Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Green Dragon

[@destonlee2838]

One of my uncles survived a chlorine gas exposure in the early 1950s and indeed lost his entire left lung. He passed of related conditions in 1974. So it's not just acid damage, there are also secondary conditions. Lung cancer, liver, heart and brain damage are all caused bychlorine gas exposure.... A gift that keeps giving. TPKk in 2d10 years? It's easy to be patient when you, as a dragon, are going to live 15 centuries

[@BiowareNut]

That's awful. I'm so sorry to hear that.

[@williethenerfherder2193]

Healing magic would stop it in the fantasy world, and sorry about your uncle.

[@SomethingWiley]

That's crazy. OMG thank you for sharing your tale. Let's talk about this. LTAT... ME make new text abbreviations (JSYK) And THEN... I think that's why their evil dragons.. . That would make bad gg of a GF. TOO BAD & because green is my favorite chromatic color....😂beu

[@purplehaze2358]

Environmentally, I always preferred forests for encounters over any other type of environment, so green dragons are my bread and butter.

[@kadoj]

Damn, bright. Did not expect to see you here. Lol.. small world. Figures.

[@silveriiosonline8945]

I KNEW DR. BRIGHT PLAYED D&D

[@Cruuvo]

I'm not sure if I'm more surprised to see you here or that it makes perfect sense.

[@thearchitect2112]

@Silver Iios Online, his favorite weapon is the rapid fire chainsaw crossbow

[@silveriiosonline8945]

@@thearchitect2112 You. You I like. I need that as a rediculous homebrew item now

[@coreyeaston6823]

I had a green dragon invite the players into a forest to discuss a truce with a town next to a forest. During the discussion the dragon presented them with a celebratory meal; that has been poisoned. A two part poison, so now the players can be manipulated by the dragon to further more ambitious plans to raid a town much further away from the forest. If you can't get the treasure, get someone else to do it for you :)

[@Greenscyth22]

I like the idea of a very powerful Green Dragon who has completely dominated a seemingly peaceful/good-aligned land to its will all under subterfuge. It could easily control a near by human kingdom by blackmailing it’s king, depriving them of their treasures over decades or centuries. Meanwhile it has also taken charge of a neighboring elven kingdom forcing them to breed and tend to a large herd of fey-touched deer so it has a steady supply of elegant food. Any people entering the lands would never know that the kindly denizens are all under the heel of a tyrant in the old woods.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

That murderous box of chocolate line sums up the courtship so well, thank you for the detail you put into this review. P.S: As a Green, you know you have won when other Greens have ally together to ... 'reward' you for the victory.

[@AJPickett]

Yeah it says a lot about their culture that, when a dragon pulls off a particularly legendary heist, they gang up to knock them down a few pegs.

[@imasciencegeek]

"part reptilian monster, part druid, part psionic sorcrerer"... my favorite dragon hands down

[@lostbutfreesoul]

For some reason, these are my favorite of the original dragons. As a Pathfinder storyteller.... Spppppaaaaaacceeee Draaaagons!

[@robybalde5742]

Wanna hear a story? *GREEN DRAGON:* Adventurer? Why do you not believe my stories nor accept my deals? *ADVENTURER:* I do not believe you, for thine scales are green and you speak naught but lies, and this I have been told. *GREEN DRAGON:* You do not believe me because of my skin color? Is that so? *ADVENTURER:* Tis so. Green Wyrms always speak in tongues, that I know. *GREEN DRAGON:* All green dragons speak lies? You sound like a racist. *ADVENTURER:* W-What no? It's not like a dragon thing... *GREEN DRAGON:* _(Interrupts)_ Ooooohhh, really? Green dragons always lie eh? Black dragons are always evil? Red dragons are always murderous? *ADVENTURER:* Well yeah, I mean... *GREEN DRAGON:* _(Interrupts again)_ By Tiamat man, what's wrong with you? *ADVENTURER:* No that's not... _(sighs)_ see I'll prove it. I'll just drop my weapons, see, I believed you. You told me you weren't going to eat... *GREEN DRAGON:* _(Eats adventurer, burps)_ *LOL! GOTEEM!* (While the adventurer inside the dragon's stomach has an annoyed look as he had fallen for the dragon's tricks) The end.

[@johngleeman8347]

A cunning villain is infinitely more engrossing to read about and battle against than a snarling brute. Greens > Reds. XD

[@clarkside4493]

I do love Green Dragons. I used a Green Dragon pretty prominently in my last big campaign. Vyzathalon had an interest in the party because the party was competing to rule a large dragonborn city, but when Vyzathalon asked them to deliver a gift to one of his relatives and the party found out it was a baby unicorn and that Vyzathalon was enjoying watching the mother search endlessly for her baby she would never find, they drew the line and fought him.

[@drakeford4860]

"They called her 'Little Verthy.' Their 'protector.' The idiots." AJ, I've been watching your content for a long time, but never before have you made me laugh as hard as that shift from "look how cute it is" to dispassionate disdain. My day has been immeasurably improved.

[@AJPickett]

☺️

[@benthomason3307]

so green dragons court entirely by tsundere. that's something I learned today.

[@Pinefr0st]

Okay I gotta tell you this. I fell asleep on my couch listening to your videos. In my dream I moved into a new house with roommates and one of them wouldn't shut the hell up about GREEN DRAGONS. I was getting so mad in my dream! He followed me everywhere! I finally convinced him to leave me alone and then suddenly this podcast about Green Dragons starts playing from EVERY AUDIO SOURCE in the house. So I go around turning them all off. It felt like HOURS of hearing about Green Dragons. I wake up cause I have to pee and I see this video on my KZbin and I start laughing my ass off. My cat is disturbed by the sudden laughter and runs off my lap. So that is the story of how you broke into my subconscious and tormented my dreams with Green Dragons. Yes, it's okay to laugh cause that shit is funny.

