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!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Meh, they copped out with the song and steel dragons in the sidebar. They describe them, but say their true nature is obscure, but are "probably silver or copper" dragons. So no official stats or even official templates. Bleh.

At least from Dungeon of the Mad Mage it's simple to work out how to create them, even though it's not officially supported in this book...

Copped out is too nice, it was an absolutely disgraceful retcon. Sloppy sad work for a couple of the most popular Dragons types, they deserved better.

At least Deep Dragons are still their own thing, kind of a shame that Deep and Moonstone Dragons don't get their own version of Great Wyrms, as they seem more interesting then many of the regular Dragons. It does say they are cousins of Chromatic so I don't know if you can just use the Chromatic Great Wyrm for them, but use their breath weapon. Not liking the Deep Dragon art. They do have their shapeshifting back at least. Despite being typically evil their Lair effects are good for the local underdark ecosystem and libraries. Their main weapons appear to be spores and they have spore breath weapon, which I think can have mind controlling effects.

Weird thing Dragon Blessed are Clerics who worship a Dragon as a God and get Divine magic spells from the Dragon. WTF. It's the odd situation of the Kraken Priest all over again (which gets what appears to be divine magic from a big monster instead of a God).

There appears to be a Dragon Gift which turns you into a Dragonborn of one of the three types. Another Gift allows to summon a Dragon familiar.

Dragonnels are now typically neutral, not evil.

Any Dragon can have the shape change ability, but its pretty much only common among Metallics, Gem, and Deep Dragons, otherwise usually it's adult or ancient Dragon. I think Shapeshifting Dragon Turtles and Sea Serpents that take the form of Tritons would be cool. Sea Serpents are Dragons now.

 

[dave2008]

Copped out is too nice, it was an absolutely disgraceful retcon. Sloppy sad work for a couple of the most popular Dragons types, they deserved better.

How did you determine that steel and song dragons are "a couple of the most popular" types of dragons? Gem dragons don't even fall into the category IMO. I had never heard of song dragons before and I love dragons and I've played the game since the 80s! I think the only MM (which should include the most popular dragons) that included steel dragons was the 4e version (possibly - I know they changed up the metallic line up in that addition) IIRC.

That being said I wish they had given some suggestions about how to alter the stat blocks to mimic at least the steel dragon.

 

[Shardstone]

Tiamat has mythic options now?! What KINDS of mythic options?!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Oh another thing, the Draconian creatures each have a particular Gem, Metallic, and Chromatic egg they can be made from like Mastermind Draconians can be made from Gold, Red, or Amaythest Dragons eggs now.

Also Summon Spirit Dragon is stoll the best Summon X Spell in the game. Damage Resistance for an hour, a flying mount with darkvision and blindsight, and it has the ability to choose and change its breath weapon damage type with every use.

 

[Parmandur]

Weird thing Dragon Blessed are Clerics who worship a Dragon as a God and get Divine magic spells from the Dragon. WTF. It's the odd situation of the Kraken Priest all over again (which gets what appears to be divine magi

IIRC, the Kraken Priest had more Warlo k like abilities, as beffiting a Dagon cultist.

 

[Demetrios1453]

How did you determine that steel and song dragons are "a couple of the most popular" types of dragons? Gem dragons don't even fall into the category IMO. I had never heard of song dragons before and I love dragons and I've played the game since the 80s! I think the only MM (which should include the most popular dragons) that included steel dragons was the 4e version (possibly - I know they changed up the metallic line up in that addition) IIRC.

That being said I wish they had given some suggestions about how to alter the stat blocks to mimic at least the steel dragon.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage has that for steel dragons on page 273 - basically silver dragon base, and swap out the cold breath for a line of acid breath. They didn't mention swapping out the cold immunity for acid immunity, but that's obviously an accidental omission.

You can do the same for a song dragon by using the copper dragon as a base, swapping out its breath for a cone of lightning, and swapping out the immunity to lightning.

Easy fixes, and ones that could have been added to the text with little problem. Sucks that they aren't there, but at least they're not hard to create if you want.

Probably so far my only real complaint about what I've seen in the book. The rest looks pretty darn awesome...

 

[dave2008]

Tiamat has mythic options now?! What KINDS of mythic options?!

It is a total rewrite and is basically weaker than the RoT version, except for the fact that it has the mythic trait. Its mythic actions are:

• Hurl through Avernus
• Chromatic Flare

 

[Mecheon]

How did you determine that steel and song dragons are "a couple of the most popular" types of dragons? Gem dragons don't even fall into the category IMO. I had never heard of song dragons before and I love dragons and I've played the game since the 80s! I think the only MM (which should include the most popular dragons) that included steel dragons was the 4e version (possibly - I know they changed up the metallic line up in that addition) IIRC.

Steel's (Or their alternate name of Greyhawk dragons) got a big showing in 3E, as they were the best dragon to use for a player chassis

I'd certainly put Mercury dragons above Songs or them though

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

The thing about hit points and mythic actions is that the creature regains most of their hit points once the mythic actions kick in. Yes, she has 574 hit points, but she gains 500 more back once she drops to zero. For all intents and purposes, she has 1074 hit points.

And it's even better than that, too, because any extra damage a player might do to get a Mythic monster to 0 hit points the first time isn't carried over to the hit points that they regain, so all Mythic monsters effectively have a damage reduction feature for when they gain their Mythic actions.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Ooooh, interesting stuff about Saridor:

Interesting. I like this idea. No mention of Obsidian Dragons, though