D&D 5E Fizban Is In The Wild -- With the Table of Contents!

Some people have received their copies of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, and have posted photos (including the table of contents!) online!

 

[Demetrios1453]

Where's the yellow dragon? What about dragon hybrids? I want to see the purple and pink dragons from the old 2e Draconomicon again...

Purple dragon is there in its alternate name of deep dragon.

I don't recall a pink dragon in the 3e Draconomicon at all...

 

[dave2008]

Purple dragon is there in its alternate name of deep dragon.

I don't recall a pink dragon in the 3e Draconomicon at all...

They said the 2e Draconomicon, not 3e. IMO the 2e Draconomicon is the worst of the bunch.

EDIT: I just checked the 2e Draconomicon didn't have pink dragons either. In fact, it only had Mercury, Steel, Yellow, and Dracohydra stats. But there is one page of info on crossbreeding dragons and the results.

 

[Demetrios1453]

No necessarily. It could just include a lot of fluff about just a few dragon gods. It is only 3 pages after all. I do wonder if Io will make a comeback after being killed off in 4e.

5e Great Wyrms sort of blur the line between mortal and deity, so I'm thinking that we'll see an explanation that some of these semi-deities are thought by mortals to be gods, with a list of those commonly attributed as such.

 

[Demetrios1453]

They said the 2e Draconomicon, not 3e. IMO the 2e Draconomicon is the worst of the bunch.

Sorry, that was a finger-slip typo I didn't catch.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

How in practice are Hollow Dragons different from Dracoliches?

The big difference was that a Hollow Dragon was a magical construct instead of a true undead. They lack any bones or organs and are instead raw elemental energy channeled from the elemental chaos mixed with a metallic dragon's soul/essence that is encased in it's old scales/hide.

Typically a metallic dragon would undergo the Hollow Transformation in order to become a guardian of some great artifact or place of importance.

 

[Zeromaru X]

Isn't Rime that white dragon from 4e's Draconomicon? Interesting. If it really is, this means some Nentir Vale love at last!

 

[dave2008]

5e Great Wyrms sort of blur the line between mortal and deity, so I'm thinking that we'll see an explanation that some of these semi-deities are thought by mortals to be gods, with a list of those commonly attributed as such.

Yes, that is what I expect as well. And I really like that actually.

 

[dave2008]

Sorry, that was a finger-slip typo I didn't catch.

No worries. They are not in the 2e book, but there is a page on make dragon crosses. I guess that is what they were talking about?

 

[Demetrios1453]

OK - let's talk Sidebars

Based on the fact that these individual dragons appear in Chapter 5 and not Chapter 6, I am guessing that these are more fluff and not full stat blocks. Maybe with some suggestions on how to adjust a typical stat block.

As I mentioned up thread, the sidebar "Dragons of Song and Steel" being in the shapeshifters section of the book very much seems to indicate we'll get info on song and steel dragons in the book. I mentioned there how the steel dragon in Dungeon of the Mad Mage used the silver dragon as its base with necessary changes noted. I've pulled out my copy of that adventure, and, really, it's just a short paragraph of changes (and much of which concerns the NPC's duergar alternate form). The only real change is the breath weapon (line of acid instead of cone of cold) - they even forgot to change the damage immunity from cold to acid (which I hope they catch if they go this route in this book). They could do the same with the song dragon using a copper dragon base (with a cone of lightning and lightning immunity instead of a line of acid and acid immunity). It would take a minimal amount of space to list the changes to breath weapons and immunities, even within a sidebar, so hopefully that is what we will see!

 

[Yaarel]

In the Table Of Contents:

"Feats and Draconic Gifts"