[@kylienielsen6975]

That feels like something a green dragons would do

[@DemonInquisition]

Couldn't be at a more perfect time; My players are on their way to an island dominated and ruled by a Green Dragon. AJ always at it with the useful resources!

[@chickenusgoddus464]

I love green dragons theyre my favorite tho my party hates them

[@nightflame69]

I’ve always been far more partial to blue/silver dragons. Mainly because they are my favorite colors

[@randyranderson690]

As i posted in the video on black dragons, my brother (a loveable and diabolical DM) ran a game involving a green dragon that was terrorizing several nearby communities. One of the communities was a dwarven community that used to use the mountain, where the dragon now lives, as a mine. The dwarves used their mithril reserves to build a great mithril cannon that was enchanted and fired specially enchanted ammunition of Green dragon slaying (think arrow of slaying: green dragon). Our party was to draw out the dragon and keep him distracted while the dwarves shot him down. In return the party would get a share of the loot. However... Setup: the dragon purchased bio-luminescent fungi, with psychotropic properties, from drow traders and cultivated it and seeded all bodies of water in it's domain with the stuff. This caused anyone drinking the water to make a CON save DC 16 or be subject to hallucinations and confusion. The mountain was the location of a massive waterfall (think Angel Falls) which covered the escape rout of the lair. At it's bottom was a deep pool bordered by brush and the old wood and was the main entrance for the lair. This pool area created a 'bowl' and when the dragon used it's breath weapon, caused the cloud to persist and fill the area. We managed to kill it, with much difficulty and entered treasury. Gold and every manner of gem were there as well as a massive collection of delicate and ornate chandeliers of gold, mithril and diamonds. It was all vary elaborate and unbelievable. On the back wall of this hoard was a stone slab with draconic runes carved on it. I read them aloud, the dragon's name: Azzendorious. It was then that a terrible curse was unleased: The spells: Transmute Metal to wood (permanenced), Transmute Gem to Glass (brothers creation), followed by Shatter and Fireball. I earned pariah status with all of dwarfkind. As well as fame among Dragonkind. My brother occasionally tortured me by having Evil dragons send me gifts with taunting notes attached.

[@tomc.5704]

Thanks for sharing! I am in awe

[@maddestmat]

Created two years ago and it’s still relevant and still a banger video 😊

[@AJPickett]

An evergreen dragon

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

As seen in Critical Role Green Dragons are dangerous if they can cast spells. Imagine a green dragon having bardic abilities and the capability of casting modify memory. Now that would be dangerous to a party if Modify Memory alters their perception of the Green Dragon.

[@Alexrider02]

I'm currently playing a green dragonborn pact of the chain warlock of the Great Old Ones, but I've flavored it as him having originally been a human infant who was used as part of an eldritch ritual by a cult of evil druids in order to birth an unborn entity known as The Triumvirate. The Triumvirate was meant to be birthed with the power of a human and a demigod so as to be a bridge between the Eldritch and the Divine, but instead the cultists substituted a green dragon's egg in an effort to transform the eldritch deity into one of their own making which could be controlled through the careful training and manipulation of the human child and the green dragon's nature (no pun intended) would lend itself to the protection of their forest commune. Unfortunately, the green dragon egg's power was insufficient for the spell, and as a result the life force of all of the cultists, my character's parents included, was absorbed as well. Even with that, the spell only partially worked. The Triumvirate wasn't fully birthed due to a lack of energy, and so now drifts in its dark, starry home, having vast, neigh-endless knowledge all locked away in the mind of a mostly-unconscious eldritch dragon fetus. The green dragon's energy was extracted and successfully linked my character with The Triumvirate, transforming me into a dragonborn and giving The Triumvirate draconic features. Meanwhile, the egg itself hatched into a pseudodragon, connected innately to the other two, but never to reach his true draconic potential. Since then, my character Trin and Woundlicker, his pseudodragon brother, have raised themselves in a feral-child kind of way, with Trin never learning to speak common, only able to speak draconic innately. He started out only being able to speak to one person at a time using his telepathy ability, but then he got Minor Illusion and now uses that to conjure a voice above his head whenever he wants to speak. All three beings, Trin, Woundlicker, and The Triumvirate, believe themselves to be one being. The Triumvirate, due to the failed ritual, has no real sense of self. It only experiences the world through Trin and Woundlicker's senses, and so naturally assumes they are appendages of itself. Trin and Woundlicker both see themselves as individuals, but also can see through each other's eyes, speak telepathically back and forth, and communicate with The Triumvirate which sees them all as one, so they also recognize there is an aspect of union between them. It's very much like a holy trinity kinda situation. Or at least it's supposed to be. xD Anyway, it's been a lot of fun, I only wish I could fit in more duplicity and scheming. I don't have a great mind for doing that kind of thing on the fly, and while pranks and scams can be fun, it's usually not good for the group dynamic to try and pull them on the party all the time. I'd like to have more green dragon flare, I just don't know how to do it without coming across as an asshole player.

[@davidpower5710]

I would love to see a green dragon vs a beholder and what 4D chess move they would play and who would come out on top

[@dr.calibrations7984]

If the writer can't write characters smarter than him, basically "Haha! I knew you were going to do that so I came up with an anti cholrine gas pill!" "Ha! I knew you would make a pill to counter the effect of my breath attack so its really a magical fireball but disguised as a breath attack!" "Funny you should say that because I actually knew you would know that I would counter your breath attack so I actually just took a fire resistance potion!" And so on and so forth.

