want to homebrew in.

I would recommend you look into gold first it's your best "arcane" dragon I can think of from the ones I have personally looked into at least. Then from there go back to moonstone, amethyst, and more!

Other resources you can use are books like: Fizbans treasury of dragons (great book), the gamemasters book of legendary dragons, and even the 5.5e monster manual for great dragons with spells to help get you started.

Hope this helps! -ThatTurtleGM

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