D&D 5E Fizban's Treasury Dragons Ranked By Challenge Rating

WotC has been sending out previews of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, due out next month, to folks on Twitter. Amongst those are art pieces and other items.

By Challenge Rating the dragons in the book are:

• Ancient crystal (19)
• Ancient topaz (20)
• Ancient emerald (21)
• Ancient moonstone (21)
• Ancient sapphire (22)
• Elder brain dragon (22)
• Ancient amethyst (23)
• Ancient dragon turtle (24)
• Gem greatwyrm (26)
• Chromatic greatwyrm (27)
• Metallic greatwyrm (28)
• Apects of Bahamut and Tiamat (30)

Interestingly, it appears that the great wyrm category is divided into three -- gem, chromatic, metallic -- rather than by each dragon type.

There's also an alphabetical list of all 20 dragon types in the book:

• Amethyst
• Black
• Blue
• Brass
• Bronze
• Copper
• Crystal
• Deep
• Dragon turtle
• Emerald
• Faerie
• Gold
• Green
• Moonstone
• Red
• Sapphire
• Shadow
• Silver
• Topaz
• White

 

[embee]

I pretty much imagine Dragon of Icepeak as being the a prequel/prologue to Tyranny of Dragons and that Cryovane the Dragon is going berserk in Phandalin because of the Draco Rage that is being brought about by the Cult of Dragons.

My party is almost done with LMoP/DoIP. I subbed Cryovain in for Lennithon and beefed up the enemies in Chapter 1 for a marathon set piece. I had Cryovain sent to Phandalin by Venomfang, who I've changed to an Adult Green Dragon to account for the party being level 8 now.

As it stands, Venomfang isn't really aligned with the Cult, who he treats as a tool to be used for his own purposes but does not actually think will be able to succeed.

 

[Demetrios1453]

The latest issue of Dragon+ Magazine is out, and it has a section on Fizban's, concentrating on the bestiary. It states that the bestiary is around 1/3 of the book, has over 70 stat blocks, and focused in particular on the CR 8 Eyedrake (basically when a beholder dreams of a dragon and produces this hybrid as offspring) and the Elder Brain Dragon mentioned at the top of this thread...

 

[Mind of tempest]

The latest issue of Dragon+ Magazine is out, and it has a section on Fizban's, concentrating on the bestiary. It states that the bestiary is around 1/3 of the book, has over 70 stat blocks, and focused in particular on the CR 8 Eyedrake (basically when a beholder dreams of a dragon and produces this hybrid as offspring) and the Elder Brain Dragon mentioned at the top of this thread...

dragon beholder sounds not fun to fight.

 

[Demetrios1453]

dragon beholder sounds not fun to fight.

Its breath weapon is the anti-magic cone of a beholder, basically.


The elder brain dragon is even scarier. Its breath weapon is brine mixed in with illithid tadpoles. Have fun when you have a tadpole burrowing into your brain during combat! Plus, it can grapple with its tentacles, and it has a legendary action that automatically breaks a foe's Concentration...

Beyond that, it mentions that the new stat blocks include sea serpents, dragonborn champions, and humanoid servitors to dragons.

 

[Bolares]

Its breath weapon is the anti-magic cone of a beholder, basically.


The elder brain dragon is even scarier. Its breath weapon is brine mixed in with illithid tadpoles. Have fun when you have a tadpole burrowing into your brain during combat! Plus, it can grapple with its tentacles, and it has a legendary action that automatically breaks a foe's Concentration...

I miss the days I was complaining about boring dragon stat blocks... (No I don't)

 

[Minigiant]

No brown or desert?

Throw the book away.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Its breath weapon is the anti-magic cone of a beholder, basically.


The elder brain dragon is even scarier. Its breath weapon is brine mixed in with illithid tadpoles. Have fun when you have a tadpole burrowing into your brain during combat! Plus, it can grapple with its tentacles, and it has a legendary action that automatically breaks a foe's Concentration...

Beyond that, it mentions that the new stat blocks include sea serpents, dragonborn champions, and humanoid servitors to dragons.

that is going to suck but the book seems good.

 

[Weiley31]

Its breath weapon is brine mixed in with illithid tadpoles.

A Tadpole Breath Weapon: now that's a new one.

 

[Maxperson]

No brown or desert?

Throw the book away.

No, but there was a dessert dragon, which is what happens when a halfling dreams about dragons and pastries.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

A Tadpole Breath Weapon: now that's a new one.

And sounds freaking awesome and evil. I'm definitely throwing this at my party. I wonder what the effects of the breath weapon are, as Ceremorphosis typically takes a couple weeks to finish.