[@Mr_Maiq_The_Liar]

Green dragon breath fills your lungs with acid and blinds you, red dragon breath consumes all the oxygen in the room. I'm loving these dramatic what would happen if there actually were elemental breath attacks this strong and mechanics you can add to a breath attack descriptions you give. What are some things like that for other dragons? Does blue dragon lightning cause you to spasm? Does white dragon breath make objects brittle and shatter and flash freeze liquids healing potions included? Does black dragon breath ruin metal armor like a rust monster. I imagine it’s hydrochloric acid so skin blistering in black pustules and shloops off.

[@budahbaba7856]

Wow! Those are all excellent questions, and great ideas. I may just borrow some of those for my campaigns :)

[@vulkantheprimarch8905]

That's awesome

[@lorekeeper685]

I would give ligtling either contnious damage or increasing damage. cold could give hypothermia and frost burns

[@_Tzer]

Well if green dragons would enjoy polymorphing into humans and dragons can learn magic like wizards. could a green dragon learn how to polymorph or chromatics in general? (metallics get it naturally) which could make for a cool bandit leader arc.. or some manipulative noble

[@brasstonberry3266]

Green dragon is my favorite for big bad guy. Corrupter and manipulator, who uses minions as well. This one rules over gobins in the forrest, uses them as cannon fodder. Had make deals with forrest hags. He also had start to use doppelgangers to effect nearby lands. It's avoid direct fights but uses goblinhorde draw armies to trap. If there is a fight it always has a backup and a plan. Near it lair are enttcaps and giant spiders in guard. It's also likes to attack from rivers and lakes that are across the region. It don't fly around in puplic usually. It not like to been seen unless there is lot of minons around it. It parents had teach this young dragon well.

[@TheHornedKing]

Probably my favorite chromatic dragon. I love forests. Green is my favorite color. Allways been fund of poison damage (not so much in DnD though, but still). And "evil mastermind" is one of my favorite types of villains.

[@AJPickett]

*slaps hood on dragon* well we have just the dragon for you sir!

[@TheHornedKing]

@@AJPickett Sold!

[@ThatJerseyBloke]

Green Dragon's are real nasty! Had a DM use one as the real guildmaster of a thief crime syndicate our party was investigating as part of the death of leader of a noble house. In the end and after a confrontation I was the only one that lived because the dragon heard of and wanted me as a lieutenant in her syndicate. My character was a 7th level thief / 9th level illusionist that I patterned after Ethan Hunt from Mission Impossible as a spy and investigator. I think I lost a level in the alignment switch from Chaotic Good to Neutral Evil and became her unwilling toady until I could find a way to free myself with the help and manipulation of the new characters the other players made. Fond memories as that dragon had Palpatine levels of schemes and was just as dangerous!

[@AJPickett]

I think I have one or two levels of Palpitane

[@joshuazane3210]

The dragon peeking into your office during the intro is a great little touch. 😂

[@FinallyAlone]

Green dragon: "AJ I'm gonna need that gem dragon lore video by Wednesday"

[@swxqt6826]

I made a customized version of the Green Dragon for one of my games. One of my ideas was to give it various Lair Actions related to plants giving off fumes of drugs which affect players in strange ways, such as the Confusion spell, except it's nonmagical and thus, cannot be counterspelled. Can't wait to use it in Game.

[@ericcontreras3966]

That's such a cool idea! I'm use that in my game! Thank you!

[@loganslone5621]

I would love to run an arms race between a black dragon and a green dragon in a massive, fetid swamp. Ending in them creating a black green hybrid . The party is chased away with a meager payment that conceals a magic dagger the dragons scry on to find them later to take their stuff back.

[@jader2357]

31:56 that dragon is now my favorite dragon ever. What a trickster.

[@kevinobill4818]

Ancient Dragons are so awesome to view

[@MrGreensweightHist]

I've currently got a campaign where one of the plots is a Green dragon that, in a human guise, runs a thieves guild. She is seeking to overthrow the gold dragon that is ruling with an iron fist "for the greater good" Her motives are that his tight hold hurts business. She isn't trustworthy, but for the PCs she is a case of the enemy of my enemy.

[@AJPickett]

Excellent

[@audience7264]

Peace & order through strength & control.

[@IsaacClodfelter]

Suddenly my party becoming willing pawns of our local ancient green dragon seems like a slightly worse idea... Can't wait to see how that turns out.

[@thunderstar6997]

One of my favorite Green Dragons ever written Cyan Bloodbane from Drangonlance. I know slightly different world setting but it definitely gave you the insight of the Greens.

[@johncaccioppo1142]

I think I just found my write-in candidate for this year. Bloodbane 2020!!! No more of this "lesser evil" bs for me!

[@Daimon-X]

"Come not between the dragon, and his wrath." - William Shakespeare, King Lear Green mean, scheming machine

[@That80sGuy1972]

King Lear, in my humble opinion, was Shakespeare's most underappreciated work. I loved that one more than Romeo & Juliette but not as much as Hamlet... almost as much as Hamlet though.

[@Daimon-X]

@@That80sGuy1972 Have to read it again someday

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@Daimon-X I don't know if you can find it online but PBS's Masterpiece Theater did a really good presentation of that play if you want to go that way. I enjoyed it better than the book... to my surprise... until I realized Shakespeare's writing was meant to be performed.

[@PerpetualGM]

Greens are my favorite of the Chromatic Dragons, thanks primarily to Cyan Bloodbane from Dragonlance. The "end boss" in my 5E home-brew setting is an adult Green Dragon that was such a persistent threat and nuisance to the local High Elf kingdom, that said Elves worked a spell which caused the entire kingdom to slip into the Feywild.

