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

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Oh god no. One faerie dragon is already enough of a pain in the ass.

I don't know who created the Faerie Dragon, but I've got some words to say to them (well, my character that didn't have access to any spells that could reveal invisible creatures does).

 

[Parmandur]

I thinkbI heard somewhere that Faerie Dragons will, but I don't remember where. What I want though is a Faerie Dragon Swarm.

Yeah, if they do I wager an Ancient Fairie Dragon is CR 18 or lower. I bet the same for Deep Dragons: more sneaky shapeshifters than fighters, at least compared yo the other Dragons.

 

[Rabulias]

I don't know who created the Faerie Dragon, but I've got some words to say to them (well, my character that didn't have access to any spells that could reveal invisible creatures does).

Brian Jaeger created the Faerie Dragon, way back in Dragon Magazine issue 62 (June 1982). It was then included in the AD&D 1st edition Monster Manual II in 1983.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Brian Jaeger created the Faerie Dragon, way back in Dragon Magazine issue 62 (June 1982). It was then included in the AD&D 1st edition Monster Manual II in 1983.

Good to know. I'm not against the concept of a fairy dragon (if anyone else here has read the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, you'll know about Raxtus the Fairy Dragon, who I think is awesome), I just absolutely despise the ones that exist in D&D. They shouldn't be prankster dragon-cats with invisibility and trickery magic. They should be Feywild equivalents of the Shadow Dragons that have nature and healing magic and are actually dragon-sized instead of Tiny.

 

[Bolares]

Good to know. I'm not against the concept of a fairy dragon (if anyone else here has read the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, you'll know about Raxtus the Fairy Dragon, who I think is awesome), I just absolutely despise the ones that exist in D&D. They shouldn't be prankster dragon-cats with invisibility and trickery magic. They should be Feywild equivalents of the Shadow Dragons that have nature and healing magic and are actually dragon-sized instead of Tiny.

I don't know about "they shouldn't" be X... It's okay to have some annoiyng monsters

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I don't know about "they shouldn't" be X... It's okay to have some annoiyng monsters

I'm fine with annoying monsters. I just think making Fairy Dragons be magical winged cats is a huge mistake. (And, yes, I will stick by my "should". If the Shadow Dragon is a template that is added onto True Dragons, so should Faerie Dragons, because the Feywild and Shadowfell are opposites.)

 

[Rabulias]

They shouldn't be prankster dragon-cats with invisibility and trickery magic. They should be Feywild equivalents of the Shadow Dragons that have nature and healing magic and are actually dragon-sized instead of Tiny.

I don't know about "they shouldn't" be X... It's okay to have some annoiyng monsters

I think there is room for both. I like the idea of a Feywild Dragon as well as the Faerie Dragon.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I think there is room for both. I like the idea of a Feywild Dragon as well as the Faerie Dragon.

That's apparently what the moonstone dragon is.

 

[see]

Good to know. I'm not against the concept of a fairy dragon (if anyone else here has read the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, you'll know about Raxtus the Fairy Dragon, who I think is awesome), I just absolutely despise the ones that exist in D&D. They shouldn't be prankster dragon-cats with invisibility and trickery magic. They should be Feywild equivalents of the Shadow Dragons that have nature and healing magic and are actually dragon-sized instead of Tiny.

They've been "prankster dragon-cats" for literally decades longer than there's been a Feywild. There's room for a Feywild-equivalent to a shadow dragon, but the designers eliminating a long-established creature just to steal its name for a completely different concept would be gratuitously insulting to the existing fanbase.

 

[MarkB]

I'm fine with annoying monsters. I just think making Fairy Dragons be magical winged cats is a huge mistake. (And, yes, I will stick by my "should". If the Shadow Dragon is a template that is added onto True Dragons, so should Faerie Dragons, because the Feywild and Shadowfell are opposites.)

Yeah, but the idea isn't "this is what dragons in the Feywild are", is it? The idea is "this creature is to dragons what regular fairies are to humans."