[@NordicDragon89]

"murderous box of chocolate sent to his crush" I súddenly love green dragons. xD

[@blight040]

More amazing content. I'm still going back and watching all your videos. The first big boss I ever faced in D&D was a green Dragon. Still one of my favorite villains.

[@purplehaze2358]

17:06 I just realized, that green dragon is acting uncharacteristically heroic. He’s picking a fight with a substantially larger dragon to protect a few humans. And he’s also in a tundra, which is also uncharacteristic.

[@AJPickett]

They also prefer alpine forest over jungles, so not that unusual, it's easier for them to deal with white dragons than with black ones, but reds are no fun for ANYONE.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

It is possible the green manipulated the humans into this situation so it could use them to kill off the bigger dragon.

[@AJPickett]

@@jacobfreeman5444 Could be

[@BlackWingedSeraphX]

Blue Dragon's seemed more honorable from my experience. But both will find loopholes in contracts to screw the player over!

[@DCdabest]

I think Blue Dragons prefer to beat you fair and square so to speak to prove they're better than you even at your own game. They like the have rules that keep them at the top. Green Dragons will find loopholes to enjoy ruining your day and to prove that you were never good at the game to start with. They like rules so they pull them out from under you to demonstrate you're an idiot for trusting them.

[@dr.calibrations7984]

@@DCdabest Well Blues do like to fight in a pretty underhanded way. Like flying away and making you chase them through the desert only to fly away again. Or harass you if you try and rest. But Blues tend to keep their word. I think Red dragons fight more honorably.

[@kylienielsen6975]

​@dr.calibrations7984 reds don't fight honorably, at least it's not said in the official lore. Some blues do have "honorable" combat since they don't like cheating and lying. What they consider cheating is up to you

[@brendanaparicio6339]

Thanks for this green dragons are my favorite I've been waiting for this video since the poll.

[@iainzo7]

Can't wait for the Black Dragon update!

[@coreyshorter8526]

Though I do like black dragons, I'm more looking forward to the shadow dragon update.

[@tatsusama3192]

Dragon of Color, please

[@AJPickett]

@@tatsusama3192 Swamp Dragon

[@tatsusama3192]

@@AJPickett CANCELLED!

[@marknickson9377]

@@AJPickett Daurgothoth for blak dragon or dracolich video

[@austinhadley6086]

I'm dyslexic so I really really appreciate your lore videos! It makes my life easier. Pelor bless you in all that you do

[@agsilverradio2225]

Is Palor in Forgotten Realms?

[@austinhadley6086]

@@agsilverradio2225 pelor is a greyhawk deity

[@AJPickett]

Misc sun god blessing

[@werewolfgamer5651]

Here’s a thought, if a green dragon can have control over all reptiles, could they control a reptilian lycanthrope while in there hybrid/ beast form? Such as a werecroc.

[@AJPickett]

Yes, but it would be difficult.

[@kylienielsen6975]

Black dragons have reptile control. I always imagined greens are rodents and birds

[@honkthegoose3543]

Just before I throw a green dragon at my party too. Sometimes it's like you're reading my mind.

[@AJPickett]

Maybe you're reading MY mind.

[@honkthegoose3543]

@@AJPickett Deception roll: 2 Haha that's... Wa- uh... Completely er... Preposterous. I am but a simple lo- commoner. On a completely unrelated note is there any good place to unload this ring of mind reading around?

[@billhayesiii]

One should never “throw” a dragon. A dragon is smart, cunning and powerful.

[@billhayesiii]

Otherwise dangerous

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Just saw Jorphdans video on 18th to 100th level module from back in the day....he was right its a beast! I remember how tough it was

[@kannathraymaker]

RE: poison breath weapon. The chlorine gas is the magical breath weapon, while sometimes the reaction to water is secondary. What I mean is if the breath cloud is reacting to moisture in the pc’s body to burn his lungs and eyes, that is a magical effect, but if it creates a volume of acid after reacting with a volume of water that was the magic, and the acid is mundane.

[@AJPickett]

Well... I tend to agree, but the fifth edition writers are telling people that the breath weapon is not magical.

[@beatrixthegreat1138]

Murderous box of chocolates he sends to his crush. Fucking lol

[@purplehaze2358]

I always assumed that a relationship between two green dragons would be like mantises but actively malevolent as opposed to ambivalent in the act of killing their mate for food after their usefulness expired.

[@dakotarobertson3208]

I've always had a thought to ally a green with a coven of hags..

[@AJPickett]

Its a very good match

[@fluffdafire157]

Other green dragons: we ain't gonna say anything about our hordes and we will die with that knowledge Athauglas: you want my treasure? you can have it! I left everything I gathered in one place. now you just have to find it DM: These words lured men to the Grand Line in pursuit of dreams greater than they've ever dared to imagine! This is the time known as 'The Great Pirate Era'!

[@JTAKIZZA]

This dragon sounds perfect for a tribal based campaign I’m going to be in.

[@nealwoods3482]

This video has convinced me to make everything my players have learned about mating pair of green dragons an absolute lie. They think they are going to be helping a female kill her mate in a double cross against him to which she would then attack and kill them once he was defeated. Now, I think she is luring them into a fun house of traps and minions only to come out on the end and fight two green dragons working together heh heh

[@boogaethje]

Back here to get the lore as I begin painting a green dragon mini figure. Really settles in my mood to get into the coloring process. Thanks a bunch.

[@SlothinAintEasy]

Honestly wizards should put you as an npc in a candlekeep adventure book

[@AJPickett]

Hey you never know :)

[@That80sGuy1972]

I 2nd the notion.

[@jeffcox8197]

As always, an absolute thrill to watch and learned quite a bit about these little gems....

[@OakenTome]

Green Dragons have always been my favourite because of the relatively wide variety of environments you can put them in. Swamps, temperate forests, jungles, etc.

[@jameslightfoot1872]

I thought it would be awesome to give an ancient green dragon the "wood wisp" quality, so they can pass through trees and plants as if they were not even there. Just imagine a party hunkering down in a dense forest, thinking the trees will protect them from the giant flying beast, only to have it swoop down to attack from ground level to snatch a party member in a fly by attack and disappear into the trees.

[@eririspencersawamura5291]

I feel the best way to play these sort of creature encounter would be something very much like the monster from the movie "The Ritual"

[@Serbobiv123]

in 5e green dragons are completely unimpeded by plants near their lair, the plants politely getting out of their way, and they leave no tracks in the area either

[@epiccthulu]

I think the most disappointing thing about D&D is that their elemental damage types don’t have interactions with the world around it, unless the spell or ability says so. For example, cold and electric damage only interact with water if your DM says so. But that is why I’m glad the makers of divinity 2 r making baldurs gate 3

[@jgr7487]

if artistic towns can be considered a part of the Green Dragon's hoard, & if the Dragon's hoard is consumed after it naturally dies, what happens to the artistic town (or the older, fancy & artsy Old Town of the city it has grown into) when a Green Dragon that ruled over it dies?

[@AJPickett]

The towns are what the dragon considers to be it's property, along with everything within a few miles of itself. This is different from being it's hoard though. When it does and diffuses into the environment, there may be some humanoids who are born with magical talent, even some sorcerer's.

[@jgr7487]

@@AJPickett that's better than what I had imagined: the township's creativity & the building's artistic design would be absorbed by the dragon when its time comes, leaving just a "colourless" husk behind. thx for answering, AJ!

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@jgr7487 You can still do this in a place where the land is heavily entwined with the faewyld. The magical living story aspect of it would allow for some strange interactions.

[@jeramiedavis6782]

Cyan bloodbane ftw he was a real nasty green and he kinda wielded a dragon orb aswell and was the mount of Rastilin the black. He also destroyed a elf nation 1.5 times.

[@TheGlader2]

As a DM I am obligated to absorb every one of your videos.

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

Use transmutation on undead and golems to change them to a higher level during battle. That would mix-up your gameplay :)

[@TheGlader2]

@@youtubestudiosucks978 That's not a half bad idea

[@RedSunUnderParadise]

"Just as planned!" -Green Dragons, Probably

[@OmusKnowsAll]

AJ, "The adventurers are simply a murderous box of chocolates." Hahahhahahahhahahaha!

[@TenositSergeich]

I know that you deal in Forgotten Realms lore, but, come on. Cyan Bloodbane is the most famous green dragon in D&D, he deserved a mention! Maybe in a "Famous dragons of D&D" sort of vid?

[@AJPickett]

Considering his is the starter box dragon for 5th edition, Venomfang would be giving that claim a serious run for it's money. But a famous dragons of D&D vid sounds interesting

[@AmigoRoberto]

^^^that

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

I am going on a hike for a few days alone in the coastal mountains here in my home state...and I always imagine that I need to be wary ov green dragons, peryton, orc tribes, owl bear, assassin vines and many other forest creatures...far more nervous ov those than I am around black bear, mountain lion & elk (unless the bulls are in rut season, then I am far more wary) Sometimes I think I might play Too much table top role-playing games. I get told I dress like an adventurer that stepped out ov the Players Handbook fairly often (which is honestly a huge compliment to a weird nerd like my self) -it is the short sword hanging from a frog on my belt most likely lol Though I can recall one time when I was about a days walj deep in the woods and I came up on a handmade sign with two dragons carved & painted onto it with the caption "Here there be Dragons". It was this beautiful open meadow ov soft moss surrounded by old growth forest ov hemlock, fir & spruce. Nice to know that I am not the only ranger/druid that claims the local woods as my own and cares for them. I always make a small alter when I enter & leave a forest, beach or other wild and lonely places.

[@dogle9258]

I’m really enjoying the ongoing bits of monsters out the window in the intro.

[@graphthis2249]

I like this video so much. Greens are my second favorite dragon after white. This video is so great and exactly what I needed for some inspiration. Thank you.

[@AJPickett]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pant0sand0hat]

For whatever reason green dragons excite my imagination so much more than any other color.

[@jamesforgie6594]

In one of my campaigns I’m working for a green dragon, unbeknownst to most of the rest of the party.

[@tatsusama3192]

0:10 hahaha, The look on your face with the lizard outside the window🤣 "Maybe getting a multi-plane jumping tower wasn't such a good idea. I think I remember this realm. . . Oh God he's back. H-hey! Out of the garden please! Go awa-, oh geez, LEAVE!" - 3:50 The Raishan saga in Critical Role was pretty great😋

[@dr.calibrations7984]

Hey buddy. Glad to see you made it through the Quarantine.

[@tatsusama3192]

@@dr.calibrations7984 Yooo😀 How's it been, brother? Haha, yeah, life hasn't really changed for me at all. I teach English online and majority of my students are in Japan (I'm in Florida) so I'm pretty much nocturnal. I don't need to leave the house since I get my groceries delivered😋 Without the KZbinrs I follow talking about it, and the occasional delivery person wearing a mask, I wouldn't even know there was a pandemic. How have you been? Happy and healthy I hope

[@dr.calibrations7984]

@@tatsusama3192 Well aside from possibly getting it (I was symptomatic and sick) but it wasn't nearly as bad as people said it was so idk. I've been healthy, I quit my job due to my boss being a prick about masks but I got a better job with a nice pay raise, and ill be getting a heafty raise after I get my CDLs. So I came out on top. So I can say. Happy and healthy im glad to hear you haven't been effected really at all. And I'm glad you're staying away from it. Ohio never had a lot of cases if it anyways but people out here are both super scared and couldn't care less. But then again we have a much lower population density either, we have the room to give people space. I also have been lucky to not encounter any Karen's, but then again I'm a 6'4 guy with resting grumpyface, so I might just trigger the dragonfear in them. Stay safe brother. And I hope you stay happy and healthy as well.

[@BlackWingedSeraphX]

I Once Played a Half-Nymph, Half-Green Dragon. She ended up marrying a Prince and taking over his kingdom. But that was a pretty cheap campaign lol

[@BlackWingedSeraphX]

Imagine living over 1000 years! Geez that would be insane! I'd probably accomplish everything in that span of time

[@AJPickett]

I think I might possibly have made all the videos on the forgotten realms by then.

[@koishikomeiji3888]

You forget that dragons don't really have the humanoid's urge to go out and actually do things.

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@AJPickett Not if Forgotten Realms continues to exist and keeps creating content too by then. ;)

[@stacyowl1658]

ah, a creature that perfectly describes my mom, except the “loyal to mates” part lol

[@AJPickett]

Ouch

[@theserpentshallwin]

You don't have to breathe it, it goes right through your skin and holes upon contact.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

My favorite legendary dragon is not actually from the Forgotten Realms, rather, this monster (for he is indeed a monster that puts other green dragons to shame) is a native of Krynn. I am of course talking about Cyan Bloodbane, who through guile, manipulation, and magic (aided by a dragon orb), conquered the elven nation of the Silvanestri elves, killed them by the thousands, and drove them from their homeland, effectively forcing them to attack and conquer the smaller elven nations of the Qualanestri and wild elves. All the while filling the forest of the Silvanestri with undead. Had he not been stopped by the heroes of the lance, he would eventually have conquered the entire eastern side of the continent he lived on.

[@chesterstevens8870]

Too bad he has the dumbest, most trite name for a green dragon ever penned.

[@pandoraeeris7860]

Cyan is one of my favorite dragons of all time.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

@@pandoraeeris7860 Fourth for me, but I am biased. 1. and 2. are dragons from my own campaigns. 3 is the awesome Niv-Mizzet from MTG, and Cyan Bloodbane, the magnificent bastard that he is, is number 4.

[@AmigoRoberto]

Hey Professor. I sincerely appreciate you. Having a hard time this week. Your research and melodic voice are a welcome respite from the tribulations surrounding us. Thank you.

[@vinx.909]

ah venomfang. i love how he turned out in my game: manipulating the players into helping him ascent to godhood. who has more people listening to everything you say then a god? but the party also shifted him more helpful means to selfish goal to helpful means to selfish goal which'll probably result in continued helpfulness towards the people. also some members of the party have absolutely created a cult, which is fun to justify towards others.

[@AJPickett]

Weird cults are one of the more fun aspects of D&D settings :)

[@AmigoRoberto]

Venomfang (run by my first 5e dm) illicited such a visceral reaction from me as a player when he fled at 10% health. Myself and my fellow players were so incurably mad we talked about it for weeks. I absolutely had to include him in my own world building when I took up the dm mantle.

[@vinx.909]

@@AmigoRoberto oh yea, i forgot he flees once he's past half health. my players never battled him. your DM never made him reappear later out for revenge? also really interested in hearing in how you use him. i personally let him give items to members of the party which secretly also allows him to learn with them. ever since then when they gain a level he gains 2 (currently he has 14 levels in wizard knowing a lot of not wizard spells). he also lost a claw while aiding the party. one of the party members has made him a replacement, and for him it'd be a fair deal, about half the party is now quite devoted to him. it has created delightful inner party conflict and great plothooks.

[@AmigoRoberto]

@@vinx.909 your pulling of the party's morality is both admirable and commendable. My dm at the time was a first time dm with 4 first time players out of 6. So he had a really hard time seeing to all of our stories and keeping a cohesive narrative outside the module. That being said, after typing out my memories of Venomfang, my monk is still so offended he left in the middle of a great fight. So now that I am forever dm with a mostly new group I had a lot of free reign with where Venomfangs story went. Currently he is in northern Faerun on the island of Gundarlund working on beefing up and growing stronger. ANY OF MY PLAYERS IN THE STORMSURGE PIRATE CAMPAIGN GTFO NOW IM SERIOUS. GO. (But thanks for taking my advice and watching AJ if you are here) ok so the party banished a rhakshasa on gundarlund. Obviously he's super pissed. And through scrying and good ol fashioned spy work knows many of the enemies they have made over the years. This tiger devil and Venomfang are currently trying to outplay one another in the field of business. Venomfang provides souls whom he has coerced into selling themselves to his service. Now this service is actually a warlock pact of the fiend run through the rhakshasas network of devils working under and with him. The devils have promised to provide knowledge and relics to Venomfang for this exchange. I'm also dealing with players at level 13-15 so I upgraded Venomfang to an adult green. My reasoning is the rhakshasa allowed him to enter a particularly time dilated portion of Avernus and he basically spent 200 years growing in hell only to come back to the material plane where only a year had passed. Next story arc will have the party returning to Gundarlund as they've recieved a message from someone on the island begging for help as suddenly dozens of warlocks have appeared and devils are moving in fast. So finally I present to you- HELLFANG. Venomfang after 200 years of learning and absorbing devil magic. :D

[@moonringXD]

Huh, I wonder if the reason green dragon have such strong control over nature is that they came from the fey originally? Also I wonder if thay get along will with Amber dragons lol. Ps Great video as always btw!❤

[@gabrieladerre2862]

AJ! Damn it man! You've done it again! I bet that I've listened to this video, at least a dozen times! That's a conservative estimate! Because this and your other new Chromatic Dragon videos, are among my favorites, to listen to, as I await sleep!!! Not because it's boring, by any means! You're just one of the best, at "reading me bedtime stories!". And I very much appreciate it! Those 10 hour gentle rain sleep soundtracks, ain't got nothin on you, mate!

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Gabriel. I often wonder if I should make a few videos just for that purpose, where I just talk for a few hours, describing walks through the districts of Thay or a visit to marvelous Lantan, etc. Bed time stories for grown ups.

[@erikmartin4996]

@@AJPickett respectfully that’s exactly why I listen to you

[@animefan3794]

How fitting that the anime I’ve been watching lately is “Kaguya; Love is War”. From how you describe Green Dragon courtship, that series gives a good baseline of how it goes. Just with less murder.

[@loganpowser1727]

Just finished it, absolutely hilarious and completely agree with the courtship statement.

[@AJPickett]

Slightly less murder

[@animefan3794]

AJ Pickett on Kaguya’s part, the Green Dragons have more Murder involved.

[@SoCalNative75]

The "KGB/MI5/CIA/Mossad" of dragons

[@That80sGuy1972]

Great video AJ. I love how you mentioned how chlorine gas works. One of my life-long dark obsessions is poisons. You won't believe how many police forensics labs cannot detect. I digress. The frustrating thing I find in AD&D is that it makes a distinction between acids and poisons. You can qualify acid and alkalines as poisons but not always versa. A lot of bugs, their venom, is actually acid. When some spiders bite you, the biggest worry is the infection. Why is it the infection with those? Well, their venom, their poison, was actually acid that they inject in prey to make their insides into a Slurpee. So, when they bite you, they burned a couple holes through your skin that are like open gates for infection to enter. When, as a teenager, I read that green dragons' poison breath was chlorine, I did my first face-palm ever... because of the distinction (immunities applied, saves used, etc) between poisons and acids... and I would rule chlorine gas as an acid attack if I had my way. So, in my campaigns, I made the magic of the dragon itself alter the chlorine to be more short-lived toxic than acid (dragon enchanted chlorine)... same damage to living things only not acid-like, more venom-like or plantlike. It was the only way I could run Green Dragons without nerd-raging against myself.

[@wyattllc]

which poisons can forensic labs not detect?

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@wyattllc You want me to post it here, on a public forum, where kids and sociopaths can read it? Not only do I not want to make that kind of thing common knowledge but I also don't want some agency to come and arrest me. After 9/11 I emailed a friend's kid the easy-to-find recipe for making gunpowder for his school report. That email was intercepted and replied back to me a warning to not spread information like that... and that was just gunpowder... something mankind knew how to make for generations, even centuries. Trust me bro, just put a little effort at your local library and college textbooks and you can find the info. Look for poisons that break down after they do their job.

[@wyattllc]

Wowww kewl story guy

[@christopherrhodes3228]

You know what we need? A bunch of green dragons running a Pyramid/Ponzi scheme.

[@benthomason3307]

it's called baator

[@coreyshorter8526]

Out of curiosity, I know that some chromatic dragons do cross breed blue's and red's as an example. So my question is given that at time green and black dragons do have territory overlaps can you get a hybrid of the two and if so what color and breath weapon would the offspring of that union have?

[@RaginKavu]

Normally we use it here as a house rule, that it inherits both breath weapons, and we roll for what will be the main one. It will be used just like a normal breath weapon and the secondary one gets 1d3 uses per week for every age category. As for resistances it inherits both from it's parents, and as colours go, it is the corresponding colour from its main breath weapon. And we've come to an agreement that offsprings like this are sterile, for balance reasons...

[@AJPickett]

The lore says that the result between two Chromatics is actually more predictable than what happens when two different metallic bloodlines mate. Even so, it is a very rare occurrence, for one thing, hatching the eggs would require combinations of elements that the parents are unaware of, or cause such stress the egg, the hatchling dies.

[@Zasek2112]

@@AJPickett It's funny, yesterday I was thinking up a story in a city with a green running the theives guild, a black rumoured to run an assasin guild in the upper underdark under the dity that is really a shadow dragon, and it's a disciple to a draco-lich in the deep underdark. The players go to town with an NPC who turns out to be a silver sent to investigate. The green and "black" flirting might be an interesting plot thingy, where the shadow dragon can promise the eggs will survive because his master, the draco-lich will help them, meanwhile the draco-lich just wants to experiment with making his own new dragon brood.

[@jakecrichton562]

Fantastic! Thanks again AJ, this has given me what I need for my next campaign.

[@jamesfreeman3617]

Green dragons have always held a special a special place in my heart since reading temple of Dragon slayer as a kid the book which got me into d&d thanks for the great video

[@PattPlays]

Unrelated and intense question, AJ. Mournaguth the green dragon made an appearance in my 1487DR game. Not a dracolich yet. She hates Shar for not turning her back yet after a century. Plans on becoming a Dracolich with the COTD. A Sélunite cleric PC has been in Sending contact with her for a week. The party has *the original nether scrolls from the Hssthak 1980's writeup.* Those funny things- Alter Beast and Awaken Intelligence. They wanna use Alter Beast on *her* to overcome her incurable condition by permanently genetically altering her back into a human again- at the risk of instant death by System Shock. That is *tempting* And, all in the name of telling Shar where she can shove it. Uh, tips on how the hell to approach THAT dualist scenario? Achieve immortality BY dying- trusting a creepy cult. OR attain humanity at the RISK of dying- trusting a gang of heroes who have showed that they *can* kill her at great risk to themselves.

[@purplehaze2358]

Wait...chlorine reacts with water to create hydrochloric acid? I’m now officially terrified of pool chlorine...

[@AJPickett]

yep, that's one reason it is great as a disinfectant.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Don't be scared. I believe the idea is to change the pH of the water so as to kill anything that might try to live in it. Most microorganisms are quite sensitive to changes in pH. It might not affect you unless you soak in it for unreasonably amounts of time but for the critters they die soon after the change. Also I don't think the chlorine is in a pure state. Likely it is in some form of reactive chemical that will still have the desired result.

[@AJPickett]

Oh yeah for sure, sunlight breaks down pool chlorine, its good for the environment and OK for you... nothing to worry about. :)

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@AJPickett It is a matter of degree. Certainly you should be concerned if you have reason to believe there is too much in the water.

[@chriscalvin5083]

Great video AJ

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Chris :)

[@RantingRagingRelks]

As always you impress AJ. Thank you for the quality video! It's giving me wonderful ideas for my campaign. Hope you days are well, your mead horn never empties and your cheese always flavorful!

[@childofodin]

I think green dragons are my favorite dragon

[@edsapp6678]

Very well done..rember the 2nd edition phb . Party fought a very young green dragon probably 1 year old based on size..looks like it gave e them a fight even at that young age..they hung it up as a prize

[@kojopilgrim9550]

Ed Sapp yikes

[@marciobonilla3914]

Very informative! I’m running both Lost Mine of Phandelver as well as Tyranny of Dragons for the second time. Obviously a the young green dragon won’t be so overwhelming, but this gave me so many ideas for the adult green dragon encounter in Rise of Tiamat! Thank you so much.

[@jgr7487]

now, I love these amazing monsters even more, maybe more than my favourite dragon: the Skull/Black Dragon. I have to make a forest city that became a center for arts & crafts after a Green took it over & claimed the masterpieces of each artist/artisan as his/her personal treasure. the city is protected by the Green & his/her Draconic Sorcerer small army (his/her "children") , while the dragon is protected by the city's army & the sorcerers.

[@jo_ken]

That sounds awesome I could imagine a small cult forming around the dragon and maybe also a small coven of hags coexisting under the dragon and are used as a tool for them.

[@jgr7487]

@@jo_ken Idk if a Green would allow a coven of Hags anywhere near his living treasure

[@jo_ken]

@JG R I think if it would be an ancient one I’d think of it more as making servants out of them. Eliminating any of the members of the coven if they ever try to conspire against the dragon.

[@jgr7487]

@@jo_ken I stand corrected: as Greens do have a relationship with the fey, the Hags would totally be allowed. because of that connection, a link between the Feywild & the Material Plane might even be formed there, making the town & all the lands that belong to the Dragon one of the most beautiful places in the world.

[@kevinobill4818]

My favorite Chromatic alongside Red and Blue. This is Dragon that will make Poison Ivy as a cute little 9 years old Girl.

[@SolidDragonUK]

I fucking love this channel bru

[@jameswagstaff984]

Has anyone done a campaign where a black and green dragon actually work together to some degree or do they really hate each others

[@graphthis2249]

I have. Sort of anyway. The green manipulated the black into decisions that the black thought was of its own free will.

[@jameswagstaff984]

How'd it turn out for them both

[@graphthis2249]

@@jameswagstaff984 campaign is not finished yet but the black dragon was killed by the players... so not too well for him but exactly as planned otherwise.

[@james739123]

I can imagen a black dragon taking to a green telling B "You need to ease the amount of adventurers you send my way, I'm running out of places to store the bodies." G "Well, no one is stopping you from sharing the food my friend." B "You don't share your slaves." G "You killed the last set I sent you two weeks ago." B "They were slaves?" G "Yes, and before you ask, I had to arm them encase that hag you live with decided to have her way with them, don't blame me if they were a little jumpy."

[@MasterVolton]

Technically yes, but it was more the Green being a Mature Adult (201-400yrs) and the Black barely still a Juvenile (26-50yrs) so it was a lot more like a street ganger using a minor as a runabout so it had all the deniability.

[@35november]

I love that you laugh to yourself while reading the hijinks of water deep.

[@victorvaldez8869]

I wonder if there are any home-brews of a breed of Chromatic Dragons that are usually Good, the same way Ferrous Dragons are usually Evil. I can also imagine another theme for Evil Metallic Dragons, the Radioactive Dragons. What would a Protactinium or Thorium Dragon be like?

[@jameswilliams2075]

Well for the radio active damage you could have it that if a creature or player is within somany feet from the creature they have to make a con save or take a set amount of damage at the top of each round they would probably be a little smaller but there breath weapon and Reginald effects would be devastating like mutant plants or animals from the area must listen to the dragon or it might have por kobolds or adventures kept alive by magic fills with radio active goo that it through at enemy's and explode

[@AJPickett]

When you think about it, it would be the volcanic calamity dragon, just LOADS of heat, flame, radiant energy.

[@That80sGuy1972]

I have a radioactive planet campaign. Even those radioactive metal dragons are good dragons. Well, all beings on that world are radioactive to a degree. Also, the sun's solar flares cooking a daylight side is mere weather called a "daystorm".